Thierry Giasson, Université Laval, Communication, and Karen Boschker, French Teacher, Issaquah School District presented on national identity in Québec and Québec culture.

Devon Léger, fiddler, with Northwest Folklife and Louis Léger, Ashland School District, sing Acadian folk songs with the participants followed by a concert.  

This fall the Killam Fellows enjoyed a scholars' orientation in Ottawa where they participated in an academic conference and roundtable, attended the Killam Public Lecture, and interacted with university and government administrators. Thanks to a partnership agreement between the Center and Killam Foundation, up to four UW students annually are eligible for this prestigious award. This year's Killam Fellows are Rozanna Fang (French) who is studying at McGill this fall and Adam Tanga (Political Science) who is in residence at University of Ottawa.

In July past and future UW Killam Fellows joined Killam Program Officer, Michelle Edmond (Ottawa) at the Annual Association for Fellowship Advisors held in Seattle. From left to right: Rozanna Fang, 2009-10, Université de Montréal; Adam Tanga, 2009-10, University of Ottawa; Kelvin Fong, 2008-09, University of Toronto; RevaMarine Robinson, 2008-09, Queen’s University; and Lucas Olson, 2008-09, University of Victoria.

The Jackson School of International Studies Outreach Centers' annual Summer Seminar focused on global water issues this year. The Canadian Studies Center session brought Emma Norman from the University of British Columbia to discuss transboundary issues between Canada and the United States - issues that are very pertinent to the Puget Sound region.

Summer Seminar participants discuss lesson plan ideas with East Asia Center Associate Director Kristi Roundtree (center) after hearing Emma Norman's talk on transboundary issues.

Visiting University of Montreal. Lecture presented by Dr. Marie-Odile Trepanier on Governance of Montreal and Quebec Province. From left: Dr. Marie-Odile, Clare Harlow, Gilbert Wong, Fritz Wagner, Patrick Fuhrman, Francisca Bravo, and Regent Cabana.

Free bicycles provided by area shops for visitors in that neighborhood to encourage bike and foot traffic. From left: Gilbert Wong, Fritz Wagner, Regent Cabana, Patrick Fuhrman, Clare Harlow, and Francisca Bravo.

The 31st Annual K-12 STUDY CANADA Institute, Vancouver and Whistler, served 20 educators nationally including from Colorado, Florida, Minnesota, Nevada, Oregon, Illinois, Nebraska, Louisiana, Idado and Washington. The Institute is lead by Tina Storer (front row, second from left) and Don Alper (directly behind) and supported by the Pacific Northwest National Resource Center (UW and Western Washington University).

Heather Kimberly (US History and economics teacher from Portland, Oregon), Nicole Means (World Geography teacher from Louisiana), and Joyce Youngblood (Gifted Enrichment educator, from Mississippi), pose just prior to a presentation by Ken Melamed, Mayor of the Resort Municipality of Whistler, British Columbia.

The Canada-US Fulbright Visiting Research Chair for 2008-09, Michael Orsini, has just completed his residency with the UW. Michael (center) is with Anand Yang, Jackson School of International Studies, and Juan Geurra with the Graduate School. The Chair is sponsored by the Jackson School, Graduate School, Global Affairs, and Social Sciences.

This year over 30 UW graduate and undergraduate students received awards or recognitions for their cross-border research. The students were recognized at the Annual Awards Reception co-hosted by the Consulate General of Canada Seattle.

Anand Yang, Director of the Jackson School of International Studies and Nadine Fabbi with Jackson School students including the Task Force on Arctic Sovereignty "team." The Task Force, that went to Ottawa for one week in January, won Honorable Mention in the UW Libraries Research Award competition.

This year Ann Huang, MBA student and the chair of the 2010 Canada Study Tour, was selected as one of 25 MBA students from across the US to participant in the Canadian Leadership Orientation Program sponsored by the Telfer School of Management, University of Ottawa. Ann is with Dan Abele, Head of Research and Academic Relations for the Canadian Embassy's Public Affairs Division, Washington,DC.

Ann and Dean Micheál Kelly of the Telfer School of Management. Ann will bring much of her Ottawa experience to bear on the 2010 Canada Study Tour.

This year Nadine Fabbi was awarded a Certificate of Merit by the International Council for Canadian Studies in Québec City. The award honors individuals who have made significant contributions to Canadian Studies. From left, Klaus-Dieter Ertler, President-Elect, Cornelius Remie, President, and Patrick James, President of the Association for Canadian Studies in the US.

Members of the Executive Committee and Board of Directors of the International Council for Canadian Studies meet at the Annual General Meeting in Québec City.

