Events

"Welcome to Homerica": The Representation of Immigration Issues and the U.S.-Mexico Border Fence in
American Animated Television Series
Julie Dufort, Ph.D

When:	Wednesday, May 29, 2013 12:00pm - 1:20pm
Where:	Fairhaven College Auditorium
Info:	Julie is a Ph.D. candidate in Political Science and a research fellow at the Center for United States Studies at the Raoul Dandurand Chair of Strategic and Diplomatic Studies at the University of Québec at Montréal. Her research focuses on Québec-U.S. relations, border issues and immigration politics in the United States, representations of politics in American popular culture (with an emphasis on political humor) as well as the proliferation of walls and fences in international relations.

"The Best Bad Idea: The True Story of Argo"
Mark Lijek

When:	Wednesday, April 24, 2013
Where:	Bellingham City Club Northwood Hall 3240 Northwest Avenue Bellingham, WA 98225
Info:	Mark Lijek will join the Bellingham City Club to share his perspective on the events portrayed in the movie Argo. Mark has unique insight into this topic as he was a guest of the Canadian Embassy during the Tehran hostage crisis. Mark Lijek is a retired Foreign Service officer who grew up in Seattle and went to Seattle Preparatory School before attending the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. He also holds an MBA from American University. He is the author of The Houseguests: A Memoir of Canadian Courage and CIA Sorcery, as well as a minor consultant to the Hollywood hit film Argo. He wrote his memoir in large part because, after reading an early script of Argo, he realized the movie was unlikely to give adequate credit to the Canadian embassy team he believes saved him and his wife Cora from becoming hostages. Following his abbreviated tour in Tehran, Lijek served in Hong Kong, Kathmandu, Warsaw and Frankfurt as well as in several Departmental assignments prior to his retirement. He and Cora now live in Anacortes. Click Here for Tickets

"Humane Migration vs. Inhumane Borders: An Anthropological Clash"
Hannah Stone & James Loucky

When:	Thursday, February 26, 2013
Where:	Canada House, Bellingham, WA
Info:	Dr. Steve Globerman will discuss the results of research related to trade specialization in our regional borderlands setting. Click Here to View the Flier

"Canada's Arctic Strategy in a Changing Circumpolar World"
Joël Plouffe

When:	Tuesday, February 19, 2013
Where:	Bellingham, WA
Info:	"Joël Plouffe gives a talk to the Can/Am 200, Intro to Canadian Studies class on "Canada's Arctic Strategy in a Changing Circumpolar World". Joël Plouffe: Arctic Council, Circumpolar Governance, Environmental Cooperation Joël Plouffe, l’Université du Québec à Montréal, U.W. Québec Visiting Professor for 2012-13 was interviewed by Exploring Geopolitics in January for all his achievements and efforts concerning the Arctic. Click here to view full article.

Join Us for the Annual Taste of Canada

When:	Tuesday, February 19, 2013 5:30 - 7:00pm
Where:	Canada House, Bellingham, WA
Info:	Join us for an evening of good food and fun at the annual Taste of Canada. Admission is Free! Click Here to View the Flier

"9/11, Border Thickening, and Changes in Bilateral Trade"
Dr. Steve Globerman

When:	Thursday, February 14, 2013 11:30am
Where:	Communications Facility Room 314, Bellingham, WA
Info:	Dr. Steve Globerman will discuss the results of research related to trade specialization in our regional borderlands setting. Click Here to View the Flier

"Educating Smart Borders: What are Governments Learning about Successive Border Initiatives"
Chris Sands

When:	Thursday, January 31, 2013 12:15pm
Where:	Canada House, Bellingham, WA
Info:	Dr. Sands will be presenting a talk on "Educating Smart Borders: What are Governments learning about successive border initiatives". Click Here to Read About the Speaker

