Sealaska Heritage Institute (SHI) will sponsor a free fall lecture series featuring talks on diverse topics, ranging from Tlingit property law and Indigenous knowledge and art to the history of glacial movements in Southeast Alaska. The lectures will be held at the Walter Soboleff Building in Juneau and live streamed on SHI’s YouTube channel at noon Alaska time. Recordings of the talks will be saved to the institute’s channel immediately after.
The lecture series schedule for September:
Sept. 4 Our Submerged Past: Exploring Inundated Late Pleistocene (10,500- 17,00 year 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
For the full schedule, including October and November lectures, visit https://sealaskaheritage.org/news/.