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SUMMARY:Are They Coming Home? Transient Worker–Iñupiat Relations on Ala
 ska's North Slope - Elizabeth Walsh (CCTL\, University of Cambridge)
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DESCRIPTION:A number of non-Indigenous transient workers move temporarily 
 to the Iñupiat-majority village of Utqiaġvik\, Alaska\, for higher-than-
 average wages.  This paper will take as its starting point cultural enrich
 ment activities organized by the community’s tribal college to familiari
 ze its non-Indigenous employees with Iñupiaq language and culture.  Notin
 g that transient workers vocally approve of "sharing culture"\, it will in
 terrogate tensions that emerged around these activities and plans to quant
 ify participation in them.  It will suggest that\, for the Iñupiat staff 
 who organize "Culture Hour"\, framing enrichment activities as "sharing" h
 as implications of relation-building and serves as a call to robustly enga
 ge with Iñupiaq socio-political formations.  These implications\, it will
  be argued\, exceed the expectations of passive\, affirming recognition th
 at liberal multiculturalism has inculcated in their non-Indigenous colleag
 ues.
LOCATION:Scott Polar Research Institute\, Lecture Theatre
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