2003 All Arctic Visiting Speaker Tours

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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
2003 Tours
Dates: 12 November 2003 - 15 November 2003
Visiting Speaker: Kirk Dombrowski
Kirk Dombrowski
Host(s):
Patty Gray Ladisch

Summary:

Presentations

Patricia Cochran worked with the Native American Cancer Research Partnership, the University of Arizona, and the Arizona Cancer Center by helping them in the design and implementation of their community based research initiative. Her work was highlighted in the local newspaper. She was involved in the following activities:

  • Seminar for Native American students on opportunities in community health care.
  • Seminar for NACRP faculty and staff on history and organization of ANKN.
  • Met with key officials at NAU, NACRP, UA and the AZCC to discuss statewide coordination of research in Native communities in the Southwest based on ANKN's success in statewide coordination of community research in Alaska.
  • Consulted with key officers at NAU, UA and the AZCC on diversity in faculty and student recruitment and retention, and health care.
2003 Tours
Dates: 6 October 2003 - 9 October 2003
Visiting Speaker: Patricia Cochran
Patricia Cochran
Host Institution(s): Native American Cancer Research Partnership

Summary:

Presentations

Dr. Cline traveled from Minnesota to Alaska. He conducted seminars at University of Alaska Fairbanks - Water and Environmental Resource Center, Geophysical Institute, and International Arctic Research Center. The following public seminars occured:

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 1
Noon - 401 IARC
IARC/Frontier Seminar
The NASA Cold Land Processes Field Experiment (CLPX)

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 2
3:30 p.m. - Elvey Auditorium, Geophysical Institute
Geophysical Institute Seminar
The Cold Land Processes Pathfinder Mission (CLPP)

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 3
3:30 p.m. - 531 Duckering
Water and Environmental Research Center Seminar
National Snow Analyses: New Capabilities and Challenges

In addition to the seminars, Dr. Cline was interviewed by KUAC, the local university radio station, and met with graduate students.

2003 Tours
Dates: 24 September 2003 - 4 October 2003
Visiting Speaker: Don Cline
Host(s):
Dr. Shusun Li

Summary:

Presentations

Both Kaplan and Lee traveled from Alaska to Iqaluit, Nunavut, Canada, to present at the IPSSAA 2003 Seminar (International Ph.D. School for Studies of Arctic Societies). Both speakers are experts in the fields of research considered to be of central importance to arctic societies, the first in language and culture and the second, in material culture, art, and ethnohistory.

Larry Kaplan presented on "Inuit Snow Terms: how many or what does it mean?" He also had extensive meetings with Inuktitut teachers at the Nunavut Arctic College, as well as with the NAC president and local community members. He was also interviewed by CBC reporter, Patricia Bell.

Molly Lee presented two lectures at the IPSSAS and met with numerous students and Faculty. She also met with staff from the Iqaluit Museum to discuss the art of baleen basket making and a workshop for the museum and college. She also met with local artists to discuss marketing art on the Internet.

2003 Tours
Dates: 25 May 2003 - 6 June 2003
Visiting Speaker: Lawrence Kaplan
Host(s): Francois Trudel

Summary:

Presentations

Both Kaplan and Lee traveled from Alaska to Iqaluit, Nunavut, Canada, to present at the IPSSAA 2003 Seminar (International Ph.D. School for Studies of Arctic Societies). Both speakers are experts in the fields of research considered to be of central importance to arctic societies, the first in language and culture and the second, in material culture, art, and ethnohistory.

Larry Kaplan presented on "Inuit Snow Terms: how many or what does it mean?" He also had extensive meetings with Inuktitut teachers at the Nunavut Arctic College, as well as with the NAC president and local community members. He was also interviewed by CBC reporter, Patricia Bell.

Molly Lee presented two lectures at the IPSSAS and met with numerous students and Faculty. She also met with staff from the Iqaluit Museum to discuss the art of baleen basket making and a workshop for the museum and college. She also met with local artists to discuss marketing art on the Internet.

2003 Tours
Dates: 25 May 2003 - 6 June 2003
Visiting Speaker: Molly Lee
Host(s): Francois Trudel

Summary:

Lucy Tulugarjuk presented to various campus audiences on visual anthropology as well as at the Speaking to the 7th Generation, Annual Conference on Native American Language Revitalization. She was also present at the showing of the film, Atanarjuat – The Fast Runner, in which she played the character, "Puja". The film is an Inuit-produced, Inuit-acted, Inuit-written film. She was invited to speak about her experiences in making the film and how she views the film as contributing to the preservation of her language and culture.

2003 Tours
Dates: 13 May 2003 - 18 May 2003
Visiting Speaker: Lucy Tulugarjuk
Host(s): Deanna Kingston

Summary:

Susie Crate presented to a variety of audiences about her research with the Sakha people whom inhabit a subarctic region in northeast Siberia, Russia. She presented at the Anthropology Colloquium Series at UAF, the IGERT classes at UAF, and at Joy Elementary School in Fairbanks.

2003 Tours
Dates: 7 March 2003 - 17 March 2003
Visiting Speaker: Susan Crate
Susan Crate
Host(s): Terry Chapin