Bookstore Special Event Podcasts

All events are sponsored by or with the UAA Campus Bookstore.  Please note that in some cases recordings of audience questions are difficult to hear while answers to questions can be easily heard. The events are posted from latest to earliest. 

If you have any difficulty opening a link, these podcasts can also be found at http://greenandgold.uaa.alaska.edu/podcasts/index.php?cat=Campus-Bookstore. 

North by 2020: Perspectives on Alaska's Changing Social-Ecological Systems

U.S. Policy with Iran featuring Dr. Trita Parsi

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http://greenandgold.uaa.alaska.edu/podcasts//audio/UAA-Advancement-2012-02-04-20498.mp3

‘Occupy Anchorage, U.S. and the World’ was a talk offered by Dawn and Mark Bonfield, relaying their experiences as participants in Occupy Anchorage and DC. They discuss the principles behind global phenomenon. This event was held in honor of longtime Anchorage resident and activist, Ruth Sheridan, in honor of her 94th birthday.

This podcast was recorded Jan. 25, 2012.

Disaster Preparation in Anchorage

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http://greenandgold.uaa.alaska.edu/podcasts/get.php?web=UAA-Advancement-2011-11-17-95958.mp3 
 
Daniel Skrzynski served in the U.S. Air Force from 1984-2006. His expertise includes search and rescue and military airlift operations.

This event was sponsored by the UAA Campus Bookstore.

This podcast was recorded on Nov. 17, 2011.

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http://greenandgold.uaa.alaska.edu/podcasts/get.php?web=UAA-Advancement-2011-11-19-95974.mp3

During World War II, the Unangan residents of the Aleutian Islands were taken by boat to internment camps in Southeast Alaska. When they returned after the war, the residents of the smallest villages, Kashega, Biorka and Makushin, were not permitted to return home. Instead they were resettled in larger communities. Residents of Attu were captured by the Japanese and interned in Japan for the remainder of the war.

This presentation reports on boat trips with elderly former residents and their descendants to revisit Makushin in September 2009, and Kashega and Biorka in September 2010.

(Last year's presentation and podcsast about the Lost Villages can be found below on November 19, 2010)

This podcast was recorded on Nov. 17, 2011.

Former diplomat and special envoy speaks on the Wars of Afghanistan and U.S. policy

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http://greenandgold.uaa.alaska.edu/podcasts/get.php?web=UAA-Advancement-2011-11-16-95946.mp3

Peter Tomsen was former ambassador to Armenia from 1995-1998 and special envoy on Afghanistan from 1989-1992. His book, The Wars of Afghanistan: Messianic Terrorism, Tribal Conflicts, and the Failures of Great Powers, was published in July 2011.

Thie event is sponsored with the World Affairs Council.

This podcast was recorded on Nov. 16, 2011.

UAA anthropologist Diane Hanson describes 2011 excavation of first upland house on Adak Island

Dr. Diane Hanson presents The House on the Hill: New Archaeological Developments in the Aleutian

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http://greenandgold.uaa.alaska.edu/podcasts/get.php?web=UAA-Advancement-2011-11-14-96021.mp3

 
The 22nd Anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall presented by Evan Cotten

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http://greenandgold.uaa.alaska.edu/podcasts/get.php?web=UAA-Advancement-2011-12-05-88805.mp3

Everyone is invited to attend and revisit history in our time.  The event is sponsored by the Federal Embassy of Germany, Washington, DC and the German program in the Department of Languages.

This podcast was recorded on November 4, 2011



Braided Streams: Alaska poets read from their work

Panel: First-generation college graduates tell their stories

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http://greenandgold.uaa.alaska.edu/podcasts/get.php?web=UAA-Advancement-2011-11-30-95409.mp3

Are you the first in your family to have attended a college or university?  What are the particular challenges, opportunities, responsibilities of those of us who were the first?  Join us for great stories and thoughtful reflection.  The panel is moderated by David Weaver, coordinator of UAA’s MAP-works program and include Marie Lowe of ISER, Shauna Dunn, program manager for Upward Bound, and Dr. EJ David, a UAA psychology professor focusing on postcolonial psychology.

This event is a part of the Center for Community Learning and Engagement’s ENGAGE Week 2011.

The podcast was recorded Oct. 18, 2011.
 

