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Date |
Title |
Speaker |
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July 11,
2007 |
"Resume´ of the
German EU
Presidency and
Challenges of
the G-8
Presidency" |
Ambassador
Klaus Scharioth
Germany's
Ambassador to
the U.S.
(Biography) |
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September 7,
2007 |
"The Foundation
of Freedom,
Justice, and
Peace in the
World" |
Andrea Carmen
Executive
Director of the
International
Indian Treaty
Council
(Biography) |
|
|
September 14,
2007 |
"Pakistan: The
Human Factor" |
Ethan Casey
Founder
Co-Editor of
PakCast
(Biography) |
|
|
September 21,
2007 |
"An Overview of
U.S./Latin
American
Relation." |
John Hamilton
Former
Ambassador to
Guatemala and
Peru
|
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September 28,
2007 |
"Democracy under
challenge in the
rainbow nation:
South Africa's
HIV/AIDS
pandemic." |
Terry Fleischer
Deputy Director
of the Bioethics
Center at the
University of
Cape Town
|
|
|
October 5, 2007 |
“US
Microfinance:
Challenges and
Opportunities.” |
Paul Quintero
CFO and Interim
CEO of ACCION,
the nation's
largest
microlender
CFO and interim
CEO of ACCION,
the nation’s
largest
microlender |
|
|
Evening Program
October 12, 2007 |
"Tackling Global
Health's Biggest
Challenges -
Reasons for
Optimism |
Dr. Joanne Carter
Associate
Executive
Director
RESULTS/RESULTS
Educational Fund
|
|
|
Wednesday Lunch
Program
October 17, 2007 |
"Geothermal
Energy & Climate
Change" |
President of
Iceland
|
|
|
October 19, 2007 |
“A Jewish Global
Response to
Humanitarian
Needs” |
Jennifer Kraft
Director of
Community
Relations at the
American Jewish
Joint
Distribution
Committee in NY
|
|
|
October
26, 2007 |
"Mongolia
and the future
of Northeast
Asia: Economics,
Politics, and
Security" |
President of
Mongolia
|
|
|
November 2, 2007 |
“Peacekeeping in
Western Sahara” |
Frank Ruddy
Former US
Ambassador to
Equatorial
Guinea
|
|
|
Evening Program
November
9, 2007 |
"US European
Economic
Relations" |
Gerard Baker
US Editor and
Columnist of
The Times of
London
|
|
|
Monday Lunch
Program
November 19,
2007 |
“Beyond
the Headlines:
Afghanistan's
Stability and
Global Security” |
Ambassador Said
Tayeb Jawad
Afghanistan’s
Ambassador to
the US
|
|
|
November
23,
2007 |
"Thanksgiving -
No Program This
Week" |
|
|
|
November 30,
2007 |
“Issues the US
Downplays at Its
Peril” |
Dr.
Chris Brown
Research
Director of The
Southern Center
for
International
Studies
|
|
|
December 7,
2007 |
"Comprehensive
Immigration
Reform: Economic
Globalization
and its Impact
on the US" |
Robin Bronen
Executive
Director of
Alaska
Immigration
Justice Project
|
|
|
December
14,
2007 |
"Alaskan's on
the Ground -
Experiences in
Iraq" |
Panel of Alaskan
service
personnel who
have served in
Iraq. |
|
|
December 21,
2007 |
"Christmas - No
Program This
Week" |
|
|
|
December 28,
2007 |
"Christmas - No
Program This
Week" |
|
|
|
January
4, 2008 |
"Fifty Years on
the Front Line:
American
National
Strategy" |
Dr. Will Jacobs
Professor
Emeritus of
History and
Political
Science
at the
University of
Alaska Anchorage
|
|
|
January 11, 2008 |
“An Insider’s
Critique of the
United Nations.” |
Ian Williams
UN correspondent
for The Nation
|
|
|
January
18, 2008 |
"Pacific Rim LNG
- The Alaska
Fit?" |
Harold Heinze
Chief Executive
of the Alaska
Natural Gas
Development
Authority
|
|
|
January
25, 2008 |
"The Arctic
Race: A NORAD
Mission?" |
Colonel Sylvain
Bedard
Deputy Commander
of the Alaskan
NORAD Region
|
|
|
February
1,
2008 |
"2008: China's
Olympic Gamble
and Other
Spectator sports
in East Asia" |
Dr. Paul
Dunscomb
Associate
Professor of
East Asian
History, UAA
|
|
|
February 6-8,
2008 |
“The Alaska
World Affairs
Council Presents
– World Affairs
Councils of
America Annual
National
Conference,
Washington DC.
