|
Date |
Title |
Speaker |
|
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August 15,
2008 |
"Rising
Asia: A
Singaporean
Perspective" |
Ambassador Chan
Heng Chee
Singapore's
Ambassador to
the U.S.
(Biography) |
|
|
September 12, 2008 |
"Globalization:
what it is and
what it isn't?" |
Dr.
Marc F. Massoud
Robert A. Day
Distinguished
Professor of
Accounting at
Claremont
McKenna College
(Biography) |
|
|
September 19, 2008 |
"Transportation
System or
Political Lever?
The long and
short of
International
Mega Pipeline
Projects"
|
Gary Boubel
Vice President
and Projects
Director
BP Exploration
Alaska
(Biography) |
|
|
September
25, 2008 |
"The Role
of the North in
Global Business
and Politics" |
Olafur Ragnar
Grimsson
President of
Iceland
(Biography) |
|
|
September 27, 2008 |
ALASKA WORLD
AFFAIRS COUNCIL
50TH Anniversary
Ball |
 |
|
|
Evening Program
October
3, 2008 |
"Turkish
Travels,
Traumas, and
Triumphs" |
Local teachers
selected to tour
Turkey as part
of a program
through the
Turkish Cultural
Foundation and
the Alaska World
Affairs Council
share their
experiences. |
|
|
October 10, 2008 |
"Palestinian -
Israeli Peace,
an Agenda for
the Next
President" |
Nadia Hijab
Senior Fellow at
the Institute
for Palestine
Studies
(Biography) |
|
|
October 17, 2008 |
"After Nine
Decades: The
Enduring Legacy
of the Armenian
Genocide" |
Dr. Michael
Papazian
Chair,
Department of
Religion and
Philosophy at
Berry College
(Biography) |
|
|
Evening Program
October
24, 2008 |
"Future of
Korea" |
Panel Discussion
(Biography) |
|
|
October
25, 2008 |
“Engines of a
Global Economy
and an Outlook
of the Financial
Markets” |
David M.
Rubenstein
Co-Founder and
Managing
Director of The
Carlyle Group
(Biography) |
|
|
October 31, 2008 |
"Natural
Resource
Management in
the Developing
World" |
Dr. Jim Murphy,
Rasmuson Chair
of Economics at
UAA
(Biography) |
|
|
November 14,
2008 |
"The Other
Iraq" |
Qubad Talabani
Kurdistan
Regional
Government's
Representative
to the United
States
(Biography) |
|
|
November 21,
2008 |
Thanksgiving
Break |
|
|
|
November 28,
2008 |
Thanksgiving
Break |
|
|
|
December 5, 2008 |
"Uncharted
Waters --
Steering US
Foreign Policy
Through
Turbulent Times" |
David Shorr,
Program Officer
in Policy
Analysis and
Dialogue at the
Stanley
Foundation
(Biography) |
|
|
December 12,
2008 |
"Root Causes of
Terrorism" |
Dr. Karin von
Hippel
Co-Director of
the CSIS
Post-Conflict
Reconstruction
Project and
Senior Fellow
with the CSIS
International
Security Program
(Biography) |
|
|
December 19,
2008 - January
2, 2009 |
Holiday Break |
|
|
|
January
2,
2009 |
"Russia" |
Ambassador
Sergey
Ivanovich
Kislyak
Ambassador of
the Russian
Federation to
the United
States
(Biography) |
|
|
January 9,
2009 |
"An Airman's
Perspective:
Executing Air,
Space and Cyber
Power To Fly,
Fight and Win in
the Pacific" |
Gen. Carrol H. "Howie"
Chandler Pacific
Air Forces; Air
Component
Commander for
U.S. Pacific
Command; and
Executive
Director,
Pacific Air
Combat
Operations
Staff, Hickam
Air Force Base,
Hawaii.
(Biography) |
|
|
January
16,
2009 |
No AWAC event
this week |
Top 40 Under 40
Chamber of
Commerce Lunch
at the Dena’ina
Center where our
Executive
Director, Lise
Falskow will be
recognized.
(For
more information) |
|
|
January
23,
2009 |
"Can video games
promote peace?" |
Eric Brown
co-founder of
Impact Games
(Biography) |
|
|
January
30,
2009 |
"On the Water's
Edge: Freshwater
and the Future
of the Arctic" |
Dr. Lilian
Alessa
Associate
Professor of
Biological
Sciences at the
University of
Alaska Anchorage(Biography) |
|
|
Monday
February
9,
2009 |
"Russia and the
U.S.: Northern
Perspectives" |
Speakers:
Mikhail V.
