Live events include faculty, students, guest speakers, panel discussions, & food demonstrations.  Events are held to promote free expression in an informal place where people can share what they care about. 

All UAA Camous Bookstore events are free, open to the public, with free parking in the South Parking Lot--the lot across from the Bookstore.

Please Note: Speakers do not receive any financial compensation from the Bookstore.

If you would like to contact Rachel Epstein, the events co-ordinator, she can be reached at anre@uaa.alaska.edu or (907) 786-4782. 

Monday January 23 from 3:00pm-4:30pm
Canadian Artist Guy Langevin

Please join me for an informal discussion about the convergence of poetry and art, the difference between local and global art scenes, and the sharing of modern and classic art techniques. 

A lovely example of his work can be found at http://www.takachpress.com/gallery/LangevinRememberingYourDance.html

"His work is based on duality between fugitiveness of light and moment, and the perenniality of impressions people, situations and events make in our mind. As this duality, the work rocks between precision and blurry images. Haziness may be, sometimes, the more accurate way to express an idea"

 

Wednesday January 25 from 5:00pm-7:00pm
Occupy Anchorage, U.S. and the World with Dawn Bonfield and Mark Bonfield

Come and learn about the principles behind the Occupy Movement and why it is a global phenomena.    This event is held in honor of Ruth Sheridan and UAA Alaska Civil Rights Month.  

Tuesday February 7 from 5:00pm-7:00pm
Cancer Prevention and Recovery Lecture Series with Dr. Lyn Freeman

Circadian and Ultradian Rhythms and Cancer Control:  Special challenges for Alaskans and what to do about it.    

 Join Dr. Freeman for this empowering series of lectures and stay ‘ahead of the curve’ by understanding the most current ways to take control of your health outcomes.  Dr. Lyn Freeman is an Alaskan researcher and behavioral medicine provider who just completed six years of National Cancer Institute-funded research on overcoming the side effects of cancer treatments.  The intervention she created and tested produced clinically and statistically significant improvements and is now a model of care for cancer survivors.

February 9 from 5:00pm-6:00pm
Dr. Trita Parsi presents U.S. Diplomacy with Iran

Dr. Trita Parsi is the President of the National Iranian American Council and former Public Policy Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.   He is the author of the book A Single Roll of the Dice - Obama's Diplomacy with Iran (2012) and the book Treacherous Alliance - The Secret Dealings of Iran, Israel and the United States (2007).

Everyone is encouraged to come and learn about U.S. policies toward Iran from a rare Middle East expert.  This event is co-sponsored with the Alaska World Affairs Council.



Monday February 13 from 5:00pm-7:00pm
North by 2020:  Perspectives on Alaska's Changing Social-Ecological Systems

Dr. Amy Lauren Lovecraft, Dr. Sharman Haley and Dr. Andrew Kliskey come together to discuss research on Alaska's changing social-ecological systems from the International Polar Year. 

Dr. Amy L. Lovecraft (Political Science/UAF)  edited the book North by 2020 which covers the scholarship of over 90 authors from different academic disciplines.  Topics highlighted are the science of modeling change, indigenous contributions to sustainability, freshwater management, Arctic coastal margins,  marine living systems and infrastructure, oil and gas development, the arts and planning for the future.

Joining Dr. Amy L. Lovecraft at this event are Dr. Sharman Haley (ISER/UAA)  whose focus is coastal and off shore oil & gas development and  Dr. Andrew Kliskey (RAM/UAA) whose focus is fresh water in Alaska's communities. 

Wednesday February 22 from 5:30pm-6:30pm
International Passport Series: Afghanistan Romal Safi

Sponsored with the Office of International Student Services 

Thursday February 23 from 5:00pm-7:00pm
Climate Changes: Alaska, the Arctic, and our Global Environment

Panelists Raymond Anthony (Philosophy), Walter Parker (with 55 years governing Alaska’s environmental issues) , and Richard Steiner (Environmental Sustainability Consulting/Oasis Earth) discuss  future developments of the Arctic.

Topics to be discussed:

Raymond Anthony- -Food Security and “Wickedness” in Alaska 
Walter Parker-- Directions for the Arctic:  Future Goals and Obstacles
Richard Steiner-- Toward a Sustainable World:  Shifting Geographical Boundaries  

Monday February 27 from 5:00pm-7:00pm
The Social Contract Today

Panelists for this event  include Alan Boraas (Anthropology) , Jason Brandeis (Justice Center), Terrence Kelly (Philosophy), Scott Gavorsky ( History) and acting as moderator Paola Banchero (JPC).  

