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Exploring race, identity, and culture.

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Persistent Perserverence

Essay by Yatibaey Evans (Spring 2025, FORUM Magazine)

Pangil Beach

Shaped by Two Islands: The Philippines & Alaska

Essay by Rafael Bitanga (Winter 2024-25, FORUM Magazine)

Crystal Worl, “Storytime at Moonrise”

Rising Above

A Filipino-Athabascan Family Discovers A Path To Intergenerational Healing

Essay by E.J. David Ramos (Winter 2022-23, FORUM Magazine)

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The Intertidal Zone

Digital Painting and Essay by Junnie Chup (Winter 2022-23, FORUM Magazine)

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Crossroads Alaska/Siberia

On A Museum Research Trip To The Soviet Far East In 1990, American Scholars Found Remarkable Artifacts And A Country In Dramatic Transition

Reflections by Darlene Orr, William Fitzhugh, and Valérie Chaussonnet (Winter 2021-22, FORUM Magazine)

 

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Continuous: A Conversation on Gender and Culture

Guiding Question: How does culture shape our understanding of gender?

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Death and Culture: Inheriting Richness

Guiding question: how does culture bring joy into how we move through experiencing death and grief?

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Salmonberries and Saag Aloo: Carrying Our Heritage

Guiding Question: How do we choose what heritage we carry with us?
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Alternate Realities: a conversation about class and race

Developed by Conversations Across Generations program alumni. Guiding question: how do race and class shape our sense of identity and community?

 
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The Alaska Humanities Forum is a non-profit, non-partisan organization that designs and facilitates experiences to bridge distance and difference – programming that shares and preserves the stories of people and places across our vast state, and explores what it means to be Alaskan.

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