'down the Plains''down the Plains'
Faculty members at the University of Maine publish numerous monographs each year. These works provide a snapshot of the creative output of our colleagues, and highlight the scope of research taking place at the university. Fogler Library purchases faculty book publications in various formats, in order to support learning and teaching at the university. Throughout the month of December, we will be showcasing these works in the 1st floor exhibit case in Fogler Library, in the hallway between the front entrance and the Information Commons. In addition to the physical display, below you will find a selection of 2013 UMaine-Orono faculty book publications from fields as diverse as Communication & Journalism; Women's, Gender, & Sexuality Studies; Marine Sciences; Education & Human Development; English Language & Literature; Biology & Ecology; and Mathematics & Statistics. Let us know if we've missed your book, and we'll gladly add it to the display. Heliotrope--French Heritage Women Create, recognized at Celebrating Scholarship, University of Maine, Orono, Maine, April, 2018 Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) at MECA, Making Migration Visible: Traces, Tracks & Pathways Recommended Reading, Wednesday's Child and 'down the Plains', October-December 2018 Celebrating Scholarship—Honoring the creative accomplishments of faculty at the University of Maine—Honoring the creative accomplishment of your publication, 'down the Plains,' Sponsored by the Office of the Vice President for Research, Reception with remarks by University of Maine President Susan J. Hunter, Collins Center for the Arts, University of Maine, April, 2015 Wednesday's ChildCanuck and Other StoriesReadings & Presentations/Exhibitions "Maman Disait" Collage Exhibit Seeking publication for her work,
'down the Plains,' second in the trilogy,
Author available for presentations, contact author Poetry included in: French Connections: A Gathering of Franco-American Poets published by Louisiana Literature Press Essays included in Portland Magazine
2023 Franco-American
Women's Institute--Twenty Six Years and Counting--
Advocating for French Heritage Women's Voices Maine MultiCultural Center Community Forum Bangor, online zoom March 15, 2023 HUM 350W - Franco-Americans: Cultural Identity in Context 'down the Plains' discussion/CNF writing workshop Wednesday, March 1st, 2023 University of Maine @ Augusta
2022
Two Cent Talks, Waterville Reading Series, February
22, 20222021
Maine Historical Society,"BEGIN AGAIN: reckoning with intolerance in Maine" "Who Gets To Tell Story?", September 2021 Wait: Poems from the Pandemic Book Launch, Reading "Ecclesiastes : Covid-19," Littoral Books, April, 2021 CE301 Civic Engagement Seminar, 2 Sessions, Colby College, Waterville, Maine, March, 2021 2020 "Franco
American
Women's Suffrage and Franco-American Women's
Legislators," Maine
Department
of Education, Office of Higher Education and
Educator Support
Services, Augusta, Maine, December,
2020 "Discussion
du
Cupbette"* on Franco-American Women's
Future and Life Changing
Events. Rhea Côté
Robbins, Panel Organizer; Susan
Poulin, Ellen LaFleche,
and Kristin Langellier,
Ph.D. will present their views on life changing
events and choices they made for their future selves
as Franco-American
women/girls. Virtual
Presentation,
Franco-American Center, Franco American Programs,
University of Maine, Orono,
Maine, November, 2020 "Franco-American
Suffrage—Camille
Lessard Bissonnette and Women Legislators," Virtual
Presentation,
Franco-American Center, Franco American Programs,
University of
Maine, Orono, Maine, April,
2020 __________________________________ 2019 Consultant/Committee, "Women's Long
Road 100 Years to the Vote,"
Exhibit, Maine State Museum, 2018-2019 Collaborated in storytelling with
Palaver Strings, authors
and musicians for the “Welcome Home,” tour—a program
which celebrated the vitality of Maine’s immigrant
communities through music
and storytelling.
In partnership with
the Greater Portland Immigrant Welcome Center,
Portland Ovations, the program
was performed in seven Maine locations, with the
goal of sharing with rural
Maine communities the experiences of
Franco-American, Iraqi
and Burundian immigrant families, celebrating
Maine’s cultural diversity.
