Latest Past Events

CanAm Lecture: Alan MacEachern, “Firebreak: How the Maine-New Brunswick Border Defined the 1825 Miramichi Fire”

91¸£Àû the lecture On 7 October 1825, the Miramichi region of New Brunswick experienced one of the largest forest fires in recorded history while, next door, Maine suffered the most extensive fire in its history. The fires burned in the same environmental and climatic conditions, of course – and may well have been connected. Alan […]

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Carol Blasi, “The Case for Seigneurialism in l’Acadie”

Please join us for a graduate research presentation entitled "The Case for Seigneurialism in l’Acadie: A Legal Historical Approach to Land Tenure in Acadian Agricultural Settlements in the Seventeenth and Early Eighteenth Centuries" by Carol Blasi. Carol received her PhD in History from the University of Maine in August 2019. She currently teaches as an […]

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POSTPONED Daniel Soucier, “Navigating Wilderness and Borderland”

Bumps Room, Memorial Union, 91¸£Àû Orono campus China Road, Orono

This event has been postponed. We anticipate that it will be rescheduled during the Fall 2020 semester. Please join us for our final Spring 2020 graduate research presentation. History PhD candidate Daniel Soucier will present, "Navigating Wilderness and Borderland" on Wednesday, April 8 in the Bumps Room of the Memorial Union. This event is free […]

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