Margelov,
Chairman of the
International
Committee of the
Russian
Federation
Council
And Ed Verona,
President and
CEO of the
U.S.-Russia
Business Council
(Biography) |
|
|
February
13,
2009 |
"What Embassies
Do in a Crisis:
The Collapse of
the Fujimori
Regime in Peru”
Bev Power
Memorial Program
 |
(Biography)
John Hamilton
Former
Ambassador to
Guatemala and
Peru |
|
|
February
19-20,
2009 |
No AWAC Event
This Week
National
Conference,
World Affairs
Council of
America |
The Mayflower
Hotel,
Washington, DC |
|
|
February
27,
2009 |
“Global Health:
The Gates
Foundation
Approach to
Global Health
Inequity” |
Jan Agosti, MD
Senior Program
Officer,
Infectious
Disease
Development
Global Health
Program
Bill & Melinda
Gates Foundation(Biography) |
|
|
March
6,
2009 |
No AWAC Event
This Week
because of the
Iditarod |
|
|
|
March
13,
2009 |
"Managing an
Emergency:
Behind the
Scenes at
Doctors Without
Borders" |
Nick Lawson
Director of
Field Human
Resources,
Doctors Without
Borders/Médecins
Sans Frontières
(MSF)
(Biography) |
|
|
March
20,
2009 |
"Future prospect
for Tibet" |
Lobsang Nyandak
Representative
of His Holiness
the Dalai Lama
to the Americas
(Biography) |
|
|
March
27,
2009 |
"Petrostate:
Putin, Power and
the New Russia." |
(Biography)
Marshall I.
Goldman
Kathryn
Wasserman Davis
Professor of
Russian
Economics
(Emeritus),
Wellesley
College
Senior Scholar,
Davis Center for
Russian and
Eurasian
Studies, Harvard
University |
|
|
March
28,
2009 |
|
“Workshop: A
look at Turkish
History and
Culture” |
|
|
April
3,
2009 |
“Operation
Enduring
Freedom: Four
Alaskan
servicemen who
have served in
Afghanistan will
share their
insights on
their overseas
duty” |
(Biography)
Panel of Alaska
Service
Personnel who
have served in
Afghanistan |
|
|
April
10,
2009 |
No AWAC Event
This Week |
|
|
|
April
17,
2009 |
"Who's Watching
the world? The
Collapse of
Foreign
Journalism in
the American
Press." |
(Biography)
Patrick Yack
Atwood Chair of
Journalism
Department of
Journalism and
Public
Communications
University of
Alaska,
Anchorage |
|
|
April
24,
2009 |
"Points of
Conflict and
Cooperation
between the U.S.
and China" |
(Biography)
Joseph Ha is
Vice President
for
International
Business and
Government
Relations at
Nike |
|
|
May 1,
2009 |
"What in the
World is Going
On: An
Intelligence
Briefing for
Alaskan
Leaders" |
(Biography)
Herb Meyer
Host and
Producer of The
Siege of Western
Civilization
|
|
|
May
8,
2009 |
“Fewer Children,
More Customers?
Changes in
Japan's
Supplementary
Education
System” |
Julian Dierkes,
Assistant
Professor and
the Keidanren
Chair in
Japanese
Research at the
Institute of
Asian Research
of the
University of
British Columbia
(Biography) |
|
|
May
15,
2009 |
"Whatever
Happened To
Japan: The
Economic
Superpower That
Never Was" |
(Biography)
Paul Dunscomb,
Associate
Professor of
East Asian
History at UAA |
|
|
May
22,
2009 |
"Preventive
Diplomacy:
Advancing the
Abrahamic Family
Reunion" |
Joe Montville
Director of
Toward the
Abrahamic Family
Reunion and
Founder of
Preventive
Diplomacy at the
Center for
Strategic and
International
Studies
(Biography) |
|
|
May
29,
2009 |
"US Immigration
Policy:
Challenges for
the Future" |
Susan Martin
Institute for
the Study of
International
Migration
Georgetown
University
(Biography) |
|
|
"Special Event!"
June 1,
2009
|
"A Report
from the
Battlefield:
Progress in the
Middle East and
Washington" |
Senator Mark
Begich |
|
|
"Monday"
June 29,
2009
|
"The Czech
Republic" |
Ambassador Petr
Kolar |
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