Russi@sia: Russia in Asia
Faculty Development Workshop

The final program is subject to change.

For the full program of presentations and events, please contact Rebekah Smith at anrjs1@uaa.alaska.edu.

Public Keynote Lectures:

Between Europe and Asia: The Geography of Russian National Identity

Mark Bassin, Reader in Cultural and Political Geography, Department of Geography, University College London

Date: Monday, May 23
Time: 7-8 p.m.
Location: UAA - Building ARTS 150
Cost: FREE

Globalization North by Northeast: Portrait of the Next Generation
Co-sponsored by World Trade Center Alaska and Alaska World Affairs Council

Pamela Spratlen, 2004-2005 Diplomat-in-Residence, East-West Center; and Former Consul General, Vladivostok

Date: Tuesday, May 24
Time: 5:30 p.m. open wine bar; presentation and dinner begin 6 p.m.
Location: Manriques Brasserie, 701 W 36th Ave
Cost: $30 (includes dinner)
Note: RSVP to 786-4135 by May 22 to reserve tickets (limited quantity)

Other Presentations Include:

Why Alaska? The Alaska-Russia-Asia Connection, Past and Present

Victor Fischer, Director Emeritus, Institute for Social and Economic Research, University of Alaska Anchorage

Stephen Haycox, Professor of History, Department of History and Geography, University of Alaska Anchorage

Images of Siberia in Russian Culture

Mark Bassin, Reader in Cultural and Political Geography, Department of Geography, University College London

Interface: East-West Connections (Photograph Exhibit and Reception)

Ellina Shendera-Creary, Artist

The Russian Far East Economy: Past, Present, Future

Gunnar Knapp, Professor of Economics, Department of Economics and Institute for Social and Economic Research, University of Alaska Anchorage

John Tichotsky, Ph.D.(Cantab.), F.R.G.S; Advisor to the Governor of Chukotka; and Former Fellow on Russia in Asia, University of Hawaii

Arlon Tussing, Research Professor of Economics, Institute of Social and Economic Research, University of Alaska Anchorage

The Russian Far East's Security: Internal and External Challenges and Options

Sergey Sevastyanov, Professor of International Relations; Director of the International Studies Center; and Vice President for International Programs, Vladivostok State University of Economics and Service (Vladivostok, Russia)

Native Obshchinas in the RFE (Slide Presentation)

Andrew Crow, Project Manager, Institute for Social and Economic Research, University of Alaska Anchorage

Life in the Russian Far East: Challenges for the 21 st Century (Panel Discussion)

Pavel Sobol, Russian Project Director, CIVITAS Eastern Russia

Olga Chernenko, Assistant Director, CIVITAS Eastern Russia

Diddy Hitchins, Professor of Political Science, Department of Political Science, University of Alaska Anchorage (Facilitator)

Current Issues Facing Indigenous Peoples of the Russian Far East

Patty Gray, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Department of Anthropology, University of Alaska Fairbanks

The Revival of Traditional Cosmology in Post-Soviet Sakha and Its Incorporation Into the School Curriculum

Bella Bychkova Jordan, Lecturer, Department of Geography and the Environment; and Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies, University of Texas at Austin

Shamanism Today: The Russian Far East and East Asia

Alexandra Maloney , Assistant Professor of Russian, Department of Languages, University of Alaska Anchorage; and Professor, Department of Foreign Languages, Tomsk State Pedagogical University (Russia)

Origins of Native Peoples of the Russian Far East and Alaska: Insights from Russian/American Excavations at the Boisman Site (Slide Presentation)

David Yesner, Professor of Anthropology, Department of Anthropology, University of Alaska Anchorage

Planning for a Change: Development of the Tumen River Region

Karl Kim, Professor of Urban and Regional Planning, University of Hawaii

The Last Periphery

Paul Dunscomb, Assistant Professor of History, Department of History, University of Alaska Anchorage

Making Connections in the RFE

 Russ Howell, Director, American Russian Center

Creating, Infusing and Refocusing the Curriculum

Susan Kalina, Associate Professor of Russian, Department of Languages, University of Alaska Anchorage

Kurosawa’s Dersu Uzala (Film and Discussion)

Patricia Linton, Professor of English, Department of English, University of Alaska Anchorage

Conceptualizing Russia in Asia

Elizabeth Dennison, Associate Professor of History, Department of History, University of Alaska Anchorage

 

Asian Studies Development Program