In late June, STUDY CANADA K-12 and Village Books, Bellingham, sponsored Métis author, Natasha Donovan who presented her graphic novel Borders. In Borders, this graphic-book adaptation of award-winning author Thomas King’s The Inconvenient Indian, The Truth About Stories, a young Blackfoot boy and his mother end up in a no-man’s land between the United States

Robyn Long was a FLAS Fellow for French in the 2021-22 academic year while completing her Master of Social Work. As part of the Social Work program, she completed a practicum with the Inuit Circumpolar Council, Canada office that involved supporting staff participating in the Arctic Council’s Sustainable Development Working Group. Her primary project focused

In May 2022, the Center partnered with UW in the High School to provide professional development training for French teachers on Québec topics. UW in the High School includes almost 20 educators who teach UW French language courses to high school students across the state. This year the Center sponsored Sarah Hurlburt, professor of French

For the second year, the Corbett Exchange Program hosted a virtual cohort, composed of six UW students, three UBC students, and three UVic students. The 2021 program provided a strong model for success, and our students had an exceptional two quarters of workshops, discussions, video tours, and cross-border learning. Over the course of four months,

In May 2022, the Center co-sponsored a roundtable exploring English in the history of Cascadia as a language of trade, displacement and trauma, settler-colonialism, and reclamation and resistance. This roundtable of lightning talks pursued the local and regional history of English: the place of English in the bioregion of Cascadia, the Pacific Northwestern region of

Professor Rich Watts, Department of French and Italian Studies, signs off after five years of service to the Center and Jackson School of International Studies. — As my five-year term as faculty director of the Canadian Studies Center in UW’s Jackson School of International Studies draws to a close, my thoughts are mostly with those

Patrick Christie, a professor in the Jackson School and School Marine and Environmental Affairs, was appointed faculty director of the Canadian Studies Center effective July 1, 2022. Christie has a strong interest in and commitment to justice and sustainability. He works at the interface of oceans and coastal communities, but also works in other environments.

Andrea Scallon, a 2022 Corbett Virtual Exchange Scholar and fourth-year student in International Studies and Global Health, was recognized as one of the Husky 100 — a group of students from the three UW campuses who embody the Husky experience and demonstrate making the most of their time at UW. Through the Corbett Virtual Exchange

Kayla Stevenson is a graduate student at the UW studying at the School of Marine and Environment Affairs and the Jackson School for International Studies. She received her Bachelor’s in Politics and Government and Environmental Policy and Decision Making from the University of Puget Sound. Kayla is currently serving as a Research Assistant for the Navigating the New

In March 2022, fourteen members of the collaborating team, the three PI’s and a research assistant for a Navigating the New Arctic grant met on zoom to begin discussions on the project, “Co-Designing Civic Education for the Circumpolar North.”  In the workshop three questions were discussed concerning civic education: how do we define Arctic civic