RECENT EVENTS

Wednesday, September 26, 2007 7 to 9 PM at UAS Egan Lecture Hall	Terry Fleisher on the HIV Pendemic in South Africa Terry Fleisher is a long time Alaskan who started his career in Juneau in 1964 in AG's Office. He now lives in South Africa and focused on bioethics in health care.
Wednesday, September 12, 2007 5:30 PM at the Assembly Chambers	Ethan Casey, Alive and Well in Pakistan Ethan Casey is a journalist who traveled through Pakistan, India & Kashmir between 1994 and 1999.
Tuesday, August 21, 2007 5:30 PM at the Downtown Library	Round table discussion with Abdulaziz Kamilov, Uzbekistan’s Ambassador to the United States Abdulaziz Kamilov was born on November 16, 1947 in the city of Yangiyul, Republic of Uzbekistan. He received a Ph.D. History in 1978 and specializes in the History of International Relations and Foreign Policy. He has had an extensive career in international relations which includes his current position as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Uzbekistan to the US.
Thursday, July 12, 2007 5:30 PM at the Assembly Chambers	Conversation with Admiral Stansfield Turner, former Director of the CIA Stansfield Turner was born in Highland Park , Illinois , on 1st December, 1923. He entered Amherst College in 1941 and graduated from United States Naval Academy in 1946. After obtaining a Rhodes scholarship he studied philosophy, politics, and economics at Oxford University. During his service in the United States Navy Turner commanded a mine sweeper, a destroyer, a guided-missile cruiser, a carrier task group and a fleet. He also was President of the Naval War College . Admiral Stansfield Turner's last naval assignment was as Commander in Chief of NATO's Southern Flank. In 1977 President Jimmy Carter appointed Turner as Director of the Central Intelligence Agency. He served in the post until January 1981. In recent years he has worked as a lecturer, writer and TV commentator and is a director of several American corporations. Books by Turner include Terrorism and Democracy (1991), Caging the Nuclear Genie: An American Challenge for Global Security (1997), Caging the Genies: a Workable Solution for Nuclear, Chemical and Biological Weapons (1999), and Burn Before Reading ; Presidents, CIA Directors, and Secret Intelligence (2005).
Thursday, May 11-12, 2007	Juneau World Affairs Forum:  Latin America
Thursday, May 10, 2007	Jill Robinson on Asian Bile Bears   In the early 1990s, Jill Robinson investigated a bear farm and the horror she witnessed changed the course of her life forever. As a result, she founded the Animals Asia Foundation to raise awareness of animal issues in China and elsewhere, focusing on the cruelty of bear farming and working to change the way people think of food animals, namely dogs. Working with practitioners of traditional medicine and the Chinese government, the tide is changing. Research has revealed natural and synthetic alternatives to bear bile, which are equally as effective. In 2000, the Chinese government signed an unprecedented agreement with Animals Asia to work toward closing bear farms and promoting the use of bile alternatives. Under the contract, 500 bears will be transferred to Animals Asia’s state-of-the-art rescue center in China’s Sichuan Province. Currently, Robinson commutes between Hong Kong and the bear sanctuary in China.
Wednesday, April 25, 2007	Ken Kraus on Tibet and the United States   Ken Kraus, former CIA Officer, Tibet Mission; who wrote the book Orphans of the Cold War detailing the involvement of the United States Central Intelligence Agency in the Tibetan resistance, is now an Associate in Research at the Fairbank Center in Harvard University. He spent seven years as a CIA operations officer working with the leaders and members of the Tibetan resistance from 1958 to 1965. In 1999, Knaus testified before the House International Relations Committee on U.S.-Tibet relationship. He talked about the legacy of trust and hope placed by the Tibetan people on the United States.
Wednesday, April 18, 2007	James A. R. Nafziger, Thomas B. Stoel Professor of Law Director, International Law Programs  After clerking on the federal court, he was Henry Luce Fellow and, later, Administrative Director of the American Society of International Law. He has been a member of the full-time law faculty at the University of Oregon and the National Autonomous University of Mexico, the latter as a Fulbright Lecturer. At Willamette, he teaches and writes extensively in the fields of international law and dispute resolution, international business transactions, immigration and refugee law, comparative law, international arbitration and litigation, and conflict of laws. Having initiated the Oregon Law Commission’s project to codify choice-of-law rules, he serves as its reporter. Professor Nafziger is also Honorary Professor of the East China University of Politics and Law.
