Exhibition Symposium (PDE)


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Saturday - 4/5/25


10:45am - Cold War in Alaska Symposium

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10 a.m. – Doors Open 
10:30 – Introduction and Opening Remarks by Adam Baldwin, Deputy Director, Visitor Engagement at the Anchorage Museum  
10:45 – Presentation by Zachariah Hughes Old, Cold and Sold: Long Range Radars in the Privatized Post-Cold War Era 
11:30 – Presentation by Julie Decker, Director of Anchorage Museum Why Cold War Now. 
Noon – Online Presentation by Holly Guise, PhD, Alaska Native Workers and Students of the Cold War 
12:45 p.m. – Lunch Break  
1:45 – Moderated Panel Discussion (Adam Baldwin - Moderator, Julie Decker, PhD; Ian Hartman, PhD; Zachariah Hughes, Charles Wohlforth – Panelists) 
2:30 – Presentation by Charles Wohlforth Cold War Pioneers: The 1950s Formation of Alaska's Political and Economic Identity 
3:30 – Invitation to tour Cold War to the Cosmos: Early Distant Warning Systems and the Arctic hosted by Julie Decker, Ian Hartman, Sierra Young, and Adam Baldwin