Lyn Freeman offers talk on adapting mind and mood states for optimal health outcomes

Anchorage Attorney Troy Nkrumah on Libya and the Media Blackout

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http://greenandgold.uaa.alaska.edu/podcasts/get.php?web=UAA-Advancement-2011-10-25-96376.mp3Attorney
 
Troy Nkrumah is the President/CEO of the Anchorage Urban League. He is former Chair of the National Hip Hop Political Convention and has traveled extensively throughout Africa having just recently returned from Libya. He has worked for the United Nations at the Rwanda Genocide Tribunals.  His talk at the UAA Campus Bookstore was a Global Opportunities Week event.

This podcast was recorded Sept. 27, 2011.

Arab Spring with Dr. Pablo Blesa

The Arab Spring and Social Media Broadcast on KSKA: Thursday 9/29/11


Dr. Pablo Blesa discusses issues facing the European Union and the Arab world today.  Dr. Blesa is Vice Rector at the Catholic University in Murcia Spain.  This UAA Campus Bookstore  event is sponsored with Office of International Affairs at UAA.

This podcast was recorded on September 22, 2011.

UAA professors share details on their new eye-tracking computer authentication process

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http://greenandgold.uaa.alaska.edu/podcasts/get.php?web=UAA-Advancement-2011-10-26-77942.mp3

UAA Computer Science Professors Bogdan Hoanca and Kenrick Mock have been awarded a patent for their eye tracking software that uses the eye’s iris and gaze to authenticate a user’s access to a computer—essentially the computer sign-on process. They described their work at a UAA Campus Bookstore session.

This podcast was recorded on Tuesday, Sept. 20, 2011.

 


Living and raw foods talk with Jennifer Lynn 

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Learn how eating plant-based, unprocessed foods can make you feel amazing. Join the discussion and experience the “living and raw food” lifestyle with Jennifer Lynn, who will share how easy—and difficult—it is to start living raw today.

Find out all you need to know to eat raw right now including the equipment you’ll need to begin your raw food lifestyle and how to become a raw food gourmet. Raw food samples will be on hand, too.  Jennifer Lynn is a gardener who runs, rides, writes, reads and eats living foods in Anchorage.

This podcast was recorded on July 27, 2011

Poet Tom Sexton presents readings from I Think Again of those Ancient Chinese Poets. 

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July 25, 2011 Tom Sexton.mp3

http://greenandgold.uaa.alaska.edu/podcasts//audio/UAA-Advancement-2010-12-15-14399.mp3


“I Think Again of those Ancient Chinese Poets" is a collection of eight line poems, with 59 to treasure.  It is published by University of Alaska Press and recently has been highlighted in the New York Times Book Review.  Everyone is invited to take pleasure in the beauty in poetic verse at this free event.

Thie event was recorded on July 25, 2011

A Conversation with Poet Linda McCarriston

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Poet, essayist and professor in the MFA graduate program in Creative Writing and Literary Arts Linda McCarriston discusses poetry, writing, class and arts education in the U.S.

This podcast was recorded on July 8, 2011.

Video excerpts of two poetry readings from the event:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vpDzg8gfgg 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjvEDsLymQY.
 



Language Changes - both written and oral-- in Alaska

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Language Changes – both written and oral—in Alaska includes as panelists UAA faculty members D. Roy Mitchell IV (Anthropology); David Bowie (Linguistics), Paul Ongtooguk (College of Education) with special guests Diane Benson (Poet and former candidate for Alaska Lieutenant Governor) and Joan Kane (Poet and recipient of the prestigious national Whiting Writer’s Award). How people express themselves in multilingual environments, how formal English effects that expression, how academic institutions manipulate ways of thinking and expression are some of the themes addressed.

This podcast was recorded on June 7, 2011.

Michihiro Ama presents 'Immigrants to the Pure Land'

Michihiro Ama’s new book, “Immigrants to the Pure Land: The Modernization, Acculturation and Globalization of Shin Buddhism, 1898-1941,” investigates the early period of Jodo Shinshu in Hawaii and the United States sets a new standard for investigating the processes of religious acculturation and a radically new way of thinking about these processes.  Michihiro Ama examines the concept of acculturation, a dual process of both “Japanization” and “Americanization.” Michihiro Ama currently teaches at UAA in the Department of Languages.

This podcast was recorded on April 21, 2011

Indigenous elder teachings on Science, technology and other issues for the 21st Century with Larry Merculieff

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'The Mere Matter of Marching' with Colonel David G. Fitz-Enz

Richie Farrell author and screenwriter

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This podcast was recorded on April 13, 2011.

