This fall, Scott Montgomery, JSIS faculty member, is teaching ARCTIC 391: Climate Change – An International Perspective: Science, Art, and Activism. “Scientists have discovered global climate change, identified its human origins, and are forecasting the consequences for every corner of the globe. There is overwhelming consensus about the facts underpinning our knowledge of climate change.

Jason Young, a former Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) recipient in Inuktut who spent two summers studying with Alexina Kublu in Igoolik, Nunavut, is instructing ARCTIC 101 Elementary Inuktut: Inuit Language and Culture in Canada this fall. He studied with Kublu, former language commission for Nunavut and Mick Mallon, one of Canada’s top linguists

Mia Bennet, assistant professor in the Department of Geography and affiliated faculty with the Canadian Studies Center, just returned from Norway and Svalbard as part of the first meeting of the Fulbright Arctic Initiative team. See the article on the award here.

Teaching Arctic Environments is a collaborative and interdisciplinary project led by Isabelle Gap, University of Aberdeen, and. Jonathan Peyton, University of Manitoba and UW’s 2022-23 Fulbright Canada Chair in Arctic Studies. Project partners include: director Nadine Fabbi, and Dr. Penny How with the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland. Through an ongoing series of events,

The special edition of the American Review of Canadian Studies (ARCS), edited by Center director Nadine Fabbi and 2020-22 Banting Postdoctoral Fellow Patricia Johnston, was just awarded Best Special Issue for 2023 by the Council of Editors of Learned Journals. The Council of Editors of Learned Journals (CELJ) – an international organization of about 450 editors of scholarly

The Donald C. Helmann Task Force Program is a student-led experiential learning capstone in the Jackson School of International Studies which results in policymaking recommendations presented by students to expert evaluators from the foreign policy field. One of the topics featured this year, Indigenous and International Relations in a Warming Arctic, was led by the

The Canadian Studies Center, with support from the Center for Global Studies and the East Asia Center, recently hosted His Excellency Whit Fraser — former executive director of the national Inuit organization, the Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami; longtime CBC journalist; former chairman of the Canadian Polar Commission; and spouse of Canada’s first Indigenous governor general, Mary

In early November, Nadine Fabbi and UW’s 2022-23 Chair in Arctic Studies met with colleagues at the University of Aberdeen to begin work on pedagogy to enhance Arctic studies. The Canadian Studies Center is partnering with the University of Aberdeen and University of Manitoba on the project “Teaching Arctic Environments.” The grant is funded by

UW students can now study at many of the institutions that are members of University of the Arctic via a partnership developed by UW Study Abroad and Canadian Studies. North2north is the mobility program of the University of the Arctic (UArctic), a network of universities, colleges, research institutes and other organizations focusing on education and

This quarter over 100 UW undergraduates will study our relationship to the world’s oceans including wind energy in the Salish Sea and Inuit concepts of management. The School of Marine and Environmental Affairs (SMEA), Program on the Environment, and the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies (JSIS) are offering the course Society and the Oceans 103 this