92nd Annual National Council for the Social Studies Conference

When:	Wednesday, Nov 16 - 18, 2012
Where:	Washington State Convention Center, Seattle, WA
Info:	Join thousands of your social studies colleagues in the Emerald City this fall for the world's largest and most comprehensive professional development conference. With more than 500 content-rich sessions covering all subjects and grade levels, a lineup of renowned speakers and education experts, more than 150 exhibiting organizations displaying the latest in educational resources, and the opportunity to share the most current knowledge, ideas, research, and expertise in social studies education, the 92nd NCSS Annual Conference in Seattle is where all social studies educators should be. Click here to view or download the "Canada at NCSS 2012" schedule so that you can also see the many professional development opportunities available at the conference. The National Resource Centers on Canada look forward to meeting you there! Be sure to drop by our exhibit booth (#434) in International Alley on the 4th floor of the convention center. To learn more and to register for the conference, visit www.socialstudies.org

Indigenous Peoples Food Systems - An International Public Health Context

When:	Wednesday, Nov 14, 2012 Noon-1:20pm
Where:	Fairhaven College Auditorium
Info:	Harriet Kuhnlein is a nutritionist and Founding Director of the Centre for Indigenous Peoples' Nutrition and Environment (CINE) and Professor Emerita of Human Nutrition at McGill University. Dr. Kuhnlein directs a Global Health Research initiative that received primary funding from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR). Twelve cultures of Indigenous Peoples in different parts of the world are involved in this project. The overall intent of the initiative is to provide evidence that biodiversity inherent in traditional food resources of Indigenous Peoples fosters food security and good health and should be environmentally protected. She has served as a member of the Advisory Board for CIHR - Institute of Nutrition, Metabolism and Diabetes, and with the Executive of the Canadian Coalition of Global Health Research. Dr. Kuhnlein chairs the Task Force on Traditional, Indigenous and Cultural Food and Nutrition of the International Union of Nutritional Sciences.

Pacific Northwest Economic Region (PNWER) Leadership Forum

When:	Tuesday, Nov 14 - 17, 2012
Where:	Coeur d'Alene, ID & Ottawa and Washington, DC
Info:	Don Alper will be co-chairing and presenting at PNWER's Border Working Group on Thursday Morning, November 15 in Coeur d'Alene, ID. Christopher Sands, WWU Ross Professor of Canada-US Business and Economic Relations, will be presenting along with government leaders from Ottawa and Washington, DC. Stakeholders from industry and legislators from northwest states and western provinces will explore future directions for border policy to better facilitate cross border commerce and movement of people. Click Here for More Info

Diplomatic Perspectives on the Value of Study Abroad

When:	Wednesday, Nov 13, 2012 3:00 - 4:30pm
Where:	Viking Union 552, Bellingham, WA
Info:	Join us on November 13, 2012 for a conversation about the value of international education and foreign study exchanges with two diplomats from the US and Canadian governments. Our speakers, Jeanne Briganti and Kevin Cook, will discuss the importance of international education in enriching your college experience and preparing you for international careers involving working abroad or living stateside and working with international organizations. Speakers: Jeanne Briganti, Public Affairs Office, U.S. Consulate General, Vancouver. Kevin Cook, Senior Political, Economic and Academic Officer, Consulate General of Canada, Seattle. Click Here to view the Flier

FAST But Not Furious: Shortening Wait Times at the US-Canadian Border

When:	Thursday, Nov 1, 2012 12:15pm
Where:	Canada House, Bellingham, WA
Info:	Speaker Mark Springer, Ph.D. Department of Decision Sciences at Western Washington University will be speaking about wait times at the US-Canadian Border. Click Here for More Info

Beyond the Border: Making the Action Plan Work for You

When:	Tuesday, Oct 24, 2012 7:30am - 2:00pm
Where:	Westin Bayshore, Vancouver, BC
Info:	The Border Policy Research Institute is assisting the Vancouver Board of Trade with this event. Keynote Breakfast Speaker: Christopher Sands, Senior Fellow, Hudson Institute, Washington, D.C. Morning Panel 1: The Beyond the Border Action Plan: How will it improve the border? Morning Panel 2: Border Impacts in the Washington-British Columbia Region Keynote Luncheon Speaker: John Manley, president and CEO, Canadian Council of Chief Executives Followed by a policy discussion among stakeholders to discuss future actions to improve the border