Palaver Strings is a Maine-based, musician-led
string ensemble and nonprofit
organization located out of Portland, Maine. Video
presentation online of the
tour. Welcome Home Pre-Concert Panel &
Conversation, Indigo Arts Alliance,
Portland, ME; Denmark Arts Center - Denmark,
ME; Crosby Center - Belfast,
ME; Criterion Theatre - Bar Harbor, ME; Eastport
Arts Center - Eastport, ME;
Port City Music Hall - Portland, ME; Johnson Hall -
Gardiner, ME; Centre
Theatre - Dover-Foxcroft, ME, https://youtu.be/lGph_r-HlrE November,
2019 Presentation, Wednesday's Child,
read/discussed in France in
America, FRN 380, taught by Jonathan Gosnell, Ph.D.,
Presenter, Writers of Maine, (ENG 244),
English Course, University
of Maine, Orono, Maine, September,
2019 Panel Presentation, "Disenfranchised
Voters and the History
of Voting in Maine with the League of Women Voters,"
Presentation, "Who Gets To Tell Story?"
Franco-American Centre, Crossland Hall, University
of Maine, January,
2019 Presented in Colby College JanPlan
course, "Amercia's
Whitest State? Immigration to
Maine, Yesterday and Today," __________________________________ 2018 Presentation, "Who Gets To Tell Story?"
For Citizenship and Community, ED 397 taught by Mark
Tappan, Ed.D., Professor
of Education and Human Development, Colby College,
course required of all
residents of Alfond
Commons, Waterville Opera House,
Main St., Waterville, Maine, October,
2018 Collaboration with Kathryn Olmstead on
her College of Liberal Arts
and Sciences Maine Heritage Lecture, "Rediscovering
Community: Maine's
Rural Heritage as a Path to the Future," University
of Maine, October, 2018 "On Being a
French Heritage Woman in
America Today: An Interview with Rhea Côté Robbins,"
Interview by Elizabeth Blood, Ph.D., The French Review, May 2018 —
Volume 91.4 Presented from latest works,
Franco-American Artists Gathering,
Franco-American Center, University of Maine, Orono,
Maine, April,
2018 Presentation on my research/writing,
Andre Siamundele,
Ph.D., Assistant Professor of French--FYS100 course,
on Francophone Voices,
University of Maine at Farmington, Farmington,
Maine, March,
2018 Consultation Colby College Senior
Seminar Student, Sarah Shoer, for her
senior seminar on the relationship between the Jews
and Franco-Americans of
Maine, Spring Semester, 2018 __________________________________ 2017 Presented/reading Portland
Monthly Magazine hosts First Friday Fiction at Maine
Historical Society,
Portland, Maine, November,
2017 Presentation for Wednesday's Child,
read/discussed in France in
America, FRN 380, taught by Jonathan Gosnell, Ph.D.,
Smith College, Amherst,
Massachusetts, Spring 2017 Maine Women's
History, Suffrage, Camille
Lessard Bissonnette Maine Calling, MPBN Radio, Guest speakers Rhea Côté
Robbins with Eliza
Townsend, and Anne Gass,
Jennifer Rooks, host, April,
2017 Juried,
Presented poetry, "Dragon Cement
Co. II" Yvonne Jacquette,
Experience Ekphrasis: Art
and Poetry, Artword at
the Portland Museum of Art,
Portland, Maine, April,
2017
2016 Fall
Semester Wednesday's
Child to be
taught at Bates
College AC/Fre240I
"French in Maine" Present
selections from “Heliotrope: French Heritage
Women Create,” 2016
Maine International Conference on the Arts (MICA) in
Lewiston-Auburn, Maine October
6-7, 2016 invited
to Maine
Cultural Equity Conversation Auburn
Public Library on October 6 Maine
Archives and Museums 2016
Fall Conference & Annual Meeting Collins
Center for the Arts, University of Maine Orono Maine
Archives and Museums Oct 14th,
2016 His
Story, Her Story, Our Story: Making Meaning of Your
Collections "Franco-American
Women: 20 Years and Counting, Franco-American
Women's Institute" L'American
Council for Québec Studies, ACQS Portland,
Maine on November 3-6 Échanges
/ Exchanges conversations,
commerce, communautés / conversations, commerce,
communities SATURDAY,
5 November 2016 Longfellow,
Plenary IV: Franco
Voices, Here and Now “Exploring
