A one-day public symposium about the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition (A-Y-P) will feature keynote speaker Dr. Robert Rydell, the premier World's Fair historian. This symposium will take place at Kane Hall, room 110, and is open to both the campus and the public. Admission is free.

Schedule:

9:30 am - Welcome Remarks
9:35 am – 10:45 am - Keynote Address: Robert W. Rydell, Ph.D., Contesting Visions of Empire at America’s World’s Fairs
11 am – 12pm - Session I

• Deana Dartt-Newton, Ph.D., Burke Museum Curator of Native American Ethnology: "Ten Tons of Prehistoric Stone Relics”: Representing California at the A-Y-P Exposition of 1909

• Robin K. Wright, Ph.D., Burke Museum Curator of Native American Art:
  Buddhas, Billikens and Godzilla: Appropriations Gone Wild

12 pm – 1:30 pm - Lunch Break (please visit the Burke Museum exhibit, A-Y-P: Indigenous Voices Reply)
1:30 pm – 3:00 pm - Session II - Artists’ Panel

• Tanis Maria S’eiltin, Tlingit, Fairhaven College, Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA
• Nicholas Galanin, Tlingit/Aleut, Sitka, AK
• Phillip Charette, Yup’ik, Baker City, OR
• Matika Wilbur, Swinomish/Tulalip, Seattle, WA

3 pm – 3:15 pm - Break
3:15 pm – 4:30 pm - Session III

• Jon Olivera, UW Graduate Student in History:
  Design, Display, and an Ambivalent Empire at the Alaska Yukon Pacific Exposition

• Jayme Yahr, UW Graduate Student in Art History:
  Exhibiting the Native American Other: Exoticism and the A-Y-P Exposition

• Nadia Jackinsky, UW Graduate Student in Art History:
  Performing Native Identity and the Legacy of Indigenous Performance Art

The A-Y-P Symposium and the related Tribute to the Spirit concert on November 20th, complement the Burke Museum's current exhibit A-Y-P: Indigenous Voices Reply. The exhibit, concert, and free A-Y-P Symposium are all part of the citywide 100th anniversary of the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition.

Educators who attend this symposium can earn 6.5 clock hours. Call 206-543-5591 for more information.

This symposium is generously supported by the Simpson Center for the Humanities and the Bill Holm Center for the Study of Northwest Coast Art.