Topic: “US or US
and Them” |
World Affairs
Council of
America Annual
National
Conference in
Washington DC
For more
information:
|
|
|
February 15,
2008 |
"Organizational
Cultures: Where
Leadership is
Everybody's
Business" |
Lynn Giuliani
Senior
Consultant and
Coach at Carolyn
Fine &
Associates (CFA)
|
|
|
Lunch Program
February
20,
2008 |
"How to win a
cosmic war" |
Reza Aslan
Writer and
Commentator
Alaska Pacific
University
|
|
|
Evening Program
February
20,
2008 |
Free Evening
Program at UAA
" Contemporary
Issues in Islam" |
Reza Aslan
Writer and
Commentator
Alaska Pacific
University
|
|
|
February 29,
2008 |
"What in the
World? The 2008
Presidential
Campaign and
Foreign
Policies" |
Panel Discussion |
|
|
March 7,
2008 |
“Is Wal-Mart
Good for
America?” |
Alan Tonelson
Research fellow
at the
Educational
Foundation of
the US Business
and Industrial
Council in
Washington.
|
|
|
March
14,
2008 |
“Independence
for Kosovo:
Why the west
chose to support
the move and
what it means
for relations
with Russia” |
Julius Strauss
Former
Correspondent
for the Daily
Telegraph
|
|
|
March
21,
2008 |
There will be no
presentation for
this date. |
|
|
|
March
28,
2008 |
"Framing
Muslim Women:
Islam, Gender
and Human Rights
in the Global
Media" |
Dr. Ingrid
Mattson
Professor of
Islamic Studies
and Director of
Islamic
Chaplaincy
Macdonald Center
for Islamic
Studies and
Christian-Muslim
Relations
Hartford
Seminary
|
|
|
March
30,
2008 |
Free Afternoon
Program at UAA
"Islamic Law
and Life Past
and Present" |
Dr. Ingrid
Mattson
Professor of
Islamic Studies
and Director of
Islamic
Chaplaincy
Macdonald Center
for Islamic
Studies and
Christian-Muslim
Relations
Hartford
Seminary
|
|
|
April
4, 2008 |
"The Global
Energy Challenge
- Shell's
Interest in the
Alaska Offshore" |
Rick Fox
Alaska Asset
Manager for
Shell
Exploration and
Production
|
|
|
April 11, 2008 |
"50 Years
Traveling the
International
Finance Highway
with a Few
Detours and Back
Roads" |
Bill Taylor
Former VP of
Citibank/Citigroup,
Current CEO of
William Taylor &
Associates
|
|
|
April 18, 2008 |
“What US Energy
Policy Should
Be” |
Robert Ebel
Head of the
Energy and
National
Security Project
at the Center
for Strategic
and
International
Studies in
Washington DC
|
|
|
April
25, 2008 |
"Pluralism and
Israel Through
the Eyes of a
Bedouin Israeli" |
Ismail Khaldi
Deputy Consul of
Isreal
|
|
|
May
2, 2008 |
"Indonesia - US
relations and
Current
Indonesian
Development" |
Ambassador
Sudjadnan
Parnohadiningrat
Ambassador of
the Republic of
Indonesia to the
United States of
America
|
|
|
May 9-10, 2008 |
No Anchorage
Program this
week
The Juneau World
Affairs Council
is hosting a
forum focused on
South Asia at
the Baranof
Hotel in Juneau,
Alaska. For more
information,
please visit
www.jwac.org |
Juneau World
Affairs Council
Forum |
|
|
Evening Program
May
16, 2008 |
"International
focus on the
Arctic:
fisheries,
environment,
climate change,
petroleum, and
conflicts
between these
interests" |
Governor Svein
Ludvigsen
The King of
Norway's
representative
in Troms County,
Norway
|
|
|
May
23, 2008 |
Memorial Day
Weekend
No Program This
Week |
|
|
|
Lunch Program
May
29, 2008 |
"Recent
Development in
Europe, An
Austrian
Perspective" |
Ambassador
Eva Nowotny
Ambassador of
Austria
|
|
|
May 30, 2008 |
“Suicide
Terrorism” |
Dr.
Mia Bloom
Assistant
Professor in the
School of
International
and Public
Affairs at the
University of
Georgia
|
|
|
June 6, 2008 |
"Bilateral
Affairs: Denmark
and the US,
Greenland and
Alaska" |
Ambassador Friis
Arne
Denmark’s
Ambassador to
the US
|
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