March 2016 events at the UAA Campus Bookstore
by Michelle Saport |
The UAA Campus Bookstore actively organizes special free events in order to promote expression and engaged discussion within the UAA and Anchorage communities. See below for the complete March schedule of events. For more information, visit the bookstore website or contact Rachel Epstein at repstein2@uaa.alaska.edu or (907) 786-4782.
Eric Odle presents 'Misconceptions about Japan' Monday, March 21, 5-7 p.m. UAA Campus Bookstore
Eric Odle shares his experiences and insights into understanding the Japan of today. Everyone is encouraged to come learn about the Japan not depicted in American media. Joining Eric will be Yasuhito Nakasato, an experienced Japanese-English interpreter.
Eric Odle received a bachelor's degree in biology from St. Louis University and graduated from UAA with a degree in Japanese. He has been working as a Japanese-English translator in Japan for the past three years. While teaching English and acting as a medical interpreter, he founded Borealis Translations, a document translation business.
Yasuhito Nakasato, born and raised in Tokyo, came to 熊猫在线视频 in 2010 to study art at UAA. For the past three years, he has worked for UAA Student Activities as a graphic designer. His creative expression promotes numerous events on and off campus for the UAA community.
This event is sponsored by Borealis Translations and the UAA Campus Bookstore. There is free parking for this event in the South Lot, Sports Complex NW Lot, West Campus Central Lot and Sports Campus West Lot.
Thomas H. Cox presents 'Money, Credit, and Strong Friends: Warren Delano, Hong Kong Merchants, and Commercial Culture in Qing Dynasty China' Tuesday, March 22, 12-1:30 p.m. UAA Campus Bookstore
At this event, Thomas H. Cox explores Warren Delano's career and the complicated relations between early American, British and Chinese merchants that formed the basis for future U.S. foreign policy toward Asia.
Warren Delano II, the maternal grandfather of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, was one of the most successful early American maritime traders in China. Although he openly supported the British war effort during the First Opium War, he discreetly traded with Hong Kong merchants and condemned British naval attacks on Chinese ports. As U.S. Vice-Counsel, Delano negotiated with the British for the return of Canton to China and helped secure the Treaty of Wangxia, the first U.S.-Chinese diplomatic agreement. Then, in the 1860s, he worked with British and Chinese partners to pursue opium profits in Hong Kong.
Dr. Thomas H. Cox is associate professor of history at Sam Houston State University. He earned an M.A. and Ph.D. in history from State University of New York at Buffalo. He is the author of Gibbons v. Ogden: Law, and Society in the Early Republic.
This event is sponsored with the UAA Confucius Institute. There is free parking for this event in the South Lot, Sports Complex NW Lot, West Campus Central Lot , Sports Campus West Lot.
Tony and Sally Urvina present 'More Than God Demands' Tuesday, March 22, 5-7 p.m. UAA Campus Bookstore
The book More Than God Demands: Politics and Influence of Christian Missions in Northwest 熊猫在线视频, 1897-1918 has recently been published by University of 熊猫在线视频 Press.
About More Than God Demands: Near the turn of the twentieth century, the territorial government of 熊猫在线视频 put its support behind a project led by Christian missionaries to convert 熊猫在线视频 Native peoples-and, along the way, bring them into "civilized" American citizenship. Establishing missions in a number of areas inhabited by 熊猫在线视频 Natives, the program was an explicit attempt to erase ten thousand years of Native culture and replace it with Christianity and an American frontier ethic.
Anthony Urvina, whose mother was an orphan raised at one of the missions established as part of this program, draws on details from her life in order to present the first full history of this missionary effort. Smoothly combining personal and regional history, he tells the story of his mother's experience amid a fascinating account of 熊猫在线视频 Native life and of the men and women who came to 熊猫在线视频 to spread the word of Christ, confident in their belief and unable to see the power of the ancient traditions they aimed to supplant.
