We are pleased to welcome Dr. Kathy Snow as the 2019-2020 UW Fulbright Canada Visiting Chair in Arctic Studies. Dr. Snow joins us from the University of Prince Edward Island, where she is an associate professor in the Faculty of Education. She is also the academic lead for the University’s certificate in Educational Leadership Nunavut,

Ellen Ahlness, FLAS Fellow in Inuktitut and doctoral student in political science was just published in 2019 Arctic Yearbook.  Ellen’s paper, “Incompatible Futures: Frontier Nostalgia and Southern Discourses of the Arctic,” argues that social attitudes towards the Arctic are often shaped by nostalgia that can influence even how policy is shaped; and that this nostalgia

This winter quarter, nine Jackson School undergraduate students traveled to Ottawa for a week to learn about Canada and changing sea ice. The students were part of the 2020 Task Force program. In the course, students looked at the impact of climate change on Arctic sea ice and engaged in a simulated exercise to draft

The Center partnered with University of Ottawa’s Centre for International Policy Studies to sponsor the televised symposium on sea ice changes in the Canadian Arctic. —  The Center and the Jackson School’s International Policy Institute, along with the Center for Global Studies, co-sponsored two televised panels at the University of Ottawa in January, titled “A

Inuktitut Magazine, the magazine for the national Inuit organization in Canada, highlights the Jackson School’s Canadian Studies Center as “the only institution below the 49th parallel that offers Inuktitut training, allowing southern researchers to learn language skills that can help them better understand and communicate with Inuit Nunangat communities.” The article titled “Inuktitut Sijaatumi” (Translation: Inuktitut

In mid-November, University of the Arctic (UArctic) president, Lars Kullerud, and vice president, Outi Snellman, visited UW in an effort to strength collaborations between the UW and UArctic. The day began with a meeting with UW faculty and students where Kullerud and Snellman provided a history and background of UArctic and pointed out the many

In spring quarter 2019, the World Affairs Council of Seattle hosted a roundtable discussion with Chief Dana Tizya-Tramm of the Vuntut Gwic’hin First Nation in Old Crow, Yukon, in collaboration with the International Policy Institute Arctic initiative. The event focused on recent initiatives concerning the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and climate change. Indigenous people, particularly

The newest issue of Arctic and International Relations Series (AIRS) seeks to bridge the gap between remote communities and centers of power. “Bridging the gap between Arctic Indigenous communities and Arctic policy: Unalaska, the Aleutian Islands, and the Aleut International Association,” explores the history, culture, economies and concerns of the Unangan, the maritime people of

Choosing to minor in Arctic Studies was something totally unexpected for me. I took ARCTIC 200: Indigenous Diplomacies and International Relations in the Arctic in my first quarter at UW and fell in love with the culture and discussion about the Arctic environment. At that point, I decided to minor in Arctic Studies, and it

The Center is happy to announce a new Arctic Studies minor, Betz Mayer! Betz is an International Studies and Russian Language and Literature major who is expected to graduate Spring Quarter 2019. Though my hometown is in Texas, I have a life-long love for all things winter, cold, and snowy. However, it was my journey