SHI to sponsor 2024 fall lecture series

Sealaska Heritage Institute (SHI) will sponsor a free fall lecture series featuring 14 talks on diverse topics, ranging from metagenomic analysis and Indigenous knowledge and art to the history of glacial movements in Southeast Alaska.

The lectures will be held at SHI’s Walter Soboleff Building in Juneau and live streamed on the institute’s YouTube channel at noon Alaska time. Recordings of the talks will be saved to the institute’s channel immediately following each event.

The lecture series schedule is as follows:

• Aug. 22: Metagenomic Analysis of Animals, Plants and Their Environments by Alida de Flamingh
• Sept. 4: Our Submerged Past: Exploring Inundated Late Pleistocene (10,500-17,000 years ago) Caves in Southeast Alaska with SUNFISH® by Kelly Monteleone and Kristof Richmond
• Sept. 10: Indigenous Southeast Alaskan Wolf Knowledge by Steve J. Langdon
• Sept. 12: Indigenous Knowledge by Jeffrey Brooks
• Sept. 17: Eagle’s Journey with Raven by Preston Singletary
• Sept. 19: Tsimshian Art by David A. Boxley
• Sept. 25: The Meaning of Haida Title by Terri-Lynn Williams-Davidson
• Sept. 26: Haida Art by Robert Davidson
• Sept. 30: Unlocking the Potential of Generative AI by Auryan Ratliff
• Oct. 2: Some Un-Answered Arctic Questions by Bill Fitzhugh
• Oct. 8: Waking Up from the Last Ice Age by Jason Briner
• Oct. 24: Feeling the Histories of Lhq’a:lets by Dylan Robinson
• Nov. 7: Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (ANCSA) by Emil Notti and Willie Hensley
• Nov. 12: Tlingit Property Law by Rosita Ḵaaháni Worl
• Nov. 14: Chehalis Case Supreme Court Decision by Chris McNeil

Sealaska Heritage Institute is a private nonprofit founded in 1980 to perpetuate and enhance Tlingit, Haida and Tsimshian cultures of Southeast Alaska. Its goal is to promote cultural diversity and cross-cultural understanding through public services and events. SHI also conducts scientific and public policy research that promotes Alaska Native arts, cultures, history and education statewide. The institute is governed by a Board of Trustees and guided by a Council of Traditional Scholars, a Native Artist Committee and a Southeast Regional Language Committee.

CONTACT: Kathy Dye, SHI Media and Publications Deputy Director, 907.321.4636, kathy.dye@sealaska.com.

Caption: Recent lecture sponsored by Sealaska Heritage Institute, courtesy of SHI. Note: Media outlets are permitted to use this image for coverage of this story. For a higher-res image, contact kathy.dye@sealaska.com.