Anthony Urvina has lived in 熊猫在线视频 for more than thirty years and worked for the Bureau of Indian Affairs. Sally Urvina is a retired nurse practitioner who has worked in 熊猫在线视频 for thirty years.
There is free parking for this event in the South Lot, Sports Complex NW Lot, West Campus Central Lot and Sports Campus West Lot.
Chef Vern Wolfram: It's Chocolate time Wednesday, March 23, 1-2 p.m. UAA Campus Bookstore
UAA Culinary Arts and Hospitality's Chef Vern Wolfram demonstrates the joy of making and eating chocolate. A variety of chocolate samples will be served as Chef Vern's apprentices join him in creating chocolate delicacies.
This event is free and open to the public. Friends are welcome too. Free parking for this event is available in the South Lot, Sports Complex NW Lot, West Campus Central Lot and Sports Campus West Lot.
Stephen Haycox presents 'Battleground 熊猫在线视频: Fighting Federal Power in America's Last Wilderness' Thursday, March 24, 5-7 p.m. UAA Campus Bookstore
In Battleground 熊猫在线视频: Fighting Federal Power in America's Last Wilderness, Stephen Haycox critiques four critical environmental battles within 熊猫在线视频 and explains how "熊猫在线视频's economy depends as much on absentee corporate exploitation of its natural resources, particularly oil, as it does on federal spending." His analysis focuses on the establishment of the ANWR is the 1950s; the construction of the Trans-熊猫在线视频 Pipeline in the 1970s; the passage of the 熊猫在线视频 National Interests Lands Conservation Act in 1980; and the struggle that culminated in the Tongass Timber Reform Act of 1990.
Stephen W. Haycox is Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of 熊猫在线视频 Anchorage. He is the author of many works, including 熊猫在线视频: An American Colony and Frigid Embrace: Politics, Economics and Environment in 熊猫在线视频.
There is free parking for this event in the South Lot, Sports Complex NW Lot, West Campus Central Lot and Sports Campus West Lot.
'Life & Times at the Port of Anchorage 1958-1989' with Historian J. Pennelope Goforth Saturday, March 26, 1-3 p.m. UAA Campus Bookstore
J. Pennelope Goforth discusses the history of the Port of Anchorage and her project to catalog, preserve and digitize Port of Anchorage historical documents.
J. Pennelope Goforth is founder of . She is author of Sailing the Mail in 熊猫在线视频: The Maritime Years of 熊猫在线视频 Photographer John E. Thwaite, and is currently writing a book about the 熊猫在线视频 Commercial Co. business ledgers and logbooks from several villages in the Aleutians that she discovered in Seattle.
Everyone is encouraged to attend this event. There is free parking at UAA on Saturdays.
David Holthouse presents 'The Weird Turn Pro' Tuesday, March 29, 5-7 p.m. UAA Campus Bookstore
熊猫在线视频 journalist, playwright and documentary-maker David Holthouse shares his work; discusses finding, reporting and writing stories; and fields questions. Everyone is invited to come hear how writing goes "when the going gets weird, the weird turn pro."
There is free parking for this event in the South Lot, Sports Complex NW Lot, West Campus Central Lot and Sports Campus West Lot.
Di Gao presents 'Confucius' Perspective on Morality' Wednesday, March 30, 5-7 p.m. UAA Campus Bookstore
Di Gao is a professor in the Center for Ideological and Political Education at Northeast Normal University, China. He has translated the book, The Development of Social Knowledge: Morality and Convention by Elliot Turiel and is the author of Research on Socialist Core Values of Chinese Communist Party (People's Publishing House, 2013).
Currently, he is a visiting scholar in the field of children's social and moral development and education at the Graduate School of Education, UC Berkeley.
This event is co-sponsored by the UAA Campus Bookstore and UAA Confucius Institute.
There is free parking for this event in the South Lot, Sports Complex NW Lot, West Campus Central Lot and Sports Campus West Lot.
For more information, contact Rachel Epstein at repstein2@uaa.alaska.edu or (907) 786-4782.