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The following is a listing of all Center lectures, workshops,
conferences, and other activities in the 2004-05 academic year.
16-20 August 2004 - Senior College-
Academic Symposium
"18th Annual Summer college 2004 for Folks over
Fifty"
Description: This continuing education program for adults
over 50 served 175 participants covering a range
of subjects from wartime presidents to art history to international
education. Canadian Component: "Canadian Values," by Douglas
Jackson, former director, Canadian Studies Center; "Inuit Homelands
in Canada," by Nadine Fabbi, Associate Director, Canadian Studies
Center
Co-sponsors: Shoreline Community College and Lifetime
Learning Center
21 August 2004 - Canadian Film
Screening
"Promoting First Nations Language Survival: Documentary Films
Explore Language Issues"
Description: Films included a screening and audience
discussion, for 88 members of the community and
University, to Starting Fire with Gunpowder (about the
origins and achievements of the Inuit Broadcasting Corp.), The
Survival of the Inuktitut Language (a Canadian Broadcasting
Corporation documentary on the state of the Inuktitut language in
Nunavut), A Century of Genocide in the Americas: The
Residential School Experience (by U.W. Native Voice graduate,
Rosemary Gibbons and about residential schools in British
Columbia). This event was held to promote the study and survival of
aboriginal languages in Canada and the US and in conjunction with
Ancient Voices/Modern Tools: Language and Tech-Knowledge
conference presented in collaboration with the Indigenous Language
Institute, Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Co-sponsor: U.W. Native Voices Documentary Film Program
20-23 August 2004 - Academic Conference
"First Nations Language Conference: Ancient Voices/Modern
Tools: Language and Tech-Knowledge"
Description: Over 110 attended this
working conference to provide hands-on technology training to
indigenous language educators and to further their proficiency in
the use of computer technology in order to produce language
materials useful in the teaching of indigenous languages. The
conference utilized technology for language preservation and was
part of an initial effort to build interest in First Nations
language study as part of an on-going effort to promote
less-commonly taught languages in Canada and at the U.W.. Part of the
conference was an evening dedicated to films that explored language
survival issues particularly in Canada and including Starting
Fire with Gunpowder (about the origins & achievements of
the Inuit Broadcasting Corp.), The Survival of the Inuktitut
Language (dealing with Inuktitut in the Inuit territory of
Nunavut), and A Century of Genocide in the Americas:
The Residential School Experience (by U.W. Native Voice
graduate, Rosemary Gibbons).
Presentations Focused on Canada: "An Integrated Suite of
Multimedia Resources for Tsimshian Smâalgyax Developed for
the Tsâmsyen Smâalgyax Authority, Prince Rupert, BC,"
by Margaret Anderson
Co-sponsors: Indigenous Language Institute, Santa Fe, New
Mexico
Bill Bissett and Adeena Karasick
Description: Vancouver and Toronto-based poet and painter Bill Bissett has long been one of Canada's most highly regarded poets. He is the author of over sixty collections, of which narrative enigma/rumours of hurricane is the most recent. Also reading here is poet, cultural theorist and performance artist Adeena Karasick, now based in New York with The House That Hijack Built. This event was held to educate the community on Canadian poetry and to share the talent of two fine Canadian poets and served 30 members of the Seattle community.
Co-sponsor: Elliot Bay Books
16 September 2004 - Canadian Author Reading - no charge, no pre
registration
Esi Edugyan
Description: Canadian author introduced
30 members of the community to Canadian
literature.
Co-sponsor: Elliot Bay Book Company
28 September 2004 - Canadian Author Reading - no charge, no pre registration
Description: Author Terry Gould introduced
30 members of the community to his
work.
Co-sponsor: Elliot Bay Book Company
5 October 2004 - Canadian Author Reading - no
charge, no pre registration
"As the Crow Flies" by Anne-Marie
MacDonald by Ann-Marie MacDonald
Description: Anne-Marie MacDonald is one of
Canada's most well-respected novelists and read from her
awarding-winning novel about family life in the Maritimes to an
audience of 45.
Co-sponsor: University Book Store
8 October 2004 - Canada
Gala
Description: The Canada Gala brings together 800
members of the regional community to celebrate the Canada-US
relationship. 50 members of the U.W. faculty and
graduate students were in attendance.
Co-sponsor: Canada-American Society
12 October 2004 - Public Lecture
"Genocide in Africa: A Canadian Humanitarian Response"
by General Romo Dallaire
Description: Dallaire provided
250 audience members in Tacoma and 450 at the U.W.
with an overview of Canada's role in foreign policy and
Canada's particular contribution to humanitarian aid
globally. Dallaire also outlines Canada's role in Rwanda
during the 1994 genocide.
Cosponsors: Canada-America Society, Seattle; World
Affairs Council, Seattle; Office of International Affairs, U.W.;
International Studies Center, Henry M. Jackson School of
International Studies
2004 Seattle Lesbian and Gay Film Festival: "Girls Play"
Description: This Canadian film addressed issues for lesbians in Canada and was screened to a Seattle audience of approximately 250 people.
Co-sponsor: Seattle Lesbian and Gay Film Festival
17 October 2004 - Canadian Film Screening
2004 Seattle Lesbian and Gay Film Festival: "What Boys Know"
Description: This Canadian film addressed issues for gays in Canada (Qu!"bec) and was screened to a Seattle audience of approximately 320 people.
Co-sponsor: Seattle Lesbian and Gay Film Festival
25 October 2004 - Lecture
"Introducing Canada, the Inuit and Qu!"bec to Kids!"
Description: Nadine Fabbi, Associate Director, introduced Canada, the Inuit and Qu!"bec to 100 Third Grade students from Lowell Elementary School and including 6 teachers and 10 parents. In this hour and a half presentation Nadine showed 2 videos and went over the history of the provinces, the unique Inuit culture and French-English historical tensions as well as Qu!"bec culture. All participants were provided with maps of Canada, the Coat of Arms of Nunavut and the Nunavut flag on paper
29-30 October 2004 - Academic Conference
Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada
"Converging & Diverging Canada-US Values: 5th Annual Association for Canadian Studies-in-Canada Colloquium"
Description: The conference provided a forum for 188 international scholars (35 graduate students) to examine convergence and divergence in the development of Canada and the United States as nations, societies, and polities. The colloquium provided a forum not only to present and debate scholarly findings, but also to compare emergent perspectives and enhance research linkages. The colloquium achieved four goals: 1) it created original and interdisciplinary research and dialogue on Canadian-American convergence and divergence; 2) it established international linkages between scholars working on similar research projects; 3) it fostered opportunities for faculty and graduate students to participate in, or benefit directly from, the conference presentations; and, 4) it became a useful resource for public policy and for a better understanding in both countries of scholarship focused on Canada-US similarities and differences.
