Originally Posted: Spring 2010 The Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies National Resource Centers teamed up to offer an international film series, SMAK (See Movies at Kane). The series consisted of Thursday evening film screenings, held each week during winter quarter, and included films from around the world. The final film of the series,

NASAA President Karen Capuder (Kanien’keha:ka) is a PhD Candidate in the University of Washington’s Sociocultural Anthropology Program. Ms. Capuder’s collaborative ethnographic research with a local Tribal Elder is grounded in the Kaianereko:wa, the Great Law of Peace, of the Roti’nonshon:ni (Iroquois Confederacy). On April 23 and 24, 2010, Native American Students in Advanced Academia (NASAA) hosted their Ninth Annual

In 2009-10 two UW students were awarded Killam Fellowships – Rozanna Fang, Senior, French (minor Public Health and Community Medicine); and Adam Tanga, Junior, Political Science (minor French) who spent Fall Quarter at McGill University and University of Ottawa respectively. The Killam Program orientation in Ottawa, in September, was among my most memorable experiences in

George Roth, a junior in Geography, first became interested in the Arctic last summer through a UW Exploration Seminar in Greenland. He is currently the UW’s first student enrolled in the Circumpolar Minor through the Center. He spent this last summer in Iceland. I just returned from an independent trip around Iceland in August, exploring

Originally posted: 2009 In 2009-10 two UW students were awarded Killam Fellowships – Rozanna Fang, Senior, French (minor Public Health and Community Medicine); and Adam Tanga, Junior, Political Science (minor French) who spent Fall Quarter at McGill University and University of Ottawa respectively. The Killam Program orientation in Ottawa, in September, was among my most

Kristen Olson just graduated with an undergraduate degree in International Studies. She was part of the Winter Quarter Task Force on Arctic Sovereignty and wrote her chapter on Russia’s involvement in the Arctic. Kristen just left Seattle to serve with Teach for America. The Twelfth Annual UW Undergraduate Student Symposium is an opportunity for undergraduates

Originally Posted: Spring 2009 The Canadian Studies Center recently partnered with the Native Voices program and the other Jackson School Outreach Centers to bring the first Native Voices alum, Rosemary Gibbons, back to Seattle to discuss her award-winning documentary film, A Century of Genocide in the Americas: The Residential School Experience, at the Ninth Annual