Where we are today in light of new laws and rulings that challenge the rights and protections of citizens under the U.S. Constitution is the theme of this event.   Such topics as the National Defense Authorization Act, Citizens United, Wiki Leaks trials, and government control of the internet will be noted.

 

Monday March 5 from 5:00pm-7:00pm
Author Carolyn Turgeon presents The Next Full Moon

Carolyn Turgeon (MFA Low Residency Program /UAA)  is the author of three novels: Rain Village, Godmother: The Secret Cinderella Story, and Mermaid--a retelling of the original little mermaid story. The Next Full Moon, her first children's book, was just published.  It is about a middle-grade novel about a 12-year-old girl who discovers that her mother was a swan maiden.

“Carolyn Turgeon has a gift for imagining magical worlds. In Ava’s case, this other-worldly place belongs to the Swan Maidens, one of whom is Ava’s mother. Ava goes back and forth between middle school and this magical realm taking the reader along for an exhilarating, extraordinary ride.”

 

Tuesday March 6 from 12:00pm-2:00pm
Dr. Christopher Clark presents Whales and Acoustics in the Marine Environment

Dr. Christopher Clark is director of the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology.  He is an expert on the science of sound and the effects of noise on whales.  This event is sponsored with Alaska's Big Village Network



Tuesday March 6 from 5:00pm-7:00pm
Ahmed Elramsisy presents Egypt and its Changing Society 

Ahmed Elramsisy is an American Egyptian who earned a Mechanical Engineering Degree from California State University, Northridge in 1991 and currently works at the Department of Labor for the State of Alaska.  Today he keeps in close contact with his family and friends in Egypt.  This event offers an opportunity to learn about the history of Egypt, the meaning of Arab Spring and the future prospects for Egypt and Egyptians.

Wednesday March 7 from 5:00pm-7:00pm
Cancer Prevention Recovery Lecture Series with Dr. Lyn Freeman:  Healing Spices for Cancer and Chronic Disease—Part 1: The history of spice research and 10 cancer fighting spices

Dr. Lyn Freeman is an Alaskan researcher and behavioral medicine provider who just completed six years of National Cancer Institute-funded research on overcoming the side effects of cancer treatments.  The intervention she created and tested produced clinically and statistically significant improvements and is now a model of care for cancer survivors.


Thursday March 8 from 5:00pm-7:00pm
Canadian Sociologist Carl James presents “Being Canadian: Race, Identity and Citizenship”

Dr. Carl James is Professor and Director of the York Centre on Education and Community, at York University /Toronto, Canada.  He is author of Life at the Intersection: Community, Class and Schooling; ExperiencingDifference and the book Seeing Ourselves: Exploring Race, Ethnicity and Culture.   Details about his research on identity can be found at http://www.yorku.ca/ycec/?p=354.  This is a unique opportunity to learn more about ourselves and our concepts of others.  This event is sponsored with The International and Intercultural Task Force, UAA Campus Bookstore and Department of Sociology.

 
Wednesday March 21 from 5:30pm-6:30pm
Families of the World: Brazil with Vitor de Carli

Sponsored with the Office of International Student Services

Thursday March 22 from 1:00pm-2:00pm
Chef Vern Wolfram presents Chocolate

UAA Culinary Arts & Hospitality Chef Vern Wolfram shares his knowledge of chocolate.  Come be pampered by his assistants as you indulge in tasting varieties of chocolate.

Friday March 23 from 2:00pm-3:30pm
Debby Dahl Edwardson presents My Name is Not Easy

Debby Dahl Edwardson is author of the Whale Snow; Whale Snow: Uqsruagnaq; Blessing’s Bead; and My Name is Not Easy.  At this event, she reads from My Name is Not Easy and discusses how she became a writer,  challenges in describing life in Alaska, and what she is working on today.  This event is sponsored with Native Student Services.

Monday March 26 from 1:00pm-2:00pm
Yuranan Ubabooth—Lessons in Thai Culture

Everyone is invited to come and learn about Thai language, alphabet,life and culture.Yuranan is an international student at UAA studying engineering and working at the UAA Campus Bookstore.  Don’t miss this fun and fascinating event!

Monday March 26 from 5:00pm-7:00pm
Dr. Kelly Shannon presents U.S. Foreign Policy and Women’s Rights

Dr. Kelly J. Shannon is an Assistant Professor in the Department of History at UAA.   Her fields of study are the history of U.S. foreign relations, the modern Islamic world, and international feminism.  Currently, Dr. Shannon is an active member of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR) and she is working on her first book, Veiled Intentions: Islam, Global Feminism, and U.S. Foreign Policy Since 1979, which examines how Americans' concerns about the rights of women in Islamic countries have been integrated into U.S. foreign policy in recent decades. 