Co-sponsors: Association for Canadian Studies in the US, Western Washington University, Simon Fraser University
15-16 November 2004 - Academic Conference
"Improving Fishery Management: Melding Science and Governance"
Description: As part of an on-going effort to educate and engage students, and to involve interested people in management, industry, environmental and other fields in discussion of emerging trends in fisheries and management sciences, the Canadian Studies Center supported a two-day symposium organized by the School of Marine Affairs and the School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences. Fishery science and management literature was drawn from four Pacific regions including British Columbia. About 250 participants from management, industry and the university attended.
Canadian Participation/Presentations: Daniel Pauly, Professor and Director, University of British Columbia Fisheries Centre; Bruce Leaman, Executive Director, International Halibut Commission (joint Canada-US commission); Richard Beamish, Senior Scientists, Pacific Biological Station, Fisheries and Oceans Canada
Canadian Studies Affiliated Faculty Organizers: David Fluharty and Ray Hilborn
Co-sponsor: School of Marine Affairs and School of Aquatic Fisheries Sciences
20 November 2004 -
Reception
Opening Celebration: "The Burgess Shale - Evolution's
Big Bang"
Description: Discovered in 1909, the fossils of
the Burgess Shale, located in the Canadian Rocky Mountains, provide
a glimpse of the earth's earliest life forms. The
extraordinary diverse, 505-million-year old fossils found at the
site include ancestors of virtually all living animals, as well as
mysterious creatures unlike any known today. At the opening,
60 teachers were brought closer to the stories of
discovery and scientific inquiry that make the site so fascinating
and important. The opening included a guided tour of the exhibit,
hands-on activities, storytellers and materials with Seattle Times
Newspapers in Education staff.
Co-sponsors: U.W. Burke Museum of Natural
History
26 November-9 December 2004 - Canadian
Film Screening
Film Screening: "The Take"
Description: "The Take" is about labor market
issues directed by Canada's Avi Lewis and Naomi Klein. The
evening introduced the audience to two of Canada's top
filmmakers and their work. About 100 members of
the local community attended this events
Co-sponsor: Northwest Film Forum
4 December 2004 - Education
Workshop
"5th Annual Documentary Film Workshop: Teaching Diversity
and Cross-Cultural Understanding through Documentary
Films"
Description: This one-day workshop instructed
30 educators as to how to use documentary film to
teach students about cultural diversity and cross-cultural
understanding.
Canadian Component: "Nanook of the North," by
Nadine Fabbi, Associate Director.
Co-sponsors: Henry M. Jackson School of
International Studies National Resource Centers
9 December 2004 - Business Conference
Rainier Club,
"2010 Olympic Winter Games Business Seattle
Conference"
Description: This conference focused on the
importance of forming partnerships and alliances between Washington
and British Columbia businesses. 70 conference
participants were provided with presentations on which projects the
Governments of Canada and British Columbia have identified and
targeted for the Winter Games; how to navigate through the BC
procurement system; how to pair your company's strengths with
complementary businesses to increase your success in bidding for
projects and contracts; developments and opportunities in the
technology industry in B.C. including organizations and players in
each of the key verticals that Washington companies need to get to
know in preparation for the 2010 Olympics.
Canadian Participation/Presentations: Minister
John Les, Minister of Small Business and Economic Development,
British Columbia; Gordon Goodman, BC Olympic Games Secretariat,
Director Business Development; Mr. Manley McLachlan; President for
the British Columbia Construction Association; Linda Throstad, VP
Campaigns and Partnership, Leading Edge BC
Co-sponsor: Washington State Department of
Community, Trade and Economic Development
10 December 2004 - Canadian Author
Reading
Canadian Writer, Hiromi Goto
Description: Hiromi Goto read from her story
collection, Hopeful Monsters. Fifteen
community members attended.
Co-sponsor: Elliot Bay Book Company
Saturday, 22 January 2005 - Symposium
"Comparative Health Care Symposium: Does
Canada Offer a Different Solution to Health Care Issues than the
US?", facilitated by Dr. Kieran O'Malley, Department
of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science, U.W. School of Medicine;
Affiliated Faculty, Canadian Studies Center
Description: This interdisciplinary symposium,
attended by 15 members of the campus and local
community, discussed the health care needs of children in the US
where 9 million children have no health insurance. It drew on the
Comparative health care issues for children in Canada, a country of
31 million, that has a universal health care system. The symposium
addressed how children have become commodities in the pursuit of
health care as a business; ethical issues related to
children's health care; the foster care systems in either
country; and is a one-payer universal health care system the
answer? Presenters: Lori Whittaker MD, Physician Assistant to
Representative Jim Mc Dermott; Sherry Weinberg MD, Pediatrician,
Health Care for All Washington; Margaret Shea, BSN, Public Health
Nurse, Washington State; Nancy Whitney MS, Clinical Director,
Seattle Parent Child Assistance Program; Gene McConnachies,
Psychologist, Division of Developmental Disability, Seattle
Tuesday, 1 February 2005 - Canadian Author
Reading
7:30 pm, Elliot Bay Book Store, downtown Seattle
Douglas Coupland, renowned Canadian author, read from his new
novel, Eleanor Rigby
Description: Douglas Coupland is a Canadian
author and cultural commentator, raised in Vancouver, British
Columbia. Trained as a sculptor, he worked in Europe and Japan
before returning to his hometown, where he began to write on youth
and popular culture for local magazines. This led him to the
subject of his breakthrough novels. His ten novels to date,
Generation X (1991), Shampoo Planet (1992), Life After God (1994),
Microserfs (1995), Polaroids From the Dead (1996), Girlfriend in a
Coma (1998), Lara's Book: Lara Croft and the Tomb Raider Phenomenon
(1998), Miss Wyoming (1999) and City of Glass (2000) have been
translated into 22 languages and 30 countries. Coupland read to an
audience of 125 members from the local community
from his new novel: Eleanor Rigby (Bloomsbury).
Co-sponsor: Elliot Bay Book Company
Friday, 4 February 2005 - Lecture
12:00-1:30 pm, Denny Hall 212
"Traveling Nature, Imagining the Globe: Japanese Tourism in the Canadian Rockies" by Shiho Satsuka
Description: The Canadian Rockies have captured the imagination of Japanese tourists who dream of traveling overseas. Especially at the turn of the 21st century, popular Japanese narratives depicted this vast natural landscape as a site in which to revise the meaning of "affluence" and reflect upon the problems of rapid industrialization. While these narratives emphasize the "purity" of nature, in the actual experience of tourists, commercial entertainers and tour guides attract much of their attention. This presentation examines the social significance of nature imagined on a global scale and the enchantment of tour guides who embody cosmopolitan Japanese desires. The discussion involved 14 members of the campus community.
