Richard Watts, faculty in French and Italian Studies and former faculty director of Canadian Studies, received a Business Language Grant from the UW Foster School’s Global Business Center to revise the syllabus for a 3rd-year advanced language course French 303: Project, Pathways, and Possibilities in the summer of 2023 by adding a module on business language in francophone Canada. French

Hedwige Meyer (French and Italian Studies) visited Québec City in July 2023 thanks to the financial support of the Canadian Studies Center, the Department of French and Italian Studies, and a grant from the Ministère des Relations internationales et de la Francophonie of the Quebec government. Meyer met with Suzie Beaulieu from the Association Internationale

Elena Campbell, Department of History and Jason Young, Information School will serve as the University’s Council Representatives for University of the Arctic. The University of Washington has been an institutional member of University of the Arctic since 2008. Since that time Center managing director Nadine Fabbi has largely served in the role of UW Council

During autumn quarter 2022, Hedwige Meyer, teaching professor of French, brought Michel Jean, author of the award-winning novel, Kukum, to her FRENCH 301: Language in the Francophone World course via Zoom. The students read Kukum prior to the visit by the author. The 90-minute meeting allowed the students to deepen their understanding of the book and

In June of this year, a team of University of Washington researchers and faculty kicked off a new partnership with the community of Ulukhaktok, Northwest Territories, Canada. One of the members of the team, Jason Young, is a Canadian and Arctic Studies Affiliate and a former Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) fellow in the

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

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.

The Center welcomes David Butman, associate professor, School of Environmental and Forest Sciences, as a new affiliate to the Center. David Butman is an associate professor in the School of Environmental and Forest Sciences as well as the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. His research focuses on the ecology and biogeochemistry of freshwater ecosystems

Yoshitaka Ota served as director of the Nereus Program, a global interdisciplinary initiative between the Nippon Foundation and the University of British Columbia to further knowledge about how to best attain sustainability for the world’s oceans, between 2011 and 2019. During that time, he identified a capacity and knowledge gap in addressing the widening inequality in