 
Tuesday March 27 from 5:00pm-7:00pm
Cancer Prevention Recovery Lecture Series with Dr. Lyn Freeman:  Healing Spices for Cancer and Chronic Disease—Part 2

Dr. Lyn Freeman is an Alaskan researcher and behavioral medicine provider who just completed six years of National Cancer Institute-funded research on overcoming the side effects of cancer treatments.  The intervention she created and tested produced clinically and statistically significant improvements and is now a model of care for cancer survivors.

Wednesday March 28 from 5:30pm-6:30pm
International Student Passport Series: Norway

UAA International students discuss their hometowns in Norway, with Ida Bjerka, Karina Smith and Christian Utheim.  This event is sponsored with the Office of International Student Services

 

Monday April 2 from 5:00pm-7:00pm
Literature, Suicide and Community:  A discussion with Joan Kane, Don Rearden, Eskimo Bob  and Zebadiah Kraft

Focusing on the theme of suicide in literature is one way to raise awareness about the emotional toll of sorrow that many people live with.  How a character’s suicide is portrayed and what we can learn from literature by talking openly about suicide will be the jumping off points leading the discussion. 

Panelists include poet Joan Kane, author of Cormorant Hunter’s Wife/ English Dept.; Don Rearden, author of Raven’s Gift/ Honor’s College and College of Preparatory & Developmental Studies; Eskimo Bob (Bob Petersen), cyber radio host of “Eskimo Bob Lives”; and Zebadiah Kraft, an army veteran, Student Showcase, and UAA English major.

(Special guest Bob Petersen (with an 'E') Iwas born and raised in Bethel.  He studied Business Administration at Utah State University and now resides in Wasilla working as the Human Resource Manager for MARC.  Bob  is best known to Alaskans as the creator, producer, writer and host of the cyber radio show "Eskimo Bob Lives", currently in its fifth season.)

Wednesday April 4 from 5:00pm-7:00pm
Colleen Mondor presents her book Map of My Dead Pilots

“I learned to fly at age eighteen and have degrees in aviation, history and northern studies. The Map of My Dead Pilots is based on my experiences as lead dispatcher at a Part 135 (commercial) air carrier based in Fairbank. The “Company” had bases in multiple bush locations and flew single-engine, multi-engine and twin turbine aircraft carrying everything from scheduled passengers and mail to convicts and sled dogs. There were incidents and accidents, moments of Pythonesque absurdity and brain-numbing hard work. It was never the profession I learned about in the classroom nor the glory stories so popular in modern myth…It is the story of the people who worked at one Alaskan commuter and the culmination of my efforts to understand how commercial pilots live and die in the Last Frontier. “

"Strap yourselves in. Map of My Dead Pilots is one hell of a ride, one of the best Alaska books ever. In gorgeous, literary prose that nails the rhythms of a barroom conversation and plumbs the depth of the human soul, Colleen Mondor writes a one-way ticket into the world of Alaska aviation. --Nick Jans, author of The Last Light Breaking and The Grizzly Maze

 

Thursday April 5 from 5:00pm-7:00pm
Lifelong Youthfulness/Usefulness: What’s Age Got to Do With It?

 Panelists include Dr. Ann Jache, UAA Sociology Dept., Chair, Gerontology Minor; Casey Smith, World Class Snowboarder; Arliss Sturgulewiski, Distinguished Alaska State Legislator; Dr. Richard Newman, Founder of The Total Health Clinic, Anchorage ; and  Willie Hensley, Alaska Native Leader, Distinguished Professor in Public Policy and Administration .  Acting as moderator is JP Ouellette, HUMS Practicum IV.

This event is presented by : UAA Human Service classes: Adulthood and Aging and Practicum II, III & IV and the UAA Bookstore

Monday April 9 from 5:00pm-7:00pm
Business Ethics and Leadership

Strategies for business ethics and leadership plus a new look at models for business ethics and leadership are discussed by Dr. Rashmi Prasad and his students in Business Administration.

Dr. Rashmi Prasad is Professor of Business Administration and Director of Graduate Programs in the College of Business and Public Policy at UAA, and is Chair of the University Honors Council. His principal research interests are in Cross-Cultural Management Issues, Business Ethics, and Health Systems Administration.

