April 22, 3:30 – 5:00 pm | Thomson Hall

The Jackson School of International Studies invites Research Scholar Kim Brandt, Columbia University, to discuss the significance of the Hiroshima Maidens.

“Hiroshima Maidens” loosely translates to “genbaku otome”, a phrase used to refer to young women who were scarred by injuries during the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Ten years later, 25 such women were flown to New York to undergo extensive reconstructive surgery. The “Maidens” received wide publicity in the U.S. and Japan, where the story resonated with growing anxiety about nuclear weapons, public fascination with new forms of beauty culture, and the potential of postwar technology.

Free |

April 23 – May 3 | Jacob Lawrence Gallery

April 24, 4:00 – 5:30 pm | Communications Building

April 24 – May 28 | Allen Library North Lobby

In partnership with the?, the 91探花Taiwan Studies Arts & Culture Program welcomes everyone to celebrate Taiwan’s pop music through the “Music, Island, Stories: Taiwan Calling!” pop-up exhibition on the 91探花campus.

Free |?

April 25, 3:00 – 4:30 pm | Husky Union Building

Join The Jackson School of International Studies for Modern Abortion Around the World, a panel discussion on the history of abortion in Bolivia, China, Kenya, South Asia, and the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands over the past 60 years, and?what those histories reveal about technopolitical developments, reproductive governance, and transnational social movements.

April 25, 5:30 – 7:00 pm | Kane Hall

The 2024 Griffith and Patricia Way Lecture will interrogate two sets of fourteenth-century hell paintings owned by the temples Gokurakuji in Hyōgo Prefecture and Konkaikōmyōji in Kyoto, which both posit the possibility of early escape from the infernal realms, albeit in seemingly contradictory ways. This talk will uncover the ways people in premodern Japan transformed hell from a place solely retributive in nature into one that had liberating powers.

Free |

April 25, 7:30 pm | Meany Hall

The 91探花Wind Ensemble, led by Director Timothy Salzman, and Symphonic Band, led by Director Shaun Day, present “Spotlight,” performing music by Nancy Galbraith, Michael Daugherty, Henk Badings, and others. This performance features winners of the 2024 Winds Concerto Competition: Devin Foster (tuba), Kelly Hou (harp), and Cole Henslee (tuba).

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April 26, 12:00 – 1:30 pm | Suzzallo Library

Guest speaker Dr. Melvin Rogers, professor of political science at Brown University, is invited to speak about “The Darkened Light of Faith: Race, Democracy, and Freedom in African American Political Thought.”

Free |

April 26, 3:30 pm | Denny Hall or Online via Zoom

The Department of Classics invites Glynnis Fawkes, cartoonist and archaeological illustrator, who will analyze the way a cartoonist adapts history. Fawkes will specifically look into Eric H. Cline’s 1177BC: A Graphic History of the Year Civilization Collapsed? to describe the process of interpreting Cline’s text in comic, an exercise where Fawkes repeatedly asks: how might she tell this story visually, and how can she put Eric’s words into the mouths of characters involved in the story?

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April 26, 3:30 – 5:00 pm | ?Smith Hall

Dr. Keston K Perry, who researches race, reparations, and climate change for the University of California, Los Angeles Department of African American Studies, is invited to speak for the Geography Colloquium on “Beyond Repair? The Crisis of Ecological Imperialism and Reparative Ecologies in the Caribbean.”

Free |

April 26, 7:30 pm | ?Meany Hall

David Alexander Rahbee conducts the 91探花Symphony and winners of the 91探花Concerto Competition—Kai-En Cheng, violin; Rachel Reyes, flute; and Ella Kalinichenko, piano—in a program including winning concerto excerpts. This performance will feature a 91探花student composition by graduate student Yonatan Ron, Silvestre Revueltas’s Sensemayá, and Overture to Le roi d’Ys,?by??duard Lalo. ??

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April 27, 7:30 pm | ?Meany Hall

Renowned bassist Todd Sickafoose headlines this special performance as a part of the 2024 Improvised Music Project Festival (IMPFEST). Sickafoose will be performing sets with 91探花Jazz Studies students and 91探花faculty Cuong Vu, trumpet, Ted Poor, drums, and Steve Rodby, bass.

