I. Wednesday January 20 from 5:30pm-6:30pm
International Students Passport Series: Canada with Kent Spiers and Carey Gray
II. Note: Stephen J. Dubner's Anchorage visits will not be held at the UAA Campus Bookstore
1. Wednesday January 27 from 1:30pm-3:00pm at the Dena’ina Civic and Convention Center
BOOK SIGNING with Stephen J. Dubner, co-author of the international best seller Freakonomics and SuperFreakonomics
Everyone is invited to come and meet Stephen J. Dubner. AEDC, UAA Economics Club, UAA College of Business and Public Policy, and the UAA Campus Bookstore sponsor the event
2. Wednesday January 27, 4:00pm-5:00pm RASMUSON HALL
Stephen J Dubner presents Freakonomics
There will be a BOOK SIGNING from 5:15pm-6:00pm in UAA Rasmuson Hall Lobby. Everyone is encouraged to help us welcome Stephen J. Dubner to UAA.
III. Monday February 1 from 5:00pm-7:00pm
UAA Campus Bookstore presents Human Rights and Corporate Rights in Alaska with John Sky Starkey, Dalee Sambo Dorough and David S. Case.
Everyone is encouraged to attend this fascinating event at the UAA Campus Bookstore about human rights and corporate rights in Alaska today. Find out what we need to understand when human rights are the focus in the Alaska legal arena.
Attorney John Sky Starkey will speak about subsistence law and community rights in regard to hunting (Community Harvest Hunt--GMU 13). What the meaning of membership is and what the role of Ahtna, Inc is in representing the community will be addressed. Dalee Sambo Dorough (UAA Political Science Dept) will focus on issues facing human rights and corporate rights in Alaska. Alaskan attorney David S. Case, author of Alaska Natives and American Laws, will discuss Alaska jurisprudence and the meaning of court battles.
IV. Tuesday February 9 from 5:00pm-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. The event is free, open to the public, with free parking available. 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.
V. Wednesday-Friday, February 10-12 from 10:00am-5:00pm
GRAD FAIR at the UAA Campus Bookstore
Attention all graduates! Come and order your caps, gowns, announcements, and diploma frames at the UAA Campus Bookstore Grad Fair. Classic Photography will be here to take your graduation picture. Free sitting fee and free proofs supplied. No appointment necessary. You are under no obligation to purchase any photos.
Get in the commencement spirit at the Grad Fair, February 10-12, 2010. For more information contact June Ebert at 786-4760.
VI. Monday February 15 from 5:00pm-7:00pm
Civil Engineer Dr. 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.
VII. Thursday February 18th from 5:30pm-6: 30pm
International Students Passport series: Greece with Aliki Papadopoulou
Thursday February 18 ARTS 150 7:00pm-9:00pm
Charles Wohlforth, “Nature and Human Nature”
Whale and the Supercomputer
VIII. 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. This event is free, open to the public, with complimentary parking available. For more information contact Rachel Epstein at 786-4782.
IX. 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. This event is free, open to the public with free parking available.
February 26-27,at LIB 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.
X. Monday March 1 from 5:00pm-7:00pm;
Rosa Luxemburg Remembered
History Professors Elizabeth Dennison, William Myers and Andrew Janco come together to discuss the extraordinary political and social activist, theoretician and revolutionary Rosa Luxemburg, 1871-1919. Her life in Germany, relationship with Lenin, her prison letters, as well as the Russian Revolution and her theories regarding spontaneity and class will be addressed. For more information contact Rachel Epstein at 786-4782
Thursday March 4-7 at Hotel Captain Cook
Alaska Library Association Conference with Sherman Alexie, Daniel Russell, Chris Crutcher, Jack Dalton, David Petersen
Thursday March 4 at Wendy Williamson (400)
Sherman Alexie
Sponsored by Alaska Library Association
XI. Monday March 15 from 5:00pm-7:00pm
Poetry in Translation
At this event the beauty of language and poetry will be showcased. For each language represented 2 poems-- a classical poem and a modern poem-- will be read in their original language accompanied by their translations in English. Then one poem in English will be read and translated into that language. Participants will be noted soon. And remember, poetry time is not only for Poetry Month. For more information contact Rachel Epstein at 786-4782.
