On March 4th, author Juliana Léveillé-Trudel presented her book Nirliit and held a question and answer session with the students of French/JSIS 441: Quebecois Literature. The event was held in the Smith Room at Suzzallo, and it was sponsored by the Center for Canadian Studies, the Department of French and Italian studies, the Centre de la Francophonie

In December, Russ Hugo, director of the Language Learning Center, was invited to serve on the Indigenous Pedagogy Expert Committee for the Canada Foundation for Innovation 2025 Innovation Fund. Russ joined the Language Learning Center (LLC) in 2008 and continued in that position until just before he completed his doctorate in Linguistics from UW in

In autumn quarter 2025, the Department of French & Italian Studies will offer a module on business French in its advanced French 301 course. Developed by assistant teaching professor Irina Markina-Baum with support from the Canadian Studies Center and the Global Business Center, the module will introduce students not only to the linguistic conventions of

This fall, Scott Montgomery, JSIS faculty member, is teaching ARCTIC 391: Climate Change – An International Perspective: Science, Art, and Activism. “Scientists have discovered global climate change, identified its human origins, and are forecasting the consequences for every corner of the globe. There is overwhelming consensus about the facts underpinning our knowledge of climate change.

Jason Young, a former Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) recipient in Inuktut who spent two summers studying with Alexina Kublu in Igoolik, Nunavut, is instructing ARCTIC 101 Elementary Inuktut: Inuit Language and Culture in Canada this fall. He studied with Kublu, former language commission for Nunavut and Mick Mallon, one of Canada’s top linguists

Monte Mills joined the UW faculty in 2022 as Charles I. Stone Professor of Law and the Director of the Native American Law Center. He teaches American Indian Law, Property, and other classes focused on Native American and natural resources related topics. This fall, he joined the Center as an affiliate faculty member. Monte’s research

Mia Bennet, assistant professor in the Department of Geography and affiliated faculty with the Canadian Studies Center, just returned from Norway and Svalbard as part of the first meeting of the Fulbright Arctic Initiative team. See the article on the award here.

Sarah Kate Moore, FLAS fellow in French (2023-24) is now a part-time lecturer in the UW Department of French and Italian Studies.  “I was honored to attend the University of Laval’s Advanced Training for Teachers of French as a Foreign Language in Québec City this summer (2024), after graduating with my MA in French from

Teaching Arctic Environments is a collaborative and interdisciplinary project led by Isabelle Gap, University of Aberdeen, and. Jonathan Peyton, University of Manitoba and UW’s 2022-23 Fulbright Canada Chair in Arctic Studies. Project partners include: director Nadine Fabbi, and Dr. Penny How with the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland. Through an ongoing series of events,

With the support of the Canadian Studies Center and the Quebec Ministry of International Relations and Francophonie, this past Winter quarter, teaching professor Hedwige Meyer revived a Québécois literature course that had not been offered for several years on the UW Seattle campus. Seventeen students were enrolled in FRENCH 441 as well as an auditing