AHF Community Conversation: Global Citizenship

The Alaska Humanities Forum (AHF) will host a community conversation March 1, at 6:00pm centered around the poetry of Soviet Union-born Ilya Kaminsky and the guiding question: What does it mean to be a global citizen?

Global citizenship is the idea that one's identity transcends geography or political borders and that responsibilities or rights are derived from membership in a broader class: "humanity."

Kaminsky was born in Odessa, former Soviet Union in 1977, arriving in the United States in 1993, when his family was granted asylum by the American government. He is the author of two critically acclaimed collections of poetry, Dancing in Odessa (2004) and Deaf Republic (2019).

The description for next week's event notes that the community conversation is designed to engage everyone interested in participating, regardless of background or level of connection to the topic and a way to collectively begin working to grapple with current events and our place in the world.

Those interested in attending the virtual event can RSVP at this link.