March 2016 events at the UAA Campus Bookstore

by Michelle Saport  |   

The UAA Campus Bookstore actively organizes special free events in order to promote expression and engaged discussion within the UAA and Anchorage communities. See below for the complete March schedule of events. For more information, visit the bookstore website or contact Rachel Epstein at repstein2@uaa.alaska.edu or (907) 786-4782.

Eric Odle presents 'Misconceptions about Japan' Monday, March 21, 5-7 p.m. UAA Campus Bookstore

Eric Odle shares his experiences and insights into understanding the Japan of today. Everyone is encouraged to come learn about the Japan not depicted in American media. Joining Eric will be Yasuhito Nakasato, an experienced Japanese-English interpreter.

Eric Odle received a bachelor's degree in biology from St. Louis University and graduated from UAA with a degree in Japanese. He has been working as a Japanese-English translator in Japan for the past three years. While teaching English and acting as a medical interpreter, he founded Borealis Translations, a document translation business.

Yasuhito Nakasato, born and raised in Tokyo, came to Alaska in 2010 to study art at UAA. For the past three years, he has worked for UAA Student Activities as a graphic designer. His creative expression promotes numerous events on and off campus for the UAA community.

This event is sponsored by Borealis Translations and the UAA Campus Bookstore. There is free parking for this event in the South Lot, Sports Complex NW Lot, West Campus Central Lot and Sports Campus West Lot.

Thomas H. Cox presents 'Money, Credit, and Strong Friends: Warren Delano, Hong Kong Merchants, and Commercial Culture in Qing Dynasty China' Tuesday, March 22, 12-1:30 p.m. UAA Campus Bookstore

At this event, Thomas H. Cox explores Warren Delano's career and the complicated relations between early American, British and Chinese merchants that formed the basis for future U.S. foreign policy toward Asia.

Warren Delano II, the maternal grandfather of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, was one of the most successful early American maritime traders in China. Although he openly supported the British war effort during the First Opium War, he discreetly traded with Hong Kong merchants and condemned British naval attacks on Chinese ports. As U.S. Vice-Counsel, Delano negotiated with the British for the return of Canton to China and helped secure the Treaty of Wangxia, the first U.S.-Chinese diplomatic agreement. Then, in the 1860s, he worked with British and Chinese partners to pursue opium profits in Hong Kong.

Dr. Thomas H. Cox is associate professor of history at Sam Houston State University. He earned an M.A. and Ph.D. in history from State University of New York at Buffalo. He is the author of Gibbons v. Ogden: Law, and Society in the Early Republic.

This event is sponsored with the UAA Confucius Institute. There is free parking for this event in the South Lot, Sports Complex NW Lot, West Campus Central Lot , Sports Campus West Lot.

Tony and Sally Urvina present 'More Than God Demands' Tuesday, March 22, 5-7 p.m. UAA Campus Bookstore

The book More Than God Demands: Politics and Influence of Christian Missions in Northwest Alaska, 1897-1918 has recently been published by University of Alaska Press.

About More Than God Demands: Near the turn of the twentieth century, the territorial government of Alaska put its support behind a project led by Christian missionaries to convert Alaska Native peoples-and, along the way, bring them into "civilized" American citizenship. Establishing missions in a number of areas inhabited by Alaska Natives, the program was an explicit attempt to erase ten thousand years of Native culture and replace it with Christianity and an American frontier ethic.

Anthony Urvina, whose mother was an orphan raised at one of the missions established as part of this program, draws on details from her life in order to present the first full history of this missionary effort. Smoothly combining personal and regional history, he tells the story of his mother's experience amid a fascinating account of Alaska Native life and of the men and women who came to Alaska to spread the word of Christ, confident in their belief and unable to see the power of the ancient traditions they aimed to supplant.

Anthony Urvina has lived in Alaska for more than thirty years and worked for the Bureau of Indian Affairs. Sally Urvina is a retired nurse practitioner who has worked in Alaska for thirty years.

There is free parking for this event in the South Lot, Sports Complex NW Lot, West Campus Central Lot and Sports Campus West Lot.

Chef Vern Wolfram: It's Chocolate time Wednesday, March 23, 1-2 p.m. UAA Campus Bookstore

UAA Culinary Arts and Hospitality's Chef Vern Wolfram demonstrates the joy of making and eating chocolate. A variety of chocolate samples will be served as Chef Vern's apprentices join him in creating chocolate delicacies.

This event is free and open to the public. Friends are welcome too. Free parking for this event is available in the South Lot, Sports Complex NW Lot, West Campus Central Lot and Sports Campus West Lot.

Stephen Haycox presents 'Battleground Alaska: Fighting Federal Power in America's Last Wilderness' Thursday, March 24, 5-7 p.m. UAA Campus Bookstore

In Battleground Alaska: Fighting Federal Power in America's Last Wilderness, Stephen Haycox critiques four critical environmental battles within Alaska and explains how "Alaska's economy depends as much on absentee corporate exploitation of its natural resources, particularly oil, as it does on federal spending." His analysis focuses on the establishment of the ANWR is the 1950s; the construction of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline in the 1970s; the passage of the Alaska National Interests Lands Conservation Act in 1980; and the struggle that culminated in the Tongass Timber Reform Act of 1990.

Stephen W. Haycox is Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of Alaska Anchorage. He is the author of many works, including Alaska: An American Colony and Frigid Embrace: Politics, Economics and Environment in Alaska.

There is free parking for this event in the South Lot, Sports Complex NW Lot, West Campus Central Lot and Sports Campus West Lot.

'Life & Times at the Port of Anchorage 1958-1989' with Historian J. Pennelope Goforth Saturday, March 26, 1-3 p.m. UAA Campus Bookstore

J. Pennelope Goforth discusses the history of the Port of Anchorage and her project to catalog, preserve and digitize Port of Anchorage historical documents.

J. Pennelope Goforth is founder of SeaCat Explorations: Adventures in Alaska's Maritime History. She is author of Sailing the Mail in Alaska: The Maritime Years of Alaska Photographer John E. Thwaite, and is currently writing a book about the Alaska Commercial Co. business ledgers and logbooks from several villages in the Aleutians that she discovered in Seattle.

Everyone is encouraged to attend this event. There is free parking at UAA on Saturdays.

David Holthouse presents 'The Weird Turn Pro' Tuesday, March 29, 5-7 p.m. UAA Campus Bookstore

Alaska journalist, playwright and documentary-maker David Holthouse shares his work; discusses finding, reporting and writing stories; and fields questions. Everyone is invited to come hear how writing goes "when the going gets weird, the weird turn pro."

There is free parking for this event in the South Lot, Sports Complex NW Lot, West Campus Central Lot and Sports Campus West Lot.

Di Gao presents 'Confucius' Perspective on Morality' Wednesday, March 30, 5-7 p.m. UAA Campus Bookstore

Di Gao is a professor in the Center for Ideological and Political Education at Northeast Normal University, China. He has translated the book, The Development of Social Knowledge: Morality and Convention by Elliot Turiel and is the author of Research on Socialist Core Values of Chinese Communist Party (People's Publishing House, 2013).

Currently, he is a visiting scholar in the field of children's social and moral development and education at the Graduate School of Education, UC Berkeley.

This event is co-sponsored by the UAA Campus Bookstore and UAA Confucius Institute.

There is free parking for this event in the South Lot, Sports Complex NW Lot, West Campus Central Lot and Sports Campus West Lot.

For more information, contact Rachel Epstein at repstein2@uaa.alaska.edu or (907) 786-4782.

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