Arctic Visiting Speakers Series | 2003 Visiting Speaker Tours

Image: Faculty and Students at the 2003 IPSSAS Seminar in Iqaluit, Nunavut,Canada.

Larry Kaplan and Molly Lee join Faculty and Students at the 2003 IPSSAS Seminar in Iqaluit, Nunavut, Canada. This photo was taken in front of the former Hudson's Bay Company store, in APEX, a tiny suburb in the vicinity of Iqaluit.

Listed below are completed tours from the year 2003. The most recently completed are at the top.

If you have any questions regarding these tours, please contact avs@arcus.org.

Arctic Visiting Speakers' Tours 2003
Dates: November 12 - November 15, 2003
Hosts: Patty Gray Ladisch Molly Lee: ffmcl@uaf.edu Host Institutions: Department of Anthropology, University of Alaska Fairbanks http://www.uaf.edu/anthro/ Department of Ethnology, University of Alaska Fairbanks				Visiting Speaker: Kirk Dombrowski John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York http://www.jjay.cuny.edu/ 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
Dates: October 6 – October 9, 2003
Host: Dr. Louise Canfield: lmcanfie@email.arizona.edu Host institution: Native American Cancer Research Partnership				Visiting Speaker: Patricia Cochran Executive Director, Alaska Native Science Commission, Anchorage, Alaska pcochran@aknsc.org http://www.nativescience.org 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.
Dates: September 24 – October 4, 2003
Host: Daqing Yang: ffdy@uaf.edu Dr. Shusun Li Host institution: University of Alaska Fairbanks Water and Environmental Research Center Fairbanks, Alaska http://www.uaf.edu/water/ Geophysical Institute, University of Alaska Fairbanks http://www.gi.alaska.edu/				Visiting Speaker: Dr. Don Cline National Operational Hydrologic Remote Sensing Center, Office of Climate, Water, and Weather Services, National Weather Service, NOAA cline@nohrsc.nws.gov 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.
Dates: May 25 – June 6, 2003
Host: Francois Trudel: francois.trudel@fss.ulaval.ca Host institution: GÉTIC, Laval University, Quebec, Canada http://www.ulaval.ca				Visiting Speakers: Lawrence Kaplan Director, Alaska Native Languages Center, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, Alaska ffldk@uaf.edu http://www.uaf.edu/anlc/ Molly Lee, Associate Professor of Anthropology and Curator of Ethnology and History, University of Alaska Museum, Fairbanks, Alaska ffmcl@uaf.edu 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.
Dates: May 13 – May 18, 2003
Host: Deanna Kingston: deanna.kingston@oregonstate.edu Host Institution: Department of Anthropology, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon http://oregonstate.edu/dept/anthropology/				Visiting Speaker: Lucy Tulugarjuk, Inuit Actress, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada Presentations: 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.
Dates: March 7 – March 17, 2003
Host: Terry Chapin: terry.chapin@uaf.edu Host Institution: Institute of Arctic Biology, University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF), Fairbanks, Alaska http://mercury.bio.uaf.edu/iab/				Visiting Speaker: Susie Crate; Postdoctoral Fellow, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio crates@muohio.edu Presentations: 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.