Join the UAB Department of Anthropology and the Institute for Human Rights for a Jemison Visiting Professorship in the Humanities lecture by Hirokazu Miyazaki, Ph.D., Kay Davis Professor and Professor of Anthropology, Northwestern University.

What is peace? In today's world of reactive exchanges of divisive rhetoric, military provocations, and even the threat of nuclear weapons, it is increasingly difficult to imagine how this question can be answered.

In this lecture, Dr. Miyazaki will examine three cases of trans-Pacific citizen diplomacy in which peace appears in the longer term: the U.S.-Japan friendship doll exchange, originally conceived as a response to the Immigration Act of 1924 and revived as a peace movement in the 1970s; the sister city relationship between Saint Paul, Minnesota and Nagasaki, the first sister city relationship between the U.S. and Japan, established in 1955; and the global efforts of the mayors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki to promote a world without nuclear weapons since the 1980s.