In Winter Quarter 2017, Professor Bob Pavia taught an innovative course jointly offered by the Honors Program and the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies – a look at climate change from a truly international perspective. The new course, ARCTIC 391/JSIS 391/HONORS 394 Climate Change – An International Perspective: Science, Art and Activism, brings together

Rich Watts will launch an Exploration Seminar in early Fall Quarter 2018 that mixes intensive French-language study at Laval with a course on language and cultural identity in Québec. At Laval, Watts met with Rachel Sauvé, Director of the École de langues de l’Université Laval and her colleague, Nicolas Diotte. École de langues offers French

Book Abstract: Many of our global cities are distressed and facing a host of issues: economic collapse in the face of rising expectations, social disintegration and civil unrest, and ecological degradation and the threats associated with climate change, including more frequent and more severe natural disasters. Our long-held assumptions about man and nature and how they

Vince Gallucci, Canadian Studies Director, will be speaking at the conference, “Arctic Marine Resource Governance” in Reykjavik, Iceland. The ecosystem changes underway in the Arctic region are expected to have significant impacts on living resources in both the short and long run, and current actions and policies adopted over such resource governance will have serious

In June the Pacific Northwest Canadian Studies Consortium and the Canadian Studies Center sponsored a field course for faculty and graduate students from Alaska, Hawaii, and Washington state to the Columbia River. The group studied elements of the Columbia River Treaty renegotiation including indigenous perspectives on both sides of the border, the history of the

The Center welcomes Scott Montgomery, Jackson School of International Studies, to the Arctic Studies faculty. His first course, ARCTIC 200, filled to capacity with an enrollment of 50 undergraduate students. The Arctic has emerged in the 21st century as one of the most dynamic and unique regions in global geopolitics. Roughly the size of Africa,

Nadine Fabbi’s research paper, “Inuit Foreign Policy and International Relations in the Arctic,” was just-published as a chapter in the Handbook of the Politics of the Arctic edited by L. C. Jensen and G. Hønneland. Politics of the Arctic book addresses how the Arctic has once again become one of the leading issues on the international foreign policy agenda,

Professor Fritz Wagner gave an engaging and inspiring talk to 23 graduate students about a host of planning issues within the United States and Canadian contexts, drawing from his extensive experience in both countries as well as his practical knowledge of urban issues facing nations around the world, especially middle eastern countries where he was

by Charlotte Coté and Dian Million, American Indian Studies Tribal community member’s food booths (11/14) In late September UW’s American Indian Studies Department held their second annual symposium entitled, The Living Breath of Wǝɫǝbʔaltxʷ: Indigenous Ways of Knowing Cultural Food Practices and Ecological Knowledge. The symposium brought together internationally renowned speakers from the United States and

by Quintard Taylor, History The Canada Project is the latest effort by BlackPast.org, the largest free and unrestricted website resource currently on the internet dedicated to the promotion of African Americans and Global African history. This project links hundreds of entries and articles on the website to appropriate provinces and territories in Canada. Each province has