The Canadian Studies Center is part of a university-wide initiative to advance teaching and research on the Arctic region. The Future of Ice Initiative was just announced by Dean Graumlich from College of the Environment. Read the letter here …

At the 2012 NCSS Conference in Seattle, “Opening Windows to the World,” the National Resource Centers in the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies – Canadian Studies Center, Center for Global Studies, East Asia Center, Ellison Center for Russian, East European and Central Asian Studies, Middle East Center, South Asia Center, and Southeast Asia

The 2013 Arctic Task Force on Arctic Policy has made it into the news! View below to see the group’s achievements. Visite de l’Université de Washington au Québec et à Ottawa Dans le cadre du cours Task for on Arctic Security, co-enseigné par Joël Plouffe, professeur invité, Université de Washington et chercheur en résidence, Observatoire

Originally posted: July 2013 In early July 2013, The Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies’ National Resource Centers, in partnership with the Northwest International Education Association (NIEA), offered the 10th annual Community College Master Teacher Institute at the University of Washington on “At the Crossroads: Climate Change, the Environment, and Social Justice.” Twenty-three faculty,

Ross Coen, a Ph.D. student in the History Department and author of, Breaking Ice for Arctic Oil, gave a presentation “Historical Perspectives on Environmental Stewardship and Resource Development in the Canadian Arctic” at the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies’ Community College Master Teacher Institute in July. Upon discovery of the Prudhoe Bay oil field

The Canadian Studies Center is proud to announce that Brit Sojka, School of Marine and Environmental Affairs, will be studying French this summer as part of her Foreign Language and Area Studies fellowships. As a Master’s candidate with U.W.’s School of Marine and Environmental Affairs, my current studies are an effort to develop the scientific

On May 1-2, 2013 the University of Washington’s American Indian Studies Department held a two-day symposium, The Living Breath of Wǝɫǝbʔaltxʷ: Indigenous Ways of Knowing Cultural Food Practices and Ecological Knowledge, which brought together over 180 people to hear Northwest Coast Native leaders, elders, and scholars from the U.S. and Canada share their knowledge and expertise

In Spring Quarter 2013, Vincent Gallucci, Chair of Canadian Studies and Professor in the School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences, presented papers on Arctic geopolitics at three separate conferences. In March, Vince traveled to Iceland where he presented the paper, “Fisheries resources under climate change and Arctic governance: A risk perspective” at a conference at