International Studies majors and members of the Task Force on Arctic Sovereignty (Winter Quarter 2009) present their research entitled, "Arctic Sovereignty and Governance" at the Annual UW Undergrad Symposium. From left, Kristen Olson, Gus Andreasen and Andrew Schwartz.

Eight of the 13-member Task Force team on Arctic Sovereignty present on their research project. Luis Fraga (far right), Office of Minority Affairs and Diversity, serves as the panel chair. From left, Kristen Olson, Julia Troutt, Gus Andreasen, Marta Schwendeman, Naama Sheffer, Andrew Schwartz, Alison McKay, and Stephen Printz.

The 100th Anniversary Gala for the Henry M. Jackson School brought together over 50 Canadianists to celebrate the Center's role in the Jackson School. Claude Couture, Director, Canadian Studies Institute, University of Alberta (right) visits with Chair of the UW School of Art, Christopher and wife, Susan Ozubko. The Canadian Studies Institute was a sponsor of the Gala.

Julia Herschensohn (left), Chair, Linguistics visits with Wendy Baldwin, Consul, Consulate General of Canada Seattle.

The 2009-2010 Killam Fellows were honored at the 100th Anniversary Gala for the Jackson School of International Studies. From left, Rozanna Fang, Senior, French major, Public Health and Community Medicine minor; Adam Tanga, Junior, Political Science major and French minor; and incoming Killam, Kelvin Fong from University of Toronto.

Dr. Mary Ellen Purkis (left) provided a lecture to students and faculty at the University of Washington, Tacoma. Purkis was invited by Dr. Janice Laakso, Affiliated Faculty of the Center and professor in the Social Work program.

Educators from throughout the Pacific Northwest convened on Saturday, May 9, to learn about implementing documentary film into their classroom. The keynote was Diana Hess, Professor of Curriculum and Instruction, School of Education, University of Wisconsin-Madison, who specializes in the use of controversy in the classroom.

Educators also met with regional and film experts and saw clips from a number of films, including A Century of Genocide in the Americas: The Residential School Experience, the Canadian Studies Center-sponsored session, featuring UW alum Rosemary Gibbons, who spoke about the history of residential schools in Canada and the effects the schools had on First Nations communities. 

The president of the Canada-America Society, Michael Herbst (far left) sponsored a reception to celebrate the 3rd Annual Canada Study Tour for UW MBA students. The Canada Study Tour is organized by MBA students and engages in four days of visits with Vancouver companies every February.

Morna McEachern was this year's chair for the annual graduate student symposium. Morna also presented her research on "Teen Pregnancy and Political Symbols in UW and Canadian Sexual Health Education Guidelines."

From left, David Pettinicchio, Sociology; Nathalie Hamel, Aquatic and Fishery Sciences; Beth Curry, Oceanography; Li Leung, Civil and Environmental Engineering; Miyhun Seol, Forest Resources; and Morna McEachern, Social Work all presented their cross-border research. Jack Thompson, Public Health and Michael Orsini, Center Fulbright Chair, acted as respondents.

The 8th Annual Symposium of Native American graduate students was held at the UW featuring the work of 10 graduate students. The Karen Capuder (right) served as one of six student presidents as well as as Emcee for the day. Augustine McCaffery, Graduate School (left), served as advisor. A reception followed celebrating Charlotte Coté, American Indian Studies (center) recent promotion to Associate Professor. The Center was a proud sponsor of the symposium.

As part of the Center’s Circumpolar North Initiative, meetings were held at UW with representatives from Greenland. From left, Dan Hart, Center; Marie Kleeman, Consultant, Greenlandic and Nordic Art; Claus Kleeman, Culture and Education, Home Rule Government; Nadine Fabbi, Center; Hans Hinrichsen, Buiding and Construction Centre, Greenland; Mikael Kristensen, Agency of Indutry, Labour, Vocational Education and Training; and Allan Peter Olsen, Nananut Allanut Pisortaqarfik, Foreign Affairs, Greenland Home Rule.

From left, Nadine Fabbi, Associate Director, Canadian Studies, Mark Oberle, Associate Dean of Public Health at UW, Dan Hart, Center Chair, and Violet Ford, Vice President of the Inuit Circumpolar Council, Ottawa provided a panel at the 50th Anniversary Title VI Conference in Washington, DC. The panel was entitled, "New Directions in International Studies, the World from a Circumpolar Perspective."

