UW News has posted a release today on “The Maple Cutter,” a documentary by African Studies faculty Danny Hoffman (JSIS) and Lynn M. Thomas (History) The documentary tells the story of Justin Wilke, who was accused of starting a wildfire while illegally removing trees from the Olympic National Forest. A trailer for the film is included in the

Conversations with emerging scholars tracing Horn of Africa connections to today’s global trends in popular politics, racial formation, and new forms of belonging. Each lecture is moderated by University of Washington Jackson School of International Studies Director Leela Fernandes followed by a Q&A session. This online series is sponsored by the Henry M. Jackson School

In the Jackson School’s spring lecture series, Changing Global Connections: New Formations of Identity, Place and Region, the African Studies program was to partner with Latin American and Caribbean Studies to host Dr. Paul Joseph López Oro speaking on indigenous Blackness and queer politics in Garifuna communities in New York. Watch the Lecture here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVq0jxEjoRY

The African Studies program finished the 2020-2021 academic year with an amazing 1-day symposium organized by Jackson School Ph.D. candidate Francis Abugbilla and Communications Ph.D. student Meagan Doll.  Panels featured current “works-in-progress” from Africanist graduate students around campus at different stages of the Ph.D. process.  Given the challenges of research under current conditions, the symposium provided an opportunity for students

Burkina Faso fighters seek protection with spiritual rituals By SAM MEDNICK Associated Press APRIL 29, 2021 — 8:40A OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso — Antoine Ouedraogo didn’t run when Islamic extremist fighters killed his colleagues only feet away from him in northern Burkina Faso. Instead, the 53-year-old says, he simply recited a secret word and became invisible. Continue

Monica Rojas-Stewart, Ph.D.; Afro-Peruvian and Afro-Latinx Diaspora Dance Submitted by Lisa Kwak on February 25, 2021 – 5:12pm To celebrate and to recognize that the contributions of Black Americans should be appreciated beyond the month of February, the Department of Dance is using its website and social media platforms to spotlight a different Black dance artist in the

First-year doctoral student in international studies, Yasir Zaidan, pens an article titled “Sudan’s transitional national security” on how Sudan’s revolution is going through a tough transition following the removal of ex-President of Sudan Omar al-Bashir two years ago.

New York, NY – 14 December 2020 – The Modern Language Association of America today announced it is awarding its twenty-eighth annual Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for French and Francophone Studies to Maya Angela Smith, associate professor of French at the University of Washington, for Senegal Abroad: Linguistic Borders. Racial Formations, and Diasporic Imaginaries, published by the University

Yasir Zaidan, a first-year doctoral student in international studies at the Jackson School, writes an opinion piece about how recent imposed punitive measures against Ethiopia over a dam could plunge an entire region into chaos. Zaidan’s research focuses on the Horn of Africa and Red Sea security. Read full piece

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