THURSDAY, August 19
7:00 Registration desk opens, Harrigan Centennial Hall
8:00 Opening session, Harrigan Centennial Hall Auditorium
Dusty Kidd, Convener
Welcomes and recognitions
Father Sergious, St. Michael’s
Ray Wilson, Headman of the Kiks.adi.
Jack Ozment, Deputy Mayor
Woody Widmark, Chairman, Sitka Tribe of Alaska
Randy Y. Larson, Acting Superintendent, Sitka National Historical Park
Nicholay N. Vinogradov, Deputy Consul General, the Russian Federation
Joan Antonson, Deputy State Historic Preservation Officer
8:45 Dave McMahan, Convener, International Association of Specialists on Russian America. Introduction of keynote speaker
Keynote: Alexander Petrov, Russian American Perspectives in Russia [English]
9:30 - 9:45 Break
9:45 Session: Sitka
Bob Medinger, Sitka Historical Society, Moderator.
9:45 Ray Wilson, Battle of 1804, Peace of 2004
10:25 Father Sergious, Undercurrents of Russian Orthodoxy in Alaska
10:45 John Dusty Kidd, Tommy Joseph, Battle of 1804
11:05 Arnold Alanen, Sitka’s “Pleasure Ground”
11:25 Jim Gibson, Lake Redoubt
12:05 - 1:30 Conference photograph (tentative time), followed by Lunch on your own
Session A: People of Russian America
Harrigan Centennial Hall, Auditorium
Randy Larson, Sitka NHP, Moderator
1:30 Margan Grover, Adak Island Artel
1:50 Dee Longenbaugh, Dimitri Bocharov
2:10 Alexander Zorin , Timofei Tarakanov
2:30 *
2:50 Elton Engstrom, Joseph O’Cain
3:10-3:30 break
3:30 Roxanne Easley, A.F. Kashevarov
3:50 Andrei Grinev, Creoles’ Social Mobility
4:10 *
4:30 Glenn Farris, Kirill Khlebnikov
4:50 Sergei Kan, Sergei Kostromitinov |
Session B: Exploration and Mapping
Harrigan Centennial Hall, Maksoutoff Room
Tom Gamble, Sitka NHP, Moderator
Vladimir Kolychev, Chirikov Mystery
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Don Douglass, Fate of Chirikov’s Crew
John Cloud, RA Charts: Russian and Tlingit
Victor Zvyagin, Vitus Bering
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Alexey Postnikv, RAC Charting/Mapping
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Marvin Falk, George Davidson
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5:20 – 6:00 Optional walking tour to St. Michael’s Cathedral or the Russian Bishops House
6:30 – 9:30 Opening Dinner, Harrigan Hall Auditorium
Welcome to Alaska. Senator Bert Stedman & Representative Peggy Wilson
Highlights of Conference Exhibits, Sam Heindel, Sitka Historical Society and Museum
Welcome from Finland. Britt Lundberg, Deputy Head of Government and Minister of Education and Culture, Autonomous Aland Islands.
Performance of White Sails – New Archangel Dancers and Naa Kahidi Dancers
Performance of Siberian folk costumes, Irkutsk Fort Ross Club
FRIDAY, August 20
8:00 Opening session, Harrigan Centennial Hall Auditorium
Dusty Kidd, Convener
History in Action: Sue Masica, Alaska Regional Director, National Park Service
8:20 Session A: Others in Russian America
Harrigan Centennial Hall, Auditorium
Ana Dittmar, Sitka NHP, Moderator
8:20 Gordon Pullar, Creoles of Leisnoi
8:40 Evgenie Stavtsev, Demidovs in Urals
9:00 *
9:20 Allen Engstrom, Russians and Tlingit
9:40 |
Session B: Aspects of Russian America
Harrigan Centennial Hall, Maksoutoff Room
Jo Antonson, Deputy SHPO, Moderator
Jenya Anichenko, Alcohol in Russian America
Ryan Jones, Naturalists, Aleuts and Whaling
Doug Veltre, Archeology of Gardening
Vadim Shakherov, Irkutsk Merchants
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10:00 – 10:20 Break
10:20 Ty Dilliplane, Convener, International Association of Specialists on Russian America. Introduction of keynote Speaker, Harrigan Centennial Hall Auditorium
Keynote: James R. Gibson, Work to be Done
10:40 Session A: Others in Russian America (cont.)
Harrigan Centennial Hall, Auditorium
10:40 Maria Enckell, Finns in Russian America
11:00 Suzanna Rabow-Edling, A. Furuhjelm
11:20 Annie Christensen, A. Furuhjelm
11:40 Ilya Vinkovetsky, Voyages, Ethnic Policies |
Session B: Aspects of Russian America (cont.)