'The Civil War 150 Years Later'

Mary Ann Poll presents 'Raven's Cove'

Mary Ann Poll moved to Alaska in 1972, spent 25 years working in administration. Writing in a technical capacity became an integral part of her profession. When a severe injury impeded her ability to work, she turned to creative writing. Everyone is invited to meet Mary Ann Poll and learn about mystery writing.

This podcast was recorded on April 5, 2011.

'A Great Disobedience against the People: Japan's Siberian Intervention' with Dr. Paul Dunscomb

Dr. Paul Dunscomb presents, “A Great Disobedience against the People: Japan’s Siberian Intervention, 1918-1922.” Dunscomb is associate professor of East Asian History at the University of Alaska Anchorage and director of UAA’s Confucius Institute. He specializes in the domestic political aspects of Japan’s Siberian Intervention, 1918-1922, Japanese popular culture and the Lost Decade, 1992-2003. His work has appeared in the Journal of Japanese Studies, East-West Connections and Education about Asia.

This podcast was recorded on April 4, 2011.

'Hidden tales of the periodic table' with Sam Kean

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The Psychosocial Treatment of Schizophrenia, panel discussion

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Kathi Trawver leads a panel discussion about the Psychosocial Treatment of Schizophrenia. She is co-editor of the book, “Clinician’s Guide to Evidence-Based Practice: Psychosocial Treatment of Schizophrenia,” published by John Wiley & Son, 2010. Trawver teaches at the UAA School of Social Work and is the Bachelor of Social Work program coordinator. Joining Trawver will be Scott Terranella, MD, a psychiatrist and medical director of Anchorage Community Mental Health and Andrea Schmook, a consumer, consumer advocate, and the director of the peer support program, Wellness Innovations Center.

This podcast was recorded on March 24, 2011.

Julie Rahm presents 'Bessie the Amazing Cow'

Fishing in Bristol Bay: Past, Present and Future

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This podcast was recorded on March 15, 2011.

Don Rearden presents 'Raven's Gift'

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Recorded on February 28, 2011

'Love in the Afternoon'

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This podcast was recorded February 14, 2011

Alaska - Seward's Icebox or a Golden State?

International student from Russia, Irene Toporovskaya, discusses how Alaska left Russia to become a part of the United States.

This podcast was recorded on February 10, 2011.




The Transition to Sustainable Energy

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This podcast was recorded on February 8, 2011.

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Alaska author Sean Schubert presents his book, 'Infection'

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This podcast was recorded on Jananuary 25, 2011.

Dr. Rachel Mason presents 'Return to the Lost Villages of the Aleutians'

During World War II, the Unangan residents of the Aleutian Islands were taken by boat to internment camps in Southeast Alaska. When they returned after the war, the residents of the smallest villages—Kashega, Biorka and Makushin—were not permitted to return home. Instead they were resettled in larger communities.  The residents of Attu were captured by the Japanese and interned in Japan for the remainder of the war.

This presentation reports on boat trips with elderly former residents and their descendants to revisit Makushin in September 2009, and Kashega and Biorka in September 2010.

Dr. Mason will also tell of plans to revisit Attu. Lost Villages of the Aleutians is a project of the National Park Service in partnership with other agencies, including the Ounalashka Corporation and the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service. Dr. Mason is a cultural anthropologist with the Alaska Regional Office, National Park Service.

This podcast was recorded on November 19, 2010




Dr. Diane Hanson presents 'Before Russian Contact, Uncovering the past of Adak Island'

Dr. Diane Hanson is on faculty with the UAA Anthropology Department. This talk was presented as a part of Alaska Native/American Indian Heritage Month 2010 at UAA.

This podcast was recorded on November 18, 2010

Writing My Story: Memoirs of Alaska Native Writers with Lucy Daniels and Burton W. Haviland Jr.

Burton W. Haviland Jr. and Lucy Daniels are both Alaska Native memoir and nonfiction writers published in the anthology Purely Alaska: Authentic Voices from the Far North. Here they discuss their storytelling process. Acting as moderator is Prof. Don Rearden.

This event is sponsored by Alaska Center for the Book, Alaska Native/American Indian History Month (ANAIHM)/Share the Spirit, ANAIHM Committee and UAA Campus Bookstore.

