Over President’s Day weekend, 12 MBA students from the UW Foster School of Business embarked on the second annual Canada Study Tour. These students took advantage of their long weekend by traveling from Seattle to neighboring Vancouver, British Columbia to learn about trade and sustainability around the region. The 2008 Canada Study Tour explored

This past summer, thanks to a Foreign Language and Area Studies fellowship in the Inuktitut language through the Canadian Studies Center, I had the opportunity to travel to the Canadian Arctic, and live in the village of Inukjuaq, in Nunavik, in the far North of Québec. While there, I lived with an Inuit family and

Over the last couple of summers, I had the privilege of taking part in a large, collaborative project entitled Dane Wajich- Dane-zaa Stories and Songs: Dreamers and the Land. The theme for this exhibit was inspired by Elders of the Doig River First Nation and their desire to share stories that connect them and their

The white iris flowers layered the crowd of waving Québécois flags like a wild field on a windy summer night; the flowers symbolize purity, French Canadian history, and Québec’s deeply embedded roots in the Catholic Church. It was June 24th, the date of my arrival in Montréal and more popularly known as St. Jean Baptiste

The following is a listing of all Center lectures, workshops, conferences, and other activities in the 2006-07 academic year. Canadian Consulate, Seatte; UW School of Marine Affairs; Canadian Studies Center, Henry M. Jackson School of international Studies New Canada-US Fulbright Research Chair at UW attracts Senior B.C. Government Official: Canadian Consulate, Seatte; UW School of Marine

2nd Annual Canadian Studies Affiliated Graduate Student Symposium: Public Policy Differences Across The Canada-US Border – The Impact on Research, Decision-Making and the Canada-US Relationship See Program

Chairs: Saara Romu and Vanessa Brewster Faculty Reps: Dr. Sukumar Periwal, Nadine Fabbi Program Article from the Association for Canadian Studies in the US newsletter The Canada-US trade relationship is the largest in the world and therefore it is critical that UW MBA students have an understanding of the market structures and overall political and

The following is a listing of all Center lectures, workshops, conferences, and other activities in the 2005-06 academic year. Thursday, 7 July 2005, Film Screening  6:30 pm, Burke Museum, UW Campus Being Caribou Description: In 2003 Karsten Heuer and Leanne Allison left the remote community of Old Crow, Yukon, to join the Porcupine Caribou Herd on

The following is a listing of all Center lectures, workshops, conferences, and other activities in the 2004-05 academic year. 16-20 August 2004 – Senior College- Academic Symposium 18th Annual Summer college 2004 for Folks over Fifty Description: This continuing education program for adults over 50 served 175participants covering a range of subjects from wartime presidents to art history to

This multidisciplinary conference allowed Graduate Students whose work touches on Québécois society a rare opportunity to present their research to specialists in Canadian Studies, official representatives of Quebec, and professors in various disciplines. This event was organized by the Affiliated Graduate Students of the University of Washington Canadian Studies Center and funded/supported by the Québec