2004 All Arctic Visiting Speaker Tours
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2004 Tours
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During the first two weeks of November 2004, Arto Rinne traveled around New England making school appearances, lecturing, and performing with members of his quartet. Arto Rinne and his ensemble are noted musicians whose scholarly and artistic expertise in folk instruments ranges from constructing their own instruments to innovation on traditional tunes. The Finnish Literature Society has recognized Rinne for his contributions to Karelian folk culture.
The tour involved presentations for youth at seven elementary and middle schools in both Vermont and Maine. Rinne, along with members of his quartet, Sattuma, also presented a Karelian music class, dance concert, as well as multiple public performances in Vermont, Maine, Massachusetts, and Washington, D.C.
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During October 2004, Dr. Arthur Mason traveled from his home in Berkeley, California, USA to present multiple lectures at universities in Copenhagen, Denmark and Nuuk, Greenland.
Dr. Mason presented a two-part lecture examining the genealogy of communal heritage work within the region of Kodiak, Alaska. He discussed the linkages between this work and the topics associated with Native land claim issues, self-governance, capitalism, and the state. He also compared and contrasted how these issues relate on a circum-Arctic scale.
Dr. Mason's public lectures investigated Arctic, as well as non-Arctic, ethnography to address a topic of wide significance, specifically, how catastrophic events affect the way groups of people establish order, stability, and a sense of continuity.
In addition, Dr. Mason participated in a roundtable discussion together with colleague teachers and Ph.D. students analyzing students' dissertations and seminar papers. The seminar gave participants the opportunity to take part in a general discussion on the relationship between heritage making and globalization.
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Over the course of two weeks in September 2004, Alaskan author Charles Wohlforth spoke at the New Bedford Whaling Museum, Yale, Oregon State University, and the University of Washington. Wohlforth’s discussions and accompanying slide show presentations at these institutions focused on his new book "The Whale and the Supercomputer: On the Northern Front of Climate Change."
Based on first hand experience, his talks described how the Eskimo whalers and scientific researchers of Barrow, Alaska perceive and respond to a changing Arctic environment.
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Dr. Mark W. Williams is traveling from Boulder, CO to Alaska. He will be visiting the University of Alaska Southeast, where he will lecture on science, policy and community response to land use codes in the San Miguel River area in Colorado.
After three days in Juneau, Dr. Williams will travel to Fairbanks to meet with students and researchers at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. While in Fairbanks, Dr. Williams will present two talks on hydrochemistry and snow distribution.
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Aaju Peter is traveling from Nunavut to Vermont. Currently Aaju is attending Akitsiraq Law School at Arctic College and collects traditional legal practices for the Nunavut Department of Justice. She will be presenting and performing at the Center for Northern Studies. Her lectures will be centered around Inuit Culture. Aaju will be singing and drumming for the community.
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Dr. Slaughter is traveling from Idaho to Alaska to present at a workshop on dangerous ice. Dr. Slaughter is one of the world's foremost authorities on aufeis formation and the related physics. He will also presenting to the public about snow and permafrost as well as working with local schools.
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Dr. Williams is traveling to Vermont. He has done doctoral research in northern Finland where he concentrated on reindeer herding communities and the role of the Saami craft tradition in those communities.
He will be conducting a series of workshops and presentations, including a two-day knife-making workshop, at the Center for Northern Studies.