Harrigan Centennial Hall, Maksoutoff Room
Dawn Black, Education: Shelikhova-St. Herman
Ty Dilliplane, Sitka-Kolmakov
Ken Pratt, 1855 Attack on Andreevskaia
Katherine Arndt, Sitka’s Tainted Sugar Scare |
12:00 Lunch on your own. Optional tour of the Russian Bishops House
1:30 Session A: Linguistics
Harrigan Centennial Hall, Auditorium
Dave McMahan, Moderator
1:30 Alexandra Maloney, Rus-Native Language
1:50 Thomas Gamble, Sitka Lingit Names
2:10 Larisa Glatskova, Rus-Tlingit Narratives
2:30 Alexandra Lindgren, Rus-Native Heritage
2:50 – 3:00 Break
3:10 Mira Bergelson, Ninilchik-Rus Dialect
3:30 Evgeny Golovko, Aleut Creoles
3:50 Andrej Kibrik, Rus in Upper Kusko
4:10 * |
Session B: Interpreting Russian America
Harrigan Centennial Hall, Maksoutoff Room
Peter Gorman, Moderator
Sue Thorsen, Rus Bishop’s House Restoration
Jody Smothers-Marcello, Resources-Narratives
Jo Antonson, A Rich Legacy
Robin Joy, Ft Ross Bicentennial
Nancy Yaw Davis, Orthodox Church and Earthquake
Bob Sam, The Fast Collection
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4:40 – 5:30 Optional bus tour to Sheldon Jackson Museum or the Russian Bishops House
6:00 Dinner on your own
7:00 Optional Program—White Nights Festival — A Celebration of Russian Culture
Harrigan Centennial Hall, Auditorium (Free Admission)
SATURDAY, August 21
8:00 Opening session, Harrigan Centennial Hall Auditorium
Dusty Kidd, Convener
Ana Dittmar, Sitka National Historical Park, on St. Michael’s Cathedral
8:20 – 12:00 Doll Making Workshop, Harrigan Centennial Hall, Rousseau Room
Mary Ellen Frank, Convener
8:20 Session A: Current Research
Harrigan Centennial Hall, Auditorium
Doug Veltre, Moderator
8:20 Dave McMahan, Archeology in RA
8:40 Artur Kharinsky, RAC Archaeology in Irkutsk
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9:20 Nadezhda Kuklina, RAC in Irkutsk
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10:00 – 10:20 Break
10:20 M Barsukova et.al. Irkutsk Ft Ross Club
10:40 *
11:00 Andrew Crow et.al RAC in Chukotka
11:20 V.O. Shubin, RAC on Kuriles
11:40 *
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Session B: Museums, Literature …
Harrigan Centennial Hall, Maksoutoff Room
Sue Thorsen, Moderator
Kate Miller, Fiction and History
Sergei Korsun, RA Collections Russia/Estonia
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Vladimir Tikhonov, Anga Museum
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Steve Henrikson, Russian Territorial Markers
Marilyn Knapp, Wrangell Paintings
Peter Gorman, Portrait of A Czar
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12:00 – 1:20 Optional Lunch at St. Michael’s Cathedral – traditional Russian food. Presentation of the Vitus Bering bust from Dr. Zvyagin to Lieutenant Governor Craig Campbell, State of Alaska.
1:20 Session A: Current Research (cont.)
Harrigan Centennial Hall, Auditorium
1:20 M.I. Shubin, RAC The Kuriles and Aleuts
1:40 *
2:00 Peter Schweitzer, NE Sib Old Settlers
2:20
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Session B: Museums, Literature … (Cont.)
Harrigan Centennial Hall, Maksoutoff Room
Rebecca Poulson, RA Structural Artifacts
Ana Dittmar, Icons
Fr. Sergious, Russian Orthodox Roundtable
Mary Ellen Frank, Doll Workshop Report |
3:00 - 3:20 Break
3:20 Memorializing Russian America Scholars, Harrigan Centennial Hall, Auditorium
Ty Dilliplane, Convener, Performance by St. Michael’s Cathedral Choir
4:00 Closing Session. Where Do We Go From Here?
Vladimir Tikhonov, Ty Dilliplane, Dave McMahan, IASRA Founders, Conveners
4:40 Bus tour to Sitka National Historical Park Visitors Center
Clarence Wadkins, Convener
6:00 St. Michael’s Cathedral, Vespers
7:00 Buses depart Crescent Harbor for closing picnic - Halibut Point Recreation Area
Thank you and bon voyage, Craig Campbell, Lt. Governor, State of Alaska
Thank you from the clans of Sitka, Tom Gamble, Convener
A poem around the campfire: Ty Dilliplane, convener