Co-sponsors: Japan Studies; Anthropology
Educators from across Washington State were introduced to several top books by Inuit authors and about life in the North
Saturday, 5 February 2005 - Professional Development
"Washington State Council for Social Studies Workshop."
Description: Washington State Council for Social Studies Annual K-8 Conference will included a presentation entitled, "Teaching about the Inuit with 10 Top Children's Books from Canada's Far North," by Nadine Fabbi, Associate Director, Canadian Studies Center. Twelve K-8 educators attended and were given a listing of the most effective books to teach about Inuit history, culture, language and mythology in their classes. The focus of the conference was "Imagine, Inspire, Reach Out: Creative Ways to Meet Social Studies Standards."
Co-sponsor: Washington State Council for the Social Studies
Saturday, 5 February 2005 - Canadian Author
Reading
4:30 pm, Elliot Bay Book Company, 101 S. Main St., Seattle
"Sounding the Blood" by Amanda Hale
Description: A whaling station in the Queen
Charlotte Islands lures Chinese and Japanese laborers and a family
from Newfoundland to seek their respective fortunes in 1916 in
Amanda Hale's novel, Sounding the Blood (Raincoast).
The Hornby Island-based poet, visual artist, activist, and now
novelist read to 12 members of the community from
this highly praised work. "Hale has penned a vivid portrayal of a
world circumscribed by slaughter, and a touching examination of
lives unfolding in the shadow of failed dreams. Watching the spring
arrival of fresh young workers, like boys entering
paradise, a Leo notes that they'll soon learn, a
they are earning their keep in hell." - The Globe &
Mail.
Co-sponsor: Elliot Bay Book Company, www.elliotbaybook.com
4-5 February 2005 - Association
Meeting
"U.W. Campus Pacific Northwest Canadian Studies Consortium
Annual General Meeting"
Description: The Canadian Studies Center is
secretariat for the PNWCSC. This meeting highlighted regional
research and collaborative efforts between institutions in the
Pacific Northwest. Twenty-five members of regional
institutions including faculty & graduate students,
attended.
Thursday, 10 February 2005 -
Lecture
Noon-1:30 pm, Lifetime Learning Center
"The Inuit in Canada: An Overview of the History &
People," by Nadine Fabbi, Associate Director, Canadian
Studies Center
Description: This lecture introduced the four
Inuit self-determination efforts in Canada and setting those
efforts in an international context that includes all circumpolar
regions. Over 50 members of the Lifetime Learning
Center were present.
Co-sponsor: Lifetime Learning Center, Seattle
18 February - Colloquium
2:30-3:30 pm, Communications 228, U.W. Campus
"Migration and The Politics of Re-bordering North
America" by Yasmeen Abu-Laban
Presenter: Yasmeen Abu-Laban, Associate Professor,
Department of Political Science, University of Alberta &
Visiting Scholar, Canadian Studies Center, Jackson School of
International Studies.
Description: Professor Abu-Laban's research
interest centre on the Canadian and comparative dimensions of
gender and ethnic politics, nationalism and globalization,
immigration policies and politics, citizenship theory. She is the
co-author (with Christina Gariel) of Selling Diversity:
Immigration, Multiculturalism, Employment Equity and Globalization
(2002). Other publications include articles in Urban Affairs
Review, International Politics, Citizenship Studies, The Canadian
Journal of Political Science, The International Journal of Canadian
Studies, Canadian Public Policy, and Canadian Ethnic Studies.
Co-sponsors: The Department of Geography.
Yukon filmmaker, Carol Geddes (right), with friend and artist,
"Susan."
Thomas Happynook (2nd from left) with faculty and
audience members
1 March 2005 - Film Screening/Reception
4-6 pm, Ethnic Cultural Center, U.W. Campus
"Two Winters: Tales From Above the Earth"
Presenter: Carol Geddes, Tlingit Filmmaker is from Teslin, Yukon, Canada. Introduction by Charlotte Cot?, American Indian Studies/Affiliated Canadian Studies Faculty
Description: The event focused on the screening
of Geddes new film, and was followed by a question and answer
session with the filmmaker. Geddes film is about a Tlingit legend
about a natural disaster that took place in the Yukon years before
contact with non-Indian people, and how the Tlingit came together
to help each other. The film provides an eye into Tlingit life
before contact and how the people of the North united in their
survival. The screening was followed by a reception. Over
110 members of the university and greater
community attended the event.
Co-sponsors: American Indian Studies, Native Voices Center
for Indigenous Media
2 March 2005 - Public Lecture/Dinner
5:30-8:30 pm, Walker-Ames Room, Kane Hall, U.W. Campus
"Ancient Traditions of the Whaling Peoples of Canada and Russia," by Tom Mexsis Happynook, Founding Chairman World Council of Whalers and Huu-ay-aht First Nations Co-Chief Treaty Negotiator; lecturer on "Huu-ay-aht/Nuu chah nulth culture and traditional" ecological knowledge. Introduction by Charlotte Cot?, American Indian Studies/Affiliated Canadian Studies
Faculty
Description: This lecture looked at the ancient
trade networks and technological exchanges between Canada's Inuit
and the Russian Chukotkan and the importance of international
relations in the maintenance of cultural life ways in a
contemporary world. It addressed these important international
relationships in the context of whale hunting.
Thirty-five members of the campus and greater
community attended the event. The presenter also provided maps and
a beautifully edited book on whaling to each audience member.
Co-sponsors: Ellison Center for Russian, East
European and Central Asian Studies, Henry M. Jackson School of
International Studies
Further Information: World Council of Whalers
http://www.worldcouncilofwhalers.com
3 March 2005 - Public Lecture
6:30 pm, Burke Room, Burke Museum, U.W. Campus
"The Burgess Shale: A Window to Life and Evolution
Half-a-Billion Years Ago," by Desmond Collins, PhD, Royal
Ontario Museum, Toronto
Description: Dr. Collins, from the Royal Ontario
Museum, who was the most recent lead scientist at the Burgess Shale
site (for 15 years) and who is interviewed in Burke video clips,
talked about his research and the importance of the Burgess Shale
site. The fossils that Charles D. Walcott first collected in the
Canadian Rockies showed that the animals living in the sea 505
million years ago were extraordinary. Fossils collected between
1975 and 2000 by the Royal Ontario Museum reveal that the animals
were even stranger than Walcott thought. Dr. Collins is one of the
world's leading experts on the Burgess Shale fossils. Over
130 people attended the lecture.