the diversity and complexity of University
of Southern Maine/Lewiston-Auburn Franco-American
Collection A
Monthly Workshop of Memories November
15 5:30-7:00
PM Room
170 Westminster
St., Lewiston, Maine Heliotrope--French
Heritage
Women Create Rhea
Cote Robbins presenting along with Susann Pelletier,
Florence
Rose Martin, Mary Rice-Defosse, Maureen
Perry, and Nanci Breau 'down the Plains,' to be taught Spring semester in Franco -Americans: Cultural Identity in Context University of Maine at Augusta Augusta, ME class presentation March 4, 2016 1-3:45 PM followed by a reading from 'down the Plains,' Fireside Lounge, 3:45-4:45 PM Open to the public
Wednesday’s Child taught Spring semester at Smith College in the France in America course and at University of Southern Maine in the LSH 340 Topics in Humanities Maine History through Art, Literature & Film
2015 Celebrating Scholarship Reception with remarks by
Maine Migrations, Past and Present
2014 Exploring Women's Testimonies from an Historic
Landscape of the Holocaust, War, Revolution and
Human Rights
Due to lack of resources, this event has been cancelled. University of Maine Hutchinson Center Belfast, ME. "Mosaic Maine: Exploring the Cultural Diversity of our Communities" Presenting/Reading on 'down the Plains' July 14th, 2014 6:30 PM
F.A.W.I. will be at the Franco-American Collection Franco-American History Fair Saturday, June 21, 2014, 9:00 AM to 12:00 PM USM, Lewiston-Auburn College, Room 170 Lewiston, Maine
Pejepscot Historical Society in Brunswick
"In and Out of Place: Finding Home in Franco
America"
Northeast Modern Language Association’s 45th
Annual Convention
Franco -Americans: Cultural Identity in Context
University of Maine/Lewiston Auburn
Dirigo Pines
Auburn Public Library
2013 Winter Book Discussion Series
Waterville High School Media Center
Belfast Free Library MLA Special Session Roundtable This public reading roundtable will introduce MLA
members to the richness of the recent
Franco-American literary renaissance in New England.
Authors Norman Norman Beaupré, Rhea Côté-Robbins, and
Raymond Beauchemin will read excerpts from their works
which explore themes of identity, place, language
politics, memory and (re)defining what it means to be
Franco-American in the 21st century. An open
discussion with the audience will follow. 2012 "Fête du printemps" Maine Women Writers Collection 2011 Bates College Maine Genealogical Society
Wednesday's Child Maine Studies Featured Faculty
Franco-American Studies Identity
Course 2010 American Council for Québec
Studies, ACQS, WERU 7th Genealogy Fair Les Canadiens aux États-Unis :
culture, Économie et Canadians in the United
States: Maine Festival of the Book
University of Maine at Augusta
Women in the Curriculum and
2009 Participated with Made in
Maine in Washington, D.C.! Maine History Camp Community Readers Engaging Dialogues; Diversity in
Waterville and Beyond
2008 Libra Professorship, Writing Workshop
ECHOES Celebration Waterville Public Library Women's History Celebration University of Maine at Farmington
Franco-American Heritage Center
Voyages A Maine Franco-American and
Acadian Reader 2007 L'A.A.T.F. du Maine Kennebec Chaudiere Corridor: A
Cultural Heritage Tour October 5-8, 2007
The Bangor Book Festival, Bangor
Maine First Year Seminar WERU 89.9FM, Writers Forum, 10:00 AM
The National Women's Studies
Association conference Launch of Canuck, Lewiston Public Library, May 22 Presentation, French Club, UMF, Farmington, April 26 Launch of Project Maine-France, Calumet Club in Augusta, April 10 Maine Humanities Council Literature
and Medicine: Humanities at the Heart of Healthcare©
FAHC, Lewiston, Maine, Maine Franco-American Writers, March 25, 2007 Bangor Public Library, "Fathers & Daughters: The Franco-American Way," January 2007