Wednesday, March 14, 2007	Greg Bowles, Program Director, Sustainable Harvest International Greg is a graduate of the University of Oregon with a Masters in Community & Regional Planning. He has worked in several developing countries and on different kinds of projects, such as training of national park rangers in rural Mongolia, teacher training in Bangladesh, HIV curriculum development in India, and establishment of an education program for jail inmates in rural Alaska. Greg also worked for two and half years in Nicaragua, building potable drinking water systems for rural communities. His wife Mercedes is SHI's Central America Coordinator.
Wednesday, March 7, 2007	William Hanson: World Peace Through Law William L. Hanson of Seattle is a semi-retired lawyer. As a youth, he witnessed the Japanese attacks on Shanghai. After attending Harvard Law School, his activities have included serving for five years on the staff of the American Friends Service Committee, co-founding listener-supported radio KRAB, writing about Indian fishing rights, and co-founding World Peace through World Law's section for lawyers. The World Peace Through Law movement has as its major purpose to persuade the nations of the world to accept more and more treaties and conventions, so as to expand the network of transnational law and legal institutions, thus fostering the development of a world of peace with justice in all areas of international contact of peoples and nations.
Wednesday, February 7, 2007	Sung Yoon Lee: Korea The Mythological Nuclear Kingdom of North Korea Sung Yoon Lee is Kim Koo Associate in Research at the Korea Institute, Harvard University. Since Fall 2005, Lee has been running a new seminar series at the Korea Institute, the “Kim Koo Forum on U.S.-Korea Relations.” Upon receiving his Ph.D. in International Relations from The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University, in 1998, Lee taught for the next seven years at his alma mater, under a joint appointment at The Fletcher School and the Tufts Department of History, nine different courses on international politics and history. In 2000 Lee taught Korean political history at Bowdon College, the first-ever course on Korea in the history of the college. In 2003 Lee was commissioned to translate from Korean into English North Korea’s proposal to the United States for resolving the nuclear issue, the first in writing since the nuclear crisis resurfaced in October 2002. Lee is a frequent commentator on the BBC, National Public Radio, New England Cable News, and has appeared on numerous other news media, including PBS News Hours with Jim Lehrer and CNN. Lee has lectured widely on subjects ranging from Korean history, culture, and film, to North Korea and the international politics of East Asia at various schools within Harvard and universities and institutes across the United States, including The American Enterprise Institute, The Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, the U.S. Department of State, and The Heritage Foundation. Lee’s most recent publications are “Dependence and Defiance: Historical Dilemmas in U.S.-Korea Relations,” in Korea Policy Review (The John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Fall 2006), and “The Folly of Fabled Sentimentality: South Korea’sUnorthodox Courtship of North Korea,” The Woodrow Wilson Internationa Center for Scholars Special Report (forthcoming, November 2006). Lee’s opinion pieces have been published in The LA Times, Asia Times, and The Weekly Standard.
Wednesday, January 31, 2007	Melinda Kimble Melinda Kimble became the Vice President (now Sr. Vice President) for Programs at the UN Foundation in May of 2000, overseeing program areas concerning health, population, the environment and peace/ human rights. Prior to joining the Foundation, she served as a State Department Foreign Service Officer, attaining the rank of Minister Counselor. She served in policy-level positions in the Bureau of Economic and Business Affairs, overseeing multilateral development issues and debt policy; in the Bureau of Oceans, International Environment and Scientific Affairs (OES), leading environmental negotiations (e.g, Climate Change Conference, Kyoto, Japan, 1997). Her assignments abroad include Cote d’Ivoire, Egypt and Tunisia. She speaks French and Arabic and holds two masters degrees: Economics ( University of Denver) and MPA (Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government).
