DOMBROWSKI Arctic Visiting Speaker Tours
If you have any questions regarding these tours, please contact avs@arcus.org.
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2013 Tours
Summary:
Kirk Dombrowski traveled to Providence, RI to work with colleagues at the Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology at Brown University from 27-28 February 2013. En-route from New York, he stopped at the Collections Research Center in Bristol, RI to tour the Museum's Arctic Collections and visit with museum staff. Following that, he continued on to campus where he gave a public lecture on "Understanding Arctic Communities on the Brink of Self-Governance". At this presentation, Dr. Dombrowski discussed the results of research by an anthropology team in the new indigenous autonomous area of Nunatsiavut, located in Labrador, Canada. After the presentation, Dr. Dombrowski attended a public reception and dinner with faculty, staff and friends. The following day, Dr. Dombrowski led a Brown Bag Lunch Seminar entitled "Reaching 'Hard-to-Reach' populations for research in Anthropology, Sociology, and Public Health" before he departed for his return to New York.
2003 Tours
Summary:
Presentations
Professor Dombrowski is traveling from New York to Alaska. He will be conducting a series of presentations focused on his research in Alaska Native issues. Some of his recent articles include:
- The Praxis of Indigenism and Alaska Native Timber Politics (American Anthropologist)
- Billy Budd, Choker Setter: Native Culture and Indian Work in the Southeast Alaska Timber Industry. (In the journal International Labor and Working Class History)
- Lifestyle and Livelihood: The Politics of Subsistence, Native Identity and Internal Differentiation in Southeast Alaska (Forthcoming in the journal Human Ecology.)
The following seminars are scheduled:
- UA Museum sponsored public lecture at Noel Wien Library, Thursday at Noon
- Northern Peoples and Contemporary Issues class, Thursday evening
- Anthropology Department Colloquium, Friday afternoon
- KUAC-FM Radio interview
- Fairbanks Daily News-Miner interview (Thursday afternoon)
- Individual meetings with graduate students studying Alaska Native issues