Co-sponsor: U.W. Burke Museum of Natural History; Canadian
Consulate, Seattle
Friday, 4 March 2005 - High School Student
Programming
"U.W. Campus 8th Annual World Languages Day" for
High School Students
Description: World Languages Day provided high
school students with the opportunity to study world languages at
the University; to visit University language classes; to attend
presentations and activities on topics about languages and
cultures; and to tour the U.W. campus and Language Learning Center.
Participants attended sessions such as: A Day at the Indonesian
Market, Word Formation in English and Arabic: Two Contrasting
Systems, sampling French Food, and mini-lessons in a variety of
languages for those with no previous exposure to these languages.
About 1,300 students attended the event.
Canadian Presentations: Nadine Fabbi, Associate
Director, Canadian Studies, gave a presentation on "Inuktitut -
Part of Canada's Unique Linguistic Heritage." Timothy Pasch,
Canadian Studies Affiliated Graduate Student, gave a presentation
of French songs. Students sang a variety of songs, rounds, and
ballads from France and Qu!"bec with piano accompaniment. And,
Natalie Debray, Doctoral Candidate, Department of Communication,
University of Washington gave a presentation entitled, "Language,
Media, and Cultural Identity: A View From Quebec"
Co-sponsors: U.W. Educational Outreach; Jackson
School of International Studies Educational Outreach Centers
Friday, 4 March 2005 - Graduate Student Conference
2-6 pm with reception to follow, 126 Communication Bldg, U.W.
Campus
"Qu!"bec in Question: Multidisciplinary
Explorations of Contemporary Qu!"bec Society"
Description: This multidisciplinary conference
allowed Graduate Students whose work touches on Qu!"b!"cois society a
rare opportunity to present their research to specialists in
Canadian Studies, official representatives of Quebec, and
professors in various disciplines. Keynote addressed by Claude
Couture, Chair, Faculty? St. Jean, University d'Alberta,
Canada and Louisa Mackenzie, Professor, French Studies, University
of Washington addressed the origins of Quebec as well as Quebec
society today. A reception was followed. This event was organized
by the Affiliated Graduate Students of the University of Washington
Canadian Studies Center. Click here for the report from the
conference (pdf).
Co-sponsors: Qu!"bec Delegation, Los Angeles;
Ministry of International Affairs, Qu!"bec Government; Canadian
Embassy
Saturday, March 5, 2005 - Educator Workshop
8:30 am-3:30 pm, Thomson Hall, U.W. Campus
"Sports & Games of the World!"
Description: Mosaics Saturday workshops
introduced teachers of elementary and middle school students to new
ideas, resources, and activities for teaching about the world
beyond our borders. Sports and games are used the world over to
socialize, teach and learn. Seven free clock hours, an ethnic
lunch, and a collection of handouts and lesson plans were included
with the registration fee of $45. Thirty educators
from the region attended.
Canadian Presentation: In September 2004, Canada
won the World Cup of Hockey, easily beating all their opponents and
finishing the tournament unbeaten. The Canadian media trumpeted
that Canada was on 'top of the world'. A few months later, the roof
crashed. The NHL, immensely popular in Canada, while still
struggling in the US, after several months of lockout due to a
labor dispute between players and owners, announced the
cancellation of the season. For the first time since 1919, the
Stanley Cup, symbol of professional hockey supremacy in North
America, will not be attributed. It is the first time, since the
beginning of professional sport a century ago, that a major
professional league in North America cancelled an entire season.
Many commentators think that the future of professional hockey is
seriously in jeopardy, even in Canada! Are Canadians ready for a
new 'national' game? Are we so sure that hockey was in the first
place the 'natural' national sport in Canada? Was hockey 'as a
national sport' simply the product of the media, radio first in the
1920's, television since the 1950's? This presentation looked at
the beginnings of hockey since the Stanley Cup..
Presenter: Claude Couture is Professor of Social
Sciences and Canadian Studies at the Faculty? Saint-Jean (French
Campus) of the University of Alberta in Canada, and is spending the
2004-2005 academic year as Fulbright Professor at the Canadian
Studies Center of the University of Washington. He is the author of
numerous books including, Discours d'tienne Parent (Presses de
l'Universit de Montr!"al, 2000), Pierre Elliott Trudeau and
Canadian Liberalism: Paddling with the Current (University of
Alberta Press, 1998). He has also published extensively in academic
journals and chapters in edited books. He is Director of the
Canadian Studies Centre of the University of Alberta and associate
editor of the International Journal of Canadian Studies.
Co-sponsors: National Resource Center, Henry M.
Jackson School of International Studies
11-12 March 2005 - Educator Retreat
"Washington State Council for Social Studies Annual Lake
Chelan Educator Retreat"
Description: Nadine Fabbi, Associate Director,
Canadian Studies Center, and Tina Storer, Education and Curriculum
Specialist, Center for Canadian-American Studies, Western
Washington University gave a presentation on Blacks in Canada.
Nadine gave a power-point presentation entitled, "Black Canadian
History" and Tina provided a listing of teaching resources.
Thirty-five educators benefited from the
presentation and were provided with handouts including maps, a copy
of the presentation and a listing of resources.
Co-sponsors: Washington State Council for Social
Studies; Jackson School of International Studies National Resource
Centers
Tuesday 15 March 2005 - Public Concert
7:30-9:30 PM, Brechemin Auditorium, School of Music, U.W.
Campus
"Concert with Vazzy, Traditional Acadian
Music"
Description: Vazzy, a musical duo that perform
traditional songs and tunes of the Acadians of New Brunswick,
performed for an audience of about 70 on Tuesday
night. A rare musical genre, Acadian music gave birth to the music
of the Cajuns in Louisiana and has influenced traditional music in
New England. Growing up in New Brunswick, Suzanne Leclerc heard and
absorbed Acadian songs and tunes from her family and friends.
Together with partner Brynn Wilkin, they present this beautiful
music on traditional and world instruments. It's a rare treat
to have them down in Seattle, so take advantage of this opportunity
to sample the music of Eastern Canada.
