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

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