With Suzanne Forster (English Dept), Bill Jamison (Philosophy Dept) , Dan Kline (English Dept) and Yngvil vatn Guttu (performance artist)
XII. Thursday March 18 from 5:30pm-6: 30pm
International Students Passport Series: Mongolia with Enke Gene and Sainshur
XIII. Wednesday March 24 from 1:00pm-2:00pm
Chef Vern Wolfram: Holiday Chocolate
Thursday- Saturday, March 25-27 at Millennium Hotel
Brian Fagan and Ann Fienup-Riordan Sponsored by Alaska Anthropological Association
XIV. Thursday March 25 from 1:00pm-3:00pm
BRIAN FAGAN
Cro Magnon
Thursday March 25 at Wendy Williamson 7:30pm
BRIAN FAGAN on Climate change
XV. Monday April 1 from 5:00pm-7:00pm
Poet Tom Sexton, Poet Mike Burwell, Poet/Playwright Arlitia Jones present “Works in Progress”
Everyone is welcome to come and celebrate the cruelest month with poetry. Tom Sexton is former Alaska poet laureate, author of the collections A Clock With No Hands and For the Sake of the Light; Mike Burwell teaches at CWLA at UAA and is the editor of the online literary journal Cirque; Arlitia Jones is the author of the collection Bandsaw Riots as well as numerous short and long plays.
XVI. Thursday April 8 from 5:30pm-6: 30pm
International Students Passport Series: China with E.J. Duan
FALL 2009 Special Events
SEPTEMBER
Thursday September 10 from 5:00pm-7:00pm
UAA Professor Emerita Dr. Margritt Engel presents Georg Wilhelm Steller and W.G. Sebald: A “Nature” Connection
UAA Professor Emerita Margritt Engel is the translator of Georg Wilhem Steller's Journal of a Voyage with Bering, 1741-1742 and the book Steller's History of Kamchatka. Everyone is invited to hear her presentation on the connection between Georg W. Steller and the writer W,G. Sebald. Steller is the renowned 18th century German botanist and explorer of Alaska and Kamchatka and W.G. Sebald is the author of numerous books including After Nature; Rings of Saturn; Austerlitz and On the Natural History of Destruction. Sebald is considered one of the most extraordinary and important writers of the 20th century.
Monday September 14 from 5:00pm-7:00pm
Australian of the Year 2009, Mick Dodson, presents Human Rights Treaties in Australia
Mick Dodson is a member of the Yawuru peoples-- the traditional Aboriginal owners of land and waters in Western Australia. He is Professor of Law at the ANU College of Law and Director of the National Centre for Indigenous Studies. Mick Dodson helped write the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples in the United Nation. In 2009 he was chosen as Australian of the Year. Mick Dodson is a vigorous advocate for the rights and interests of the Indigenous peoples of the world. Join us in welcoming this great man to UAA. This event is cosponsored by the UAA Political Sciences Dept.
Wednesday September 16 from 5:00pm-7:00pm
Dr. Riki Ott presents The Democracy Crisis: How Corporate Persons Have Trumped Human Rights
Dr. Riki Ott is familiar to many Alaskans for her books, Not One Drop: Betrayal and Courage in the Wake of the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill and Sound Truths and Corporate Myth$. At this event, Riki Ott will describe how corporations received "human rights" status in US courts and what the ramifications are for having such legal status. The event is cosponsored by the UAA Sustainability Department.
Monday September 21 from 5:00pm-7:00pm
Kathy Turco presents Spirit of the Arctic
Kathy Turco has produced an exquisite DVD called Spirit of the Arctic. Described as "a timeless northern journey of natural sounds wrapped in native voices and music matched by images of Alaskan wildlife and landscapes." The DVD is a collection of photographs by Michio Hoshino accompanied by music by Carlos Nakai & The Wind Travelin' Band and Pamyua; songs by Agnes Moore, Lavern Huntington, and Sarah James; including voice and Inupiat translations by Doreen Simmonds. Spirit of the Arctic is magnificent!
Tuesday September 22 from 5:00pm –7:00pm
Literary Journals: A panel discussion with CWLA and MFA faculty--Sherry Simpson, Jeremy Edward Shiok, Shannon Gramse, and Mike Burwell
This event brings editors and writers of Alaskan journals together to discuss why some journals have mastered longevity while others have passed on, the role of editor, what's worth reading, and why so many people continue to write and desire to be published. People who enjoy a good read and writers alike are welcome to attend this free event.
