Center staff enjoys holiday lunch, celebrating the year’s accomplishments and welcoming the new year.

In early December 2015 the Center participated in a panel discussion with Congressman Rick Larsen on the current situation in the Arctic and the role of Canada and the United States. Managing Director of the Center, Nadine Fabbi, provided comments on the role of Indigenous leadership both at the Conference of Parties (COP) 21 meetings

On 20 November 2015, the Canadian Studies Center/Arctic and International Relations in the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies at the University of Washington (UW), the Korea Maritime Institute, and UW’s Future of Ice initiative hosted the all-day symposium entitled The Arctic at Twenty: Permanent Participants, Arctic Policy in Canada and the United States, and

Her most recent publications include “Nunavut, Sovereignty, and the Future for Arctic Peoples’ Involvement in Regional Self-Determination,” published in The Northern Review (2013) and The Fence and The Bridge: Geopolitics and Perception Along the Canada U.S. Border (forthcoming, 2015). Nicol’s research explores the structural dynamics that orient the political geography of the circumpolar North, with

On October 16th, the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies’s new International Policy Institute hosted an insightful discussion on the connection between geopolitical trends and indigenous groups in the Arctic, the U.S. and Asia’s differing approaches to space exploration and establishing international cybersecurity norms. Canadian Studies Center participants who spoke in the first panel,

The course was led by Dr. Fritz Wagner and Dr. Régent Cabana. The class visited three Canadian cities—Montreal, Québec City and Ottawa—where a number of professors, government officials and other urban experts will give lectures and tours. Students got to look at the European influence as well as the distinctive Canadian French culture of these

This year’s Ecosystem Studies of the Sub-Arctic Seas (ESSAS) Annual Science Meeting was hosted but the UW’s Future of Ice Initiative and various on-campus units and departments, including Canadian Studies, who contributed to the success of the meeting. With more than 90 attendees, including scientists and researchers from the U.S., Norway, Denmark, Japan, South Korea, and more,