September 2016 at the UAA Campus Bookstore: Kafka, domestic violence and land trusts

The UAA Campus Bookstore actively organizes free events to promote expression and engaged discussion. See the schedule below to learn what's happening through September. For more information, visit the UAA Campus Bookstore website or contact Rachel Epstein at (907) 786-4782 or repstein2@alaska.edu.

Historian Benjamin Madley presents 'An American Genocide: The United States and the California Indian Catastrophe, 1846-1873' Friday, Sept. 23, 4-6 p.m. UAA Campus Bookstore

Guest speaker Benjamin Madley is associate professor of history and chair of American Indian Studies at UCLA. He is an historian of genocide and the relationship between indigenous people and colonizers. His first book, An American Genocide: The United States and the California Indian Catastrophe, 1846-1873 (Yale University Press), was just launched at the 2016 NAISA conference. It has been reviewed in The New York Times, Newsweek and The Nation.

A book signing will take place after the presentation and discussion.

This event will be moderated by Medeia Csoba DeHass, assistant professor of anthropology at UAA. It is sponsored by UAA Alaska Native Studies.

There is free parking at UAA on Fridays.

Note: Benjamin Madley will also speak on Sept. 22, 4-5:15 p.m., at Social Science Building, Room 118. Both events are free and open to the public.

Kathi Diamant presents 'Kafka's Last Love-Dora Diamant' Monday, Sept. 26, 5-7 p.m. UAA Campus Bookstore

In her book Kafka's Last Love: The Mystery of Dora Diamant, author Kathi Diamant explores the relationship between Franz Kafka and his companion and confidante Dora Diamant (1898-1952). It details their life in Berlin and, after his death in 1924, her passionate commitment to keep Kafka's literary flame alive while caught in the maelstroms of fascism, communism and the Holocaust.

Kathi Diamant is director of the Kafka Project at San Diego State University, an ongoing international search for Kafka's missing literary treasure: 35 letters and 20 notebooks written by Kafka in the last year of his life, and confiscated from Dora by the Gestapo in Berlin 1933. Just returning from investigations in Berlin, Kathi will also share her latest findings and her extraordinary adventures through archives and history.

There is free parking for this event in the South Lot, Sports Complex NW Lot, West Campus Central Lot and Sports Campus West Lot.

Author Marivi Soliven presents The Mango Bride and a frank talk about domestic violence in immigrant communities and the Filipino diaspora' Tuesday, Sept. 27, 1-2:30 p.m. UAA Campus Bookstore

Marivi Soliven has worked as an interpreter for immigrant survivors of domestic violence. Her book The Mango Bride "offers a personal glimpse into extreme poverty in Manila and what growing up in deprivation can do to someone. The book explains how the mail-bride system works (horribly) and how women who try to escape their misery for a life of dreams sometimes become trapped in a nightmare." Topics addressed at the event include the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA), the Filipino diaspora and the Saving Beverly movement.

Sponsors for this event include Department of Health Sciences, Alaskero Partnership Organizers, Alaskeros Kasamahan and UAA Center for Community Engagement & Learning.

There is free parking for this event in the South Lot, Sports Complex NW Lot, West Campus Central Lot and Sports Campus West Lot.

Attorney Michael Walleri presents 'Land into Trust: An Overview' Wednesday, Sept. 28, 5-7 p.m. UAA Campus Bookstore

Michael Walleri is an attorney with more than 35 years of experience in Alaska Native/Indian law and policy, particularly with the Indian Reorganization Act (IRA). He has assisted more than 17 Alaska tribes and corporations with retribalization of ANCSA lands and has extensive experience with other issues under the Indian Reorganization Act-including the first, and several subsequent, tribal government reorganizations under the IRA after ANCSA.

As an attorney, Michael Walleri travels extensively to provide assistance and advocacy to Alaska villages, Dená Nená Henash (aka Tanana Chiefs Conference) and Lower 48 Indian tribes on corporate, municipal and tribal matters. He has both a federal and state court practice and has appeared before the Alaska Supreme Court, Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, and written amicus briefs to the United States Supreme Court.

There is free parking for this event in the South Lot, Sports Complex NW Lot, West Campus Central Lot and Sports Campus West Lot.

Memoirs and children books: Alaska authors and illustrators present their books Saturday, Oct. 1, 1-3 p.m. UAA Campus Bookstore

Self-published writers, illustrators and authors associated with Publication Consultants come together to discuss writing memoir, the ins and outs of publishing, and the process of creating children's books.

This event welcomes memoir authors Eva Baker (Martha and Eva) and Maggie Holeman (Women in the Locker Room), and children's authors and illustrators La Von Bridges and Alice Wright (Alaska Animals, We Love You) and Betty Hedstrand and Chris Floyd (Clever Little Bird).

There is free parking at UAA on Saturdays.

Lizbeth Meredith presents 'Pieces of Me: Rescuing My Kidnapped Daughters' Wednesday, Oct. 5, 5-7 p.m. UAA Campus Bookstore

Alaska author Lizbeth Meredith shares her emotional international journey to rescue her kidnapped daughters. Within her quest, the unveiled truth within abusive relationships is explored as she traverses the challenges of her story, mirroring her own childhood experiences.

"Pieces of Me is the inspiring tale of how a quietly powerful woman overcame bullying, abduction, arrest and being failed by the authorities in two continents to free her daughters." -Dr. Jane Wilson-Howarth, author of A Glimpse of Eternal Snows

"The book's conclusion could hardly be a more resounding tribute to the human spirit. A unique perspective on a harrowing Greek odyssey." -Kirkus Reviews

Joining Lizbeth Meredith is social worker Elsie Boudreau, who will lead a conversation about domestic violence, the unintended consequences of leaving an abusive relationship, as well as the important role a caring community can take.

This event is held in conjunction with Domestic Violence Awareness Month. It is sponsored by: Abused Women's Aid in Crisis (AWAIC), Green Dot Anchorage, Victims for Justice/Eva Program, YWCA Alaska, UAA Pre-Law Society and UAA Campus Bookstore.

There is free parking for this event in the South Lot, Sports Complex NW Lot, West Campus Central Lot and Sports Campus West Lot.

Clive Thomas presents 'Alaska and the World: Past, Present and Future' Tuesday, Oct. 4, 5-7 p.m. UAA Campus Bookstore

One of the ways often suggested to deal with Alaska's chronic economic and revenue problems is for the state to engage in more international dealings, especially with the Pacific Rim countries. This possible involvement requires consideration of the perception of how Alaska can benefit from global interactions versus the reality of what is possible in practice.

To assess this reality, Clive Thomas looks at Alaska's dealings with the outside world past, present and future and the extent to which these international interactions have and can be a panacea for Alaska's economic woes. He also explains that although most of state's global interactions have been conducted with an eye to economic benefit, some have been based on cultural, educational, and other non-economic motives.

Clive Thomas taught political science at the University of Alaska Southeast for thirty years. In July, the University of Alaska Press published his book, Alaska Political and Public Policy: The Dynamics of Beliefs, Institutions, Personalities and Power. He is now a senior fellow at the Foley Institute of Politics at Washington State University and a visiting professor at the University of São Paulo in Brazil.

There is free parking for this event in the South Lot, Sports Complex NW Lot, West Campus Central Lot and Sports Campus West Lot.

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