This podcast was recorded November 13, 2010

Atoll: An historical journey to the Central Pacific

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In each location Shiok met with local historians and cultural leaders in an attempt to absorb the atmosphere of the native culture and environment, to understand what effects American military actions had on local populations and to hear contemporary concerns for the future.

A writer, editor and publisher, Jeremy Edward Shiok has lived in Alaska since 2000. He received his Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from the University of Alaska Anchorage in 2003 and has taught in the CWLA Dept at UAA. He is publisher and editor of the literary journal ‘Two Review.’ This event was held in honor of Veterans Day.

This podcast was recorded on Nov.ember 11, 2010.

Two sides of terrorism: Tlingit perspectives of the 1882 Angoon Bombardment

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This podcast was recorded on Nov.ember 10, 2010.  

Sarah Hurst, author of 'A Native Lad,' joined by illustrators for her graphic novel

R.A.F. Bomber Command and the Origins of 'Precision' Air Attack at Night with Professor Will Jacobs

Professor Emeritus Will Jacobs gives a talk on “R.A.F. Bomber Command and the Origins of ‘Precision’ Air Attack at Night.”

The Allied strategic bombing offensives remain a controversial subject in the history of the Second World War. R.A.F. Bomber Command’s attacks on German cities form an important part of those controversies. Less well known is Bomber Command’s development of a capability for “precision” air attack at night in the spring and summer of 1944 to support Operation Overlord, the Allied invasion of France. Jacobs presents a survey of what happened, an examination of how it was accomplished and an assessment of its significance.

This podcast was recorded on November 9, 2010

The History of Aboriginal People and Health Care in Canada

Dr. Laurie Meijer Drees teaches in the First Nations Studies Department at Vancouver Island University. This presentation is based on her research.

Her new book, Healing History: Stories of Canada’s Indian Hospital System features this work. Her talk was a part of 2010 Alaska Native/Native American Heritage Month and Canada Week at UAA.


This podcast was recorded on November  3, 2010.




Panel: Housing First or Sober First: Services for Homeless Alcoholics

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Housing First or Sober First: Services for Homeless Alcoholics is the name of the panel. Everyone is encouraged to attend and listen to the discussion about alcoholism and homelessness in our community. Panelists include Melinda Freemon, director of Homeward Bound; Jim Davis, attorney, Northern Justice Project; Kris Duncan, State Homeless Coordinator, AHFC; and The Rev. Paul Boling, Senior Pastor, First Christian Church. Sponsors of the event are the UAA Campus Bookstore, UAA Human Services Dept. and the HUMS 416 class, “Substance Abuse and the Older Adult.”

This podcast was recorded on October 28, 2010.

Tim Saunders presents Guardians of the Glacier

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Alaska Sci-Fi writer Tim Saunders unveils his new book Guardians of the Glacier. This is a fast-paced, fun story for all ages. Promotional copy for the book reads: “Miracles, magic, and mystery are yours in this adventure with unique beings, amazing technology, majestic geography, worlds within worlds and sensible insights to life.”

Kelsea Habecker reads from Hollow Out

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Kelsea Habecker will read and take questions today at the UAA Campus Bookstore. She is the author of Hallow Out. Of her book, Charles Simic, poet laureate of the United States, has written: “Hallow Out is one of the most moving and original books of poems I have read in years.”


This podcast was recorded on October26, 2010

One of Habecker’s poems:

When weasels are out

after the first snowfall of the year

the elders tell me to walk with my mouth

shut tightly against the rivering wind

or the weasel, an opportunist,

will launch into the current’s lift

toward my dark throat

and tunnel my belly,

hallowing through the meat of me

along the canal to my navel and out

again into the cold blue world of ice

slowly moving toward us.

Renewable Energy Sciences in Iceland: What's New

Jure Vetrsek and David Karabelnikoff share their experiences as grad students at Renewable Energy Sciences in Iceland and discuss the opportunities that renewable energy technologies provide for young professionals and future generations.

This podcast was recorded on October 25, 2010

Poet Anne Coray reads from her latest work, Violet Transparent

Anne Coray is author of several collections of poetry including Bone Strings, and is the co-editor of the anthology Crosscurrents North: Alaskans on the Environment.  She is founder of Northshore Press, a small literary publishing house in rural Alaska, and has published authors from around the nation and Alaska. In 2010, she was a recipient of the Contributions to Literacy in Alaska Awards (CLIA). She read with her husband, Steve Kahn, and mentions his talk following hers.

This podcast was recorded October 13, 20