Free |

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Katz Distinguished Lecture: Abderrahmane Sissako

April 26, 7:00 PM |

Free |

A Conversation with Brad Smith

April 27, 5:00 PM | Husky Union Building

When your technology changes the world, what responsibility do you bear to address the global issues that arise? This conversation with Microsoft President & Vice Chair?Brad Smith, inspired by his book “Tools and Weapons,” explores issues of responsibility and risk in the technological space, especially in the spread of misinformation.?Margaret O’Mara?(Department of History) moderates this panel with insights from 91探花professors?Kate Starbird?(Human Centered Design & Engineering) and?Jevin West (Information School) of UW’s Center for an Informed Public. Sponsored by the 91探花Alumni Association.

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15th Annual Allen L. Edwards Psychology Lectures: Brain | Mind | Body: Exploring the Human Mind through Neuroimaging

April 27, 7:30 PM |

91探花Public Lectures: An Evening with Masha Gessen

April 28, 7:30 PM | Kane Hall 130

Many of these online opportunities are streamed through Zoom. All 91探花faculty, staff, and students have access to?.?

Protest, Race and Citizenship across African Worlds:?Ethiopia in Theory, Theory as Memoir

March 17, 12:00 – 1:30 PM |?

Bambitchell: Dolphins, ships and other vessels

March 18, 12:00 – 1:30 PM |?

In this performance reading, hosted by the Henry Art Gallery, artist duo Bambitchell continue their exploration of the legal frameworks that govern non-human animals and objects, moving from the territorial jurisdictions explored in their film??(2019), to the legal realm of the sea.?Dolphins, ships and other vessels?is a polyvocal narrative that spans bodies of water. Stretching from Te Moana-o-Raukawa, to the South China Sea, the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, and the Clyde and Kaniatarowanenneh Rivers, the narrative traces the disappearance and reappearance of a dolphin, the reincarnations of ships, and the embodiments of Jinn—as vessels, mammals, water, myth, and law.

Illustrating Injustice: The Power of Print

Through May 9 |?

Free |

Jacob Lawrence:?The American Struggle

Through May 23 |?

Jacob Lawrence: The American Struggle?questions the stories we’ve been told by amplifying narratives that have been systematically overlooked from America’s history. This exhibition reunites Lawrence’s revolutionary 30-panel series?Struggle: From the History of the American People?(1954–56) for the first time since 1958, and Seattle Art Museum will be its only West Coast venue. These modernist paintings chronicle pivotal moments from the American Revolution through to westward expansion and feature Black, female, and Native protagonists as well as the founders of the United States.?Lawrence interprets the democratic debates that defined the early nation and echoed into the civil rights movements during which he was painting the?Struggle?series. Works by contemporary artists Derrick Adams, Bethany Collins, and Hank Willis Thomas engage themes of democracy, justice, truth, and the politics of inclusion to show that the struggle for expansive representation in America continues.

$7.00 – $10.00 |

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Fermented Face with Candice Lin

March 2, 1:00 – 2:30 PM |?

Protest, Race and Citizenship across African Worlds:?Policing Somali Refugees: Somali Refugee Resistance to State Violence

March 3, 12:00 – 1:30 PM |?

For Somali refugees, San Diego’s City Heights neighborhood and the camp at Dadaab, Kenya are connected carceral spaces.?Both are governed by militarized techniques and technologies of surveillance and militarism, and both demand counter-technologies through which refugees survive and even thrive. Join the Jackson School of International Studies, African Studies Program?and?Mohamed?Abumaye of California State University to explore this topic, as part of the Protest, Race and Citizenship across African Worlds series.

Next in the series:

• March 17, 12:00 – 1:30 PM:?Ethiopia in Theory, Theory as Memoir

Critical Issues Lecture Series:?Dolores Dorantes

March 5, 12:00 PM |?

Dolores Dorantes is an Acharya in the Buddhist tradition, a journalist, writer, therapist, poet, performer and sacred animal. They will be giving the final lecture in the Critical Issues Lecture Series, presented by the School of Art + Art History + Design and the Henry Art Gallery.?

Free |

After Democracy: A Conversation with Zizi Papacharissi

March 5, 11:00 – 12:00 PM |?

Join the?Center For Journalism, Media and Democracy?for a conversation with Zizi Papacharissi about her new book: “After Democracy: Imaging our Political Future” (Yale University Press).

The book draws on original interviews conducted with citizens of more than thirty countries to explore what democracy is, what it means to be a citizen, and what can be done to enhance governance.

Free |

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Join the 91探花 community as we celebrate Martin Luther King, Jr.’s life and legacy; honor the work of generations of everyday activists; and rededicate ourselves to creating a just and equitable future for all. In 2021, the celebrations will look a bit different-but there are still ways to reflect on the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.; learn about racial justice movements; engage in democracy and more!

