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Greetings!
Can you believe the holidays are just around the corner? Hopefully the events below will offer some ideas on great books to fill blanks in your shopping lists! Seattle Asian Art Museum at Volunteer Park is hosting an exhibition opening Saturday called "Painting Seattle: Kamekichi Tokita and Kenjiro Nomura" which is curated by Barbara Johns and relates to our new book, Signs of Home. So check it out! Until then, we hope to see you around town (or at a conference) soon! I'll be at the Native American Art Studies conference in Ottawa next week so if you're there, stop by and say hello! All the best, Rachael remann@u.washington.edu  |
Douglas Wilson & Theresa Langford
| |  Exploring Fort Vancouver
To explore the sweep of human history at Fort Vancouver is to grasp some of the essentials of the North American experience. The fort has been part of the major historical changes in the Pacific Northwest for over 150 years, from the effects of colonialism on native peoples to the role of the U.S. Army. Native Americans, traders, homesteaders, and soldiers lived and worked at the fort, their lives interwoven and their stories imbedded in the objects they left behind. Exploring Fort Vancouver uses some of the most intriguing objects from the fort's extensive archaeological and archival collections to tell the history of technology, material culture, globalization, health and diet, and the National Park Service at this significant place.
Douglas C. Wilson is director of the Northwest Cultural Resources Institute and adjunct associate professor of anthropology at Portland State University. Theresa E. Langford is curator for the Northwest Cultural Resources Institute, Fort Vancouver National Historic Site, and Lewis and Clark National Historic Park.
Join Doug & Theresa on
Wednesday, October 26, at 7 p.m. at University Bookstore
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kurt armbruster
| |  Before Seattle Rocked
Seattle is a music town with rich, deep roots that have influenced the culture and identity of its civic life for decades. In a society that appreciates music but is ambivalent toward the profession of making it, the importance and contribution of Seattle's musicians have been routinely overlooked in historical accounts of the city. Kurt Armbruster fills that gap in this far-reaching and entertaining panorama of Seattle music from the 1890s to the 1960s, "before Seattle rocked."
Before Seattle Rocked is enlivened by personal anecdotes and memories from many of Seattle's most beloved musicians and is enriched by historic photos of the changing music scene.
Kurt E. Armbruster is a Seattle native, historian, professional bassist, and singersongwriter.
Join Kurt on
Saturday, October 29, at 2 p.m. at the New Orleans Restaurant with Elliott Bay View the book trailer:
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benedict anderson
| |  No Concessions
The compelling personal story of human rights lawyer Yap Thiam Hien (1913 - 1989) brings decades of modern Indonesian history to life. No Concessions is a penetrating analysis of the trajectory of the Chinese minority in Indonesia over close to a century and the remarkable making of a civic leader. Without abandoning his ethnic roots, Yap transcended them by becoming a courageous legal defender of civil and human rights of all oppressed Indonesians, including former communists and radical Muslims.
Daniel S. Lev (1931 - 2006) was professor of political science at the University of Washington. Among his publications are Legal Evolution and Political Authority in Indonesia: Selected Essays; Islamic Courts in Indonesia: A Study in the Political Bases of Legal Institutions; The Transition to Guided Democracy: Indonesian Politics, 1957 - 1959, and, as coeditor, Making Indonesia. Benedict Anderson wrote the Introduction to this book.
Join Benedict on
Tuesday, November 7, at 2:30 p.m. in the Walker-Ames Room for the book launch of No Concessions
Wednesday, November 8, at 6:30 p.m. in Kane Hall 120 for the Danz Lecture
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kit oldham
| |  Rising Tides and Tailwinds
A century ago Seattle was held hostage by its own waterfront. The great natural harbor of Elliott Bay was the young city's reason for being, but along the shoreline competing railroad companies built a chaotic sprawl of railroad lines, docks, and warehouses. Those corporate owners had few reasons to cooperate, making agreement on much-needed improvements nearly impossible. Conditions were so bad that visionary civic planner Virgil Bogue called the harborside "a blot on the city and a menace to the lives of its people." Now entering its second century, the Port is a recognized leader in environmental restoration and sustainable aviation and shipping practices and is one of the major drivers of the regional economy.
Kit Oldham is a staff historian for HistoryLink.org and co-author of Moving Washington Timeline. Peter Blecha is a staff historian and contributing editor at HistoryLink.org.
