Sydney (Mick) Mallon, a renowned Canadian linguist and the Center’s Inuktut instructor, passed away on September 18th at the age of 90. From 2005 to 2019, Mick Mallon taught Inuktut to Foreign Language and Area Studies fellows, as well as other University of Washington students. After 2019, Mick and his wife, Alexina Kublu, taught together.

The Government of Canada is supporting the winter quarter 2024 Task Force on the Arctic with a $25,000 grant from the Global Arctic Leadership Initiative.  Task Force is a unique undergraduate capstone that offers Jackson School students practical experience making policy recommendations. Each Task Force report is produced by teams of student researchers and evaluated

The Center will partner with University of Aberdeen for the grant project “Teaching Arctic Environments” funded by the Scottish Government. Teaching Arctic Environments addresses the need for multi-disciplinary and collaborative pedagogy within and beyond Scottish and North American institutions. This project seizes upon the newly-established Interdisciplinary Research Centres at the University of Aberdeen to develop

In early September, interim director Nadine Fabbi gave the opening talk for the 2023 Program on Climate Change Summer Institute. This year’s institute was titled “Climate Change at the Poles.” Fabbi’s talk titled “Inuit Nunaat, Inuit Nunangat and Arctic Policy” addressed how the Arctic is uniquely impacted by climate change and what Inuit have and

This summer three Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) fellows traveled to Vancouver Island for intensive study of the First Nations language, Nuu-chah-nulth. A total of four UW graduate students were awarded summer FLAS fellowships for the study of an Indigenous language spoken in Canada. One fellow, Ric Berkholtz, School of Law, studied Haida with

In July the Jackson School’s Title VI centers offered the Community College Master Teacher Institute including a talk by author Douglas Janoff on diversity in the Government of Canada. Douglas Janoff is the author of Queer Diplomacy: Homophobia, International Relations and LGBT Human Rights  (2022). It is the first study of multilateral LGBT human rights

Marion Ferguson, exchange programs manager for the Canadian Studies Center, was awarded funding to attend the 2023 Global Inclusion Conference hosted by Diversity Abroad. Ferguson was invited to participate in the conference as a panel speaker for the session “IDEAS for Indigenous Inclusion in Education Abroad.” The panel will be comprised of grantees from the

Richard Watts, faculty in French and Italian Studies and former faculty director of Canadian Studies, received a Business Language Grant from the UW Foster School’s Global Business Center to revise the syllabus for a 3rd-year advanced language course French 303: Project, Pathways, and Possibilities in the summer of 2023 by adding a module on business language in francophone Canada. French

This summer, Study Canada K-12 launched their first virtual institute, called “Diversify Your French”, with the tagline “there is more to French than baguettes and the Eiffel Tower.” Over four weeks in July, French teachers from around the United States met weekly online to expand their understanding and knowledge of French from throughout the diaspora.

During her FLAS fellowship, Robyn Long interned at the Inuit Circumpolar Council Canada and co-wrote a now published paper with her colleagues there. Robyn Long, Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) fellow in French (2021-22), interned at the Inuit Circumpolar Council (ICC) Canada during her master’s program. Robyn, Selma Ford and John Crump – all