Evening at Egan series kicks off Oct. 2

This year marks the 15th season for the annual Evening at Egan fall lecture series at the University of Alaska Southeast Auke Lake campus. The series begins the first Friday in October and runs for eight consecutive weeks through the week before Thanksgiving.

All events are scheduled for 7 p.m. at the Egan Library and simulcast on UATV Cable Channel 11 or live via Flash streaming video. (http://uatv.alaska.edu/livestream.html). The schedule, including presenter photos is at http://www.uas.alaska.edu/eganlecture/.

Here is the full line-up:

 

Oct. 2: “Ethnographic Film and the North: A History in Three Acts,” with Leonard Kamerling, Filmmaker. This illustrated talk will look at the evolution of ethnographic film in the North, examining almost a century of cultural filmmaking, from early expedition travelogues to the blossoming of a Northern indigenous cinema.

 

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Oct. 9: “Assimilation – A play by Jack Dalton,” with Jack Dalton, Alaska Native Storyteller, Teacher, Playwright, Actor. This play presents a dystopian alternate reality, in which three white students are wards of the Paimiut Boarding School in the Inuit province of Alaska. A tyrant Yup’ik Elder runs the school, and the goal is assimilation of the whites into Native culture.

 

Oct. 16: “A Wolf Called Romeo,” with Nick Jans, Author. Alaska writer and photographer Nick Jans will trace the story of Romeo, Juneau’s black wolf, through a narrated slide show, short video clips, and readings from his bestselling book, “A Wolf Called Romeo.”

 

Oct. 23: JWAC/UAS Panel on Water, with Stephen McCaffrey, McGeorge School of Law, University of the Pacific. This presentation will examine whether international law is up to the task of preventing and resolving disputes over water. Part of the Juneau World Affairs Council annual forum, The Politics of Water.

 

Oct. 30: “Strengthening the Spirit of Collaboration,” with Kathleen Macferran and Jared Finkelstein, Center for Nonviolent Communication. Kathleen Macferran and Jared Finkelstein will share practical processes focuses on collaboration.

 

Nov. 6: “An Animate World,” with Ernestine Hayes, Assistant Professor of English. Author of the 2015-16 One Campus One Book selection, “Blonde Indian: An Alaska Native Memoir,” Hayes will read and discuss her book and explore the theme of the animistic worldview that is such a part of Tlingit being yet somehow dislocated or dismissed by other cultures.

 

Nov. 13: “A Fulbright Scholar in Israel,” with Sherry Tamone, Professor of Biology. Professor Sherry Tamone was awarded a Fulbright Scholar Research Award to study crustacean biology in Israel for four months. The presentation will highlight the important role of the Fulbright program for supporting research, teaching, and cultural exchange.

 

Nov. 20 : “Haa Yoo Xh’atángi Káxh Kulagaawú,” with Lance (Xh’unei) Twitchell, Assistant Professor of Alaska Native Languages: A film documenting the work and lives of Richard and Nora Dauenhauer and celebrating Tlinigit language revitalization. If the film is not ready for screening, there will be an alternate presentation on Alaska Native Languages and Culture

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