Above is the YouTube playlist for the 2012 Evening at Egan Lecture Series. You may also visit the playlist from our YouTube channel.
September 14 | Egan Library
Breaking Ice for Arctic Oil
Ross Coen, Author
What the test run of an ice-breaking tanker in the Northwest Passage tells about the impracticality of moving crude oil by icebreaking ships. The 1968 voyage of the Manhattan provides an important historical reference point for marine traffic and resource development in the Arctic.
September 21 | Egan Lecture Hall
Monitoring the Mendenhall Outburst Flood
Eran Hood, Assoc. Professor of Environmental Science, and Jason Amundson, Asst. Professor of Geophysics
Outburst floods from glacier damned lakes are a common occurrence in high mountain regions. A presentation on the origins of the Suicide Basin outburst flood on the Mendenhall Glacier, results from flood monitoring efforts on the glacier in the summer of 2012, and future work aimed at better understanding this local natural hazard.
September 28 | Egan Lecture Hall
Israel, the Occupied Territories, and Nonviolent Resistance
Skip Schiel, Photographer
A multi-media presentation illustrating the reality of the occupation and highlighting Palestinian and Israeli nonviolent responses.
October 5 | Egan Lecture Hall
Big Arts in a Small Town
Juneau Symphony Music Director Kyle Pickett, Perseverance Theatre Artistic Director Art Rotch, Juneau Jazz and Classics Founder Linda Rosenthal
Art, Kyle and Linda will talk about the audacity of creating large-scale productions in a small community and why it is important. They will also talk about the state of arts in today’s economic and cultural climate and take questions from the audience.
October 12 | Egan Lecture Hall
Collaborative Research in Southeast Alaska
Dr. Allison Bidlack, Director, Alaska Coastal Rainforest Center
ACRC is a relatively new institute within UAS that develops and delivers educational opportunities, facilitates and convenes research, and promotes learning for the community about temperate rainforests. ACRC partners with multiple state, federal, Native and non-governmental entities to achieve this goal. Allison Bidlack will give an introduction to the Center, and facilitate a series of short presentations highlighting several examples of collaborative rainforest research in Southeast Alaska.
October 19 | Egan Lecture Hall
What can the shifty fishes of Auke Creek tell us about adaptation to warming streams in Southeast Alaska?
David Tallmon, Associate Professor of Biology
Physical conditions in Auke Creek and many streams throughout Southeast Alaska are changing. In collaboration with scientists from NOAA, UAS, UAF, and his students, Marine Biology faculty David Tallmon studies how sculpin and salmon in Auke Creek, Alaska, are adjusting and adapting to a changing environment. These changes will be described and discussed in light of projected future changes of stream conditions in Southeast Alaska.
October 26 | Egan Lecture Hall
UAS in Cuba: A Semester-long search for Che, Hemingway, el Papa’, and the Authentic Tourist
UAS Students and Kevin Maier, Assistant Professor of English, Facilitator
Last spring a dozen UAS students travelled to Cuba with four faculty members to hone their Spanish language skills, study the country’s rich cultural history, witness the impact of tourism on the island’s life ways, and contemplate the legacy of the famous American author, Ernest Hemingway, who spent a third of his life living near Havana. Students will share vignettes and photographs from the unique semester-long experience.
November 2 | Egan Library
What shall we do with our histories?
Ernestine Hayes, Assistant Professor of English
This address, delivered by Hayes at venues such as the 2012 Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment Conference and the International Polar Year gathering presents the recent history of Lingit Aani and examines its relevance to current circumstances from a perspective unfamiliar to commonly held beliefs.
November 9 | Egan Library
Human-Caribou Relations from a First Nation’s Perspective
Randall Tetlichi, Vuntut Gwitch’in First Nation Elder in Residence
Yukon College faculty member Randall Tetlichi is an esteemed teacher, community healer, and tradition bearer, featured in the 2012 UAS One Campus One Book selection, Being Caribou, by Karsten Heuer. Randall will talk about how each of us can make a difference by paying attention. Instead of just co-existing, he suggests, it is now time for all nations to exist with and depend on each other.
November 16 | Egan Library
Being Caribou: Five Months on Foot with an Arctic Herd
Karsten Heuer, Author
In April 2003 wildlife biologist Karsten Heuer and his filmmaker wife, Leanne Allison, set off on a trek of epic proportions. For five months they skied and walked alongside the 123,000-member Porcupine Caribou Herd from their Yukon winter range to Alaskan calving grounds and back. The couple’s mission? To give the caribou a voice in the decades-old debate on whether or not to develop their 27,000-year-old calving grounds for oil. Being Caribou is the 2012 One Campus One Book selection.