BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.1.7//EN TZID:America/Anchorage X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Anchorage BEGIN:VEVENT UID:341@alaskaworldaffairs.org DTSTART;TZID=America/Anchorage:20221201T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Anchorage:20221201T130000 DTSTAMP:20231231T070453Z URL:https://alaskaworldaffairs.org/archived-events/churchill-at-war-on-the -nile-jim-muller-phd/ SUMMARY:Churchill at War on the Nile | Jim Muller\, PhD DESCRIPTION:Winston Churchill wrote five books before he was elected to Par liament at the age of twenty-five. The most impressive of these books\, T he River War tells the story of Britain's arduous and risky campaign to r econquer the Sudan at the end of the nineteenth century.\n\nMore than thir ty years in the making\, under the editorship of James W. Muller\, the new edition of The River War will be the definitive one for all time. Join us for this conversation with Muller as he examines the statesman’s ea rly thoughts about war\, race\, religion\, and imperialism\, which are sti ll our political challenges in the twenty-first century.\n\n\n\nFeatured S peaker\nJames W. Muller is Professor of Political Science at the Universit y of Alaska\, Anchorage\, where he has taught since 1983\, and Chairman o f the Board of Academic Advisers of the International Churchill Society. Educated at Harvard University and the Ecole Normale Supérieure\, Paris\, he is a by-fellow of Churchill College\, Cambridge. He served as a White House Fellow in 1983–84 and an Academic Visitor at the London School o f Economics and Political Science in 1988–89. In 2008 he won the Alaska Governor’s Award for Distinguished Service to the Humanities. He has ta ught courses in statesmanship\, political philosophy\, and American polit ical thought\, and he organizes the Chartwell and Seward Lecture series a t UAA. Over the years\, he and his students have participated in many pro grams of the Alaska World Affairs Council over the years\, and he has spok en at our meetings several times before.\n\nProfessor Muller is editor of The Revival of Constitutionalism (University of Nebraska Press\, 1988)\,  Churchill as Peacemaker (Cambridge University Press\, 1997)\, Churchill ’s “Iron Curtain” Speech Fifty Years Later (University of Missouri Press\, 1999)\, and of Winston S. Churchill’s interwar books of essays\,  Thoughts and Adventures (ISI Books\, 2009) and Great Contemporaries (ISI Books\, 2012). His new edition of Churchill’s earlier book\, The River War: An Historical Account of the Reconquest of the Soudan\, has been pu blished in two volumes by St. Augustine’s Press. His next project is a n ew edition of Churchill’s autobiography\, My Early Life: A Roving Commi ssion.\nModerated by\nDr. Frank von Hippel is a professor of environmental health sciences in the Mel &\; Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health and the lead of the One Health Research Initiative at the University of A rizona. Frank was born and raised in Alaska\, received his A.B. in biology at Dartmouth College in 1989\, and his Ph.D. in integrative biology at th e University of California\, Berkeley in 1996. He taught for Columbia Univ ersity (1996-1999)\, the University of Alaska Anchorage (2000-2016)\, and Northern Arizona University (2016-2021) before moving to the University of Arizona in 2021. Frank has taught ecology field courses in over twenty co untries\, and conducted research in the Americas\, Africa and Australia. H e conducts research at the nexus of ecotoxicology\, mechanisms of toxicity \, and health disparities\, with a focus on Indigenous and underserved com munities. Frank’s research has been widely covered in the press\, includ ing The New York Times\, National Public Radio\, The Economist\, the BBC\, and many other media outlets. Frank is the author of The Chemical Age (Un iversity of Chicago Press\, 2020) and he is the creator and host of the Sc ience History Podcast (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/science-histo ry-podcast/id1325288920).\n\n\n\nPROGRAM DETAILS\n\n Check-in will begin at 11:30am with seating available on a first-come first-serve basis. The p rogram will begin at 12:00pm.\n Those with online reservations do not nee d to present ticket confirmation at the door\, we will have all confirmed attendees on a list at check-in.\n Lunch at this program will be availabl e for individual order and purchase from 49th State Brewing Company. If yo u wish to do so\, plan on arriving early to ensure you receive your meal b y the end of the program.\n Online registration closes at 6:00 pm on Nove mber 30. Tickets will be available for purchase at the door the next day\, unless the program is sold out. Contact rsvp@alaskaworldaffairs.org with any questions.\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://alaskaworldaffairs.org/wp-content/upload s/2022/10/Muller_sm-2.jpg CATEGORIES:Events LOCATION:49th State Brewing Company\, 717 W 3rd Ave\, Anchorage\, AK\, 9950 1\, United States GEO:61.21968289999999;-149.8958227 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=717 W 3rd Ave\, Anchorage\, AK\, 99501\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=49th State Brewing Company:geo:61.21968289999999,-149.8958227 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Anchorage X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Anchorage BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20221106T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0900 TZNAME:AKST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR