Alice R. Stewart Canadian Studies Lecture Series

Introduction

    In 1999, a group of graduate students from a number of disciplines at the University of Maine came together to form a lecture series that emphasized the study of Canadian topics.  Each semester the organizers put together a panel of three participants to discuss a common theme relating to Canada's history, environment, politics, or society.  Normally this panel is made up of both graduate students and professors from a variety of academic fields. The committee encourages students and professors to introduce new topics or themes that may be formed into a series of lectures. 

Alice R. Stewart

    After the first successful year of the lecture series, we decided to dedicate the event to the late Professor Alice R. Stewart.  Born in Jonesport and raised in Brunswick, Maine, Alice Stewart received her Ph. D. at Radcliffe College in 1946 where she completed her dissertation on Prime Minister Sir John McDonald.   As a co-founder of the Canadian-American Center in 1967, Professor Stewart was a vital force in the development of Canadian studies at the University of Maine.  She founded the Canadian history graduate program, and spent her later years overseeing the development of the Canadian collection in the library.  She has too many publications to mention, many of which are articles in distinguished history journals including Canadian Historical Review, Acadiensis, and Maine Historical Society Quarterly. She had a wide range of research interests, including French-Canadian in Maine, the state of Maine and Canadian Confederation, the Canadian-West Indian Union, and even an article of Russians in Maine.  Her works presence in history syllabi is evidence that her research continues to inspire professional historians and graduate students alike.   For her outstanding scholarship, impressive academic achievements, and prominent leadership, we dedicate the Canadian Lecture Series to Professor Alice R. Stewart.

Previous Lecturers

2006-2007- Coordinator: Sarah Barnard

Fall 2006
- Stephen Hornsby: "Canada in the Historical Atlas of Maine"
- Micah Pawling: "The 1820 Joseph Treat Survey on the Saint John River: Maps, Maliseet Homeland, and Petitions in the Disputed Territory"
- Lise Pelletier: "Acadian novels' many languages"

2004-2005 - Coordinator: Mary Domareki

Spring 2005
    - Kristin M. Langellier: "I should have been a Canadian girl": Borderland Identity in Franco American
                                       Family Storytelling.
    - Sami Jeskanen: "Trudeau and the American Presidents"
    - Viktoriya Sadlovska: "Economic implications of tightening security at the Canadian-American border"

Fall 2004
    - Hans Carlson: "St. Croix to Stats-Can: Politics and Mapping French History in the Maritimes."
    - Sara Domareki Kazmierczak: "'To stay or to go?' A Literary and Historical Study of Québec Emigration to                                                    New England, 1820-1930."
    - Lise Pelletier: "Acadian Renaissance: The Struggle Continues."

2003-2004 - Coordinator: Dale Potts

Spring 2004
     - Tony Penders: "Strategies of Power: Economics and Politics in a Stranglehold for Potential in Nunavut"
     - Peter Houle: "La Toile Blanche: A Look at Press Criticism of Acadian Author and Artist Herménégilde
                           Chiasson's Nomination as Lieutenant-Governor of New Brunswick"
     - Brian Payne: "Fishing the North Atlantic Border Seas: Capitalism and National Identity, 1818-1854."
Fall 2003
     - Jacques Ferland: "Penobscot Depopulation and Tribal Affiliation at the Turn of the Twentieth Century."
     - Susan Pinette: "When Francos Became White: Teaching Franco American Ethnicity"
     - George Tanguay: "Protecting Canada and the U. S. Against Terrorism: Do We Need a Common Security
                                  Perimeter?"

2002-2003 - Coordinator: Paul Buck

Spring 2003
     - Tony Penders: "'When You're In That Close, You Gotta Go High': Sports Heroes and Canadian Nationalisms"
     - Mary Domareki: "The Baron de Saint-Castin: A Study of the Historiography of the Legendary and Historical
                               Figure"
     - Marie-Christine Therrien: "The 1998 Ice Storm in Québec"

Fall 2002
     - Elizabeth Hedler: "'That Conglomeration of Nationalities:' Race, Ethnicity, and Canadian Identity in the Late
                                   19th Century"
     - Paul Buck: "La langue et la creation de l'histoire a l'epoque de la Revolution tranquille au Quebec: quelques
                          oeuvres exemplaires de Jean-Paul Desbiens, de Michel Tremblay et de Leandre Bergeron"
     - Paul Deagle: "Hearing Her Song: Postcolonial Notes on the Writings of Rita Joe, Mi'kmaq Poet"

2001-2002 - Coordinator: Brian Payne

Spring 2002
    - Ralph Townsend: "Institutional Experimentation in Fisheries Management in Atlantic Canada"
     - Brian Payne: "George Brown Goode and the Science of Fishing, 1879-1885"
     - Adrian Jordaan: "Making an Example of George's Bank: Can Science Contribute to Improved
                               Fisheries Management?"

Fall 2001
    - George Visscher: "Eocene Swamp Forests of Axel Heiberg Island, Canadian High Arctic"
    - Julia Daly: " Variable recent sea-level change around Newfoundland."
    - Chris Hoving: 'Canada Lynx Habitat Relationships in the Northeast."

2000-2001 - Coordinator: Micah Pawling
Spring 2001
    - Susan Pinette: "'Des dialogues curieux': Literary Device and Ethnographic Discourse in the Works
                                of Lahotan."
    - Lisa Pelletier: "Acadian Poetry through Political and Social Evolution."
    - Hans Carlson: "A Watershed of Words: Litigating and Negotiating Nature in the Eastern James Bay
                             Region, 1971-1975."

Fall 2000
    - Pam Dickinson: "Living with the Ice Boundaries Before 10,000 Years Ago."
    - Brian Robinson: "Ritual Continuity, River Highways, and Boundaries in Northeastern North America,
                                 8,500-3,500 B.P."
   - Michael Sockalexis: "Compositional Comparisons of Canadian Shield Petroglyphs at Peterborough Site with
                                      those at the Embden Site in Maine Within the Boundaries of the Algonkian Cultural
                                      Context."

1999-2000 - Coordinator: Robert McLaughlin

Spring 2000
    - Ray Pelletier: "Franco-American Novels and the Myths of French-Canada."
    - Elizabeth Hedler: "'Never Give Up;" Canadian Masculinity in Nineteenth-Century Fiction."
    - James Moreira: "Mr. Redden, I Presume: Further Adventures from the Quest of the Ballad."

Fall 1999
    - Micah Pawling: "Natives and the Border."
    - Robert McLaughlin: "Irish-Americans and Irish-Canadians in the Struggle for Irish Independence, 1912-1925."
    - David Sanger: "The Lobster Wars in the Maritimes."

Call For Papers

   The committee is currently accepting paper and panel proposals for the upcoming lectures.  Graduate students and professors at the University of Maine who are currently researching topics pertaining to Canada may feel free to submit a brief proposal to the committee chair, Mary Domareki

Upcoming Lectures

          Please check back here for date of upcoming Lecture Series.

            THIS SEMESTER: Please check back for more information

   
 

There is a lecture each semester, and plans for the lecture for the current semester are underway.  Look for announcements.

For More Information - Contact Nancy Strayer

The committee for the Alice R. Stewart Canadian Studies Lecture Series would like to offer special thanks to the Canadian-American Center at the University of Maine for their continual support and commitment.    



Last Updated: 5 September, 2007