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When Silence Breaks: Healing Through Dialogue in Post-Genocide Rwanda
April 03, 2026
UAF's Dr. Christine Kindler explores how dialogue in Rwanda fosters healing, trust and reconciliation after genocide
The Last Frontier: Telling Northern Stories to Southern Audiences
April 01, 2026
Neil Shea explores how Arctic stories are told and why northern lives and landscapes resonate beyond the North.
Seeds of Conflict: Japan and China
Explore how premodern views of China shape Japan's complex relations in East Asia today with Dr. Erin Brightwell.
Reading Ice Between the Lines: Dr. Erika Monahan and the First Atlas of Siberia
March 30, 2026
Historian Erika Monahan reads 17th-century Siberian maps to uncover how ice, empire and movement shaped Arctic life.
A Life in Tile
Ceramic artist Nancy Hausle-Johnson reflects on four decades of public art across Alaska, where tile brings stories into everyday spaces.
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