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Events Calendar July1, 2009 - June 30, 2010                                       
Date Title Speaker  
July 27, 2009 "Sisters for 40 Years: getting to know Chitose" The Honorable Kotaro Yamaguchi
Mayor of the city of Chitose, Japan
(Biography)
 
Sept 11, 2009 "Australia's Human Rights Record: An Important Step in Setting the Relationship " Mick Dodson, Australian of the Year (Biography)  
Sept 18, 2009 "The Real Work of Reconciliation: A Personal Story" Linda Biehl
Co-Founder & Director of the
Amy Biehl Foundation &
the Amy Biehl Foundation Trust(Biography)
 
Sept 25, 2009 "U.S. - Canada as Arctic Ocean Neighbors: Mostly Cooperation, But Some Irritation" Dr. Ted McDorman
Faculty of Law
University of Victoria, B.C.(Biography)
 
Oct 2, 2009 “The Media and US Relations” Steve Lindbeck - President and General Manager of Alaska Public Telecommunications, Inc. (APTI)
(Biography)
 
Oct 9, 2009 "Israel-Palestine: Beyond the Headlines" Alison Weir
Executive Director, If Americans Knew
(Biography)
 
Evening Program
Oct 15, 2009
"Challenges and Opportunities for Peace in the Middle East Today" Akiva Tor, Israel Consul General to the Pacific Northwest(Biography)  
Oct 23, 2009 "The Future of U.S. -Iranian Relations in the Obama Era" Dr. William Beeman
Professor & Chair of the Dept. of Anthropology, University of Minnesota - President of the Middle East Section of the American Anthropological Association (Biography)
 
Oct 30, 2009 “Denali – an update on the Alaska gas pipeline project: a world class effort with global implications.” Bud Fackrell - President of Denali – The Alaska Gas Pipeline LLC.
(Biography)
 
Nov 2-3, 2009 "World Affairs Council Middle East Forum" Held at the UAS Egan Library in Juneau, AK  
Evening Program
Nov 5, 2009
“Turkey: Crucible of Culture” Local teachers selected to tour Turkey by the Turkish Cultural Foundation and the Alaska World Affairs Council share their experiences.  
Nov 13, 2009 "Stopping Global Warming: Signs of Hope" Dr. Robert Musil - Senior Fellow at the Center for Congressional and Presidential Studies, American University (Biography)  
Nov 20, 2009 Thanksgiving Break    
Nov 27, 2009 Thanksgiving Break    
Dec 01, 2009 "China Calling" Consul General Gao Zhansheng
Chinese Consul General in San Francisco(Biography)
 
Dec 04, 2009 "The HIV situation in Kenya: Epidemiology and Interventions" Dr. Timothy Thomas, Epidemiologist for the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) in Atlanta.
(Biography)
 
Dec 11, 2009 "Innovating Bureaucracy: Getting Government to Share" Andrea Baker, Director of Enterprise 2.0 for Navstar, Inc.(Biography)  
Dec 18, 2009 Holiday Break    
Dec 25, 2009 Holiday Break    
Jan 1, 2010 New Year's Day    
Jan 8, 2010 “From Hanoi to Havana: The Rocky Road to Reconciliation” John McAuliff, Executive Director
Fund for Reconciliation and Development
(Biography)
 
Jan 15, 2010 "The Sudan Medical Project" Jack Hickel, MD, ABFP, DTM&H
(Biography)
 
Jan 22, 2010 "Navigating the world's Cyber Threats" Special Agent Alan Vanderploeg, FBI
(Biography)
 
Jan 29, 2010 "Why Africa is Poor" Prof. George Ayittey -
Distinguished Economist in Residence at American University in Washington, D.C.
(Biography)
 
Feb 5, 2010 "America's Russia Problem" Mel Goodman - Senior Fellow, Center for International Policy

In cooperation with the Anchorage Opera's Performance of Tchaikovsky’s “Eugene Onegin”
(Biography)

 

Feb 12, 2010
"The United States and Turkey:  Engagement or Estrangement?" Steve Solarz, former United States Congressional Representative from New York

(Biography)

 
Feb 19, 2010

"Global Insights"

Lisa Murkowski,
U.S. Senator - Alaska
(Biography)
 
Feb 26, 2010 WACA National Conference in Southern California    
Mar 5, 2010 Iditarod    
Mar 19, 2010   Steve LeVine - Author and Journalist for Business Week
(Biography)
 
Mar 26, 2010 The crisis in the U.S. media and the disappearing foreign correspondent Barbara Slavin, former ssistant managing editor for
the Washington Times, responsible for world and national security
news
(Biography)
 
Apr 2, 2010

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Fran Ulmer - Chancellor of the University of Alaska Anchorage
(Biography)
 
Apr 23, 2010 “Terrorist Financing: The War Behind the War on Terror” John Cassara - former federal intelligence officer
(Biography)
 
May 7, 2010 “Combating Modern Day Slavery: The Trafficking of Persons” Amy O'Neill Richard
Senior Advisor to the Director
Office to Monitor and Combat
Trafficking in Persons (G/TIP)
U.S. Department of State
(Biography)
 

Thursday Evening Event

May 13, 2010

  Michael Maibach, European-American Business Council, President and CEO, and Director on Board of the World Affairs Councils of America
(Biography)
 

  

 


                                                        
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