Originally posted: February 2014 This quarter UW students will study how Québécois writers and filmmakers coped with the rapid and radical changes of the 1960s’ Quiet Revolution in the course “Québécois Literature.” The class is taught by Associate Professor of French Denyse Delcourt and offered jointly by the French and Italian Studies department and the

Originally posted: December 2013 I’ve had a terrific experience in Canada. It started with a weekend long orientation hosted by Fulbright Canada in Ottawa. We got to tour the Parliament building and the Supreme Court. Later we also went to the museum and played a game of hockey. Fulbright Canada took care of everything. After

Originally posted: December 2o13 My name is Dennis Rees and I taught 6th – 8th Grade in the Peoria Unified School District in Peoria, Arizona, for 30 years. I have had a wonderful career as a teacher focused on improving geography education in middle school classrooms. In 2007, I even received the first Grosvenor Teacher

Inuktitut, the indigenous language of the Inuit peoples of Northern Canada, shares no roots with any other language in existence. It is spoken by only 35,000 people – with nearly all of them living in small communities in Arctic Canada. With its complex glottal sounds and unique set of written symbols, Inuktitut is rare to

Associate Professor, University of North Dakota, chaired a very successful conference entitled, “Science, People, & Sustainability in the Canadian Arctic: From the 1913 Canadian Arctic Expedition to the 2013 Arctic Council Chairmanship” on December 12, 2013.

Monica Chahary, 2011 Task Force Alum was awarded OAS Scholarship for Graduate Studies for the 2014-2015 academic period carried out by the Department of Human Development, Education and Culture of the Organization of American States by the Organization of American States (OAS). Chahary applied for the award to complete her her degree in Master in

Nicolas Van Tulder, International Studies major, was just awarded the Martin Lubin Undergraduate Award in the Social Sciences for his paper on Québec Arctic policy. He is the first recipient of this new award. Van Tulder’s research paper, Le Québec Total: Creating a Unifying Vision for Northern Development (Un Plan Pour Tous) argues for the creation of a

After returning from Western University in London, Ontario this past winter, I came back to Seattle inspired by the individuals I had the pleasure to meet while in Canada. Moreover, my interests in Indigenous ways of knowing the world increased. I also had the chance to become friends with two wonderful students through the Fulbright

Originally posted: October 2013 Twenty-three educators participated in Archives on the Arctic in Denver, Colorado. In June 2013, twenty-three educators gathered at Metropolitan State University of Colorado, to learn about the role of the Inuit in Canada and globally thanks to a collaborative program partnership between the Pacific Northwest National Resource on Canada and Library

Originally posted: October 2013 Diana Mackiewicz, participant in the 2012 STUDY CANADA Summer Institute for K-12 Educators, was awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities award to participate in the “Native Americans of New England, A Historical Overview” program. As a web design teacher and head of the Computer Department at Eagle Hill School in