Protest, Race and Citizenship across African Worlds:?Whose Struggle for What? Sexual Minorities and Social Movements in Africa

January 22, 12:00 – 1:30 PM |?

Have popular political protests in Tunisia, Ethiopia, and Sudan in the past decade allowed sexual minorities to imagine cultivating a world beyond the violence and injustices to which they have been subjected??Serawit?Debele,?postdoctoral research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity in G?ttingen, Germany, will explore this topic in this talk sponsored by the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies and African Studies Program.

Next in the series:

• February 3: Reconstruction, Reconsidered: Belonging and Urban Contestation In Mogadishu’s ‘Building Boom’
• February 10:?Rethinking Israeli Citizenship: The Case of Ethiopian Jews
• March 3: Policing Somali Refugees: Somali Refugee Resistance to State Violence

Free |

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Beyond Economic Mobility: Can Higher Education Advance Racial Equity?

January 7, 5:30 – 6:30 PM | Online

TEAL Digital Scholarship for East Asian Studies: The Deep Fake of Place | Tateuchi Research Methods Workshop Series

January 7, 3:30 – 5:00 PM |

Protest, Race and Citizenship across African Worlds

January 20 – March 17 |

Join us in conversation with emerging scholars tracing Horn of Africa connections to today’s global trends in popular politics, racial formation, and new forms of belonging.

This series is sponsored by the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies and African Studies Program, in partnership with the Center for Global Studies, Comparative History of Ideas, Near Eastern Languages & Civilization and Simpson Center for the Humanities at the 91探花 and the Henry M. Jackson Foundation.?

Upcoming events in the series:

• Whose Struggle for What? Sexual Minorities and Social Movements in Africa: January 20, 12 – 1:30 PM
• Reconstruction, Reconsidered: Belonging and Urban Contestation In Mogadishu’s ‘Building Boom’: February 3, 12 – 1:30 PM
• Rethinking Israeli Citizenship: The Case of Ethiopian Jews: February 10, 9 – 10:30 AM

2020-2021 WISIR Series:?Contemporary Race & Politics in the United States

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Lessons (Not) Learned From the Holocaust | “A Reply to Screamers”: How Americans Responded to the Holocaust?

November 10, 4:00 PM |

Round Table Discussion 2: What Documents Constrain, Narrate, or Liberate Subjecthood?

November 11, 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM |

Katz Lecture: Abderrahmane Sissako, “In Conversation: African Worlds / World Films”

November 12, 12:00 PM |

Global Challenges Discussion

Book Talk: State Formation in China and Taiwan with Julia Strauss

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Olmstead in Seattle

November 12, 7 pm | Center for Urban Horticulture

Seattle has one of the most extensively developed Olmsted park systems in the United States, yet the story of how it came into existence has never been fully explored or described – until now, that is.

Olmsted in Seattle: Creating a Park System for a Modern City, by Jennifer Ott, traces the story of how, in the midst of galloping growth at the turn of the twentieth century, Seattle’s city leaders seized on the confluence of a roaring economy with the City Beautiful movement to hire the Olmsted Brothers landscape architecture firm. Their 1903 plan led to a supplemental plan, a playground plan, numerous park and boulevard designs, changes to park system management, and a ripple effect for the firm, as the Olmsted Brothers were subsequently hired to design public and private landscapes throughout the region.

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Pilobolus: Come to Your Senses

November 14 – 16 | Meany Center

This “mind-blowing troupe of wildly creative and physically daring dancers” (NY Newsday) tests the limits of human physicality. Performing for 300,000+ people each year, Pilobolus has been honored with a TED Fellowship, a Grammy nomination, a Primetime Emmy Award and several Cannes Lion Awards. In their new show, Come to Your Senses, the company unravels the mystery of the origin of life, explores the beauty and strength of human connection, and celebrates our orientation in the biosphere.

Tickets are $61?|

$10 tickets for 91探花students when you show your Husky ID in advance at the?or on the night of the show at the Box Office at Meany Hall.

Funky Mogadishu: The Music of Somalia’s Disco Era

Tickets are $5 – $20?|?

MFON: Women Photographers of the African Diaspora

Free?|?

Indigo Mist

is an associate professor in 91探花Bothell’s School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences and chair of the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies’ . He answered a few questions about his book “,” published in February by University of Georgia Press.

What’s the concept behind this book?

The book tells the story of how safari tourism in the East African country of shapes the very meaning and value of the landscape and how communities there have organized to fight for control of their land.

