BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.2.3.1//EN TZID:America/Anchorage X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Anchorage BEGIN:VEVENT UID:275@alaskaworldaffairs.org DTSTART;TZID=America/Anchorage:20181102T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Anchorage:20181102T130000 DTSTAMP:20231222T092820Z URL:https://alaskaworldaffairs.org/archived-events/repeating-history/ SUMMARY:Repeating History: What Have We Learned in the Past 60 Years? DESCRIPTION:Join AKWorld for reflections on the past 60 years on progress m ade in Japan\, EU and the Arctic.\n\nDiddy Hitchens\, the EU\n\nDr. Hitchi ns was born in Glasgow\, Scotland\, and brought up in southern England. Sh e received her BSc in Social Sciences from the University of Southampton\, UK\; her MA in Political Behaviour\, and her PhD in Government from the U niversity of Essex\, UK. Her first academic appointment\, while completing PhD research\, was at University of Ghana\, Legon\, West Africa. Subseque ntly\, Dr. Hitchins had a 30 year career with Department of Political Scie nce\, University of Alaska Anchorage\, rising from Assistant Professor to Associate and then Full Professor.\n\nDr. Hitchins specializes in Comparat ive Politics and International Relations. She has served several terms as Chair of the Political Science Department\, and also Director of Internati onal Studies at UAA\, and was the founding director of UAA’s Canadian an d North Pacific Studies Programs. Dr. Hitchins has conducted research in C hina\, Japan and the Koreas as well as in Canada\, the Russian Far East an d the Arctic. Since 1985\, Dr. Hitchins has served as the British Honorary Consul for Alaska. She was honoured by Queen Elizabeth II with the Member of British Empire (MBE) award in 2005\, and was inducted into the Alaska Women’s Hall of Fame 2013.\n\nDr. Hitchins is currently working on devel oping a full-scale international Model Arctic Council to be held at the Un iversity of Alaska Fairbanks\, sponsored by UAF and the University of the Arctic\, and included in the US Public Diplomacy priority for the US Presi dency of the Arctic Council.\n\nGunnar Knapp\, Globalization and Fish Fa rming\n\nGunnar Knapp is Professor Emeritus of Economics at the Institute of Social and Economic Research (ISER) at the University of Alaska Anchora ge (USA)\, where he worked for 35 years after receiving his Ph.D. in Econo mics from Yale University in 1981.  Prior to his retirement in 2016\, Dr. Knapp served three years as Director of ISER.\n\nDr. Knapp has been study ing fisheries management\, fisheries markets\, and the world seafood indus try for more than twenty-five years.  Focusing his research initially on Alaska salmon markets and the implications of salmon aquaculture for wild fisheries\, he broadened his research over time to the study of global sea food markets and the global seafood industry.  During the 1990s he began the Salmon Market Information Service for the Alaska Seafood Marketing Ins titute.  He co-authored the major 1997 report The Great Salmon Run:  Com petition Between Wild and Farmed Salmon.  He has written numerous other a rticles and reports on salmon markets\, trends in limited entry permit own ership\, the effects of halibut and crab IFQs\, the Chignik salmon co-op\, implications of climate change\, and economic impacts of Alaska fisheries . He helped found the North American Association of Fisheries Economists ( NAAFE) in 2001.  He has visited and given presentations for seafood indus try organizations across Alaska and in many seafood producing and consumin g countries.\n\nDr. Knapp is closely engaged with the seafood industry and policy makers in Alaska.  He is currently writing a book about The Econo mics of Fish\, which is intended as an introduction to the insights provid ed by economics about fisheries\, aquaculture and the seafood industry.\n\ nMead Treadwell\, Arctic - Getting Ready for a New Ocean\n\nMead Treadwell has advanced Arctic cooperation\, cross-border investment\, and environme ntal protection and marine safety from positions in government\, business\ , and the academy.\n\nAs Lt. Governor of Alaska\, 2010-2014\, he continued work he’d begun as Alaska’s second highest cabinet official for the e nvironment (1990-1994)\, and as Commissioner and Chair of the US Arctic Re search Commission (2001 appointed by President Bush\; 2006-2010 chair unde r Presidents Bush and Obama) to promote Arctic cooperation with creation o f the Arctic Environmental Protection Strategy\, the Arctic Council and th e Northern Forum.   The Arctic Research Commission led the eight-nation A rctic Marine Shipping Assessment which resulted in the first circumpolar b inding agreements on search and rescue\, spill response\, and adoption of the mandatory Polar Code.\n\nAs a business leader\, Treadwell pioneered cr oss-border tourism in the Bering Straits region in the late 1980’s and e arly 1990’s\, after working to open the US-Russia border.   He served a s President of Pt Capital\, the world’s first Arctic focused private equ ity fund from 2015-2018\, which owns assets in Alaska\, Iceland and Finlan d and conducts work in Greenland and Canada.   He was Vice President and Treasurer of Yukon Pacific Corporation\, Alaska’s first attempt to expor t North Slope LNG to Asian markets.   As a tech entrepreneur he co-founde d two listed firms\, including Digimarc (NASDAQ: DMRC)\, Immersive Media\, formerly a TVX listed firm which pioneered StreetView for Google.   He c hairs Iridium’s Polar Advisory Board\, co-chairs the Woodrow Wilson Cent er’s Polar Initiative\, the Arctic Circle’s Mission Council on Shippin g and Ports\, and was a member of the World Economic Forum’s Global  Ac tion Council on the Arctic.\n\nDr. Paul Dunscomb\, Japan - The Economic Su perpower that Never Was\n\nPaul E. Dunscomb is Professor of East Asian his tory and Chair of the Department of History at the University of Alaska An chorage. He is the author of Japan’s Siberian Intervention\, 1918-1922: “A Great Disobedience Against the People\,” and Japan Since 1945 for t he Key Issues in Asian Studies series. His current work focuses on the cri sis in Japanese professional baseball of 2004 and the nature of change in Heisei Japan.\n\n \;\n\n\n\nProgram Details\n\n Check-in will begin a t 11:30am with seating available on a first-come first-serve basis. The pr ogram will begin at noon.\n Those with online reservations do not need to present ticket confirmation at the door\, we will have all confirmed atte ndees on a list at check-in.\n Lunch at this program will be available fo r individual order and purchase from 49th State Brewing Co. If you wish to do so\, plan on arriving early to ensure you receive your meal by the end of the program.\n Online registration will close at midnight on November 1. Remaining tickets will be available for purchase the day of the progra m at the door from 11:30am.\n\n \;\n\n\n\nComplimentary parking is ava ilable in nearby EasyPark Alaska lots for individuals who preregister onli ne by the September 6th deadline to attend this program. Successful regist rants will receive an email the day before to the program with parking det ails.\n\nAdmission is free to active duty\, National Guard\, Reservists an d their spouses\, compliments of USO Alaska. Military attendees must regis ter in advance for free admission and free parking.\n\n \;\n\nHigh sch ool and full-time college students who register in advance receive complim entary admission and a voucher for a lunch item of their choosing thanks t o the generous support of BP. 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