8. Thursday, July 4 **Special time: 1:30 pm (NY)**: "A Russia’s Length Away: Anthropological Kinship in Alaska during Putin’s War in Ukraine"

This lecture relates an experiential anthropology of Alaska in a time when the neighbor it shares with Ukraine is destroying millions of lives inside Russia and in the country it has invaded. Understanding how Alaskans, including and in great part the Indigenous communities, are affected allows for a new turn in the study of the 49th state as a cultural space and place. Drawing on the ethnographic research in the regions of the Bering Strat, Middle-Yukon River, and Interior Alaska, the author reflects on the renewed anthropological kinship at the backdrop of the transforming social-cultural landscape in her longtime home.