Podcasts about uaa history dept

Jessica Pliley presents Sexual Surveillance: Sex Trafficking and the Growth of the FBI, 1910-1941 America’s first anti–sex trafficking law, the 1910 Mann Act, made it illegal to transport women over state lines for prostitution “or any other immoral purpose.” It was meant to protect women and girls from being seduced or sold into sexual slavery. However, in upholding the Mann Act, the FBI built its national power by expanding its legal authority to police Americans’ sexuality and by marginalizing the very women it was charged to protect. Jessica R. Pliley is an Associate Professor of Women’s and Gender History at Texas State University and holds a Ph.D. from the Ohio State University. She is the author of Policing Sexuality: The Mann Act and the Making of the FBI and Global Anti-Vice Activism . This event is sponsored with Phi Alpha Theta, UAA History Dept., UAA Honors College and Cook Inlet Historical Society.

In the book, Alaska's Skyboys: Cowboy Pilots and the Myth of the Last Frontier, historian Katherine Johnson Ringsmuth--through personal stories, industry publications, and news accounts--uncovers the ways that Alaska's aviation growth was downplayed in order to perpetuate the myth of the cowboy spirit and the desire to tame what many considered to be the last frontier. Katherine Ringsmuth teaches American and Alaskan History in the UAA History Dept., serves on the Board of Directors for the Cook Inlet Historical Society, acted as Alaska Curator, Anchorage Museum, and published numerous books as historian for the National Park Service.

Katherine Ringsmuth teaches American and Alaskan History in the UAA History Dept.,serves on the Board of Directors for the Cook Inlet Historical Society, acted as Alaska Curator, Anchorage Museum, and published numerous books as historian for the National Park Service. This slide show highlights the book, Alaska's Skyboys: Cowboy Pilots and the Myth of the Last Frontier, historian Katherine Johnson Ringsmuth--through personal stories, industry publications, and news accounts--uncovers the ways that Alaska's aviation growth was downplayed in order to perpetuate the myth of the cowboy spirit and the desire to tame what many considered to be the last frontier.

Katherine Ringsmuth teaches American and Alaskan History in the UAA History Dept. and serves on the Board of Directors for the Cook Inlet Historical Society, She has acted as Alaska Curator for the Anchorage Museum and has published numerous books as historian for the National Park Service. According to Katherine Ringsmuth, “With every job I take on, my objective is to inspire a commitment to a place, its history and respect for all people who share it”. At this event, Alaska history is viewed in a dynamic, global perspective. NPS Books by Katherine Ringsmuth: • Tunnel Vision: Life of a Copper Prospector in the Nizina River Country, Wrangell St. Elias National Park and Preserve. • Beyond the Moon Crater Myth: Aniakchak National Mounument and Preserve Historic Resource Study, Aniakchak National Monument and Preserve • Buried Dreams: The Rise and Fall of a Clam Cannery on the Katmai Coast, Katmai National Park and Preserve • Sung Harbor: Beacon on the Forgotten Shore, Lake Clark National Park and Preserve • Administrative History of Brooks River Area, Katmai National Park and Preserve

The event "Cultural Roots of Lithuanian and Jewish History” includes a presentation by Dr, Curtis Murphy called "The Grand Duchy of Lithuania, Vilnius, and the Jewish Community: A Brief History". The audio recording of the entire event is posted in this collection and includes guest speakers classical pianist Edvinas Minkstimas, Rabbi Michael Oblath ( Congregation Beth Sholom), Curtis Murphy ( UAA History Dept.) Leslie Fried ( Alaska Jewish Museum), and Svaja Worthington (Hon. Consul of the Republic of Lithuanian). The event is sponsored by the Hon. Consul from the State of Alaska to the Republic of Lithuania, Congregation Beth Sholom, UAA Campus Bookstore, UAA Music Dept., UAA History Dept., Alaska Jewish Museum, Chilkoot Charlie’s, and others.

Guest speakers include classical pianist Edvinas Minkstimas, Rabbi Michael Oblath (Congregation Beth Sholom), Curtis Murphy (UAA History Dept.) Leslie Fried (Alaska Jewish Museum), and Svaja Worthington (Hon. Consul of the Republic of Lithuanian). Event format: 1. Svaja Worthington: presents M. K. Čiurlionio (1875 - 1911) "De profundis” 2..Dr. Curtis Murphy : The Grand Duchy of Lithuania, Vilnius, and the Jewish Community: A Brief History ( 12:32) 3. Rabbi Michael Oblath: The Intimate Jewish Experience in Lithuania (34:30) 4. Edvinas Minkstimas: On the need to revive and disseminate the Lithuanian Jewish cultural legacy, including the music. (46:13) 5. Poetry readings with Leslie Fried and Svaja Worthington, Hon. Consul of the Republic of Lithuania (56:38) 6. Discussion (1:13.58 The event is sponsored by the Hon. Consul from the State of Alaska to the Republic of Lithuania, Congregation Beth Sholom, UAA Campus Bookstore, UAA Music Dept., UAA History Dept., Alaska Jewish Museum, Chilkoot Charlie’s, and others. (Note: Dr. Curtis Murphy's presentation "The Grand Duchy of Lithuania, Vilnius, and the Jewish Community: A Brief History" is also posted in iTunes and iTunesU.)

Katherine Ringsmuth is Senior Alaska Gallery Curator at the Anchorage Museum and teaches in the UAA History Dept. Encounters is a history installation at the museum. It showcases Alaska as a geological, ecological and cultural bridge affected by and connected to global trends, and where, to the north, commonality lies in a circumpolar landscape. This event explains a way for people to embrace and feel a part of history and acknowledge their place in it.

Ray Ball, (UAA History Dept.) shares her research on the relationship between Spanish theatre and health care funding in the Spanish Empire. Her book project Treating the Public: Public Drama, Public Health, and Public Opinion in the Early Modern Atlantic World is an examination of the comparative cultural, social, and political history of commercial theater, charitable organizations of welfare and public health, and public opinion in important cities in the Spanish and Anglo Atlantic Worlds during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

In 1915 Chinese intellectuals launched the New Culture Movement. Ever since then Chinese have been wrestling with the question of how to create a culture that is modern yet Chinese. When this process began, being modern and being Western appeared very much the same, but today China is on the leading edge of modernity while remaining Chinese. At this event, the significance of this not well known, often misunderstood fact is discussed. Paul Dunscomb is author of the book, Japan’s Siberian Intervention, 1918-1922: A Great Disobedience Against the People. This event is sponsored with the UAA History Dept and the UAA Confucius Institute.