DOORS & DETAILS
- Admission: $50 per car
- Concession snacks will be available for purchase inside the entrance of the library.
- Doors open at 5:30pm/ International movie shorts begin at 6:00/ Trivia begins at 7:00pm.
- Trivia answers will be submitted on a mobile device. Please make sure you have reliable connection and a charged device!
- Registration closes February 1 at 6:00pm.
Ready for a Getaway? Purchase a Raffle Ticket for our Alaskan Airline Drawing!
Pre-Purchase a raffle ticket to be entered into our Alaska Airlines Grand Prize – 2 coach roundtrip tickets systemwide on Alaska Airlines anywhere they fly.
Transportation is valid on Alaska Airlines with no blackout dates. Each main cabin ticket is valued at $1250. Vouchers need to be ticketed prior to their expiration date printed on the voucher (one year from the date of the event). Can’t make it the night of? That’s okay! You do not need to be present to win.
WORLD WIZ QUIZ MASTER – PAUL DUNSCOMB, PHD
Paul Dunscomb is Professor of East Asian History and chair of the History Department at the University of Alaska Anchorage. His nerd super power is, he can articulate stuff. He can take a room full of half baked, half expressed thoughts and turn them into ideas with force and power.
He was the inaugural Director of the UAA Confucius Institute. His book, A Great Disobedience Against the People, Japan’s Siberian Intervention, 1918-1922, the first ever complete narrative in English, appeared in February 2011. He is also author of Japan Since 1945 in 2014 for the Association for Asian Studies Key Issues in Asian Studies Series.
His current research focuses on the history of the Heisei period (1989-2018) including the Crisis in Japanese Professional Baseball of 2004 and the nature of change in Heisei Japan. He analyzed debates about Japanese identity during the Lost Decade, 1992-2004, in “Images of What Never Was to Suggest What Might Be; Japanese Popular Culture and Japaneseness,” for the edited volume The Dynamics of Cultural Counterpoint in Asian Studies. His work has appeared in The Journal of Japanese Studies, East-West Connections, and Education About Asia.
SPONSORS
Thank you to our wonderful sponsors for supporting our mission and student programming!
Interested in becoming a sponsor for 2021 World Wiz?! Email Siobhan Choi at Siobhan.choi@alaskaworldaffairs.org to find out more!