Join Kit on
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barbara johns
| |  Signs of Home
This eloquent account of Issei artist Kamekichi Tokita, together with his paintings and wartime diary, vividly illustrates an immigrant's life in Seattle in the 1920s and '30s and the uncertainties and anxieties of Japanese Americans during the World War II incarceration. Tokita emigrated from Japan in the early twentieth century and settled in Seattle's Japanese American immigrant community. By the 1930s he was established as a prominent member of the Northwest art scene and allied with the region's progressive artists. His art shares qualities of American Realism while it embodies a ditinctively Issei perspective on his new home. This book contextualizes Tokita's paintings and his WWII diary within the art community and Japanese America. It also introduces us to an amazing man who embraced life despite living through challenging and disheartening times.
Barbara Johns is an art historian, curator, and the former chief curator of the Tacoma Art Museum. Her previous books include Paul Horiuchi: East and West, Jet Dreams: Art of the Fifties in the Northwest, and Anne Gould Hauberg: Fired by Beauty.
Join Barbara on
Wednesday, November 9, at noon at the National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC
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sandra chait
| |  Seeking Salaam
In conversations with more than forty East African immigrants living in Seattle, Washington, and Portland, Oregon, Sandra Chait captures the immigrants' struggle for identity in the face of competing stories and documents how some individuals have been able to transcend the ghosts from the past and extend a tentative hand to their former enemies.
Sandra M. Chait immigrated to the Unites States from South Africa. She received her doctorate in English from the University of Washington where she taught African literature and served as associate director of the university's Program on Africa.
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david hall
| |  Beneath Cold Seas
In Beneath Cold Seas, author and photographer David Hall takes us into the underwater world of the Pacific Coast from California to Alaska, home to the most diverse and spectacular marine life of any temperate or cold-water ecosystem on the planet. An innovative approach to over/underwater photography places the marine life of the Pacific Northwest in familiar context with hauntingly beautiful images that will surprise even experienced divers and delight the rest of us.
David Hall is an award-winning photographer and photojournalist with an international reputation whose work has been published in magazines such as National Geographic, Smithsonian, Natural History, Time, BBC Wildlife, Geo, and Terre Sauvage.
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john findlay & bruce hevly
| |  Atomic Frontier Days
In brilliantly structured parallel stories, the authors bridge the divisions that accompany Hanford's headlines and offer perspective on today's controversies. Influenced as much by regional culture, economics, and politics as by war, diplomacy, and environmentalism, Hanford and the Tri-Cities of Richland, Pasco, and Kennewick illuminate the history of the modern American West.
John M. Findlay is professor of history at the University of Washington, with expertise in social and urban history. Bruce Hevly, an expert in the history of science and technology, is associate professor of history at the University of Washington.
Join John & Bruce on
Tuesday, November 15, at 4 p.m. in the Petersen Room, Allen Library, UW Campus, for a Sick Lecture sponsored by the Center for the Study of the Pacific Northwest, the History Department, the University of Washington Press, and the UW Libraries. The lecture will be followed by a reception. |
gordon miller
| |  Voyages
Exquisitely illustrated with almost 100 of Gordon Miller's paintings, many detailed maps, and ship drawings, Voyages reveals the evolution of maritime technologies, the rise and fall of maritime empires, the extreme dangers of sailing uncharted waters, the courage and brutality of life at sea, and the discovery of new continents, cultures, and products. Through their voyages, these ships and sailors defined the true dimensions of the oceans and coastlines of the world.
Gordon Miller is a distinguished maritime artist and illustrator living in Vancouver, British Columbia. He has received commissions from such institutions as the UBC Museum of Anthropology and the National Film Board of Canada, as well as magazines, including National Geographic.
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john daniel, kathleen dean moore, & penny harrison
| |  Open Spaces
Collectively, the writers in this volume apply their expertise and talent to provide an intelligent and informed context through which to see public issues and make sense of the changes that continue to shape the region and our world. Individually, they touch on our deepest sense of human experience and continuity and reflect the spirit of the Northwest. Open Spaces enlightens, challenges, and inspires.
Penny H. Harrison is the editor and publisher of Open Spaces magazine. She was formerly an assistant attorney general for Oregon, specializing in natural resource issues.
Join John Daniel, Kathleen Dean Moore, and Penny Harrison on
Saturday, November 19, at 5 p.m. at Tsunami Books, Eugene |
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