Co-sponsors: Ethnomusicology
21 March 2005 - Lecture
Shoreline Community College, Shoreline, WA
Winter College for Folks over Fifty
Title: "The French and Indian War from the Ohio Valley to
Quebec"
Presenter: Douglas Jackson, Professor Emeritus,
Geography and International Studies Former Director, Canadian
Studies Center
Description: Dealt with The French and Indian War,
1754-1763, the North American sector of The Seven Years' War,
ending at the Treaty of Paris in 1763. The lecture began with the
struggle between France and Britain (Virginia) in the Ohio Valley,
expanded to encompass the Expulsion of the Acadians, the conflict
in the Richelieu/Hudson River Valleys, the Siege of Louisbourg, and
the Attack on Quebec with the Battle of the Plains of Abraham,
leading to the collapse of French power in North America. There
were 50 students in the class.
Co-sponsor: Shoreline Community College
Tuesday, March 22 2005 -
Lecture
Shoreline Community College, Shoreline, WA
Winter College for Folks over Fifty
Title: "The Difficult Road to the British North America
Act"
Presenter: Douglas Jackson, Professor Emeritus,
Geography and International Studies Former Director, Canadian
Studies Center
Description: Dealt with struggle to win
Responsible Government in the British Colonies in North America in
the 1840's, following the Rebellions of 1837-38, the Durham Report,
the Act of Union in 1840 and the
crowing achievement of the Canadians in 1848 to gain Responsible
Government, which in turn led to the failure of legislative
stability in the Montreal-based Assembly. Should it be 'rep by
pop"? No, with the alliance between John A. Macdonald, George
Etienne Cartier and George Brown, the Canadians prevailed at the
Atlantic Conference in Charlottetown, PEI, and wrote the terms of
the British North America Act (1867) which became the first
constitution of a confederated Canada. There were
50 students in the class.
Co-sponsor: Shoreline Community
College
Wednesday, March 23 2005 - Lecture
Shoreline Community College, Shoreline, WA
Winter College for Folks over Fifty
Title: "Bringing the Constitution Home"
Presenter: Douglas Jackson, Professor Emeritus,
Geography and International Studies Former Director, Canadian
Studies Center
Description: Dealt with the lack of a 'reform
formula' in the British North America Act which stirred Prime
Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau to struggle with the provinces in
1981 (following the Quebec Referendum) to "bring home the
constitution". The implications of the Charter of Rights and
Freedoms in promoting extensive change in the structure of
government and in Canada. This lecture was accompanied in part by
segments from the Video Series on the Peoples History of Canada,
which strongly involved the audience in the dramatic changes which
followed. There were 50 students in the class.
Co-sponsor: Shoreline Community College
20 November 2004 - 6 March 2005 - Art
Exhibit
"Exhibit: The Burgess Shale: Evolutions Big
Bang"
Description: This exhibit told the story of one
of the most important fossil sites in North America. The
fascinating 505-million-year-old fossils of the Burgess Shale
include the ancestors of virtually all living animals - as well as
mysterious and still controversial creatures unlike any known
today. The exhibit is from the Smithsonian institute and comes from
the Canadian Rockies were the fossils were discovered. The exhibit
introduced about 3,000 viewers to the Canadian Rockies and to this
vital part of natural history from Canada.
Co-sponsors: U.W. Burke Museum of Natural History;
Seattle Times Newspapers in Education
29-31 March 2005 - Academic Conference
Seattle Convention Center
"Puget Sound/Georgia Basin Research Conference: Science
for the Salish Sea - A Sense of Place, A Sense of Change"
Description: This trans-boundary and international event
built on the highly successful 2003 Research Conference and the
five previous Puget Sound Research Conferences supported by the
Puget Sound Action Team and its partners. The event drew about
800 scientists, First Nations and tribal
government representatives, resource managers, community leaders,
policy makers, educators and students together to share science and
information about the condition and management of the shared Puget
Sound Georgia Basin region. In addition to being the premier marine
science gathering in the Puget Sound Georgia Basin region, the 2005
Conference provided a venue for scientists and decision makers from
a wide range of disciplines to share results and information.
Co-sponsors: Puget Sound Water Quality Action
Team; Georgia Basin Action Plan Co-Chairs: Sarah Brace, Puget Sound
Action Team; David Fraser, Environment Canada
14 April 2005 - Business Symposium
"Crossing Borders: Passports of the Future,"
presentation by Frank Moss, Deputy Assistant Secretary, Passport
Services
11:30 am - 1:30 pm, Seattle Chamber of Commerce
Description: This presentation covered current
passport issues in the U.S. including a focus on the recent Western
Hemisphere Travel initiative requiring passports when traveling to
the U.S. from all Western Hemisphere nations including Canada and
Mexico. Moss also covered the soon to be released biometric
passport.
Biography: Frank Moss is the Deputy Assistant for
Passport Services of the Bureau of Consular Affairs of the
Department of State. He is responsible for the overall management
of passport adjudication and production. Prior to his work as
Deputy Assistant Secretary, Moss served as Executive Director for
the Bureau of Consular Affairs of the Department of State, as well
as a Senior Advisor of Border Security.
Co-sponsors: Trade Development Alliance of
Greater Seattle; Canadian Studies Center, Henry M. Jackson School
of International Studies
Attendance: 20 members of the
business community, government, general public
Hec Edmundson Pavilion, U.W. Campus
Description: The 34th Annual First Nations Spring Powwow is an event with Native American Drummers, Dancers, Singers, and Vendors. The powwow is a pan-Indian tradition, meaning that all different Tribes and Nations participate in the event together. Native Americans from all across the United States and Canada were in attendance honoring their traditions and higher education.
Canadian Presenter: Northern Host Drum, Big Bear (Canada). This drum is from Thunderchild, Saskatchewan, Canada. The lead singer of this drum group is Gerald Okanee.
Co-sponsors: Canadian Studies Center, Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies; U.W. Office of Minority Affairs; Associated Studies of the U.W.; Communication Department; Comparative Literature Department; American Ethnic Studies; American Indian Studies; Philosophy; Women Studies; Tulalip Tribe; Muckleshoot Tribe.
Attendance: 1,400
23-24 April 2005 - Graduate Student
Conference
Islandwood Conference Center, Bainbridge
Island, WA
Fisheries and Marine
Ecosystems (FAME) 2005 Conference - "At the Confluence of
Science and Policy: Exploring Interdisciplinary Approaches to the
Research and Management of Marine and Coastal Ecosystems"
Description: Fisheries have long been a major issue of
international relations between Canada and the US with the "salmon
wars" of the 1970s and 1980s being the most well-known. The
on-going interaction over salmon, hake, halibut and a range of
species provide continuing issues that have often been high on the
bi-lateral agenda. The U.W., University of British Columbia and Simon
Fraser all have the largest fisheries graduate programs in the
Pacific Northwest and each is among the most well-known in the
world. The graduate students in these programs are often working on
similar issues that are relevant to the Canada-US relationship.
