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Earlier this year we hosted showings of the documentary “A Kabluna at the University of Washington,” focused on the work of language scholar and teacher Mick Mallon.

If you weren’t able to join us for those viewings, you’re in luck — you can now watch the film online.

A Kabluna: Inuit Language Study at the University of Washington (2024) 'A Kabluna at the University of Washington' is a documentary about Inuktitut Language Scholar Sydney Tate Mallon (“Mick”), his life and partnership with the ...

Congrats to this year’s graduates!

We recently hosted 19 Distinguished Humphrey Fellows from around the world alongside UW Continuum College and the UW Native American Law Center.

Our quarterly newsletter is out today! Did you miss it in your inbox? No problem -- you can check it out here:
https://jsis.washington.edu/canada/wp-content/uploads/sites/20/2024/04/2024-04-ENews.pdf

Upcoming in-person event on Friday, March 8:

True North Rising: My fifty-year journey with the Inuit and Dene leaders who transformed Canada's North

Friday, March 8, 2024
3:30-5:00 pm
Petersen Room, Allen Library, UW Campus

Register here: https://events.uw.edu/N8WmYy

Whit Fraser, former executive director of the national Inuit organization, the Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami, longtime CBC journalist, former chairman of the Canadian Polar Commission, and spouse of Canada’s first Indigenous governor general, Mary Simon.

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Students from the 2024 Jackson School of International Studies Arctic Task Force capstone course are currently in Ottawa with our interim director, Nadine Fabbi, and other program instructors. They are getting firsthand experience learning about Arctic policymaking, international relations, and Indigenous Peoples of the Arctic.

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Did you miss our most recent newsletter? It’s the best way to keep up with what we’re doing — but don’t worry, you can catch up here:

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Big news! The Center has been awarded a new grant in partnership with UW Continuum College and the UW Native American Law Center to host the first Distinguished Humphrey Fellowship program on the Rights of Indigenous People. Read more below:

https://jsis.washington.edu/news/canadian-studies-center-receives-humphrey-fellowship-grant-on-rights-of-indigenous-peoples/

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Exchange programs manager Marion Ferguson spent the week at the 2023 Global Inclusion Conference in Chicago, where she presented with fellow grantees from the IDEAS program run by . The panel focused on initiatives that center Indigenous students in study abroad. The conference was filled with great sessions and ideas to build equity, diversify, and justice in the field of international education, and Marion is excited to bring back what she learned to the Canadian Studies Center and our UW community.



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Dear Canadian Studies Community - welcome to our Fall e-report! Click on the window below.

University of Washington The Canadian Studies Center in the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies at the University of Washington is a U.S. Department of Education designated National Resource Center on Canada. It is one of five NRCs in the Jackson School. Together with the Center for Canadian-American Studies a...

The Canadian Studies Center is a collaborative partner with the university of Aberdeen and Manitoba on the grant project “Teaching Arctic Environments.” This is just the third round of grants from the Arctic Connections Fund, Scottish Government, to help Scottish organizations collaborate with partners in the Arctic and to raise awareness of Scotland’s Arctic policy (2019). The project will develop and create online and visually oriented teaching resources that address the growing need and demand for critical environmental humanities pedagogy of the circumpolar Arctic. Find the press release here.

Fall into the first day of classes by learning about our global funding opportunities such as the Foreign Languages & Area Studies Fellowship hosted by four of our federally-funded centers! Competition opens Nov. 1: bit.ly/FLASatUW

A FLAS Fellowship includes tuition, fees and living stipend for an academic year up to $15,000 for undergrads and $38,000 for grad students, and for all up to $7,500 for summer!

*New this year* Effective Summer 2024 the summer living stipend has increased to $3,500 (previously $2,500)!

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Exchange programs manager Marion Ferguson is at University of Victoria today to spread the word about our fantastic Corbett Exchange Program. Want to learn more?

Go here: https://jsis.washington.edu/canada/funding/corbett-program/

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This year, JSIS grad student Aidan Swayne (MA, International Studies) will be working with the U.S. Consulate General in Vancouver as part of the Virtual Student Federal Service program. This virtual internship opportunity opens every summer and gives UW students a chance to work directly on an active project in the foreign service. Read more about Aidan and his project!

https://jsis.washington.edu/canada/news/consulate-internship-program-continues-with-jsis-grad-student-aidan-swayne/

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Hedwige Meyer (teaching professor, French and Italian Studies) visited Québec City in July 2023 to meet with colleagues and develop curriculum for her winter 2024 course, FRENCH 441: Québécois Literature.

https://jsis.washington.edu/canada/news/quebec-trip-builds-relationships-in-francophone-canada/

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Call for papers! The Muckleshoot Tribal College Journal is looking for submissions related to "climate justice" and its various manifestations.

Submit abstracts by October 20, 2023. More info below.

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Abstract Submission Invitation Calling you all to submit an entry for the Muckleshoot Tribal College Journal (vol. 7). Journal submissions will be rooted in the theme of "Climate Justice" and its various manifestations (i.e., Indigenous Sustainability, indigenous resource management, indigenous arts, language, traditional ecologi...

Did you know that through the north2north mobility program, students at UArctic partner institutions can study abroad to learn more about Northern and Arctic issues?

UW will welcome Icelandic student Haukur Brynjarsson for fall quarter:

"My name is Haukur and I am a 23-year-old Media and Communications student from a small town in the north of Iceland. I have always wanted to study abroad and when I heard about an opportunity to come to UW, I was quick to act. My academic interests have mostly to do with media, communications, politics and global perspectives. And also, being from a country close to the Arctic circle, issues related to the Arctic obviously have play a big role in all of those. I am very excited to begin my journey in Seattle and create the best of memories at UW."

