In early November, Tony Penikett, former premier of the Yukon Territory, presented on the thesis and background of his book, Hunting the Northern Character arguing that a new consciousness is developing in the circumpolar region. The visit was sponsored by the Canadian Studies Center, Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies; Quaternary Research Center’s 50th

In early October 2019, Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellows in Inuktitut and doctoral students, Elizabeth Wessells, Archaeology, and Ellen Ahlness, Political Science, presented at the 21st Inuit Studies Conference in Montréal. Following are photos from the conference as well as Wessells research project at the UW’s Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture.

Food was always central to my upbringing as a kid. My parents loved every and any kind of dish you could imagine. They taught me that food was not just something to eat, food was something to experience and share with others. During my exchange at the University of British Columbia (UBC), I got to

Canadian Studies Librarian and PI on a Government of Québec University Grant, Siôn Romaine, was just awarded $1,000 for Acquisition of Material on Québec for UW Libraries. UW Libraries just received a $1,000 library support grant from the Québec Government to support the purchase over 40 titles relevant to the teaching of Québec and French

Discourse of Reciprocity: The Role of the Press in the U.S.-Canada Alliance, by Dr. Kate Dunsmore (PhD 2008), was just released by Rowman & Littlefield Press. The book draws on Dunmore’s award-winning dissertation on Canada-U.S. relations. “Discourse of Reciprocity reveals patterns of press behavior in the U.S.-Canada alliance at points where the nature of the alliance

Almost 60 faculty across campus serve as affiliated faculty of the Center. In the past academic year, they published over 20 scholarly articles, raised over $2 million in grant funding and conducted research pertaining to Canada and the Canada-U.S. relationship. In the 2018–19 academic year, over 20 scholarly articles by UW faculty focused on the

In mid-November, University of the Arctic (UArctic) president, Lars Kullerud, and vice president, Outi Snellman, visited UW in an effort to strength collaborations between the UW and UArctic. The day began with a meeting with UW faculty and students where Kullerud and Snellman provided a history and background of UArctic and pointed out the many

In mid-November Center director, Rich Watts and Ph.D. candidate, Max Showalter, presented at the 25th Biennial Conference of the Association for Canadian Studies in the United States in Montréal. Rich Watts, faculty director of the Canadian Studies Center, Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies, and associate professor in the Department of French and Italian

As a result of site visits made to l’Université Laval by Rich Watts, faculty director, Canadian Studies Center, and Hedwige Meyer, affiliated faculty of the Center, UW students can now participate in a direct exchange to Laval for French study. One of Rich Watts’ first initiatives as director of Canadian Studies was to visit l’Université

Nives Dolšak and Aseem Prakash draw parallels between U.S. coal bankruptcies and Alberta oil sands in their recent article in Forbes. On October 29, 2019, Forbes published “U.S. Coal Bankruptcies Reveal the Future of Alberta Tar Sands” by Nives Dolšak, professor and director of the School of Marine and Environmental Affairs, and affiliated faculty of