This event is a unique opportunity to hear the views of students and to learn about attitudes governing ethics and business practices.

Tuesday April 10
Tom Shoes:  One Day Without Shoes: A Photo Shoot

April 10, 2012 is the international day to raise awareness of the millions of children who are at risk of injury, disease and soil-transmitted infection because they go without shoes.   Join the photo shoot at the bookstore:  11:00am, 12:30pm, and 3:00pm.  Photos will be included on the One Day Without Shoes photo wall website.  

Tuesday April 17 from 5:00pm-7:00pm
Cancer Prevention Recovery Lecture Series with Dr. Lyn Freeman:  Epigentics for Cancer Recovery and Chronic Disease 

Dr. Lyn Freeman is an Alaskan researcher and behavioral medicine provider who just completed six years of National Cancer Institute-funded research on overcoming the side effects of cancer treatments.  The intervention she created and tested produced clinically and statistically significant improvements and is now a model of care for cancer survivors.


Wednesday April 18 from 5:00pm-7:00pm
Fran Ulmer presents “The Meaning of Deepwater Horizon for Alaskans:  What We Must Learn”

Many of us are familiar with Fran Ulmer’s years of service in Alaska include being  a mayor, legislator, two terms as lieutenant governor, director of the Institute of Economic and Social Research , UAA Chancellor and currently, UAA's Arctic Research Scholar.  Fran Ulmer also  served as a member of the  National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling and is the chairperson of the U.S. Arctic Research Commission. 

Everyone is encouraged to come to this event, ask questions, and consider how best to plan for our future.

Thursday April 19 from 5:00pm-7:00pm
Dr Zaijing Wei, a Fulbright scholar on linguistic pragmatics presents "A Comparative Analysis of Chinese and English Emotional Metaphor". Dr Wei has specialized in contrastive linguistics and translation and he currently works at Xi'an International Studies University in China.  This event is sponsored with the UAA Confucius Institute. 


Friday April 20 from 4:00pm-6:00pm
Howard Weaver presents Write Hard, Die Free

Howard Weaver was born in Anchorage and began writing for the Anchorage Daily News during his junior year at East Anchorage High School in 1967. He worked at the Anchorage Daily News, 1972-1995, as a police reporter, court reporter, legislative correspondent, daily columnist, managing editor and held full editorial responsibility of the paper in 1983. Twice he led the Anchorage Daily News to Pulitzer Prizes: in 1976 for coverage of the Alaska Teamsters Union during construction of the trans-Alaska pipeline and in 1989 for coverage of alcoholism and suicide among Alaska Natives.

His accolades include service as a Pulitzer Prize juror, being a member of the American Society of Newspaper Editors, and acting as co-chair of the international association of northern editors, the Northern News Service. In 1998 he was named by an Alaska Public Radio Network survey as one of the 40 most influential Alaskans in the state's first 40 years of history.

Write Hard, Die Free is his just released memoir.  This event is sponsored with the Alaska Press Club



Monday April 23 from 5:00pm-7:00pm
Mary Albanese presents Midnight Sun Arctic Moon

Midnight Sun Arctic Moon is the story of Mary Albanese’s life from 1977 to 1987 when she moved to Alaska at age 22 to become a rural Alaskan school teacher.  Little did she know her life would take a different turn and she would end up a geologist --mapping areas of uncharted geological units for the state of Alaska.

Mary Albanese received her master’s degree in geosciences from UAF.  Her book, Midnight Sun Arctic Moon is published by Epicenter Press. 

Tuesday April 24 from 5:00pm-7:00pm
Dr. Kim Patterson discusses his new book Swift Justice

Swift Justice: Leveling the Playing Field for America’s Re-entry Citizens gives voice to the uneven playing field levied against vulnerable populations, ethnic minorities, and the poor concerning the American Criminal Justice System.  Through the heralding of good government, while exposing its corrupt forms, Dr. Kim Patterson challenges the reader to rethink today’s concept of Justice.

Dr. Kim Patterson is an adjunct professor and the Director of UAA Student Support Services.  His work promotes academic excellence and degree-completion among first-year and underrepresented student groups


Wednesday April 25 from 5:30pm-6:30pm
International Student Passport Series: Ghana with Dari Donkuro

This event is sponsored with UAA International Student Services


Thursday April 26 from 5:00pm-7:00pm
Video Poetry with Jeff Oliver and CWLA Students

Jeff Oliver is senior media specialist at UAA and teaches in the Creative Writing & Literary Arts department. This event discusses new forms pooetic expression and is held in honor of National Poetry Month.