Elena Bell, doctoral student in International Studies and FLAS Fellow in Inuktitut just passed her written and oral examinations! Elena’s thesis is presently titled, “Through the Lens of Indigenous Filmmakers: Film as Cross-Border Communication. Her research will examine film as a tool of self-representation via case studies of Indigenous filmmaking in Nunavut, Canada and Sakha,

UW Libraries has updated the Arctic and Northern Studies Guide to become one of the most comprehensive databases on the Arctic in the country. Several years ago, UW librarians Siôn Romaine, Canadian Studies librarian, Maureen Nolan, Fisheries-Oceanography librarian, and Dan Mandeville, Nordic Studies and Linguistics librarian, built UW’s first Arctic and Northern Studies Research Guide,

We are pleased to welcome Dr. Kathy Snow as the 2019-2020 UW Fulbright Canada Visiting Chair in Arctic Studies. Dr. Snow joins us from the University of Prince Edward Island, where she is an associate professor in the Faculty of Education. She is also the academic lead for the University’s certificate in Educational Leadership Nunavut,

Ellen Ahlness, FLAS Fellow in Inuktitut and doctoral student in political science was just published in 2019 Arctic Yearbook.  Ellen’s paper, “Incompatible Futures: Frontier Nostalgia and Southern Discourses of the Arctic,” argues that social attitudes towards the Arctic are often shaped by nostalgia that can influence even how policy is shaped; and that this nostalgia

This winter quarter, nine Jackson School undergraduate students traveled to Ottawa for a week to learn about Canada and changing sea ice. The students were part of the 2020 Task Force program. In the course, students looked at the impact of climate change on Arctic sea ice and engaged in a simulated exercise to draft

The Center partnered with University of Ottawa’s Centre for International Policy Studies to sponsor the televised symposium on sea ice changes in the Canadian Arctic. —  The Center and the Jackson School’s International Policy Institute, along with the Center for Global Studies, co-sponsored two televised panels at the University of Ottawa in January, titled “A

A paper by FLAS Alumna Samantha Farquhar, “Inuit seal hunting in Canada” was just published in ARCTIC Journal. — Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) alumna Samantha Farquhar (French, 2018-2019) just had a paper published in the March issue (vol. 73, no. 1) of ARCTIC Journal – “Inuit Seal Hunting in Canada: Emerging Narratives in

STUDY CANADA K-12 was well represented at the Austin, Texas National Council for Social Studies annual conference last November by our Education and Curriculum Specialist, Kyla Sweet (Western Washington University). From November 21 to 23, 2019, thousands of social studies educators gathered for the 99th National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS) conference. The Pacific Northwest

In early February, the Canadian Studies Center and the Center for Human Rights hosted Don Chapman, author of The Lost Canadians: A Struggle for Citizenship Rights, Equality, and Identity (2015). The book provides a detailed account of his efforts at the front of the Canadian citizenship rights movement. During his talk, Chapman discussed citizenship in Canada

It is pretty amazing to think back and realize that it has already been almost five years since I was a Corbett Fellow, but I am incredibly proud to see how far the Corbett Exchange has come and I am so happy that students on both sides of the Canada-U.S. border are still getting to