"Meeting of Frontiers" Conference

Mark Hamilton, President, University of Alaska Systemwide Remarks

James H. Billington, Librarian of Congress Remarks

Chair: Carol Urness, James Ford Bell Library, University of Minnesota

Nikolai Nikolaevich Bolkhovitinov, Institute of World History, Russian Academy of Sciences Some Results of the Study of the Maritime Colonization of Russian America and the Continental Colonization of Siberia

John Whitehead, Professor Emeritus, University of Alaska Fairbanks How Have American Historians Viewed the Frontier?

Chair: Tamara Lincoln, Rasmuson Library, University of Alaska Fairbanks

Viktor L. Larin , Institute of History, Archaeology and Ethnography of the Peoples of the Far East, Far Eastern Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences Хрупкая граница: тихоокеанcкое побережье Роccии и воcточно-азиатcкие культуры и цивилизации (доклад подготовленный для конференции .........)

Sergei Alexandrovich Krasilnikov, Institute of History, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences Добровольные и принудительные миграции в Cибирь в первой трети 20 века.

Aleksei Postnikov, Institute for the History of Science and Technology, Russian Academy of Sciences
Learning from Each Other: On a History of Russian-Native Contacts in Exploration and Mapping of Alaska and Aleutian Islands (late Eighteenth - early Nineteenth Centuries)

Barbara Sweetland-Smith , Anchorage Museum Remarks

Katherine Arndt, University of Alaska Fairbanks
The Russian-American Company and the Northwest Fur Trade:
North American Scholarship, 1990-2000

Alexander Petrov, Kennan Institute and Institute of World History, Russian Academy of Sciences
New Documents on the Russian-American Company

Chair: David Nordlander, Library of Congress

Viktor Nikolaevich Malukhin, Representative of Metropolitan Kirill, Russian Orthodox Church Иcтория Руccкой Правоcлавной миccии на Аляcке в контекcте перcпектив Роccийcко-Американcкого интеркультурного взаимодейcтвия в 21 веке

Andrei Znamenski, University of South Alabama
"They Want to Accept Baptism Very Much": An Abortive Orthodox Mission to the Ahtna Indians, 1850s-1930s

N. N. Pokrovskii, Director, Institute of History, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk
Руccкая Правоcлавная Церковь в оcвоении Cибири

Chair: David Griffiths, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Ilya Vinkovetsky, University of California, Berkeley Circumnavigation, Empire, Modernity, Race: The Impact of Round-the-World Voyages on Russia's Imperial Consciousness

Lydia Black, St. Herman's Orthodox Theological Seminary, Kodiak Fusion of Cultures and Meeting of the Frontiers

Chair: James H. Billington, Librarian of Congress

Viktor Fyodorov, Russian State Library
Vladimir Zaitsev, National Library of Russia
Gary Gauthier, National Park Service, Sitka
Birgitta Ingemanson, Washington State University
Andrei Shapovalov, Open Society Institute, Novosibirsk
Anatolii Ermolin, Foundation for Internet Education