In mid-March, representatives from the the undergraduate office for University of the Arctic visited the Center to assist in the circumpolar initiative. Emily Neuls (left), Academic Program Officer, and Hayley Hesslyn, Dean of Undergraduate Education, UArctic, are both from the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon.

Rob Heubert, Military and Strategic Studies and Political Science, University of Calgary, was the expert evaluator for the Arctic Sovereignty Task Force. He posed with Andrew Schwartz, Task Force member.

April Nishimura and Ruben Shimonov are clearly overjoyed having made it through the final evaluation for the Task Force!

Professor Rob Heubert, Military and Strategic Studies and Political Science, University of Calgary (far right) served as the Expert Evaluator for the Task Force on Arctic Sovereignty. Heubert celebrates a successful evaluation with Vincent Gallucci, Aquatic and Fishery Sciences, and Nadine Fabbi, Canadian Studies Center, co-faculty for the Task Force.

On March 9-10 the Center, in conjunction with the Minnesota Humanities Center and the Consulate General of Minneapolis offered a workshop entitled, "Building Knowledge and Understanding about Canada and Canada-US Relations." Twenty Minnesota educators benefited from the workshop.

Canadian Studies Affiliated graduate student Erin Maloney gives a presentation on Celtic Music in the New World at the 2009 K-8 Arts Mosaic: Movement and Music Across the Curriculum.

Michael Orsini, 2008-09 Canada-US Fulbright Visiting Chair (right), shares further thoughts on autism activism in Canada and the US with political science major, Scott Ferguson and Pat Ferguson after his lecture on "Framing Autism in Canada and the US."

In February Michael Treleaven (left) and Nadine Fabbi served as external evaluators for the University of Northern British Columbia, College of Arts, Social and Health Sciences where a Canadian Studies program is being considered. Gary Wilson, Political Science and head of Northern Programs, hosted the visit.

Michael Treleaven and Gary Wilson in front of University of Northern British Columbia.

Mikhail Alexseev, Political Science, San Diego State University, spoke on "Russia's Northward Perspective: The Arctic Promise vs. the Siberian Curse" as part of the Center's lecture series on Arctic sovereignty.

 Barry Zellen, Center for Contemporary Conflict, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, gives a very innovative lecture entitled, "Toward a Post-Arctic World" as part of the Center's Arctic Sovereignty lecture series. With Nadine Fabbi, Canadian Studies Center.

This year 21 MBA students participated in the 3rd Annual MBA Study Tour to Canada representing both the day and evening programs and including a student representative from Industrial Engineering.

MBA students, Kelly Voss and Meharpratap Singh served as co-leaders for the 2009 MBA Study Tour to Vancouver, British Columbia. The Tour included visits with the US Consul General and Trade Commissioner in Vancouver, many business leaders, and colleagues from the Sauder School of Business (UBC) and the Segal School of Business (Simon Fraser).

The Canadian Consulate held a reception for the 2009 Canada Study Tour MBA students. From left, Kevin Cook and Robert Fosco from the Consulate with MBA students, Dharmik Mehta and Karen Wisont.

From left Wendy Baldwin (Canadian Consulate) and MBA students David Kim, Chris Wilson, Anthony Choi, Lam Ma

Christine Ingebritsen provided an overview of the Nordic perspective on Arctic sovereignty including the recent vote for independence by Greenlanders.

UW graduate students, Task Force on Arctic Sovereignty students, and members of the community consider Ingebritsen's comments.

Students arrive in Ottawa starting out with tours at the Museum of Civilization and the Canadian Parliament.

Patrick Lennon and Emily Epsten take notes at the welcoming meeting with Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada.

The Arctic Sovereignty Task Force team with Canada's Icelandic Ambassador to Canada, Sigridur Anna Thordardottir.

Andrew Schwartz discusses the Northwest Passage with Donat Pharand, Faculty of Law and renowned expert from University of Ottawa.

The 4th Annual Public Health Symposium: US-Canada Academic Collaboration in the Pacific Northwest, brought together 75 faculty and graduate students from UW, University of British Columbia and Simon Fraser University.

The symposium was organized by (from left) Mark Oberle, Associate Dean, School of Public Health and Community Medicine (SPHCM); Jack Thompson, Department of Health Services, SPHCM; with special guest, Michael Orsini, Canada-US Fulbright Chair; and Bud Nicola, Director, Community-Oriented Public Health Practice Program, SPHCM.

Students in the 2009 International Studies Program Task Force on Arctic Sovereignty, visit the US Coast Guard Healy. The Healy did three cruises in the Arctic this last summer. Two of the cruises brought together US and Canadian scientists who worked collaboratively to measure the continental shelf off of the Arctic coast.