BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 METHOD:PUBLISH PRODID:-//Telerik Inc.//Sitefinity CMS 15.1//EN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Eastern Standard Time BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20251102T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=1SU;BYHOUR=2;BYMINUTE=0;BYMONTH=11 TZNAME:Eastern Standard Time TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20250301T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=2SU;BYHOUR=2;BYMINUTE=0;BYMONTH=3 TZNAME:Eastern Daylight Time TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DESCRIPTION:The Anthropology Department\, with co-sponsorship from the Huma nities Center\, the Geography and the Environment Department\, and Communi ty Geography\, welcomes Jonathan Lim\, postdoctoral fellow at the Universi ty of Arkansas\, to deliver his lecture\, “Holding the River\, Holding the Past: Co-Creating Knowledge in a Changing Alaskan Landscape.”Quinhagak is a community of around seven hundred Alaska Native people on the Bering Se a. Beset by grave challenges in the form of climate-related landscape ecol ogical change\, the Yupik people of Quinhagak have nonetheless held on to their traditional ways of life and cultural heritage. Taking proactive ste ps to mitigate these challenges\, they worked with spatial researchers to found a community-owned geospatial company in 2022 named. Nalaquq\, Inc. ( trans. “It is found”) in order to map threats to cultural heritage\, inclu ding archaeological sites and centuries-old subsistence areas.In a recent example of a severe landscape shift\, the river upon which Quinhagak is si ted is experiencing drastic erosion\, and is threatening to avulse (i.e.. stop flowing)\, which would deprive the community of access to the all-imp ortant annual salmon run. Through the lens of a recently-awarded NSF grant between Nalaquq and the University of Arkansas to address this potentiall y dangerous waterway change\, we will explore how tensions between Alaska Native communities outside academic researchers may be navigated for the g ood of the community\, and if meaningful knowledge co-creation and collabo ration is indeed possible in the windswept tundra of Southwest Alaska. DTEND:20251030T223000Z DTSTAMP:20260414T154216Z DTSTART:20251030T200000Z LOCATION: SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Holding the River\, Holding the Past: Co-Creating Knowledge in a Ch anging Alaskan Landscape UID:RFCALITEM639117637367731000 X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

The Anthropology Department\, with co-spons orship from the Humanities Center\, the Geography and the Environment Depa rtment\, and Community Geography\, welcomes Jonathan Lim\, postdoctoral fe llow at the University of Arkansas\, to deliver his lecture\, “Holding the River\, Holding the Past: Co-Creating Knowledge in a Changing Alaskan Lan dscape.”

Quinhagak is a community of around seven hundred Alaska Nat ive people on the Bering Sea. Beset by grave challenges in the form of cli mate-related landscape ecological change\, the Yupik people of Quinhagak h ave nonetheless held on to their traditional ways of life and cultural her itage. Taking proactive steps to mitigate these challenges\, they worked w ith spatial researchers to found a community-owned geospatial company in 2 022 named. Nalaquq\, Inc. (trans. “It is found”) in order to map threats t o cultural heritage\, including archaeological sites and centuries-old sub sistence areas.

In a recent example of a severe landscape shift\, th e river upon which Quinhagak is sited is experiencing drastic erosion\, an d is threatening to avulse (i.e.. stop flowing)\, which would deprive the community of access to the all-important annual salmon run. Through the le ns of a recently-awarded NSF grant between Nalaquq and the University of A rkansas to address this potentially dangerous waterway change\, we will ex plore how tensions between Alaska Native communities outside academic rese archers may be navigated for the good of the community\, and if meaningful knowledge co-creation and collaboration is indeed possible in the windswe pt tundra of Southwest Alaska.

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