To those UW students thinking about studying Inuktitut, I give you the words of professor Mick Mallon, renowned Canadian linguist, on “casual” Inuktitut learning: “‘Picking up’ Inuktitut would be like would be like putting together an IKEA space rocket kit.” Any beginner will quickly discover a complex language with a precise grammar completely unrelated to

Indigenous planning has emerged as one of the most dynamic sites for the negotiation of Indigenous and settler relations. Today a number of Canadian universities offer specialized courses and areas of concentration in First Nations planning. At UW’s Department of Urban and Design and Planning PhD symposium in early May, Leonie Sandercock screened her film

This year’s UW Fulbright Canada Visiting Chair in Arctic Studies, Mark Mallory (Acadia University, Nova Scotia), has just published a co-authored paper in the scientific journal Nature Climate Change. The article, “Global Phenological Insensitivity to Shifting Ocean Temperatures among Seabirds,” addresses the effects of climate change on the timing of seabird breeding across the globe,

Former Canadian Studies Librarian Linda Di Biase will retire from UW Libraries this spring after over thirty years with the university. As Canadian Studies Librarian from 1988 to 2006, Linda helped to build one of the most robust collections on Canada in the country: UW Libraries boast well over a half million catalogued volumes, maps,

Each day for the past six weeks, my classroom has come to life during my early morning literacy block, my 4th graders buzzing with excitement over our study of Inuit people of the Canadian Arctic. This winter my students were tasked with researching topics and teaching each other about how early Inuit people met their

19 April 2018 – UW’s Canadian Studies Center joined the London-based international think tank Polar Research and Policy Initiative (PRPI) in co-hosting the 7th High-Level Dialogue on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in the Arctic during the 2018 Arctic Encounter Symposium, the largest annual Arctic conference in the United States. The dialogue on “Arctic Transportation: Bridging Needs, Opportunities and

The Center is happy to announce a new Arctic Studies minor, Haleh Mawson! Haleh is an Ecology, Evolution, and Conservation Biology major who is expected to graduate Spring Quarter 2021. My interest in the Arctic Studies minor was piqued after I picked up a brochure on the program in the Honors lobby. I had just

In March 2018, the WSCSS held its Annual Spring Conference at the Skamania Lodge and Resort in Skamania, Washington, overlooking the Columbia River. Kyla Sweet, the Education and Curriculum Specialist K–12 for the Pacific Northwest Canadian Studies Consortium, attended the conference as an exhibitor. She brought lots of resources, including information about the upcoming Study Canada

As an exchange student from the University of British Columbia at the University of Washington this academic year, I’ve had highs and lows and done some exploring of our beautiful Pacific Northwest. I wouldn’t trade these experiences for anything! I remember my first day here thinking that the cultures would be so similar that I

“Ukiuqta’qtumi Hivuniptingnun: One Arctic, One Future,” written by Nadine Fabbi, Canadian Studies Managing Director; Jason Young, former Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellow in Inuktitut; and Eric Finke, independent scholar, was recently published in the book One Arctic: The Arctic Council and Circumpolar Governance (2017). The chapter and book are an outcomes of a two-day workshop