FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

FRIDAY, JANUARY 17, 2003

NORTHERN CHAIR LECTURE SERIES STARTS NEXT WEEK

This year’s Northern Chair Lecture Series begins on Thursday, January 23, and features guest speaker Dr. Müller-Wille, from the Department of Geography at McGill University.

Lecture #1:
Caribou Never Die - Dene Hunters and Modernization in the 1970s
Thursday, January 23, 7:30 p.m.
Bata Library Film Theatre, Trent University

Lecture #2:
Between Livelihood and European Union Directives - Sámi Reindeer Herders in Sápmi (Finland)
Thursday, January 30, 7:30 p.m.
Bata Library Film Theatre, Trent University

Lecture #3:
Early Arctic Anthropology and Geography - Franz Boas, Wilhelm Weike and the Inuit of Tinijjuarvik
Monday, February 3, 8 p.m.
Traill College Dining Hall, Scott House, Trent University, 300 London Street

Lecture #4:
Inuit and Their Land - Place Names and Cultural Self-Determination
Thursday, February 13, 7:30 p.m.
Bata Library Film Theatre, Trent University

These lectures are free and open to the public. The series is sponsored by the Frost Centre for Canadian Studies and Native Studies, and the Northern and Polar Studies Committee.

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For more information contact:
Marilyn Miller, Geography Department, Trent University,
(705) 748-1011, ext. 1440