This conference brought together students from the three
institutions (and including other institutions in the Pacific
Northwest) to give brief presentations on their research followed
by discussion periods.
Scholarship Presentations: The Canadian Studies
Center awarded three scholarships to graduate students presenting
on Canada-U.S. fisheries issues. These included Emilie
Jackinsky-Horrell, School of Marine Affairs who created a
poster entitled, "Local and Traditional Knowledge" to highlight her
research on comparative salmon fisheries in Canada and the U.S.;
Sara Jo Breslow, Environmental Anthropology, who
compared the Fraser Valley fishery in B.C. to that in Washington
State; and, Nathalie Hamel, School of Aquatic and
Fishery Sciences, who addressed the need for cross-border
collaboration on seabird by-catch reduction.
Co-sponsors: Program on the Environment; School
of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences; School of Marine Affairs; School
of Oceanography; U.W. Earth Initiative; Washington Sea Grant Program;
Canadian Studies Center, Henry M. Jackson School of International
Studies
Faculty Chairs: Ray Hilborn, Professor, U.W. School
of Aquatic and Fisheries Sciences and Canadian Studies Affiliated
Faculty; Carl Walters, Professor, UBC Fisheries Centre; Randall
Peterman, Professor, School of Natural Resource Management, Simon
Fraser University
Graduate Student Chairs: Heather D'Agnes
and Summer Morlock
Attendance: 68 graduate students, professors and
practitioners attended the
conference
27 April 2005 - Business Symposium - $35
Grand Hyatt Hotel, Seattle
Washington-British
Columbia Sustainability Industries Summit
Description: Sustainability is becoming a major
source of growth in our region. Specifically, British Columbia has
established itself as one of the leaders in sustainable development
and a center for sustainable business opportunities. The
Sustainable Industries Summit provided an opportunity for
Washington companies in these sustainable development and
innovative technologies to learn about business opportunities in
British Columbia. Industries targeted were: engineering, design,
architecture and energy.
Co-sponsors: Department of Community, Trade and
Economic Development, State
of Washington; GLOBE 2006; Canadian Consulate, Seattle
Click here for copies of:
the "Program"
"Opening
Remarks" by Juli Wilkerson, Director, State of Washington
Department of Community Trade and Economic Development
"Green Buildings in Canada: An Overview," by Alex Zimmerman,
President, Canada Green Building Council, British Columbia
"Doing Business in Canada," by Robert Jones, US Consulate General,
Vancouver, British Columbia
Available
Papers: "Green
Buildings in Canada: An Overview," by Alex Zimmerman,
President, Canada Green Building Council, British Columbia
"Doing Business in Canada," by Robert Jones, U.S. Consulate
General, Vancouver, B.C.
Attendance: 40 members of local businesses
attended the conference
Wednesday, 4 May 2005 - Public Lecture -
$15
7-8:30 pm, U.W. Campus
"The Global Food Conflict: Multinational Corporations
versus Local Control in the US and Canada," by Branden
Born, Assistant Professor, Urban Planning and Design; Canadian
Studies Affiliated Faculty
Description: The talk covered the concepts of the
food system and food security as a globally important topic, the
impact of the corporatization and globalization of that system vis
a vis a localized, more democratic food system, and will reflect on
responses from Canada and the US. This lecture is one of six in a
series entitled, Hot Spots in Our World. Born pointed out that one
of the most impressive policy making organizations in terms of food
security is the Toronto Food Policy Council http://www.city.toronto.on.ca/health/tfpc_index.htm
Biography: Branden Born, Assistant Professor in
the Department of Urban Design and Planning, completed his doctoral
studies in 2003 at the University of Wisconsin where he studied the
ability of collaborative planning approaches to effect social
justice. His current research interests include planning process
and social justice, particularly with regard to the inclusion of
marginalized populations in societal decision-making; land use
planning and regionalism, and urban food systems. He teaches
courses on methods of planning analysis; community-based applied
studios; and urban planning, policy, and the food system. His work
on regionalism and food systems, particularly situated here in the
PNW, prompted his association with the Canadian Studies Centre. He
sits on the advisory committee of the nascent Seattle/King County
Food Policy Council and the steering committee of the food planning
interest group for the American Planning Association.
Co-sponsors: Henry M. Jackson School of
international Studies; U.W. Extension program
Attendance: 40 members of the general public,
students, and NGOs
Thursday, 5 May 2005 - Canadian Author
Reading
5:30 pm, Elliot Bay Book Company, Seattle
"Stuart McLean Host of The Vinyl
Caf?"
Stuart McLean is a best-selling Canadian
author, award-winning journalist, humourist, and host of the CBC
Radio program The Vinyl Caf?, which has an audience of over 700,000
every weekend. He began his award-winning broadcasting career
making radio documentaries for CBC Radio's Sunday Morning.
Later, Stuart spent seven years as a regular columnist and guest
host on CBC's Morningside. His best-selling books include
The Morningside World of Stuart McLean, Welcome Home: Travels
in Small Town Canada, Stories from the Vinyl Caf?, Home from the
Vinyl Caf?, Vinyl Caf? Unplugged and The Vinyl Caf? Diaries. Both
Home from the Vinyl Caf? and Vinyl Caf? Unplugged received the
Stephen Leacock Award for Humour.
Co-sponsors: Elliot Bay Book Company; Canadian
Studies Center, Henry M. Jackson School of International
Studies
Attendance: 45 members of the general public,
university
Saturday, 7 May 2005 - Symposium
10:00
am-4:00 pm, Seattle Art Museum
"Coast Salish History and Art: A Day of Honoring"
Description: This symposium was held in conjunction with
the Seattle Art Museum exhibition Song, Story, Speech: Oral
Traditions of Puget Sound's First People, a day to pay
homage to those who have contributed to the foundation of Coast
Salish studies. A diverse group of Canadian and U.S. presenters
honored the contributions to the areas of Coast Salish art, art
history, archaeology, language preservation, and cultural revivals,
while also highlighting current directions and issues.
