UAA Bookstore events for September 2018

All UAA Campus Bookstore events are free and open to the public. Free parking is available for all bookstore events. See below to learn what's happening this September.

Daniel Lee Henry presents Across the Shaman's River: John Muir, the Tlingit Stronghold and the Opening of the North Thursday, Sept. 6, 4-6 p.m. UAA Campus Bookstore

Across the Shaman's River examines what happened when a great Tlingit community, one closed off from intruders for over a century, encountered naturalist and explorer John Muir. By researching John Muir's journal entries, historic writings of explorers, and interviewing Tlingit elders and tribal descendants, author Daniel Lee Henry reveals how the early principles of land conservation and Christianity had profound consequences for the Tlingit people and led to a policy that would ultimately dispossess Tlingit peoples, and other Alaska Native peoples, from their ancestral lands.

Daniel Henry is an instructor at Lane Community College in Eugene, Ore., and the founder of the Alaska Native Oratory Society. An educator, writer, and broadcaster, he became acquainted with local Tlingit culture when he moved to Haines, Alaska in 1983.

Dr. Daniel Wang-Yi Jiao presents Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) Nutrition Guidelines for Prevention and Treatment of Cancer and a Cultural Herb Food Workshop Friday, Sept. 7 Noon-2 p.m. (lecture); 3-5 p.m. (workshop) UAA Campus Bookstore

Dr. Daniel Wang-Yi Jiao is Doctor of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine (DAOM) at the American College of Traditional Chinese Medicine. He is a graduate from Beijing University and received his DAOM from American College of Traditional Chinese Medicine (ACTCM) in 2009. For nine years, he served as commissioner and chair for the National Certification Commission for Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine and served for twelve years on the board of directors for ACTCM.

Everyone is encouraged to attend these events and learn about TCM theories and their contemporary application to health care. Both sessions are free and sponsored with the UAA Confucius Institute.

Mikko Sumulong presents Pressed Flower Workshop Monday, Sept. 10, 1-2:30 p.m. UAA Campus Bookstore

Mikko Sumulong is co-author of the book, Nature Art Workshop, and currently teaches private pressed flower art workshops. A crafter, writer, weaver, and typeface designer, her work has been featured on Craftgawker and Cut Out & Keep. Also, Mikko Sumulong's handwritten fonts have appeared on book covers, billboards, and movie trailers. Check out her amazing website Mix Fonts, Handwritten Fonts at mixfonts.com.

Textbook Affordability Tuesday, Sept. 11, 12:30-2 p.m. UAA Campus Bookstore

Dr. Veronica Howard (UAA Department of Psychology.), Monte Burton (UAA Bookstore Textbook Manager), Lorelei Sterling (UAA/APU Consortium Library Reserves Librarian), and Dr. Rachael Hannah (UAA Department of Biological Sciences) come together to discuss textbook affordability and choices. The panel will discuss where the costs originate, unexpected sources of higher textbook costs, strategies to reduce costs and improve access to educational materials, and how partnership between students, faculty, Consortium Library faculty, and the UAA Bookstore can reduce the cost of textbooks.

Dr. Fred E. Woods presents Melting the Ice: A History of Latter-day Saints in Alaska Wednesday, Sept. 12, 4-6 p.m. UAA Campus Bookstore

Dr. Fred E. Woods discusses his book Melting the Ice and the history of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Alaska, including Mormon migration.

According to Ross A. Coen, editor of Alaska History, "Alaska has one of the highest per capita populations of Latter-day Saints of any state in the nation, yet no scholarly history has been written about the LDS Church in the Last Frontier. Until now. Fred Woods's Melting the Ice is an engrossing read about how many dedicated individuals have contributed to the social and spiritual development of Alaska."

Fred E. Woods completed a B.S. degree in psychology and M.S. degree in international relations from Brigham Young University. In 1991, he earned a Ph.D. in Middle East Studies from the University of Utah with an emphasis in Hebrew Bible. He has been a BYU professor in the department of Church History & Doctrine since 1998.

Note: Fred E. Woods will be a guest speaker at the Alaska Historical Society Conference in Nome.

Delisa Renidio presents The Barefoot Gardener In The Kitchen Cookbook Thursday, Sept. 13, 1-2:30 p.m. UAA Campus Bookstore

Delisa Renido discusses her new cookbook and demonstrates how to prepare delicious plant-based recipes.

The Barefoot Gardener in the Kitchen Cookbook contains 132 plant-based recipes for people who want to be slim and healthy and who love to eat. With color photographs, the cookbook highlights the use of whole plant foods that support optimal health and vitality.

Delisa Renido, a former RN, holds a certificate in plant-based nutrition from Cornell University and is a certified life coach, skilled in using EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique). In addition, she has been an important contributor to the Food for Life Course for Diabetes Prevention & Reversal. An avid organic gardener, Delisa Renido lives near Wasilla, Alaska, and feels more at home with her hands in the dirt than almost anywhere else.

Poets Jon Davis and Joan Kane present Skills, Prosody, and Wildness in the Academy Friday, Sept. 14, 1-2:30 p.m. UAA Campus Bookstore

How is everything poetry while nothing is poetry? How does teaching others govern one's own creative process? Are poets different from writers of other genres? These questions coupled with poetry readings are the focus of this unusual literary event where taking in poems makes poems.

Jon Davis is the author of four full-length poetry collections-Improbable Creatures, Preliminary Report, Scrimmage of Appetite, and Dangerous Amusements; five chapbooks; and Heteronymy: An Anthology. Davis also co-translated Iraqi poet Naseer Hassan's Dayplaces. He has received a Lannan Literary Award in Poetry, the Lavan Prize from the Academy of American Poets, the Off the Grid Poetry Prize, and two NEA Fellowships. After teaching for 27 years, he founded the MFA in Creative Writing at the Institute of American Indian Arts and directed it from 2013-2018. David Foster Wallace referred to Jon Davis's poems as being "off-the-charts terrific!"

Alaska poet Joan Naviyuk Kane is the author of The Cormorant Hunter's Wife, Hyperboreal, The Straits, Milk Black Carbon, A Few Lines in the Manifest, and Sublingual. She is the recipient of a Whiting Writer's Award, the Donald Hall Prize in Poetry, and numerous fellowships. A Harvard National Scholar, she became 2018 Guggenheim Fellow in 2018.

The Lives of Spanish Speaking People in Anchorage Tuesday, Sept. 18, 4-6 p.m. UAA Campus Bookstore

This event brings attention to the lives of Spanish speaking people in Anchorage. Panelist include Nicolas A. Olano, attorney; Lina Mariscal and Danny Esparza, co-founders of the bilingual newspaper Sol de Medianoche; and Dr. Irasema Ortega, associate professor of science education at UAA. How each of us can better nurture Anchorage will be addressed.

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

UA is an AA/EO employer and educational institution and prohibits illegal discrimination against any individual: www.alaska.edu/nondiscrimination

For a peak at future events, see the bookstore event calendar.

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