Conference Participation

Invited paper presentation, "Inuit Arctic Foreign Policy: Formation and Development," Pacific Northwest Canadian Studies Consortium Annual General Meeting, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, 3 February 2012.

Paper Presentation, "Inuit Diplomacies and International Relations: Mapping a New Space for Human Capacity and Education," Panel, Communication and Education in Arctic Policies, 21st Biennial Conference Association of Canadian Studies in the United States, Ottawa Ontario, 16-20 November 2011.

Panel Chair, "Melting Boundaries: Rethinking Arctic Governance, 21st Biennial Conference Association of Canadian Studies in the United States, Ottawa Ontario, 16-20 November 2011.

Panel Discussant, "Canada and the American Curriculum: Formulating a National Approach to Canadian Studies," 21st Biennial Conference Association of Canadian Studies in the United States, Ottawa Ontario, 16-20 November 2011.

Paper Presentation, "Arctic Foreign Policy and the Arctic Council: Reframing "National" Security in the Circumpolar Region?," Fishing Peoples of the North: Cultures, Economies, and Management Responding to Change, 27th Lowell Wakefield Fisheries Symposium, Anchorage, Alaska, 14-17 September 2011.

Paper presentation, "Mapping Policy in the Arctic," Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade Arctic Foreign Policy Graduate Fellowship Symposium, International Centre for Northern Governance and Development, University of Saskatchewan, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, 17 March 2011.

Paper Presentation, “Towards a National Inuit Education Strategy,” panel, “Politics and Policies in the Arctic: Aspects, Proposals, Perspectives,” 20th Biennial Conference, Association of Canadian Studies in the United States in San Diego, 18-22 November 2009.

Panel Chair and Paper Presentation, “Crossing Boundaries – the World from a Circumpolar Perspective” including, “Circumpolar Studies” by Fabbi,  “The Indigenous World” by Daniel Hart, Canadian Studies Center, “The Ice is Our Highway” by Violet Ford, Inuit Circumpolar Council Ottawa, and “Circumpolar Health” by Mark Oberle, UW School of Public Health and Community Medicine, Title VI 50^th Anniversary Conference, US Department of Education's International Education Programs Service, Hyatt Regency Washington on Capital Hill, Washington, DC, March 2009. (Program, see pg. 25.)

Paper Presentation, “Integrating Québec Studies into Research and Policy Making in the Pacific Northwest,” New Directions in Québec-US Studies in the Pacific Northwest, 14^th Biennial American Council for Québec Studies Conference, Québec City, Québec, Fall 2004.

Panel Chair, “The North,” 5th Biennial Association for Canadian Studies in the United States-in-Canada-Colloquium, Vancouver, British Columbia, Fall 2004.

Paper Presentation, “A Secure Road Ahead for Canadian Studies: Well-Established / Essential, Panel, “The Future of Canadian Studies,” Association for Canadian Studies 17^th Biennial Conference, Portland, Oregon, November 2003.

Paper Presentation, “Teaching the Geography of Canada’s North via Points of Contact,” Panel, “Teaching Canadian Geography in the US,” Association for Canadian Studies 17^th Biennial Conference, Portland, Oregon, November 2003.

Panel Chair, “The Future of Canadian-American Studies,” Rethinking the Line: The Canada-U.S. Border International Conference, Vancouver, British Columbia, November 2000.

Paper Presentation, “Village of Widows: The Dene of Great Bear Lake and the Making of the Atom Bomb,” Western Social Sciences Association, San Diego, California, May 2000.

Paper Presentation, “Nanook of the North – who is Speaking for Whom: Inuit Culture/Non-Inuit Filmmakers,” Educational Studies Research Day Conference, Department of Educational Studies, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, April 1999.

Panel Chair, “Canadian Jewry,” Western Jewish Association 5^th Annual Conference, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, March 14, 1999.

Paper Presentation, "Maintaining Cultural Boundaries in Italian-Canadian Writing: Charting Self, Canada, and the Generations in the Works of Frank Paci, Mary Di Michele, and C. D. Minni,"  33rd Annual Meeting of the Midwest Modern Language Association, Chicago, Illinois, November 14, 1991.

Paper Presentation, "'Occupied Territories:' The Search for a 'Homeland' in Beatrice Culleton's, In Search of April Raintree and Sandra Birdsell's Agassiz Stories,” Association for Canadian Studies in the United States Biennial Meeting, Boston, Massachusetts, November 22, 1991.

Panel Chair, Section panel: Canadian Literature, 33rd Annual Meeting of the Midwest Modern Language Association, Chicago, Illinois, 1991.

Paper Presentation, "Canadian Colonial Conformity versus American Revolutionary Independence: Historical Shaping of the Nations' Childhood Classics: Anne of Green Gables and Huckleberry Finn,” 32nd Annual Meeting of the Midwest Modern Language Association, Kansas City, Missouri, November 3, 1990.

Paper Presentation, "Culture and Economics: Influences on a Writer's Authority," Pacific Coast Writing Center's Association Conference, Pacific Lutheran University, Tacoma, Washington, October 14, 1989.