Thursday, January 25, 2007	Paul Dunscomb: Three Ways the Russian Far East is NOT Like Alaska   Paul Dunscomb is assistant professor of East Asian History at the University of Alaska Anchorage, and Acting Director of UAA’s Regional Center of the Asian Studies Development Program. He is a specialist in modern Japanese history focusing on the domestic political aspects of the Japanese intervention and occupation of Siberia, 1918-1922. His work has appeared in the Military Review, the Journal of Japanese Studies, Education About Asia, and East-West Connections. He was the co-recipient of a Fulbright-Hays Group Projects Abroad grant to lead a study tour of the Russian Far East. Professor Dunscomb teaches East Asian Civilization, Modern China, Modern Japan as well as specialty courses in the evolution of the Samurai and the history of the Chinese Communist Party
Saturday, January 13, 2007	Juneau WorldQuest 2007 The Juneau World Affairs Council will host its annual fundraising event, WorldQuest Juneau 2007, at 6 p.m. Jan. 19, at Centennial Hall. The WorldQuest team game tests contestants' knowledge of world affairs, geography, history, culture, flags, sports, current events, world organizations, countries and more. Each team consists of four to eight players. Most teams are formed in advance of the event, but anyone can attend and join a team. There are approximately 60 questions, presented orally and visually. Team members have a maximum of one minute to decide on an answer. The team with the highest score wins, and in the event of a tie, one or more elimination rounds will be held. The event will include exotic foods from around the world, along with a no-host bar. There will also be a silent auction with items from local businesses and individuals. The event is a precursor to the national high school WorldQuest contest in Washington, D.C., to which the Juneau World Affairs Council will send a student team from Juneau Douglas High School. JWAC also supports the high school's Model United Nations program. Tickets for the event are $50 and available at Hearthside Books, the Observatory, from council board members and at the door. For further information, call 364-2334.
Wednesday, January 10, 2007	Skip Schiel: Water in the Middle East A participatory photographer, photographing while engaging in struggles for justice, peace, right treatment of the environment, and enlightenment,Skip Schiel makes photos for publications, exhibits, slide shows, and individual use. His main current project is a photographic examination of conditions in Palestine & Israel. Other projects include retracing the Transatlantic African slave trade journey (A Spirit People), the earth (Scent of Earth), prisons (Imprisoned Massachusetts), and an explorationof the impact of digital technology on photography. Since 1992, he teaches photography at the Landscape Institute of Harvard University and the Cambridge Center of Adult Education.
Thursday, January 4, 2007	Tese Neighbor: China in the 21st Century Tese Wintz Neighbor has traveled extensively around the world, but her heart and soul remain in Asia. Tese lived in China from 1981-1983 working in Beijing as the English editor for China Pictorial magazine as well as teaching English at Beijing University. She then was based in Hong Kong from 1983-1985, setting up bicycle tours as well as traveling extensively throughout the PRC and other parts of Asia as a tour director/lecturer and free-lance writer for the Asian Wall Street Journal and the Far Eastern Economic Review. Tese holds a Masters degree in China Regional Studies from the Henry Jackson School of International Studies at the University of Washington. Since 1999 she has worked as the Director of Professional Development for the World Affairs Council's Global Classroom Program.
Tuesday, December 19, 2006 Nickelodeon Theater	TRAVELOGUE Katherine Palmer: Turkey Katherine Palmer is a senior at JDHS now, but for her entire junior year, lived in Istanbul, Turkey. The experience of living in Turkey provided her with the perfect opportunity to practice her passion, photography. “When I photographed the Turks and my surroundings, I tried to capture the essence of Turkish culture. After 11 months in Istanbul, I returned home this July and have been getting used to Alaskan life again”.
Wednesday, December 13, 2006 at Mendenhall Library Conference Room	Desmond Dinan on the Origins and Future of the European Union He will also be on KINY Capital Chat on Wednesday morning at 8 a.m. Dr. Dinan, the Jean Monnet Professor at the George Mason School of Public Policy is a leading authority on transatlantic relations, the European Union, and international commerce. He is the author of 9 books on European affairs and has been widely published in leading academic journals and regularly makes presentations at major conferences on the social, economic, and political ramifications of Europe’s evolution into a unified bloc. He was awarded a Jean Monnet Professorship by the European Commission in 2001 after serving as an adviser to the Commission. He also taught at the College of Europe in Bruges, Belgium while on leave from George Mason University from 1997-2000.
