October 31, 2012
Originally posted: October 2012 How often do you get to discuss Canadian literature and multiculturalism over breakfast with fellow educators over a weekend? Along with a group of 11 high school teachers and teacher-administrators from Washington State I had a chance to do just that while attending the Vancouver International Writers and Readers Festival in
October 31, 2012
by Todd Wildermuth, School of Law In late August, Todd Wildermuth, School of Law, and Anne DeMelle, Program on the Environment, participated in the Energy and Environmental Study Tour to Alberta. The Energy and Environment Study Tour to Alberta on August 28-30, 2012, was extraordinary in many respects. The governments of Canada and Alberta
October 31, 2012
by Philip Howard, Communication On 24 September 2012, Philip Howard’s OpEd piece on virtual embassies was published in The Globe and Mail. For the full article, click here.
October 31, 2012
Morna McEachern, Social Work, and Program Manager for Pacific Northwest Canadian Studies Consortium (PNWCSC), has recently been invited to join the board of directors of the Association of Canadian Studies in the United States (ACSUS) and to serve as its secretary. This is a particularly interesting and challenging time for ACSUS, due to the total,
October 31, 2012
As a student in the School of Marine and Environmental Affairs, my studies focus on the physical and abstract interactions of the human and natural worlds in the marine environment. The coast is a particularly important place to study these interactions because of the incredible amount of human and natural activity that takes place in
October 31, 2012
This summer I was enrolled in six weeks of intensive French courses at POINT3 Language Center in the Old Port of Montréal. During my stay, I shared a classroom and developed friendships with people from all around the world. In addition to morning lessons devoted to advanced grammatical concepts, enhancing our vocabularies and fluency, afternoons
October 31, 2012
The Canadian Studies Center is proud to be a partner in the new UWTV series, Voices of the First Peoples, showing the culture, struggles and heritage of Native people from across Canada and the United States. The film series includes feature-length documentary films that have won acclaim at international film festivals, including the award-winning A
October 31, 2012
by Sharon Hargus, Linguistics First Nations community language specialists and scholars from Canada and the United States gathered at Western Washington University (WWU), August 15-17, 2012, to share information about the Athabaskan/Dene languages, a group of about 40 related languages spoken in the interior of Alaska, much of western Canada, the southwest United States
October 31, 2012
by Katie Bunn-Marcuse, Bill Holm Center, Burke Museum Sonny Assu studied the Kwakwaka’wakw collection at the Burke Museum in July 2012 on a grant from the Bill Holm Center for the Study of Northwest Coast Art. Assu is Ligwildaʼxw of the We Wai Kai First Nation (Cape Mudge). An interdisciplinary artist, Assu describes his work
October 30, 2012
A few short days after finishing finals, I was off to Montréal to participate in the Université de Québec à Montréal’s four-week Business French Immersion program. The program involved daily morning classes where we talked about a wide-range of topics in business, worked on vocabulary, and learned advanced level grammar. In the afternoons, we visited