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FORTHCOMING SPECIAL EVENTS:
All events are held at the UAA Campus Bookstore, are free, open to the public with complimentary parking available unless another venue is noted. Please read carefully.
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Tuesday February 9 from 5:00-7:00pm
Maude Barlow: On Water
Maude Barlow is the National Chairperson of the Council of Canadians and currently chairs the board of Food and Water Watch. In 2008-2009, she acted as Senior Advisor on Water to the United Nations General Assembly and in 2009 she received the 2009 Earth Day Canada Outstanding Environmental Achievement Award. Besides being the recipient of numerous awards, Maude Barlow has already received eight honorary doctorates.
Maude Barlow is also known for her writings which include the international best seller Blue Covenant: The Global Water Crisis and The Coming Battle for the Right to Water and the book Blue Gold: the Fight to Stop the Corporate Theft of the World’s Water. Everyone is invited to meet Maude Barlow and learn about water issues facing the world and us today. This event is sponsored by the UAA Resilience & Adaptive Management Group (RAM); the UAA Office of Sustainability; Alaska Forum for the Environment; and the UAA Campus Bookstore.
Monday February 15 from 5:00pm-7:00pm
Civil Engineer, Thomas M. Ravens presents Climate Change and the Arctic Coast
Tom Ravens is Associate Professor at the Department of Civil Engineering at UAA. His research and interests include sediment transport, coastal engineering, and environmental fluid mechanics. Everyone is invited to attend his talk and learn how a civil engineer views the effect of climate change on the Arctic coast and copes with that change.
Thursday February 18 from 5:30pm-6: 30pm
International Students Passport series: Greece with Aliki Papadopoulou
Thursday February 18 at UAA FINE ARTS BLDG 150 from 7:00pm-9:00pm
Charles Wohlforth, “Nature and Human Nature”
Charles Wohlforth is author of The Whale and the SupercomputerCharles Wohlforth
Monday February 22 from 5:00pm-7:00pm
Dr. Margritt Engel presents “Where G.W. Steller, Alaska's 1st Western Naturalist, Came From--a Picture Show"
Georg Wilhelm Steller (1709-1746) was born and spent his youth in Windsheim, Franconia, a Free Imperial City, and is now celebrated as Bad Windsheim's most famous son. Before moving on to St. Petersburg, Russia, Siberia and America (where he went ashore for a 10-hour stay on Kayak Island), he studied at Halle University and worked at the Franckesche Stiftungen, an orphanage and educational institution founded by August Hermann Francke, who fostered close ties to Russia. These two cities are the focus of this presentation. Margritt Engel is professor emeriti in the UAA Department of Languages and is the translator of the books, Journal of A Voyage with Bering, 1741-1742 and Steller's History of Kamchatka.
Wednesday February 24 from 1:30pm-3: 30pm
Phyllis Movius' A Place of Belonging
Phyllis Demuth Movius discusses her book, A Place of Belonging: Five Founding Women of Fairbanks, Alaska recently published by University of Alaska Press. Come and learn about the daily life of five amazing women who helped found Fairbanks between 1903 and 1923.
February 26-27 at UAA/APU Consortium LIBRARY room 301
Pacific Rim Conferences on Literature & Rhetoric
"Hybridity: Intersections of History, Identity, and Technology"Dr. Deborah Brandt author of Literacy as Involvement: The Acts of Writers, Readers and Texts; Literacy in American Lives; and Literacy and Learning: Reading, Writing and Society.Dr. Christopher Keep, his recent publications include Institutional Memory: History, Disciplinarity, and Victorian Studies; Growing Intimate with Monsters: Shelley Jackson's Patchwork Girl and the Gothic Nature of Hypertext; and Technology and Information: Accelerating Developments.
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