Above: Two students from the course – Elle Roelofs, Education (far right) and Jason Young, Geography (next) – meet with Alexina Kublu, former Language Commissioner for Nunavut, Mick Mallon, Inuktitut instructor, and Robyn Davis, FLAS Coordinator (back) to learn more about Nunavut and the Inuit language. In Fall Quarter 2013 the Center – in conjunction

Above: From left, Vincent Gallucci, Chair, Canadian Studies; Resat Kasaba, Director, Jackson School; Jeff Riedinger, Vice Provost, Global Affairs; Tony Penikett, Fulbright Arctic Chair; Judy Howard, Divisional Dean, Social Sciences; Nadine Fabbi, Associate Director, Canadian Studies. by Kristina Bowman The talk coincided with the proposed University of Washington’s Arctic minor (http://www.jsis.washington.edu/arctic/), an interdisciplinary program to

Above: (Left to right) Arctic Initiative Interns Adam Akerblom and Sophie Hubbell, Arctic Consultant Terry Fenge, and Arctic Initiative task force students Zoë Cosford and Charlotte Dubiel. by Sophie Hubbell and Adam Akerblom, Arctic Initiative Interns, Canadian Studies Center & UW Freshman Canada assumes the chair of the eight-nation Arctic Council in 2013 for a two-year

Above: Presenters and participants at the symposium on Canada-US Arctic issues at the Association for Canadian Studies in the United States headquarters in Washington, DC. In the last edition of Newsweek in 2009, editor Jon Meacham interviewed two of the most prominent secretaries of state in recent history—Henry Kissinger and Hillary Clinton. In the interview, Clinton listed

Above: Scott and Kelsey (to Scott’s right), editors of the Task Force report, with Makivik Corporation participants from Nunavik, Canada, Lisa Koperqualak (far right) and Kitty Gordon (far left). By Scott Halliday and Kelsey Barrett The International Studies undergraduate major at the University of Washington is characterized by a cohort of students united in their

Since UW was founded in 1861, gifts have made significant contributions to the excellence of the University Libraries and have helped build its outstanding collections. In 2007-2008, the Libraries’ Gifts Program processed nearly 60,000 items from over 1,300 donors. Many students and researchers may consider their books or collections to be of little to no

This past summer, thanks to a Foreign Language and Area Studies fellowship in the Inuktitut language through the Canadian Studies Center, I had the opportunity to travel to the Canadian Arctic, and live in the village of Inukjuaq, in Nunavik, in the far North of Québec. While there, I lived with an Inuit family and