Above: Mick Mallon, Canadian Inuktitut instructor lectures at Linguistics colloquium by Brent Woo, Linguistics Mallon, who might possibly be Canada’s preeminent non-Inuktitut instructor, is better described through his past work than by giving him any one title. Mallon was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland in 1933. He graduated from Cambridge in 1954 and then emigrated

Above: Daniel Heath Justice, Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Literature and Expressive Culture; Chair of the First Nations Studies Program, University of British Columbia by Rachael Nickerson, Comparative History of Ideas Justice explained the Predation Perplex by asking, “What does it mean to think about personhood yet kill and eat beings we claim to be

Several of our faculty and students attended the Arctic Frontiers conference in Tromsø, Norway in January.

Above: Dr. Chin Soo, Lim: Vice President of the Korea Maritime Institute. In late May the Jackson School of International Studies (JSIS) and Center signed an Agreement for Academic Cooperation with the Korea Maritime Institute (KMI). The purpose of the Agreement is to foster an enhanced dialogue between the Republic of Korea, Canada, the United

Fall 2014 Graham Allan, Professor at the Environmental and Forest Sciences and Chemical Engineering, is currently working on a page for Consulting and Specifying Engineerabout creativity and innovation applicable to Canada. Katie Bunn-Marcuse, Assistant Director of the Bill Holm Center, is currently in charge of an exhibit called Here & Now: Native Artists Inspired at the

The Future of Ice lecture series continued on January 16, 2014 as Tony Penikett presented his talk, “Artic Insecurities: Arctic Population, Northern Security Issues, and Emerging Forms of Governance.” Penikett is the 2013-14 UW Fulbright Canada Visiting Chair in Arctic Studies and taught a course with the same title fall quarter. Penikett described himself as more of