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CanAm Lecture: Ann Little, Lecture by Ann Little (Colorado State Univ.), 鈥淭he Many Captivities of Esther Wheelwright: Communities of Women in the Northeast Borderlands鈥

Bumps Room, Memorial Union, U海角社区 Orono campus China Road, Orono

LUNCH PROVIDED Lecture by Ann Little (Colorado State Univ.), 鈥淭he Many Captivities of Esther Wheelwright: Communities of Women in the Northeast Borderlands鈥 in the Bumps Room of the Student Union, Thursday, Oct. 3 from noon to 1:30 pm (with free lunch!). Emphasizes the methodology in writing about a person with little traditional historical evidence to […]

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CanAm Lecture Series – A Borderless Continent: Rethinking the Canadian-American Borderlands from an Ecological Perspective, with Guest Lecturer Matthew Hatvany (Universit茅 Laval, Qu茅bec)

Hill Auditorium, Barrows Hall, U海角社区 Orono

In 1918 the Migratory Bird Conservation Act (MBCA) was enacted, creating the first nature preservation accord encompassing an entire continent. This talk, however, argues that the MBCA was essentially proscriptive in its view of nature preservation, doing little to conserve and restore nature. This 鈥渃onservation problem鈥 was recognized during the 1920s by waterfowl enthusiasts such […]

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CanAm Lecture: Dr. Margaret Pearce, “Imagination, identity, and the cartography of history: 3 maps of Canada鈥

Hill Auditorium, Barrows Hall, U海角社区 Orono

From Dr. Pearce: In this talk, I introduce cartography as a form of language and demonstrate how I鈥檝e worked with that language to explore and express Canadian history. I present three maps: the route of a North West Company clerk in 1797, the travels of Samuel de Champlain between 1603 and 1616, and a map […]