Being asked not only to attend but, present a topic at this, my first academic conference as a presenter, by Nadine Fabbi, Associate Director of University of Washington’s Canadian Studies Center, was like, “sure I can do that….right?” Sponsored by the University of British Columbia’s Canada Studies Center, I was very much impressed to hear

The University of Laval is considered one of the premier French immersion language schools in Canada. I can understand and completely agree with that statement from my own experience after just three weeks at the intensive Francais Langue Etrangere (FLE). Time passes quickly here at University of Laval’s intensive french program as each morning utilizes

Cody Case (FLAS Fellow, French 2011) discovered his love for French and francophone culture through Canada studies FLAS fellowships. The FLAS permitted him to conduct ethnomusicology research on popular music in Montréal, Québec. He is currently teaching French at a K-8 charter school – Dekalb Academy of Technology and Environment – in Atlanta, Georgia where

The Government of Canada, through the Research and Academic Relations Office of the Canadian Embassy in Washington D.C., along with the Consulate General of Canada in Minneapolis, MN, has awarded the UND Program in Canadian, Quebec, and North American Francophone Studies a grant totaling CAD $16,000! Read more on page 5.

I am a third-year law student and recipient of a 2010-11 Canada Studies’ Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship. I am particularly interested in the fields of immigration and international human rights law. This year, I will be completing a research project in which I analyze how both the United States and Canada use immigration

My research compares education reform in the United States, Canada, and France. I’m particularly in interested in the interaction between national reform policies and discourses and local initiatives – as I have been finding, there is a great deal of international and intranational specificity within the general thrust of market-based reform. The Foreign Language and

With the support of a Center FLAS Fellowship, and the generosity of the Musqueam people of Vancouver, British Columbia, I was able to spend the year studyinghәńq’әmińәm, the downriver dialect of Halkomelem, a Coast Salish language spoken along the Fraser River and the east side of Vancouver Island. My aim is to develop a deeper

Finishing the Peace Corps in July and heading to Montréal that same month was an incredibly exhausting experience. The switch from river bathing to hot showers was just one of many welcome changes. The last two years working with Haitian migrants in the Dominican Republic solidified my interests in health disparities, HIV/AIDS, and migration. I