Past Conferences

Since 1995, graduate students from UAA's English Department have collaborated annually with faculty and staff to host the conference, traditionally held in the spring, and to bring up local, national, and international keynote speakers. In the past, special panels have centered on local Alaskan history and literature, geography and science, theater, nature writing, and media and literature in the classroom. From 1999 onwards, the graduate student directors have chosen themes around which to coordinate presentations:

2007: Shakespeare in the Bush
2006: Technology, Humanity, and Change
2005: Ethics Beauty Environment: the Wilderness of Signs
2004: Laws Without Outlaws: Territory / Utopia / Transgression
2003: History & Mystery: Investigation, Interrogation, Interpretation
2002: Expanding the Text, Imagining the Future
2001: Locating the Story: Origins and Destinations
2000: Telling Images, Revealing Words
1999: Telling Stories, Writing Histories, Shaping Identities