Thursday, September 24 from 5:30pm-6: 30 pm
International Student Association Passport Series: Germany with Fabian Philippe
Friday, September 25 from 4:00pm-6:00pm
Dr. Brigid O'Keeffe presents Pornography or Authenticity? Performing "Gypsiness" on the Early Soviet Stage, 1921-1939
Dr. Brigid O'Keeffe, Assistant Professor of History at CUNY-Brooklyn College discusses "Pornography or Authenticity? Performing "Gypsiness" on the Early Soviet Stage, 1921-1939". The event is co-sponsored with the UAA History Department and UAA Department of Languages.
September 26-October 3
Banned Book Week
Tuesday, September 29 from 5:00pm-7:00pm
Mattox Roesch presents Sometimes We’re Always Real Same-Same
Mattox Roesch’s book, Sometimes We is Always Real Same-Same, depicts a rural Alaska "that we can smell, feel, hear and see. It's fresh...captivating". According to Sigrid Nunez, Roesch is "a writer who does not flinch from the misfortune and cruelty that rule certain lives but whose vision is full of beauty, wisdom, and grace."
Wednesday September 30 from 5:00pm-7:00pm
Human Rights: Questions and Perspectives Revisited
UAA faculty Dalee Dorough (Political Science), Terrence Kelly (Philosophy), Nancy Nix (Health Sciences) and Zeynep Kilic (Sociology) discuss current issues, strategies and challenges governing human rights today.
Specific topics include issues facing Indigenous peoples in Alaska; how our conceptualization of immigrant rights have changed over time; a look at human rights issues that effect the lives of women and children globally; and a review of challenges justifying human rights involving societies and governments skeptical of the idea of rights. This unique event is important and will offer much to think about. Everyone is welcome to attend and free parking is available.
OCTOBER
Monday, October 5 from 5:00pm-7:00pm
Professor James Muller presents Thoughts and Adventures: Churchill Reflects on Spies, Cartoons, Flying, and the Future
Winston Churchill's Thoughts and Adventures, first published in 1932, is brought to life in this just released edition annotated with introduction by Dr. James Muller, professor of Political Sciences at UAA. A renowned Churchill scholar, James Muller has edited numerous books by and/or about Churchill. He is chairman of the Churchill Centre, a by fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge and a recipient of the Farrow Award for Excellence in Churchill Studies. Everyone is encouraged to attend this exciting event highlighting the extraordinary Winston Churchill.
Thursday, October 8 from 5:00pm-7:00pm
Toby Sullivan, a writer and commercial fisherman from Kodiak presents “To the War: An Embedded Journalist in Iraq.”
Toby Sullivan was embedded with U.S. Marine and Army units in Baghdad and Al Anbar Province, Iraq between December 2004 and April 2006. He is currently at work on a book about his experiences there. His stories and essays about the Iraq war and the lives of commercial fishermen have appeared in numerous publications and anthologies including the Anchorage Press.
Tuesday October 13 from 5:00pm-7:00pm
Seniors and Addiction: a Panel Discussion with Stephanie Bauer (Philosophy Dept./UAA), Patrick Dulin (Psychology Dept./UAA), Wendy Barton (Bernie's Pharmacy) and acting as moderator Ray Clements (Older Persons Action League)
Topics addressed include seniors and addictive prescriptions, the signs of addiction/abuse and the relation between Medicare and the pharmaceuticals. This event is sponsored with the UAA Human Services Dept.
Wednesday, October 14 from 5:00pm-7:00pm
Kaylene Johnson presents A Tender Distance: Adventures Raising My Sons in Alaska
Kaylene Johnson's book A Tender Distance: Adventures Raising My Sons in Alaska has received excellent reviews: “Like a brilliant fall day, Kaylene Johnson's A Tender Distance has a gorgeous ache of melancholy coursing through its pages… A Tender Distance is written with a calm, deep grace. It is a poem of a book, suffused with courage, sadness and beauty.” – Richard Goodman, author of French Dirt: The Story of a Garden in the South of France and The Soul of Creative Writing. And poet and creative nonfiction writer,Molly Peacock writes, “with a journalist’s quick eye and a spiritual observer’s shining soul, the remarkable Kaylene Johnson measures the growth of her two boys as they come of age in Alaska’s wilderness in her new book...Johnson’s fierce balancing makes these amazing adventures a mother’s coming of age, too.”
