Center Photo Album – 2007-2008

Sharon Hargus, Linguistics, conducting field research in British Columbia, 8/07.

FLAS Fellow, Julia Miller, doing field research in British Columbia, 8/07.

Cross-Border Environmental Course in British Columbia, 9/07

Canada-US Visiting Fulbright Scholar, Pamela Sing, with Bruce Bare, Dean, Forest Resources and Canada's Ambassador to the US, Michael Wilson, 12/07.

"The Geography of the Neighborhood: Canada and the US" was held in Minneapolis in conjunction with the Minnesota Humanities Center and the Canadian Consulate, Minneapolis for thirty K-12 Minnesota educators. Nadine Fabbi (front) provided two lectures for the group.

Tim Pasch (far right), 2007-08 FLAS Fellow, presents his insights on climate change and its impact on communities in Northern Québec as a result of his research there this past summer funding by a Graduate Student Research Grant from Foreign Affairs, Canada.

Pacific Northwest Canadian Studies Consortium annual meeting in Vancouver, BC with (from left) Executive Director, Michael Treleavan and assistant Jennifer Wallace, and Center affiliates, Greg Shelton (Global Trade), Sion Romaine (Librarian), and Janice Laakso (UW Tacoma).

UW's Anne Goodchild, Civil and Environmental Engineering, and colleague Gary Wilson (U of Northern British Columbia) present their research on Canada-US port cities at the Pacific Northwest Canadian Studies Consortium annual meeting in Vancouver, BC.

The Center is the Secretariat for the Pacific Northwest Canadian Studies Consortium. Annual Board Meeting in Vancouver, BC.

Students from the 2008 Canada Study Tour pose in front of beautiful metropolitan Vancouver.

Dr. Sukumar Periwal (left), Faculty Representative for the 2008 Canada Study Tour with MBA co-chairs, Tania Elliott and Tim Randall with beautiful downtown Vancouver in the background.

Study Tour members in the Canucks store.

Study Tour members at the Pacific Culinary Institute.

Kelly Voss, 2009 Canada Study Tour Co-Chair, trying out Vancouver Canucks paraphernalia.

The 2008 Canada Study Tour MBA students.

29 February 2008 - World Languages Day
Tim Pasch (in striped shirt) provides a presentation on the Inuit use of the internet in Nunavik, northern Québec to high school students at UW World Languages Day. Tim is an affiliated graduate student and Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellow of the Center and doctoral candidate in Communication.

Phil Lucas (1942-2007), Choctaw filmmaker, on production for Storytellers of the Pacific.

Back row from left: Tom DiCoricia, Oregon State Department of Economic Development and Trade (far left); Nigel Halsted, British Columbia Institute of Technology; Jane Shaw, Canadian Consulate, Seattle; Sherry Moir, Forum Producer; and Nike tour guide. Front row from left: Carmen Killick, Government of Alberta; Tembi Secrist, US Commercial Service; and Tracy Annicchiarico, Red Engine Inc.

Affiliated graduate students of the Center (left) Brian Schefke, History, 2006-07 Foreign Affairs, Canada Graduate Research Grant recipient; Maile Sullivan, co-chair, Fisheries and Marine Ecosystems grad conference (FAME); and Mark Gleason, recipient FAME scholarship for cross-border research (03/08).

From left, Captain Fitzpatrick, UW ROTC, Consul General Peter Lloyd, Canadian Consulate, Admiral Ty Pile, Maritime Pacific Forces, Canada, and Commander Henderson, UW ROTC (03/08).

Center affiliated faculty, graduate students, undergrads and friends gather to hear about Canada-US relations from Admiral Ty Pile, Maritime Pacific Forces, Canada (03/08).

UW undergraduates, Mytuyet Pham (left) and Lani Clapper assist in facilitating the 8th Annual Documentary Film Workshop for regional educators (03/08). 

Center Chair/Director, Professor Daniel Hart, provides the opening lecture on documentary film at the 8th Annual Documentary Film Workshop (03/08).

Cody Case (left), Ethnomusicology and FLAS Fellow 07-08 will take over the research and development of the Center's Traditional Music Collection started by Devon Léger (far right), former UW grad and now with Northwest Folklife. Both pose with Lisa Ornstein, master Acadian fiddler.

