The Canadian Studies Center and Center for Global Studies in the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies, in partnership with UW’s Language Learning Center, produced several videos depicting our Inuktitut instructors and Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) fellows in Inuktitut as part of our record of this amazing opportunity UW students had to study with Mick Mallon and Alexina Kublu.

Taika qimmikuluqaqtupit!

Sydney (Mick) Mallon (1933-) is one of Canada’s foremost scholars of Inuktitut. In this short skit Mick teaches a few words in Inuktitut based on a joke he plays with a dog involving a finger he lost to frostbite in the Arctic. The video was filmed at the University of Washington, Seattle where Mick taught Inuktitut for the Canadian Studies Center’s Foreign Language and Area Studies fellows from 2005 to 2019.

Inuktitut and Social Work: A Interview with Mick Mallon

Sydney (Mick) Mallon (1933-) is one of Canada’s foremost scholars of Inuktitut. In this video Mick is interviewed by Sara Laurino, a Canadian Studies Center Foreign Language and Area Studies fellow (2018-19) in Inuktitut and MA student in the School of Social Work at the University of Washington (UW). The video was filmed at the UW, Seattle where Mick taught Inuktitut for the Canadian Studies Center’s Foreign Language and Area Studies fellows from 2005 to 2019.

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These videos were made possible, in part, by Title VI grant funding from the Canadian Studies Center and Center for Global Studies, Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies, University of Washington. Title VI grants are administered by the International and Foreign Language Education office in the Office of Postsecondary Education, U.S. Department of Education. These videos are a joint project of the Canadian Studies Center, Center for Global Studies and Language Learning Center at the UW and is part of the Arctic and International Relations initiative in the Jackson School.