Chuckanut Radio Hour with Special Guests Brian Calvert & Chris Cannon

When:	Monday, Oct 23, 2012 6:30pm
Where:	Crystal Ballroom of the Leopold Retirement Residence, Bellingham, WA
Info:	Tickets for the Chuckanut Radio Hour are $5 and are available at BrownPaperTickets.com and will soon be available at Village Books. Doors open at 6:30pm, and you must be seated by 6:45pm as the show begins promptly at 7pm. Co-sponsored by the Leopold Retirement Residence, 12th Street Shoes, Fairhaven Pizza, and the Fairhaven Village Inn. Click Here for Info and Tickets

Washington to Washington: Perspectives on the Fall 2012 Elections and Canadian-American Relations

When:	Wednesday, Oct 10, 2012 11:30am - 2:00pm
Where:	Viking Union 565, WWU
Info:	This by-invitation seminar luncheon, the sixth in a series of "town-gown" programs focusing on timely Canada-US issues, will examine perspectives on the impact of the fall 2012 elections on Canadian-American relations. The welcome address will be by Don Alper, and briefings by Christopher Sands, Ross Professor, WWU; Vaughn Palmer, Political Columnist, Vancouver Sun; and Joel Connelly, Political Columnist, SeattlePI.com. For more information contact Chuck.Hart@wwu.edu

Symposium on Cross-Border Marine Science and Policy

When:	Tuesday, Sept 18, 2012 9:00am - 5:00pm
Where:	Viking Union 565, WWU
Info:	We are pleased to host this first ever symposium featuring the scientists and policy makers of the Puget Sound partnership and their Canadian counterparts. This one-day symposium is designed to foster communication with the goal of restoration and long term management of the Salish Sea. For more information contact Chuck.Hart@wwu.edu

Past Events

VU Gallery: Beyond Borders

When:	On display until Friday, May 25, 2012 Mon - Fri, 11am - 5pm
Where:	VU Gallery (VU 507)
Info:	The title, "Beyond Borders" exempifies our dedication to encourage communication across community, national, international and social borders. The title also serves to remind viewers and participants that art has the power to transcend all boundaries.

Presentation by Thomas Collombat:
“The Labor Movement in North America: Challenges and Opportunities in a Time of Crisis.”

When:	Wednesday, May 23, 2012
Where:	Bellingham City Club
Info:	For more information contact the Bellingham City Club

Jours du Québec (Québec Days) at WWU

When:	Tuesday, May 15 - 16, 2012
Where:	Western Washington University
Info:	The Center for Canadian-American Studies is pleased to host Mr. Frédéric Tremblay, Director for Governmental Relations and Public Affairs at the Québec Government Office in Los Angeles, CA for Québec Days (Jours du Québec). Frédéric is Director of Governmental Relations and Public Affairs at the Quebec Delegation in Los Angeles since January 2012. Before his recent posting in the United States, Frederic served with the North America Division of the Quebec Ministry of International Relations from 2006 to 2011. He began his career in Québec’s civil service in 2002. Frederic holds a master degree in Political Science from University of Montreal and a diploma in Public Management from the Quebec University of Public Administration. Mr Tremblay will speak in several classes while at WWU, have lunch with students and speak about study opportunities in Québec. He will also meet with faculty, students and community members at a reception held to honor the Government of Québec's relationship with the Center for Canadian-American Studies and WWU. For more information, contact Chuck Hart at Chuck Hart

Presentation by Emmanuel Brunet-Jailly: “Borders, Boundaries and Frontiers in the 21st Century”

When:	Wednesday, May 9, 2012 12:00am - 1:20pm
Where:	Fairhaven College Auditorium
Info:	From Hadrian’s wall in Roman England and the Great Wall of China, to walls on the US/ Mexico border as well as in Jerusalem, Emmanuel Brunet-Jailly asks why build walls and how human communities border themselves. He will discuss what borders, borderlands, boundaries and frontiers are, and how these words help us understand contemporary issues such as the US/Mexico wall, the Canada/US Beyond the Border dialogue, or the European Schengen Agreement and the idea of a ‘fortress Europe’. Taking examples from around the world, this presentation asks if borders are vanishing and if there are new ways of understanding borders.

