This online 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, Simpson Center for the Humanities at the University of Washington and the Henry M. Jackson Foundation.

This talk is additionally co-sponsored by the Department of Gender, Women and Sexuality Studies at the University of Washington.

Serawit Debele, postdoctoral research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity in Göttingen, Germany, will discuss whether 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. RSVP by following this link.

This event is part of the Jackson School of International Studies and its African Studies Program Winter 2021 Lecture Series on Protest, Race and Citizenship across African Worlds. 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. Art credit: "The Other Side" by Yeggy Michael.