Are the Dogs Running Today? A Lecture by Historian Bathsheba Demuth
Schedule
Tue, 24 Mar, 2026 at 06:30 pm
UTC-08:00Location
625 C Street, Anchorage, AK, United States, Alaska 99501 | Anchorage, AK
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Hear from historian Bathsheba Demuth as she explores the deep connections among people, sled dogs, and salmon in the Yukon River watershed. This talk reflects on how environmental changes reshape where and how we live—and our relationships with the animals alongside us, from domestic dogs to wild salmon. Enter via the 7th Avenue doors.A recording will be available on Crowdcast within 24 hours of the lecture.
Free, registration recommended.
6:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 24, in the Auditorium
Presented in conjunction with “Dog Show,” now on view in the Patricia B. Wolf Family Galleries on the First Floor.
About the Speaker
Bathsheba Demuth is a writer and environmental historian specializing in the Russian and North American Arctic, and author of Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait. Currently, she is writing a biography of the Yukon River watershed from the beginning of colonization to present, and has spent the last several years traveling the river by boat and dog team. She is the Dean's Associate Professor of History and Environment and Society at Brown University.
Image credit: H. J. Goetzman, Peel River Indian dog teams in Dawson with wild meat, c. 1987–1904. Photograph. Selid-Bassoc Photograph Collection, UAF-1964-92-404, Archives, University of Alaska Fairbanks.
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