Nadine Fabbi, Canadian Studies Center, and Thierry Rodon, Department of Political Science, L’Université Laval, co-edited a special issue of the American Review of Canadian Studies called Makippugut (We Are Standing Up): Public Policy and Self-Determination in Nunavik (vol. 47, no. 2). Published in June 2017, the special issue addresses the dynamic policy dialogue currently taking

The colonial state of Sweden increased pressure on the Indigenous Sámi through legislation that led to increased poverty among Forest Sámis. Two laws in particular impacted their life: the Statutes for Allocation of “State-Owned” Forest Land to Homesteaders (1873) and the Reindeer Husbandry Law (1886). The number of mouths to be fed in the family

Associate Professor Charlotte Coté, Instructor Cynthia Updegrave, and graduate student Jessica Hernandez led a unique UW Study Abroad Program to Canada this summer. The program was co-sponsored by the Department of American Indian Studies, the Canadian Studies Center, and the College of the Environment. The class followed the annual Tribal Canoe Journeys from Washington State

Stan DeMello and Morna McEachern represented the University of Washington, Canadian Studies Center and the Pacific Northwest Canadian Studies Consortium and presented three papers: “In Search of Spirit: Celebration of Native Elders as Warrior Scholars across the 49th Parallel,” “Truer to Northern Pregnant Teens: Stories toward Culturally Safe Childbearing Practices in Inuit Nunangat,” and “Columbia

Dr. Fritz Wagner, Professor Emeritus in the Department of Urban Design and Planning and an affiliate in the Canadian Studies Program and Dr. Regent Cabana, an Affiliate Professor (from New Orleans), in association with the Canadian Studies Program in the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies, led a class to three Canadian cities: Montreal,

In Winter Quarter 2017, Professor Bob Pavia taught an innovative course jointly offered by the Honors Program and the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies – a look at climate change from a truly international perspective. The new course, ARCTIC 391/JSIS 391/HONORS 394 Climate Change – An International Perspective: Science, Art and Activism, brings together

Rich Watts will launch an Exploration Seminar in early Fall Quarter 2018 that mixes intensive French-language study at Laval with a course on language and cultural identity in Québec. At Laval, Watts met with Rachel Sauvé, Director of the École de langues de l’Université Laval and her colleague, Nicolas Diotte. École de langues offers French

Book Abstract: Many of our global cities are distressed and facing a host of issues: economic collapse in the face of rising expectations, social disintegration and civil unrest, and ecological degradation and the threats associated with climate change, including more frequent and more severe natural disasters. Our long-held assumptions about man and nature and how they

Vince Gallucci, Canadian Studies Director, will be speaking at the conference, “Arctic Marine Resource Governance” in Reykjavik, Iceland. The ecosystem changes underway in the Arctic region are expected to have significant impacts on living resources in both the short and long run, and current actions and policies adopted over such resource governance will have serious

In June the Pacific Northwest Canadian Studies Consortium and the Canadian Studies Center sponsored a field course for faculty and graduate students from Alaska, Hawaii, and Washington state to the Columbia River. The group studied elements of the Columbia River Treaty renegotiation including indigenous perspectives on both sides of the border, the history of the