Wednesday, December 6, 2006	General John Lueth Ukec, Sudanese Ambassador to the United States Sudan Today: Darfur, Peace Treaties and Economic, Social and Cultural Developments
Tuesday, December 5, 2006 5:30 PM Nickelodeon Theatre	TRAVELOGUE Mary Miller: Working in Honduras and Guatemala
	Ambassador Khidir Haroun Ahmed, Sudan Sudan Today: Darfur, Peace Treaties and Economic, Social and Cultural Developments . Ambassador Khidir Haroun Ahmed presently functions as Charge d’Affaires (Chief of Mission) at Sudan Embassy in Washington, D.C. since April 2001.  He represented the Government of Sudan in Brazil until August 2003 when his nomination as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the Federative Republic of Brazil, with resident in Washington, D.C., was accepted.  He was Ambassador E & P to Japan from 1999 to April 2001.  He was promoted to Ambassadorial level in 1996, after which he became Head of the American Affairs Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Khartoum, Sudan from 1996 to 1999.  He is a writer, having a published novel entitled “Urban Dwellers” (in Arabic); a published book entitled “Nostalgic Messages of Memoirs” (in Arabic) and another book which is soon due on how the Sudanese dialect related to the classic Arabic.  He has also written a number of short stories. Ambassador Ahmed holds a B.A. in Philosophy and M.A. in Cultural Anthropology. He was born on January 1st, 1951 in Sudan.  He is married with six children.
Tues May 16, 2006 5:30 – 6:30 p.m. at Goldtown Nickelodeon Theatre	Tuesday Night Travelogue: Portals of Portugal with Elizabeth Selfridge
May 5-6, 2006 Treadwell Room, Baranof Hotel	Juneau World Affairs Forum 2006: Europe Realigned. Confirmed Speakers Jonathan Clarke Mr. Clarke is a Foreign Policy Research Fellow at the Cato Institute. He has just co-authored with Stefan Halper America Alone: The Neo-Conservatives and the Global Order. It critiques the neo-conservative approach to foreign policy of the Bush administration. Clarke was a career diplomat in the British diplomatic service. His expertise focuses on political, economic, and development issues in Europe. He is widely published. Dr. Desmond Dinan Dr. Dinan is an Associate Professor at the George Mason School of Public Policy. He was selected to a Jean Monnet Chair by the EU’s Directorate General for Education and Culture. He is an Irishman with degrees from Georgetown and a PhD in Modern European History at the National University in Cork. Dr. Adele M. Hayutin Chief Economist of Fremont Group, provides analysis of economic issues affecting current and prospective investments. She has recently been focusing on the impacts of demographic change, and over the past few years has developed a comparative international perspective that illustrates key differences and similarities in demographic developments around the world. Before joining Fremont in 1988, Dr. Hayutin was a senior analyst at Salomon Brothers in New York and director of research at RREEF in San Francisco. Dr. Hayutin received a Ph.D. in Economics and a Masters in Public Policy from UC Berkeley, and a B.A. from Wellesley College.  Paul Henze Mr. Henze is a Consultant at RAND in Washington. He works on Turkey, Greece, Cyprus, Russia, the Caucasus, Central Asia, and Africa. He served in the US Embassy in Ankara and was a senior NSC staff member under Zbigniew Brzezinski. He formerly chaired the Nationalities Working Group on the non-Russian regions of the USSR. He has written Ataturk’s Legacy. Professor Ronald Wixman Dr. Ronald Wixman is a Professor of Geography at the University of Oregon. He is a specialist in southeast Europe and the former Soviet Union. Dr. Wixman has visited the region more than 30 times and is an expert on the region's ethnic culture, folk dance, and religion. Dr. Wixman earned his B.A. from Hunter College, his M.A. from Columbia University, and his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. He has taught on a range of subjects relating to ethnic geography, the geography of religion, cultural geography, and ethno-political geography of the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. Dr. Wixman is the author of numerous books, articles, and papers. Mary Burce Warlick Ms. Warlick is currently Director of the Office of Russian Affairs at the U.S. Department of State.   She is a career foreign service officer and member of the senior foreign service.  Her previous assignments include Director, Office of Ukraine, Moldova and Belarus Affairs, and posting in Manila, Philippines, Dhaka, Bangladesh, Bonn Germany, and Moscow, Russia.   She holds a B.A. in political science from Valparaiso University and an M.A. in international relations from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy.