Monsieur Lazhar: Academy Award Nominee for Best Foreign Language Film

When:	Friday, May 4, 2012
Where:	Pickford Theater
Info:	Monsieur Lazhar, an Academy Award Nominee for Best Foreign Language Film (Canada), comes to the Pickford Theater. For more information and show times contact the Pickford Theater

The Edge of America: Writing the Edge in the Pacific Northwest

A presentation by Katherine Roberts

When	Thursday, Nov 10, 2011, 12:00pm
Where	College Hall 131, WWU
More Info:	For more information contact Chuck Hart by email at Chuck.Hart@wwu.edu.

This presentation will examine how fiction by David Guterson (East of the Mountains (1999), The Other (2008) and Anne Dillard (The Living, (1992)) portrays region, nature and community in the Pacific Northwest. To what extent is this region experienced by these authors and their characters as a marginal/borderland space (at the edge of America), or as one embedded in a Cascadian regional cross-border awareness? How do this literature contribute (if at all) to the debate on the emergence of a socio-economic cross-border region on the West Coast?

Newly appointed US Consul General in Vancouver to speak to WWU students about Canada-US relations

When	Wednesday, Nov 8, 2011, 10:00am
Where	Haggard Hall 353, WWU
More Info:	For more information contact Chuck Hart by email at Chuck.Hart@wwu.edu.

Anne Callaghan is a career senior Foreign Service officer with the U.S. State Department, with the personal rank of Minister Counselor. Before her assignment as Consul General in Vancouver, she was posted in southeastern Iraq, overseeing the Maysan Provincial Reconstruction Team in its last year of operation. Ms. Callaghan has also served as Minister Counselor for Public Affairs in Rome, Italy, where she directed public diplomacy for the U.S. Embassy and three Consulates General (2006-2009); and as Counselor for Public Affairs in Bogota, Colombia (2004-2006). Her last Washington, D.C. tour was in the senior assignments division of the Bureau of Human Resources (2009-2010).

Ms. Callaghan joined the Foreign Service with the U.S. Information Agency in 1984. After a rotational tour in Mexico City, Mexico, she opened the first public affairs office in Tijuana (1986-1990) and was responsible for public diplomacy for the six U.S.-Mexico border consulates. She then served two tours in East Asia as Public Affairs Officer in Perth, Australia (1990-1992) and as an Assistant Press Attache and Deputy Cultural Attache in Tokyo, Japan (1992-1997). Following a year of graduate study at the National War College, Anne worked in Washington, D.C., in the Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs as the public diplomacy desk officer for Canada, Mexico, and Cuba (1998-2000). In 2000, she moved to Rome, Italy as Cultural Attache (2000-2004).

Prior to entering the Foreign Service, Ms. Callaghan worked at the Center for Research in International Studies at Stanford University. A native of New Jersey, she received her undergraduate degree in East Asian Studies from Colby College (Maine) and graduate degrees from the University of Michigan School of Library and Information Science and the National War College. She speaks Japanese, Spanish, and Italian, and is the recipient of U.S. State Department Superior Honor and Meritorious Honor awards and the Department of the Army Superior Civilian Service award.

Preston Schiller, Specialist on Canada-US Transportation issues, will present the 2nd Fall 2001 Border Colloquium

Prestion schiller is Adjunct Faculty in Canadian-American Studies at WWU and Visiting Lecturer, School of Urban and Regional Planning, Queen's University, Kingston Ohio

When	Thursday, Nov 3, 2011, 12:00pm
Where	College Hall 131, WWU
More Info:	For more information contact Chuck Hart by email at Chuck.Hart@wwu.edu.

To the casual eye many Canadian urban areas appear similar to their U.S. counterparts: congested roads, suburban sprawl, and many struggling urban cores. Comparative analysis reveals a few similarities and many significant differences in terms of urban densities, amounts of individual driving, rates of car ownership, walking and transit use. Transportation policies at the federal levels of each county are vastly different. Examples, including comparison of "Cascadian Cities" Vancouver, Seattle and Portland as well as brief explorations of several other areas of similarity and contrast, such as Toronto Mayor Rob Ford's "stop the war against cars" demagoguery will be offered.