Mark Gleason (right) won a $200 scholarship for his paper “Producer cooperatives in US fisheries: Examples from Lummi Island, Washington and the Bering Sea." One of the case studies from his research is from the Lummi Island Wild Reef Net Coop that targets trans-boundary stocks of sockeye salmon primarily destined for the Fraser River in Canada. Mark is with Maile Sullivan, co-chair of the conference and Brian Schefke, doctoral candidate in History.

The UW participated in the 6th Annual Fisheries and Marine Ecosystems Conference on the Olympic Peninsula at the Olympic Park Institute.

Maude Barlow, author of Blue Covenant: The Global Water Crisis, Adam Scow (right), Food and Water Watch, and Douglas Nord, International Studies, Western Washington University (4/08).

Professor Andy Knight (front), University of Alberta, provided a lecture on Canada's role in the International Criminal Court and in the Ottawa Convention in Frederick Lorenz course (back row) SISME 420 International Humanitarian Law. Knight and Lorenz are joined by four students that form the "Canada Team" in the course.

Anne Goodchild, Center affiliate and professor in Civil and Environmental Engineering, provides a lecture to local business leaders on "The New Model for Port Development and Consequences for Regional Trade" that addressed the ongoing development of the Port of Prince Rupert and how it will affect ports and trade flows in British Columbia, Washington and Alaska.

Charlotte Coté, American Indian Studies, with Ryland Bowechop from the Makah Tribe, provide the 5th lecture in the Hot Spots Lecture Series, “Contemporary Indigenous Whaling in Canada and the US – Issues Concerning the Nuu-chah-nulth and the Makah People’s Right to Whale.”

Special guests from Québec, Elisapi Novalinga, Avataq Cultural Centre (center left) and Donat Savoie, former Chief Federal Negotiator for Nunavik (far right) visit the Center to establish ties between UW students and faculty and the communities of Nunavik. They are welcomed by Tim Pasch, 2008-09 FLAS Fellow and Center's Nadine Fabbi.

Donat and Elisapi meet with Professor, American Indian Studies, Dian Million, also Affiliated Faculty with the Center, to compare child and family welfare in the US and Arctic Québec.

Elisapi and Donat meet with Judy Guthrie from United Indians of All Tribes to discuss ways to involve the Seattle American Indian community in next year's Nunavik Symposium.

Donat Savoie (3rd from left) with Elisapi and UW students following his roundtable presentation and discussion entitled, "Inuit Self-Government in the Canadian Arctic: The Creation of the Nunavik Regional Government – Innovation and Challenges" at the Burke Museum.

Elisapi and Donat meet with Center Chair, Daniel Hart, to discuss UW's aboriginal documentary filmmaking program, Native Voices.

Elisapi and Curator of Native American Art, Burke Museum and Professor of Art History, Robin Wright (also Affiliated Faculty with the Center) meet to view the Burke collections including ten carvings from Puvirnituq, Nunavik, Elisapi's home village.– Issues Concerning the Nuu-chah-nulth and the Makah People’s Right to Whale.” 

Elisapi meets with new friends from Alaska following her roundtable presentation/discussion entitled, "Preserving Inuit Culture and Language – the Avataq Cultural Institute in Nunavik, Québec."

The Planning Committee for the Nunavik Symposium 2009 meet with Donat and Elisapi to discuss their next visit. From left, Carl Sander, Burke Museum; Doug Nord, Western Washington University; Donat Savoie; Augustine McCaffery, UW Graduate School; Naama Sheffer, undergraduate in International Studies; Robert Anderson, UW Law School; Julie Sloan, Canadian Consulate, Seattle; Terry Rustan Program on the Environment; Elisapi Novalinga; and Tim Pasch, 2008-09 FLAS Fellow in Inuktitut. Dan Hart, Center Chair, and Nadine Fabbi chaired the meeting.

"The Cold Rush" provided an international perspective on security issues regarding Arctic energy, aboriginal homelands and concerns, and international relations. From left, Mikhail Alexseev, San Diego State University; moderator Gennady Pshakin, Obninsk University; Julia Parrish, Program on the Environment, University of Washington; Ben Ellis, Managing Director, Institute of the North; and Peter Sharp, Senior Policy Analyst, Energy Secretariat, Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade.

Ben Ellis (left) and Peter Sharp discuss the role between Canada and the US regarding Arctic energy reserves. 

Peter Sharp with Michael Virr, Senior Trade Commissioner, Canadian Consulate, Seattle.