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New Canadian Studies Books (Spring 2018)

Click聽here聽to download U海角社区聽Fogler Library鈥榮 most recent Canadian acquisitions.聽Please direct all questions and requests to the Canadian Studies librarian,聽Betsy Beattie.

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Canadian-American Center Director Awarded Geography Prize

  The John Brinckerhoff Jackson Prize This award encourages and rewards American geographers who write books about the United States which convey the insights of professional geography in language that is both interesting and attractive to lay readers. Stephen J. Hornsby,聽Picturing America: The Golden Age of Pictorial Maps聽(University of Chicago Press). A visual feast,聽Picturing America聽combines […]

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University of Montreal Professor to Give Talk on Friendship on March 6th

On March 6, from 4:00 to 5:30PM the McGillicuddy Humanities Center, as part of the Life of Ideas series, curated by Fr茅d茅ric Rondeau, will host scholar 脡ric M茅choulan. M茅choulan will give a talk titled 鈥淥n Friendship: A Brief History of the Concept from Aristotle to Facebook.鈥 脡ric M茅choulan is an early modernist and cultural historian […]

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Announcing release of “Coming Home to Indigenous Place Names in Canada” map

To mark the 150th anniversary of the Confederation of Canada, the Canadian-American Center is pleased to release a new map, Coming Home to Indigenous Place Names in Canada. The map honors Indigenous place names in Canada and the assertion of Indigenous authority through place names. Commissioned by Dr. Stephen J. Hornsby, Director, Coming Home to […]

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CanAm Assistant Director Fr茅d茅ric Rondeau publishes new book

Congratulations to聽Fr茅d茅ric Rondeau on the publication of his new book: Gilles Dupuis, Karim Larose, Fr茅d茅ric Rondeau and Robert Schwartzwald, Avec ou sans Parti pris. Le legs d鈥檜ne revue, Montreal, 脡ditions Nota bene, collection 鈥 Grise鈥, 2018, 460 p. Avec ou sans Parti pris. Le legs d鈥檜ne revue, focuses on the political journal “Parti pris” published […]

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2018-2019 Graduate Award Nominations: Deadline Feb. 15

The Canadian-American Center is now accepting nominations for the following graduate awards: Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowships (FLAS) Summer FLAS for intense French language study New England-Atlantic Provinces-Quebec Fellowships (NEAPQ) Canadian-American Center Fellowships For more details about awards and application instructions,聽click here. Universal graduate award instructions (for full-year awards only) may be found聽here. The […]

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New Canadian Studies Books (Fall 2017)

Click below to download U海角社区聽Fogler Library鈥榮 most recent Canadian acquisitions.聽Please direct all questions and requests to the Canadian Studies librarian,聽Betsy Beattie.

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Life of Ideas, Notions and Concepts Event this Thursday, 11/16

The first event of the series 鈥淟ife of Ideas, Notions, and Concepts鈥 will feature three U海角社区 faculty members and take place on Thursday November 16 from 4-5:30PM in the Allen and Sally Fernald APPE space Stewart Commons, IMRC. Participants: Steve Evans (English): 鈥淟ate Style: A Feminist Future for a Category of Patriarchal Aesthetics?鈥 Jessica Miller […]

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Fr茅d茅ric Rondeau wins the 2017 Jean-脡thier-Blais prize

Fr茅d茅ric Rondeau, assistant professor of French and assistant director of the Canadian-American Center, has been awarded the 2017 Jean-脡thier-Blais prize for the best book of literary criticism in Quebec for聽Le Manque en Partage, a study of Quebec poets Michel Beaulieu and Gilbert Langevin. To learn more about the award, please click here.

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