2 June 2017 – International Policy Institute Arctic Fellows Symposium on Indigenous Influences in Arctic Affairs.

Jason Young, former FLAS Fellow studying Inuktitut gave a colloquium talk Spring Quarter 2017 . On Friday, May 12, Jason Young presented his talk entitled, “Qaujimaniq Ikiaqqivingmi: Inuit, Arctic Environmentalism, and Digital Knowledge Politics” in Smith 304 at 3:30pm. Jason’s abstract: Climate change offers a fundamental challenge to many societies to reconsider how they think about

Nadine C. Fabbi, lead on the IPI Arctic initiative, participated in an all-day workshop hosted by the Association of International Educator Administrators on May 8th, 2017 as part of Week of the Arctic held in Fairbanks, Alaska. The thematic forum titled “The U.S. as an Arctic Nation: Opportunities for Collaboration in Internationalization” was designed to establish awareness and generate

Picture this: Sixty panel – size paintings depicting the ongoing journey of people leaving not only oppression at home, but famine, other economic difficulties as well. The caption on the last panel simply states “And the migrants kept coming.” Would this be a series reflecting the experience of Syrian and other refugees today? Yes and

On March 4, 2017, Edmonds School District elementary teacher Mary Cingcade presented at the Washington State Council for the Social Studies (WSCSS)  annual conference in Lake Chelan, Washington. Her session, titled “A Sea of Change for Inuit People and the Canadian Arctic,” introduced elementary teachers, museum educators and curriculum specialists to an upper elementary unit

Mark Turin (second from right in group photo) provided an dynamic lecture at UW covering both the Digital Himalaya Project and a new project to protect First Nations languages in the Bella Bella region in British Columbia. Mark is the Chair of the First Nations and Endangered Languages Program, Acting Co-Director at the Institute for Critical Indigenous Studies, and Associate Professor of Anthropology