Co-sponsors: Hugh and Jane Ferguson Foundation;
Bill Holm Center; Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture;
Native Arts of the Americas and Oceania Council; Seattle Art
Museum; and the Canadian Studies Center, Henry M. Jackson School of
International Studies
Chair: Dr. Barbara Brotherton, Curator of Native
American Art, Seattle Art Museum
Seattle Art Museum website: http://www.seattleartmuseum.org/
Attendance: 300 members of local aboriginal
groups, general public, educators, faculty
13-14 May 2005 - Academic Conference - $50, registration
necessary
9:00 on Friday the 13th and ended at 4:00 on
the 14th, Walker-Ames Room of Kane Hall, U.W. campus
"Pacific Northwest Indian Treaties in National and
International Historical Perspective "
Description: The conference was held in honor of
the sesquicentennial of treaties between the United States and many
Indian tribes in what is now Washington, Idaho, and Montana and
British Columbia. The conference provinced the opportunity for
scholars in law, history, anthropology, and other disciplines to
consider such treaties in international as well as national
perspective. Canadian Participation/Presentations: John Borrows,
University of Victoria Law School: Comparison of treaties in
Washington Territory and B.C., with attention to grants from Native
groups to non-Indian beneficiaries; Hamar Foster, University of
Victoria Law School: Influence of Washington Territory law and
policy on treaty-making in what is now B.C.; Paige Raibmon,
University of British Columbia: Role of B.C. land policies for
non-Indians in limiting potential of the province's treaty and
reserve policies for aboriginal peoples; David R. Miller, First
Nations University of Canada: The treaties' role in complicating
intertribal and cross-border Indian relations east of the Rockies;
J.R. Miller, University of Saskatchewan: Multiple meanings of
treaties in Canada as a background for conflicting present
interpretations; Keith Carlson, University of Saskatchewan: How
Salish people of B.C. understand their agreements with the Crown,
both through oral history and through their understanding of
treaties in Washington; Kent McNeil, York University: Reassessing
the basis for Canadian claims of sovereignty in the Pacific
Northwest, in particular the doctrines of early international law,
and their relevance to current treaty negotiations; Arthur Ray,
University of British Columbia: Questions arising from a Canadian
court case regarding treaty breaches, including whether disputes of
this kind can be resolved satisfactorily in courts
Chair: Dr. Sasha Harmon, American Indian Studies;
Affiliated Faculty, Canadian Studies Center
Co-sponsor: Center for the Study of the Pacific
Northwest
Attendance: 55 faculty, graduate students,
members of local Native American
tribes
Monday 16 May 2005 - Canadian Author Reading - no
charge
7 pm, University Book Store, U District,
2nd floor reading room
"Reading and Book Signing by John Vaillant from The
Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness and Greed"
Description: In 2001 Journalist John Vaillant journeyed to
the Queen Charlotte Islands off the coast of British Columbia for
an article he was writing on kayaking. Instead he discovered an
abandoned kayak and camping gear that re-ignited a mystery
surrounding a shocking act of protest that made international news.
The gear belonged to the logger-turned-environmental activist that
was responsible for taking a chainsaw to a 300-year old golden
spruce that was sacred to the Haida. Vaillant first published his
discovery in an article in The New Yorker in 2002
(http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/?021104fa_fact).
The Golden Spruce grew out of that article. The book
documents the history of the people and the Queen Charlotte
Island region - one of the continent's most pristine and
vibrant ecosystems. Vaillant also describes how the area has
been a battleground with government officials and logging
companies squaring off against the Haida and environmental
groups since the 1970s. Yet, the loss of the mythic golden
spruce united loggers, natives and environmentalists. The
Golden Spruce dramatizing the destruction of a deeply
conflicted man and the wilderness he loved. The book traces the
rise, fall and rebirth of the Haida nation, and exposes the
dangers of the logging industry.
Biography: John Vaillant has written for The
New Yorker, The Atlantic, National
Geographic-Adventure, Outside and Men's
Journal. He lives in Vancouver with his wife (an
anthropologist and a potter) and their two children. Of particular
interest to Vaillant are stories that explore collisions between
human ambition and the natural world. His work in this and other
fields has taken him to five continents and five oceans. The
Golden Spruce is his first book.
Further Information: John Valliant's book
grew out of this 2002 article in The New Yorker, "Letter
from British Columbia: The Golden Bough,"
Co-sponsors: University Book Store; U.W.
Department of Forest Resources; U.W. Program on the Environment;
Canadian Studies Center, Henry M. Jackson School of International
Studies
Attendance: 70 faculty, students, members from
environmental NGOs
Thursday 19 May 2005 - Canadian Author Reading - no
charge
7:30 pm, Elliot Bay Book Company, Seattle
"Three-Day Road" by Joseph Boyden
A Canadian writer of Irish, Scottish, and Mettis ancestry, who
came here by way of New Orleans, Joseph Boyden was here with one of
the more amazing debut novels of this year. Three-Day Road (Viking)
is set in Canada and the battlefields of Europe during World War I,
based in part on the story of Francis Pegamahgabow, the legendary
Indian sniper of that war. "When Cree Indians Xavier Bird and
Elijah Whiskeyjack join the Canadian Army in 1915, they expect to
go to France, become warriors and kill Germans. What they don't
expect is that the war will drive one of them mad and make the
other a morphine-addicted cripple. This is Boyden's first novel a
powerful tale of two young men numbed by the horrors and brutality
of trench warfare. Boyden vividly portrays the chaos, fear,
cowardice and courage of infantrymen condemned to wallow in the mud
and blood of the Western Front...Friendship is driven with
resentment and war is stripped of glory in this remarkable,
wrenching novel, the work of a gifted storyteller.
Co-sponsors: Elliot Bay Book Company, Canadian
Studies Center, Henry M. Jackson School of International
Studies
Attendance: 32 members from the Seattle
community
20 May 2005 - Lecture - no charge, registration
necessary
3:30-4:30, Faculty Club Conference Room, U.W.
Campus
"Napa Lajoie, Baseball and Nationalism in Canada and
the United States University of Washington" by Claude
Couture, Visiting Fulbright Scholar
Description: In 1901, in his first season in the American
League of Baseball, Napoleon Lajoie, the son of French Canadian
textile workers working in New England, won the Triple Crown with
an average of .423, along with 14 home runs and 125 RBI in 131
games. His batting average for that season is still the highest
batting average for a single season in the AL. In 1916, when he
retired from the AL, many considered him as a national hero in the
US. But in Canada, at least in some daily newspapers in Toronto and
in Montr!"al, he was also described as 'a true Canadian'. The period
during which Lajoie played professional baseball, between 1896 and
1916, was, perhaps, the most fundamental period of transition to
modern identities both in the US and in Canada. Professional
sports, in the two countries, played a crucial role in that
process. However, in Canada, some authors have argued that the
identity of Canada, British or French, was and is still essentially
a resistance to modern individualism developed in the
American way of life and society. In this lecture,
using Napoleon Lajoie's example as a starting point, it
argued on the contrary that both societies developed, through
different strategies, a common fascination for modern individualism
symbolized by professional sports.