April 20 5:30 reception, 6:00 presentation City Hall Assembly Chambers	War and Peace in East Timor: Doing Justice After the Shooting Stops Justice Phillip Rapoza,  Chief Judge, International War Crimes Tribunal, East Timor. Justice Rapoza is a member of the Massachusetts Court of Appeals.   In 2003 he was appointed to chair the Special Panel,  a war crimes tribunal established by the United Nations to deal with war crimes, genocide, crimes against humanity, murder, rape and torture committed during a campaign of terror waged in 1999 by elements opposed to East Timor's independence. The Special Panel is similar to international tribunals established to conduct trials of war criminals from Yugoslavia, Rwanda and Sierra Leone.
March 22 5:30 reception, 6:00 presentation Assembly Chambers, City Hall	The Canada-United States Partnership: An Alaska perspective Karen Matthias, Canadian Consul for Alaska Karen Matthias is the Canadian Consul in Alaska . She is a career foreign service officer who has served abroad at the Canadian Embassy in Moscow , Russia , and on a conflict resolution mission to Moldova with the Organization for Cooperation and Security in Europe . Back in Canada 's capital, Ottawa , she has worked in divisions responsible for policy planning, communications and European relations. Karen has a bachelor's degree from the University of Victoria and undertook graduate studies in Russian literature at the University of Alberta . She was also a Rotary Ambassadorial Scholar at the University of Helsinki . www.anchorage.gc.ca pkaren.matthias@international.gc.cap
March 8 5:30-6:30 Assembly Chambers, City Hall	European Union Environmental Policy: An Overview. Ole Tougaard, EU Fellow at the North Pacific Fisheries Commission Tougaard  is currently working at the European Union Centre at the University of Washington .  He isa longstanding senior adivisor to the European Union on fisheries management and served between 1994 and 2001 as president of the North East Atlantic Fisheries Commission.
Tues March 14, 2006 5:30 – 6:30 p.m. Goldtown Nickelodeon Theatre	Tuesday Night Travelogue: Tunisia :  A country that works with Alan McCabe
Tues Feb. 21, 2006 5:30 – 6:30 p.m. Goldtown Nickelodeon Theatre	Tuesday Night Travelogue: Touring South Africa and Botswana with Scott and Denice McPherson The McPhersons toured the Cape Town , Garden Coast and Kruger National Park areas in South Africa and a portion of the Okavango Delta in Botswana in August 2005. The trip was self-arranged and included two tours by separate guiding companies that specialize in accommodating individuals with disabilities, sandwiched between self-guided adventuring in other areas of South Africa . August is traditionally the dry or cold season in southern Africa , with inland areas dry and coastal climes cool and sometimes wet. Scott and Denice will show slides that capture the essence of some of their experiences from start to end.  They were struck by the diversity of many things in the area, from its peoples, languages, geography, climate and certainly the flora and fauna.
February 15 5:30 presentation Assembly Chambers, City Hall	Alaska ’s role in America ’s national defense Lt. General Douglas Fraser, Commander, Alaskan Air Command Lt. Gen. Douglas M. Fraser is Commander of Alaskan Command, Alaskan North American Aerospace Defense Command Region, 11th Air Force and Joint Task Force - Alaska, with headquarters at Elmendorf Air Force Base, Alaska. He is the senior military officer in Alaska responsible for the integration of all military activities in the Alaskan theater of operations. As Commander of the Alaskan North American Aerospace Defense Command Region, General Fraser directs air operations within Alaska to ensure defense against all hostile airborne threats. Reporting to Northern Command, he is the Commander of Joint Task Force - Alaska and is responsible for the planning and execution of all Homeland Defense operations within the theater, including security and civil support actions. General Fraser earned his commission upon graduation from the U.S. Air Force Academy in 1975. His operational assignments include Europe , the Pacific, Air Combat Command and Air Force Space Command. The general is a command pilot with more than 2,700 flying hours, primarily in the F-15A/B/C/D, F-15E and the F-16.
