Above: Angelo Baca at the Big Sky Documentary Film Festival in Missoula, Montana with Chris Eyre, Director of Smoke Signals. Photo by Bob McGowan. This past February, Native American filmmakers converged on Missoula, Montana to attend the Big Sky Documentary Film Festival. Angelo Baca, a graduate of the UW Native Voices Program, was there to

Above: Greg Robinson, History, l’Université du Québec à Montréal, and Masako Iino, Professor and President of Tsuda College, Tokyo, Japan, spoke about Japanese confinement in Canada during World War II at this year’s Day of Remembrance Program. Photo by Shihou Sasaki, The North American Post. Scholars of Executive Order 9066 and the incarceration of Japanese

The Canada Study Tour is an annual opportunity for UW graduate students to learn about Canadian businesses and government organizations, network with business leaders and fellow graduate students from Canada, and explore the city to which they travel. The tour is organized through the cooperation of the Foster School of Business Global Business Center and

Did you know your subject librarians are available to create customized library research pages for your courses? Thanks to a new piece of software called LibGuides, subject librarians can easily create research guides tailored to your course, providing your students with a quick way to determine the most relevant article databases, catalogs, reference books and web

Morna McEachern (fourth from left) successfully defended her dissertation, “Is Knowledge Power?: A Textual, Historical and Practical Study of ‘Sex Ed’ Policy and ‘Teen Pregnancy’ in Canada and the United States” in May. From left to right: Nancy Beadie, College of Education, Leadership and Policy; Amelia Gay, Social Work; Susan Kemp, Social Work; Morna McEachern, Social Work;

This year’s symposium included a diverse range of presentations focusing on the themes of history, culture, identity, indigenous studies, community and performance. The symposium was a great success, providing an opportunity for interaction and exchange of ideas among Canadian studies graduate students and scholars associated with many disciplines. In addition to nine University of Washington

In late April Dr. Shawn Wilson, author of Research is Ceremony: Indigenous Research Methods (2008), visited the UW where he visited and spoke in classes and served as the keynote speaker for the annual Native American Studies in Advanced Academia.

Don Chapman (center), effectively changed Canadian legislation in Canada enabling members of the UW community including Robert Stacey, Division Dean, Arts and Humanities and Linda DiBiase, Collections Development Librarian, to obtain their Canadian citizenship. Don was a guest of Canadian Studies in April providing a roundtable discussion on “The Lost Canadian” legislation.

Anne Goodchild, affiliated faculty in Civil and Environmental Engineering, presented the paper, “Near Border Operations and Logistical Efficiency: Implications for Policy Makers,” written with UW graduate student, Matt Klein, at the Seminar on Canada-U.S. Border Management Policy Issues sponsored by the Border Policy Research Institute, Western Washington University and hosted by the Woodrow Wilson International Center for

This Spring Regional Conference offered a workshop on First Nations languages entitled, “Curriculum Design, Activities and Demonstrations from a Less Commonly Taught Language.” Makah (Wakashan Language Family) is a language isolated in the U.S., but connects with First Nations languages in B.C., Canada.