Southeast Asia Center Course List | Spring 2021

Southeast Asia Center Course List | Winter 2021

Southeast Asia Center Course List | Autumn 2020

Call for applications – Disability Inclusive Development Initiative

DISABILITY INCLUSIVE DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVE – WINTER/SPRING 2020 – APPLY BY JANUARY 24 We are inviting applications from undergraduate and graduate students to participate in the Disability Inclusive Development Initiative during winter

An Answer to the ‘Democratic Deficit’? Thinking about European Party Democracy

Dr. Niko Switek is DAAD visiting assistant professor in the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies and the Department of Political Science at the University of Washington. Dr. Switek works

Fostering environment-focused collaboration between the University of Washington and Brazil

Dr. Patrick Christie is a professor in the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies and the School of Marine and Environmental Affairs (SMEA) at the University of Washington. Dr. Christie

The EU seal ban: Fine-tuning the Indigenous exemption

Introduction The European Union’s 2009 ban on importing seal products gave little consideration to the reliance of Arctic Indigenous peoples, particularly the Inuit, on marine mammal hunts (Hennig and Caddell

Improving digital infrastructure in the Arctic

Introduction Arctic economies are heavily reliant on the natural resource extraction sector, yet they are tasked with promoting sustainable development. This presents a conundrum: how to develop in such a

Increasing the availability of clean drinking water in small Arctic villages and communities

Introduction             Many small, remote Indigenous villages within the Arctic lack necessary accessibility and availability of fresh, drinking water. The majority of water in these communities comes from water collected

Revitalization of Inuktitut: Using government funding to implement technology to strengthen an endangered language

Inuktitut is a precise and unique language that has developed over thousands of years. It contains nuances and environmental observations that the English language cannot capture. Over the past century,