On February 22 and 23, representatives from the Pacific Northwest Canadian Studies Consortium (PNWCSC (UW Canadian Studies Center is the secretariat)) attended an excellent symposium on the Columbia River Treaty modernization, which was co-hosted by Northwest Indian College and Western Washington University. Many concerned and interested groups and officials were in attendance: Indigenous peoples, US

The Columbia River Treaty modernization was the focus for both a very successful field course in the summer of 2015 and PNWCSC Annual General Meeting in February 2016. The Canadian Consulate in downtown Seattle hosted the meeting, which included participants from fifteen member institutions and lively discussions about myriad aspects of the Columbia River, the

The Pacific Northwest Canadian Studies Consortium Faculty Field Course to Canada introduces faculty from regional institutions to Canadian colleagues and key Canada-U.S. issues. This year’s theme is the Columbia River and the Canada-U.S. Columbia River Treaty. Morna McEachern, Social Work and affiliated faculty in Canadian Studies, was the faculty lead for the field course. See Itinerary

This year’s Ecosystem Studies of the Sub-Arctic Seas (ESSAS) Annual Science Meeting was hosted but the UW’s Future of Ice Initiative and various on-campus units and departments, including Canadian Studies, who contributed to the success of the meeting. With more than 90 attendees, including scientists and researchers from the U.S., Norway, Denmark, Japan, South Korea, and more,

Canada’s North is a region as vast as it is diverse. Modern conveniences exist alongside thriving traditional cultures in a region that faces both challenges and opportunities. Canada is working hard with its partners in the Arctic Council to ensure economic and environment development will be sustainable throughout the circumpolar region and that the benefits

The Native Organization of Indigenous Scholars (NOIS) was created to bring together University of Washington graduate and professional students of Indigenous descent. By building a supportive community in which to network, socialize and share stories/theories, we aim to examine conceptions of culture, knowledge, and power through an Indigenous lens. It is our hope that sharing

Above: Jason Young (left), 2014-15 FLAS Fellow in Inuktitut and Isaac Stockdale (right), UW’s first Corbett Canada-US Fellow (01/15). The Pacific Northwest Canadian Studies Consortium (PNWCSC) held its annual meeting at the Canadian Consulate in downtown Seattle on Friday, February 6th, 2015. The program featured three affiliated students in Canadian Studies who presented their research

Above: David Rossiter, new director of Canadian American Studies at Western Washington University (02/15). December 31, 2014 marked the end of an impressive era of Canadian Studies leadership with the retirement of Dr. Donald K. Alper, Director of the Center for Canadian-American Studies at Western Washington University. Our two centers share a U.S. Department of

Above: Mick Mallon, Canadian Inuktitut instructor lectures at Linguistics colloquium by Brent Woo, Linguistics Mallon, who might possibly be Canada’s preeminent non-Inuktitut instructor, is better described through his past work than by giving him any one title. Mallon was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland in 1933. He graduated from Cambridge in 1954 and then emigrated

Above: Daniel Heath Justice, Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Literature and Expressive Culture; Chair of the First Nations Studies Program, University of British Columbia by Rachael Nickerson, Comparative History of Ideas Justice explained the Predation Perplex by asking, “What does it mean to think about personhood yet kill and eat beings we claim to be