Thursday, October 15 from 5:30pm-6: 30 pm
International Student Association Passport Series: Russia with Yulia Suslova and Olga Lobko
Friday-Saturday, October 16-17 (at Wendy Williamson Auditorium)
Bioneers Conference: Book Sale
Monday October 19 from 5:00pm-7:00pm
Giinaquq--Like a Face with Sven D. Haakanson Jr.
Giinaquq--Like a Face: Suqpiaq Masks of the Kodiak Archipelago is an extraordinary mask exhibit that has toured the world. The accompanying book is now available in paperback. It is a privilege for us to welcome curator Sven Haakanson to the UAA Campus Bookstore
Tuesday October 20 from 5:00pm-7:00pm
Alaska at 50: The Past, Present, and Next fifty Years of Alaska Statehood
Greg Kimura and other contributors to the book--Sven Hakaanson Jr., Ronald Spatz, Victor Fischer, Phyllis Fast--come together to discuss Alaska in terms of art, culture, humanities; law, economy, and politics; environment, people, and place.
NOVEMBER
Friday November 6 from 3:00pm-5:00pm
Herminia Dinn’s Art Class presents Recycled Journals: A Benefit Auction
Saturday November 7 from 11:00am-1:00pm (note special hours)
Family of the World
Sponsored by International Student Services
Monday November 9 from 5:00pm-7:00pm
Bill Sherwonit, the author of Changing Paths: Travels and Meditations in Alaska's Arctic Wilderness,presents "Notes from a Literary Journalist: The Importance of Passion, Persistence, and Paying Attention". This event is cosponsored with the UAA CWLA/MFA Program.
Tuesday November 10 from 5:00pm-7:00pm
How Life in the Arctic is Depicted: A Discussion with Seth Kantner, Phyllis Fast (Anthropology Dept), James LaBelle (Alaska Native Studies Dept) and Karla Booth (Alaska Native and Rural Outreach Program)
Wednesday November 11 from 5:30pm-6:30pm
International student Association Passport Series: Cameroon with Bih Abaam
Tuesday November 17 6:00pm-8:00pm (note special hours)
Poet Joan Kane presents her new book of poetry, The Cormorant Hunter's Wife.
Joan Kane is Inupiaq Eskimo, with family from King Island and Mary’s Igloo, Alaska. She earned her bachelor’s degree from Harvard College and her M.F.A. in writing from Columbia University. A former Harvard National Scholar and recipient of a Columbia University Writing Fellowship, Kane received the John Haines Award from Ice Floe Press in 2004. The Academy of American Poets as a semi-finalist for the Walt Whitman Award selected her in 2006. With the assistance of a 2007 Rasmuson Foundation Individual Artist Award, Kane has completed her first book of poetry, The Cormorant Hunter’s Wife, scheduled for publication by NorthShore Press in autumn 2009. Her first play, "The Gilded," won the Anchorage Museum script contest and will be in production this summer. Along with her husband and son, she lives in Anchorage, Alaska. This event is sponsored with the Alaska Center for the Book and the ANAIHMC.
Wednesday November 18 at 12:00pm
Allison Ward presents Ode to the Polar Bear
Allison Warden, a local Inupiaq artist performs her one-woman show “Ode to the Polar Bear”. It’s a 30 minute performance about climate change, her home village Kaktovik and of course, the Polar Bear!
Thursday November 19 from 1:00pm-2:00pm
UAA's Chef Vern presents Holiday Treats
Chef Vern is stirring up fun once again at the UAA Campus Bookstore. Don't miss this chance to be engulfed in chocolate and other holiday delights. Everyone is welcome to attend.
Thursday November 19 from 5:00pm-7:00pm
Dogen: Offerings of Zen Literature with Koun Franz, Sensei
Koun Franz teaches Japanese at UAA Languages Department. Everyone is invited to attend this rare event focusing on classic Buddhist literature and Master Dogen.
Monday November 30 from 5:00pm-7:00pm
Elizabeth Tower presents her newest book Over the Back Fence, Conflicts on the United States/Canada Border from Maine to Alaska
Elizabeth Tower is author of numerous books about Alaska including Ice Bound Empire Ice. She was named Historian of the year by the Alaska State Historical Society in 1996.