2006 University of Maine, Book Launch, Canuck and Other Stories, December 7, 2006 Colby College, Waterville's Franco-American Heritage: A Series of Events, December 4, 2006 Women's Studies Conference, University of Maine, Orono, Maine, November 2006 Franco-American Women's Voices, Keene State College, Keene, NH, October 2006 Burst the Bubble, Colby College, Keynote, October 2006 Ethics, University College of Bangor, Bangor, Maine, October 2006 Gender, Race and Class, Bangor Theological Seminary, Bangor, Maine, October 2006 LIB 500, Exploring Interdisciplinarity, University of Maine, Orono, Maine, September 2006 July 28-29, The Maine Social
Forum, Bates Mill, Kennedy Park, Marsden
Hartley Cultural Center July 25, Multiculturalism and Diversity for ESL/EFL, University of Maine, Orono July 20, Kiwanis Club of Bangor-Breakfast, Geaghan's Restaurant, Bangor July 16, Peoples Poetry Project,
CENTURIES OF POETRIES: FROM HERE & AWAY June 17, Good Old Fashioned Franco-American Soirée, K of C Hall, Old Town, ME May 18, Faculty Institute, University College/University of Maine at Augusta Campus, Augusta, ME May 15, Bates College, "French in Maine" course presentation May 5, La Rencontre, Franco-American Heritage Center, Lewiston, ME May 3, Westbrook Historical Society, Westbrook, ME April 26, Colby Presents "Burst the
Bubble, Build a Bridge" Week April 20, Great Falls Forum, Lewiston
Public Library's Marsden Hartley Cultural Center,
Lewiston, Maine April 6-9, 2006, The Third
International Women in French Conference, Closing
Banquet March 23, History of Women in
Maine, February 12-18, Maine Women, WST201,
Online course forum, University of Maine, Orono,
Maine 2005 October 27, Intro to Cultural
Studies, Bates College, Lewiston 2004 October 19, Cultural Diversity Speaker Series, University of Maine at Machias October 17, Maine Libraries Conference, Augusta, What's New: Nonfiction Potpourri September 14, University of Maine, Orono, Women in the Curriculum and Women's Studies Luncheon Series September 11, Franco-American Kennebec Valley Heritage Society, Waterville, Franco-American Conference August 7, Terre pis Ciel Franco-American Festival, Jay, Presenter July 20, University of Maine, Orono, Writers of Maine May 15, University of Maine at
Farmington, Farmington, To be awarded an
March 3, UNE, Biddeford, Core
Connections Lecture Series, Women's History Month
2003 2002 2001 other previous presentations:
Courses that read Wednesday's Child: French Identity in Maine Culture and Identity in Contemporary American Writing, English, Orono Social Work, Orono, ME Maine Studies, Orono, ME Women's Studies, Orono Seminar on Women's Narratives, Colby College Autobiography, Education, and Human Development, Colby College Gender, Race and Class, Bangor Theological Seminary Great Issues Course, Unity College Universities which teach Wednesday's Child: Smith College, Northampton, MA University of Maine, Orono, ME Bangor Theological Seminary, Bangor, ME University of Southern Maine, Portland/Gorham, ME University of So. Me. @ Lewiston/Auburn, Lewiston, ME Colby College, Waterville, ME Keene State College, Keene, NH Bates College, Lewiston, ME Excellent multicultural, literary experience for me: Author Rhea Côté (Cote) Robbins will also be presenting on her book Wednesday's Child at the University of Wyoming Art Museum's literary series, Writers from Boundary Country, October 13-14, 2000. Other authors presenting in the series: Junot Diaz, Dominican Republic-American, author of Drown; Dagoberto Gilb, Mexican-American, author of The Author of Blood and The Last Known Residence of Mickey Acuña; Francisco Goldman, Guatamalan-American, author of The Long Night of White Chickens and The Ordinary Seaman; Anne Landsman, South African-American, author of The Devil's Chimney; and Diana Abu-Jaber, Arab-American, author of Arabian Jazz. Annie
Proulx writes on this event |
|
Ask for it at your local bookstore or order by U.S. mail/or email: Rheta Press 641 South Main Street Brewer, Maine 04412-2516 |
|
©Copyright Rhea Côté Robbins Date last updated: May 2023 |