by Phil Howard, Communication On Wednesday April 27th, Dr. Greg Elmer gave a lecture on the role of streaming media in contemporary Canadian politics. He is the is Bell Globemedia Research Chair and Director of the Infoscape Centre for the Study of Social Media, Ryerson University, Toronto. The lecture he gave features material he preparing

Above: Consul General Denis Stevens (left, center) welcomes Killam Fellow, Eugene Kobiako and Task Force on Arctic Sovereignty students Victoria Choe (far left) and Monica Chahary.  This academic year, over 40 U.W. grads and undergrads and 20 U.W. faculty received FLAS, Killam, Fulbright Fellows, grants, or achievements for their research, teaching and cross-border studies. All

Above: Scott Halliday and Kelsey Barrett ham it up at the Task Force celebration dinner at the University of Washington in March. by Scott Halliday, Co-Editor, Task Force on Arctic Governance As a mere undergraduate student in the International Studies major at the UW, I savor any opportunity to travel outside of Seattle. During week

Marcia Ostashewski, the 2010–2011 Fulbright Canada Visiting Chair, is an ethnomusicologist investigating intersections of music and dance with race and ethnicity, gender, class and region, with a specific focus on Ukrainian dance and culture in Cape Breton and Aboriginal/Ukrainian encounters and relations on the prairies of Canada. In Fall 2010, she is teaching ethnomusicology, as

Visit the following link to watch a video of the annual Canada-US Fulbright Lecture, part of the Jackson School’s Global Focus lecture series, given by the 2010-11 Canada-US Fulbright Chair, Marcia Ostashewski: http://vimeo.com/25996154

Above: Phillip Chicola, Consul General of the United States, Vancouver, blows out the birthday candles on WWU’s 40th birthday party cake. As part of the 40th anniversary celebration for the Center for Canadian-American Studies at Western Washington University, an all-day conference was held on the Canada-U.S. relationship. Conference organization was under the direction of Don

By Julie Gourley, U.S. Senior Arctic Official, Office of Ocean and Polar Affairs, U.S. Department of State and Expert Evaluator, Task Force Above: Julia Gourley, (second from right, front), U.S. Senior Arctic Official, Office of Ocean and Polar Affairs, U.S. Department of State, poses with the Task Force class at the end of the Expert Evaluation.

Francisco Ibanez-Carrasco, Ontario HIV Treatment Network, David Brennan, University of Toronto and Charles Emlet, University of Washington Tacoma Charles Emlet, Professor of Social Work at the University of Washington Tacoma and Canadian colleagues from the University of Toronto, Ryerson University and the Ontario HIV Treatment Network presented initial results from their study on older adults

Above: Participants in front of the First Nations Cultural Centre in Whistler. By Alison Gill, Simon Fraser University From April 12th -16th over 7,000 geographers converged on Seattle to attend the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers. On the weekend prior to that a field trip entitled “Vancouver and Whistler: Seeking Sustainability” was,

Above: Heather Goad, McGill University, keynote presentation (“The L2 acquisition of functional morphology: Why syntacticians need phonologists”) In late March 2011, the Department of Linguistics and Canadian Studies co-sponsored a major conference on linguistics – the 11th Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition. The purpose of this international meeting was to bring together researchers from