by Quintard Taylor, History Quintard Taylor, UW Professor, 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

Nadine Fabbi, Managing Director of the Center, served as a panelist for the above symposium sponsored by the Border Policy Research Institute and Center for Canadian-American Studies at Western Washington University. The title of her talk was, “Permanent Participants and the passing of the chairmanship of the Arctic Council to the United States.” Program One

by Annie Banel, Graduate Student, Evans School of Public Affairs, Canadian Studies Reporter We are pleased to announce our new affiliated faculty member, Dr. Jody Deming, Walters Endowed Professor, Oceanography and Astrobiology. Dr. Deming served on the committee to establish the interdisciplinary Arctic Minor and she was recently featured in the Future of Ice lecture

Director Vincent Gallucci was at the Chinese Foreign Affairs University (CFAU) for a two week visit to study the Chinese motivations for an interest in becoming permanent observer members of the Arctic Council. Several individual interviews were carried out as well as a roundtable discussion including an adviser to the foreign minister of Iceland, Kristijn

by Morna McEachern, Social Work, and Program Manager for Pacific Northwest Canadian Studies Consortium (PNWCSC) In Spring 2014 Dr. McEachern took a group of students to Vancouver, British Columbia for a day to visit social service agencies and speak with experts in the field to provide students with insights into the similarities and differences between

by Andrea Banel, Graduate Student, Evans School of Public Affairs; Canadian Studies Center Reporter We are delighted to announce our new affiliated faculty member, Harry L. Stern from the Polar Science Center at the Applied Physics Laboratory. Stern’s research focuses on using satellite data to study Arctic sea ice. He is currently studying changes in

Rob Williams, former Canada Fulbright Chair 2009-2010, conducted the workshop, “Transboundary (Canada-US) Puget Sound/Salish Sea Region Workshop: Valuing Killer Whales, Chinook Salmon & the Ecosystem Services they Provide,” at the University of Washington, which brought together industry stakeholders to volunteer a day of their time to share commercially sensitive information about the economic value of

In July the Center partnered with the Pacific Northwest Canadian Studies Consortium (PNWCSC) to offer a week-long trip to Vancouver and Northern British Columbia to introduce faculty to the region and to meet with Canadian colleagues. Margaret Willson, Anthropology and new affiliated faculty with the Center, was much impacted by the course. “I was delighted

Tony will be teaching JSIS 482A/582B Arctic Insecurities this fall. The course will address the range of Arctic insecurities from the Cold War security paradigm to environmental and human security issues, aboriginal land claim, indigenous internationalism, devolution and local development, and, American and Canadian management of Arctic issues. The seminar will also examine a series of Arctic

On May 1-2, 2013 the University of Washington’s American Indian Studies Department held a two-day symposium, The Living Breath of Wǝɫǝbʔaltxʷ: Indigenous Ways of Knowing Cultural Food Practices and Ecological Knowledge, which brought together over 180 people to hear Northwest Coast Native leaders, elders, and scholars from the U.S. and Canada share their knowledge and expertise