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--- SPEAKER BY NAME --- ALIA, Valerie BASKIN, Leonid BELOOUSSOVA, Ekaterina BILLSON, Janet Mancini BRET-HARTE, Syndonia BROADBENT, Noel D. BURNS, William CAHILL, Charles CLINE, Don COCHRAN, Patricia CORELL, Robert CRATE, Susan A. CRUMP, John DARBY, Dennis DE VROEDE, Jan DOMBROWSKI, Kirk FORMAN, Steven FEELY, Richard GLENN, Richard GORDON. Bryan GRADINGER, Rolf GRANTZ, Arthur GRIKUROV, Garrik E. HELENIAK, Timothy HUNTINGTON, Henry HUNTINGTON, Orville HUSKEY, Lee IL'INSKII, Vladimir V. IPELLIE, Alootook IRNIQ, Peter T. KELLER, Andrew M. KELLY, Brendan P. KLEIN, David R. KOIVUROVA, Timo KOKORIS, Moki KOZLOV, Mikhail LOBO, Susan LYBERTH, Angaangaq MACNAB, Ron MCGHEE, Robert MCROY, C. Peter MUKASA, Samuel B. MERCULIEFF, Larry OKKONEN, Steve OSGOOD DANA, Kathleen PACI, Christopher PAPUSHA, Alexander Nickolaevich POMEROY, John PUNGOWIYI, Caleb PUTILOV, Arcady A. RINNE, Arto ROBINSON, David A. ROE, Stephen SCHNEIDER, William SFORMO, Todd SMITH, Frank TAPE, Ken WENDLING, Neesha WILSON, Elana WOHLFORTH, Charles WOO, Ming-ko YANG, Daqing ZHANG, Tingjun ZARNKE, Randall L ZIKER, John

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Valerie Alia, Ph.D.
Reader in Media Ethics and Culture
ADM, Forster Building
University of Sunderland
Sunderland, U.K. SR1 3SD
Phone: +44 (0) 191-510 (office)
Email: valerie.alia@sunderland.ac.uk

Dr. Valerie Alia was the inaugural Distinguished Professor of Canadian Culture at Western Washington University, Bellingham and is currently Reader in Media Ethics and Culture at the University of Sunderland, England and an Associate of the Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge.

Dr. Alia is an award-winning scholar, poet and photographer and the author of Un/Covering the North: News, Media, and Aboriginal people and Names, Numbers and Northern Policy: Inuit, Project Surname, and the Politics of Identity. She has worked as a reporter and arts critic for newspapers and magazines in Boston, New York, Vermont and Canada, and has presented and produced programs on arts and Arctic subjects, for local, regional and national regional radio and television stations in the U.S. and Canada.

Her research interests are in northern indigenous media and media ethics; identity, politics and culture; Inuit naming traditions and the history of government, missionary and other identity policies and impacts. She has 30 years of experience in presenting to community audiences, on TV and radio, and in various academic settings. She has a B.A. in English Literature and Social Sciences from the University of Cincinnati, an M.A. in Comparative Literature from Michigan State University, and a Ph.D. in Social and Political Thought from York University.

Dr. Alia is interested in the Speakers’ program because she “…always enjoys bringing this material into discussions with different communities; helping to broaden the base of understanding of some of the issues surrounding Arctic and subarctic media, media representations by and about Arctic indigenous people(s), naming and other cultural traditions and identity politics; and engaging in mutually rewarding dialogue.”

• Un-Covering the North: indigenous media today
• Changing representations of Northern peoples
• Journalism ethics and the Arctic
• Nunavut, where names never die
• Arctic history and the politics of naming

She is not available for presentations from mid-October through November and mid-January through March.