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This summer Jaskwaan Bedard taught the Haida language to one of our Foreign Language and Area Studies fellows, Ric Berkholtz (UW Law School). Jaskwaan reflects her on the meaning of language for Indigenous Peoples.

"Community efforts to strengthen X̱aad Kil, the Massett dialect of the Haida language, is part of a larger narrative of Indigenous resurgence and empowerment. Much like the lands and waters of Haida Gwaii, the expertise and language authority lay in the hands of the Haida people, a line unbroken for millenia. It is a colonial misperception that through Western academia, one can gain more knowledge about a subject versus a lived experience steeped in values and protocols. However, it is true that the academic experience can offer tools to help Indigenous language learners along the way. When knowledge transfer is done within the boundaries of our Indigenous laws, in this case the Haida law of Yahgudang - a rich and layered way of being around reciprocal respect, where along with learning about the language we learn about social justice issues that cannot be separated from any Indigenous language learning experience. Although for decades and in some case longer, Indigenous peoples have had outside determinants define the health of language and community, it is important that I state here that although there are very few first language speakers of X̱aad kil, there is a growing movement of learners who speak our language every day, with intention and most importantly, with yahgudang."

Yahgudanggang - Respectfully,
Jasḵwaan Bedard

Another great opportunity for UW undergraduates! Check out Fulbright Canada for more info.

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American undergraduates! 🇺🇸 Don't miss out on the incredible opportunity of the Fulbright-MITACS Globalink Program! 🎓 Immerse yourself in academic research, develop your professional skills, and networking activities! Apply now at 👉 http://bitly.ws/Rt3m

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Janessa Chinana (Sangaalh Staastas Haida) - Jackson School doctoral candidate - was awarded at Dissertation Innovation Fellowship from the Mellon/American Council of Learned Societies for her project: “Xaadláa Gwáay.yaay: Indigenous Border Nationhood and Haida Governance Across Settler-States [Canada and the United States].” The fellowship is for the 2023-24 academic year.

The abstract for her project reads:
“Indigenous nationhood is rarely a topic in international discourse. Looking at the Haida nation, obscured by settler-colonialism, separated by the U.S./Canada Border, this work supports the Indigenous Nationhood movement and brings greater understanding to the concept of Indigenous internationalism. Exploring intricate relationships to land and to each other through photography and community biography, this work contributes to a better understanding of Indigenous nationhood and governance in borderlands. Through Indigenous methodologies and protocols for research, this project conveys less-heard perspectives of Indigenous peoples and Indigenous nationhood movements and resurgence. This work challenges colonial structures that continue to dispossess Indigenous peoples.”

Janessa was also in the first cohort of Haida language learners offered by the Canadian Studies Center at the UW. In Summer 2022 and for the 2022-23 academic year Janessa was awarded two Foreign Language and Area Studies fellowships for the X̱aad Kíl (Haida) language. “As a Haida mother and scholar,” Janessa noted, “learning my native language— Xaad kíl—is essential to reconnecting with my history and community, restoring Haida nationhood, and defending our land and water.”

Janessa was raised in Kaigani (Alaskan) Haida village of Hydaburg, Alaska. She has a master’s in Indigenous Governance from the University of Victoria (2018).

Congratulations Janessa!!!

Link to paper: https://arcticyearbook.com/arctic-yearbook/2023-special-issue

Robyn Long, MA in Social Work, University of Washington (2022) and one of our Center's Foreign Language and Area Studies fellows in 2021-22 (French), just had a paper published in the Arctic Yearbook! The paper was co-written with Selma Ford and John Crump, both with Inuit Circumpolar Council, Canada titled "Community responses to the COVID-19 pandemic in Inuit Nunaat." Congratulations Robyn, Selma and John!!

The Jackson School of International Studies is hiring a director of Academic Services. We'd love to have you as part of our team! Director of Academic Services has been posted to UWHIRES https://uwhires.admin.washington.edu/ENG/Candidates/default.cfm?szCategory=jobprofile&szOrderID=224827

Dear Canadian Studies/Arctic Colleagues,
If you are Canadian ... and interested in Arctic Studies ... and would like to come to UW ... please consider applying for this Research Chair! - Nadine

Attention Canadian scholars! Are you passionate about Arctic Studies and its various disciplines? The Research Chair at the , Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies, is NOW OPEN for applications.

This prestigious position offers the opportunity to conduct research, teach a 10-week upper-division seminar, and deliver the annual Fulbright Lecture at the University of Washington. Interested? Find out more and apply here:👉 http://bitly.ws/NZws

Undergraduate students with an interest in international relations and foreign service work should apply for a virtual internship opportunity with the U.S. Consulate General Vancouver!

Students can earn academic credit and direct work experience on a current project at the Consulate: "Pacific Northwest Cross-Border Economic, Energy, Infrastructure and Trade Developments."

Applications are open NOW and close on Monday, July 31.

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Excited to announce our new director of the Jackson School is Daniel Hoffman, a professor of international studies and comparative history of ideas who brings a distinguished portfolio of scholarship, public engagement and leadership.

More: bit.ly/JSISDirectorHoffman

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Congratulations to FLAS Fellow, Ric Berkholtz (Haida, 2022-23), who recently received a Master's in Jurisprudence from the UW School of Law!