1. Borders
and Borderlands:
The Acadian Experience
in Maine
An NEH Summer Teacher Institute
Jul 20 - Aug 10, 2014 } i: Orono, ME at University of Maine
ii: Moncton, NB at Université de Moncton
iii: Fort Kent, ME at University of Maine at Fort Kent
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2. MAINE
HUMANITIES
COUNCIL
Home of the Harriet P. Henry
Center for the Book
674 Brighton Avenue
Portland, Maine 04102-1012
Borders and Borderlands: The Acadian Experience in Maine offers educators a tuition-free opportunity
to immerse themselves in a humanities topic and is offered through a generous grant from the National
Endowment for the Humanities.
Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this program
do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Non-Profit Org.
U.S. Postage
PAID
Permit No. 492
Portland, ME
How do geographic, political, ethnic, and cultural boundaries
shape and define our lives? The Acadians, a French-speaking
group whose traditional homeland straddles the Northeastern
US - Canada border, have faced severe physical and cultural
dislocations over the centuries, and their experience plays
a revealing role in the larger context of borders and boundaries.
What can we learn from their story as multiculturalism
becomes the norm in the US?
Drawing on history, literature, and language studies, we
will examine borderland theory as applied in the American
Northeast and undertake an oral history project that will
provide concrete skills to bring back to your classroom.
FMI: mainehumanities.org/borderlands
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Borders
and
Borderlands:
The Acadian Experience
in Maine