February 8 5:30 reception, 6:00 presentation Assembly Chambers, City Hall	Jonathan Adelman:The Middle East and the New World Order A focus on understanding the Arab-Israeli crisis through analysis of the relationship of the Middle East to the New World Order (democracy, capitalism, national self-determination, civil society, rule of law). Professor Jonathan Adelman,  professor at the Graduate School of International Studies at the University of Denver , is a frequent and popular speaker on Israel . The Doctoral Dissertation Adviser of National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice, he is a Senior Fellow at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies in Washington . The author and editor of ten books, Professor Adelman just returned from Israel , where he gave talks at the Israeli Foreign Ministry and for Hasbara Fellowships in the Old City of Jerusalem.
February 1 5:30 reception, 6:00. presentation Assembly Chambers, City Hall	Avian Influenza: Alaska at the Crossroads Dr. Douglas Causey, Vice Provost for Research and Graduate Studies, UAA Dr. Causey,  a professor of biology from the University of Alaska Anchorage , is working to understand what the role is of migratory birds in the spread and transmission of Avian influenza. He's trying to unlock the mystery of how birds become infected, while tracking the natural history of  the virus. Causey has worked for a decade on this problem in the high Arctic and Alaska 's North Slope to better understand the natural occurrence of Influenza in the environment and in wild birds. One critical question he's trying to tackle is how Avian Influenza will affect the enormous populations of migratory birds breeding in Alaska .
January 26, 2006 5:00pm-7:00pm Centennial Hall , Juneau Free Admission		Women’s Lives, Children’s Futures, & the Planet’s Hope: The Power & Promise of Family Planning Speakers and panelists will explore connections among world population, environmental health, individual health, and the education and empowerment of women. Ellen Marshall: Specialist, International Women’s Health Issues, from Boulder, Colorado Judith DeSarno: President, National Family Planning & Reproductive Health Association (NFPRHA), Washington, DC Annette Souder: Director of the Sierra Club’s Global Population and Environment Program, San Francisco, CA Clover Simon: CEO, Planned Parenthood of Alaska, Anchorage Ellen Marshall is a Partner at Good Works Group, a professional-services firm that consults with non-profit organizations on communications, strategy, public policy, and fundraising.   Local advocacy, healthcare, environmental, educational and family planning groups will be on hand to network and inspire action within the Juneau community. Supporting organizations include: Juneau World Affairs Council, League of Women Voters, Northern Light Church , Planned Parenthood of Alaska , Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, Alaska Native Sisterhood Camp 70, Juneau Pro-Choice Coalition, Alaska Women’s Network, Sierra Club, Juneau Chapter of the National Organization for Women, Women’s Voices
Friday January 13, 2006 A JWAC fundraiser at Centennial Hall 6:00 to 10:00 pm Business or semi-formal attire.		Juneau World Affairs Council WorldQuest Fundraising Event Feeling Lucky?   Join us for WorldQuest 2006, a game testing contestants’ knowledge of world affairs, geography, history, culture, flags, sports, world leaders, economics, international organizations, countries, and more. It will be an exciting night, with teams formed from the community competing against each other.   Bring home the 2006 trophy! Exotic foods from around the world will be featured, along with a no-host bar. In addition, we will hold a silent auction. Tickets will be available in December for $50 each from Hearthside Books and The Observatory bookstore, or from JWAC Board members.
Tues Jan. 17, 2006 5:30 – 6:30 p.m. Goldtown Nickelodeon Theatre		Tuesday Night Travelogue: The Isle of Man with Elfrida Nord. Group picture taken on Tynvald Hill The tour of the Isle of Man was arranged by Nordmanns-Forbundet, a world-wide organization under the patronage of the King of Norway. The mission of Nordmanns-Forbundet is “to promote solidarity between Norwegians and Norwegians abroad and further the cause of Norwegian culture and interest.”  The timing of the tour was to coincide with Tynvald Day – an annual closing ceremony of the Isle of Man 1,000 year Parliament to which we were invited. Another purpose was to experience the Isle of Man 's preservation of their Viking heritage.
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