Above: Consul General Denis Stevens (left, center) welcomes Killam Fellow, Eugene Kobiako and Task Force on Arctic Sovereignty students Victoria Choe (far left) and Monica Chahary.  This academic year, over 40 U.W. grads and undergrads and 20 U.W. faculty received FLAS, Killam, Fulbright Fellows, grants, or achievements for their research, teaching and cross-border studies. All

Above: Scott Halliday and Kelsey Barrett ham it up at the Task Force celebration dinner at the University of Washington in March. by Scott Halliday, Co-Editor, Task Force on Arctic Governance As a mere undergraduate student in the International Studies major at the UW, I savor any opportunity to travel outside of Seattle. During week

Visit the following link to watch a video of the annual Canada-US Fulbright Lecture, part of the Jackson School’s Global Focus lecture series, given by the 2010-11 Canada-US Fulbright Chair, Marcia Ostashewski: http://vimeo.com/25996154

Above: Phillip Chicola, Consul General of the United States, Vancouver, blows out the birthday candles on WWU’s 40th birthday party cake. As part of the 40th anniversary celebration for the Center for Canadian-American Studies at Western Washington University, an all-day conference was held on the Canada-U.S. relationship. Conference organization was under the direction of Don

Above: Participants in front of the First Nations Cultural Centre in Whistler. By Alison Gill, Simon Fraser University From April 12th -16th over 7,000 geographers converged on Seattle to attend the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers. On the weekend prior to that a field trip entitled “Vancouver and Whistler: Seeking Sustainability” was,

Above: Heather Goad, McGill University, keynote presentation (“The L2 acquisition of functional morphology: Why syntacticians need phonologists”) In late March 2011, the Department of Linguistics and Canadian Studies co-sponsored a major conference on linguistics – the 11th Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition. The purpose of this international meeting was to bring together researchers from

Above: From left, Christopher Kirkey and Jarrett Rudy, co-authors of Québec Questions, with Yanick Godbout, Head of Post, Québec Delegation, Los Angeles. In late April the Québec Delegation in Los Angeles sponsored a luncheon at University of Washington to introduce Christopher Kirkey and Jarrett Rudy, co-editors with Stéphan Gervais of Québec Questions (2011). Québec Questions is a contributed, multidisciplinary

Above: Marcia, second from left (front), with Washington State educators. Dr. Marcia Ostashewski, Canada-US Fulbright Research Chair in Canadian Studies, presented “Resources for teaching and learning about Canada: Histories, communities, music and culture” at the Washington State Council for the Social Studies annual Leadership Retreat at Lake Chelan this March. Co-authored by her partner in

Above: Donn Charnley By Donn Charnley, Professor Emeritus, Shoreline Community College In the March course on Arctic Sovereignty, my understanding and knowledge of the Inuit in Arctic Canada was broadened. Since the mid-1930s I have visited, camped, hiked, climbed, sailed, and skied in Canada. I feel the need to know as much as I can

Above: Geoff Reaume gave us a ‘virtual tour’ of the Toronto Asylum walls. By Joanne Woiak, Disability Studies Geoffrey Reaume, an associate professor in the Critical Disability Studies Graduate Program at York University in Toronto, visited the University of Washington in early February as part of the lecture and film series “Unspeakable: Disability History, Identity,