In 2006 an ecotourism company purchased land from the Tanzanian government for a nature reserve to protect African wildlife and benefit local communities. Projects like these abound across the globe under the name of community conservation or integrated conservation. Though some are more successful than others, the premise of using Western knowledge and markets to transform landscapes for conservation is rarely questioned.

In the communities known as , however, the largely Maasai community organized and resisted the project on the grounds that it took away their land and enforced a colonial idea of conservation where people had no place.

What has happened since then?

Almost 10 years since the land was purchased the project is still in the center of a political maelstrom. Despite the company’s best efforts to win support from the community, most residents continue to organize against the project. In doing so, they have come together to voice their own vision of conservation that is compatible with their pastoralist livelihood.

This might sound like an all-too-familiar story of an indigenous group being displaced and dispossessed of its land by foreign investors in the name of progress and development.

The twist, however, is that the communities see some tourism companies as allies in their political struggle. I wrote this book to understand why this was happening and what we could learn from it, as well as to tell the exceptional story of communities fighting against dominant ideas and powerful actors.

You write of the changes that “neoliberal” reforms brought to Tanzania and the African ecosystem known as the . Would you explain?

Tourism is often seen as a passive activity, one that simply adds value to already existing areas. But tourism in Tanzania is an industry that depends on specific notions about African nature and wildlife, what their value is and how best to protect them.

Nested in these common understandings of the meanings and values of African wildlife are discourses — ways of thinking — that empower certain groups to speak for African nature and wildlife. These empower Western conservationists over local people. In fact, Maasai residents of northern Tanzania have historically been viewed as a threat to the very landscapes they have managed for hundreds of years.

The late 1980s brought the fall of Tanzania’s socialist government and the onset of structural adjustment reforms. Liberalization led to the dismantling of many state institutions and opened new possibilities for civil society groups to organize.

These Maasai were particularly active in building grassroots organizations to articulate longstanding claims to land and natural resources, as well as to their own political voice. With the opening up of the economy came an increase in tourism investment, which unleashed new interests on the landscape.

While most tourism companies see themselves as economic actors, they play an equally important role in the politics of conservation and development. With limited resources for development, state institutions and local communities often depend on their relationships with investors to manage their land. In this new paradigm relationships with investors become proxies for longstanding struggles over land and civic rights.

The ecotourism company stressed conservation and development. But you and your students also noted the “implicit idea” that “foreign whites are in a better position to care for African nature than are the African residents of that place, in this case the Maasai.” How prevalent is this colonial thinking here in the 21^st century??

In the film, “,” famed German zoologist and conservationist Bernhard Grzimek says that the Serengeti is the “cultural heritage of the whole of mankind.” On their own, statements like this may sound generous and innocent. But this quote and the film are one of many different examples where the universal value of African nature is upheld as fact. This discourse is more than a way of thinking about Africa and African wildlife — it is a way of acting.

For example, when the ecotourism company purchased land for their own nature reserve, they directly benefit from the power of this discourse. When Maasai challenge them and their true interests, the question of money is easily pushed aside for more ethical considerations.

The ecotourism company echoed Grizimek directly, saying, “We don’t own this land. It is for our children and our children’s children.” Such statements can either sound ridiculous — given they purchased the land for $1.2 million dollars — or simply reflect the common sense belief in conservation as a universal value.

Conservation as we know it today in Africa was set in motion under colonialism. While many independent governments like Tanzania have embraced conservation for their cultural heritage and economic productivity, conservation thinking continues to favor certain ideas and the people who advocate those ideas.

In the case of Loliondo conservation, this thinking continues to empower people who “speak for the universal value of African nature.”

When struggles over conservation involve questions of development, local people are often seen as parochial and culturally uninformed. This is one of the ways that colonial legacies continue to influence contemporary politics almost 50 years after most African nations have achieved their independence.

You conclude describing a land-rights victory of the Maasai people in dealing with the Tanzanian government. What do you think the future holds for the Maasai, and for the tourism industry in the Serengeti?

The struggle over land rights and conservation is a very fluid dynamic. The Maasai have recently lost a court case against one of the tourism companies described in the book. The hopeful part of the story is that the Maasai have continued to advocate for their vision of conservation and development.

Ideas alone don’t often stop powerful transnational interests and actors, but ideas that lead to collective action — locally, nationally and internationally — do matter profoundly.

Against all odds Maasai in Loliondo have continued to show that their ideas do matter and have value despite not fitting neatly into popular narratives about conservation and development. Their efforts have so far prevented several attempts to create new protected areas on their land.

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For more information about Gardner and his work, contact him at 425-352-3591 or gardnerb@uw.edu.