Presenter: Claude Couture is Professor of Social Sciences
and Canadian Studies at the Faculty? Saint-Jean (French Campus) of
the University of Alberta in Canada, and is spending the 2004-2005
academic year as Fulbright Professor at the Canadian Studies Center
of the University of Washington. He is the author of numerous books
including, Discours d'tienne Parent (Presses de
l'Universit de Montr!"al, 2000), Pierre Elliott Trudeau,
Etienne Parent and Canadian Liberalism: Paddling with the
Current (University of Alberta Press, 1998), Espace et differences. Histoire du Canada (Presses de
l'Universit
Laval, 1996) and La banale trahison dâun laic
(Paris, LâHarmattan, 1996). He has also published extensively
in academic journals and chapters in edited books. He is Director
of the Canadian Studies Centre of the University of Alberta and
associate editor of the International Journal of Canadian
Studies.
Attendance: 15 faculty, graduate students,
general public
20-21 May 2005 - Academic Conference - no charge, registration
necessary
Friday night opening/reception; Saturday 9
am-5 pm, U.W. Campus
"Demanding
Quality: Worker/Consumer Coalitions and 'High Road' Strategies in
the Care Sector" presented by Harry Bridges Center
for Labor Studies
Description: Child care, health care, family
care, women's work? Researchers, activists, and practitioners take
on these and other important issues.
Canadian Presentations:
"Geographies of the Body, Home and Work: Home Health Care Workers
in Ontario," presented by Dr. Kim England, Director, Canadian
Studies Center
"(Not caring for) Caring Labor in Canada: Alberta and Quebec
Compared," presented by Yasmeen Abu-Laban, Visiting Scholar,
University of Alberta
"Rationalizing Reproduction: Health Care Efficiency and Midwifery
Labor in Contemporary France," presented by Maria Fanin, doctoral
candidate, Geography
Co-sponsor: Politics and Society; The Institute
on Poverty and Inequality; The Institute on Inequality and Social
Structure; The Center for Research on Families; Women's Studies;
Sociology; Canadian Studies Center, Henry M. Jackson School of
International Studies
Attendance: 60 faculty, graduate students, local
members of health care
organizations
Saturday 28 May - Canadian Author Reading - no
charge
7:30 pm, Elliot Bay Book Company, Seattle
"Open and The Five Books of Moses
Lapsinsky" by Lisa Moore & Karen X.
Tulchinsky
Description: From two ends of the country, we
welcome two of Canada's finest younger fiction writers, Lisa Moore
(here from St. John's, New Brunswick) and Karen X. Tulchinsky (down
from Vancouver). Both have received major acclaim and honors in
their homeland - and are due for real readership down here. Lisa
Moore's book of stories, Open (Anansi),
was a Giller Prize finalist "Lise Moore is in full command of her
imaginative powers in Open...Her
infectious style reminds us of another witty literary Moore
(Lorrie), while packing the emotional clout of Alice Munro...Here
is a sexy new Canadian voice that dares to challenge the
traditional short story form to a duel - with exciting, often
wrenching results." - Les Ailes. Karen X. Tulchinsky recipient of
the VanCity Book Prize, was here with a new novel set in Toronto,
The Five Books of Moses Lapinsky (Polestar). "Karen X.
Tulchinsky does for Toronto what Mordecai Richler did for
Montreal."
Co-sponsors: Elliot Bay Book Company; Canadian
Studies Center, Henry M. Jackson School of International
Studies
Attendance: 25
Thursday 9 June - Author Reading - no
charge
6 p.m. Elliott Bay Book Company 101 S. Main St. Seattle, WA
98104
"The Sad Truth About Happiness" by Anne
Giardini
Description: We were pleased to welcome debut
novelist Anne Giardini down and over from her Victoria home, to
read tonight from her beguiling new book, The Sad Truth
About Happiness (4th Estate). This story of a woman
in her 30s - reasonably well along in her work, but not so in
relationships - is one of surprises and insight. A fine writer in
her own right, Anne Giardini is also the daughter of the late,
much-missed novelist Carol Shields. "A fully formed new voice,
poignant, funny and acute." - Fay Weldon. "Charming . . . a
pleasantly entertaining journey." - Publishers Weekly.
Co-presented: Canadian Studies Center, Jackson
School of International Studies, University of
Washington
Attendance: 20
13-15 June 2005 - Academic Symposium - early
registration $200
First International Symposium on the
Management and Biology of Dogfish Sharks
Description: This symposium contributed to the
development of relations between U.W. School of Aquatic and Fisheries
Sciences (SAFS) and the Department of Oceans and Fisheries, Canada
using the dogfish shark as a mechanism. It moved the issue of
shared stocks with Canada into a central position in SAFS. The
conference was also seek to increase cross-border research on
dogfish sharks off the West Coast of Washington and British
Columbia. A showcase piece for the symposium included a modeling
effort for the shared status of this cross-border fishery. This
symposium seek recommendations for management actions to foster the
recovery of depleted populations (using the British Columbia
fishery as one key example).
Chairs: Vincent Gallucci, School of Fisheries and
Aquatic Sciences and Canadian Studies Affiliated Faculty; Greg
Bargmann, Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife; Gordon
McFarlane, Canadian Department of Fish and Oceans
Co-sponsors: U.W. School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences;
Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife
Attendance: 70 faculty, graduate students,
scientists from Canada, US and international
26 June-1 July 2005 - Professional Development - $100
per day/$500-$530 for a week
Western Washington
University, Bellingham
"STUDY CANADA Summer Institute for K-12
Educators"
Description: The STUDY CANADA Summer Institute,
offered annually at WWU since 1978, provided K-12 teachers with an
excellent and affordable way to learn more about Canada.
Instruction on a variety of topics and development of curriculum
for immediate classroom use enabled teachers to provide the global
perspective recommended for social studies in the 21st century.
Attendance: 18 educators from
across the US
28-29 June 2005 - Educator Workshop - $80
8:30-4:30 Kane Hall, Walker-Ames Room, U.W. campus
"Mystics, Eccentrics, Visionaries, and Revolutionaries: People Who
Changed the Course of History"
Description: The outreach centers of the Henry M. Jackson
School of International
Studies invited you to attend the annual Summer Seminar for
educators. This year's seminar, Mystics, Eccentrics,
Visionaries, and Revolutionaries: People Who Changed the Course of
History focused on
individuals from around the world whose unique outlook changed the
world. Scholars presented the lives of historical figures who were
able to seethe world in a different light and who took action to
bring their vision to fruition. This two-day seminar was designed
for middle school, high school, and community college educators.
Co-sponsors: Henry M. Jackson School of International
Studies Programs/Centers
Attendance: 65 educators from
the region
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