NH #746: PEACE! How do we get there? Artists, Activists, Academics Oppose Nuclear at the Westheimer Peace Symposium at 35th Wilmington College Peace Resource Center

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NH #746: PEACE! How do we get there? Artists, Activists, Academics Oppose Nuclear at the Westheimer Peace Symposium at 35th Wilmington College Peace Resource Center

A-Bomb survivor Senji Yaaguchi , the first hibakusha to address the United Nations, holding up photo of him shaving. Photo courtesy Wilmington College Peace Resource Center and Claude Baillargeon. Original photo posted at NH #743.

This Week’s SPECIAL Feature:

This year’s 35th annual Westheimer Peace Symposium was based on the theme “Practicing Art, Practicing Nuclear Abolition” It was presented in conjunction with the Wilmington College Peace Resource Center Academic conference: Archives as Witness from Monday, September 29 through Wednesday, October 1, 2025 at Wilmington College in Wilmington, Ohio.

I attended for multiple purposes:

  • to cover the event for Nuclear Hotseat,
  • as an instructor for two classes on Activist Podcasting,
  • on a panel examining media manipulation by journalists in the telling of the story of the atomic bombs at the dawn of the Atomic Age.

Academics, artists and activists from around the world – Japan, Korea, New Zealand, South Africa, Canada, U.S. and more – to present work inspired by archival research related to nuclear histories as a reflection of the Peace Resource Center’s mission and vision over the past 50 years.

Among the presenters:

Prof. Claude Baillargeon leading us through the art exhibit he curated,
“Memorializing the Hibakusha Experience.”

An example of a 1950’s Manga comic book – censored and probably burned – dealing with the atomic bombings. This is an example used in Prof. Yuki Miyamoto’s presentation: Stewards of the Archives: Legal, Literary and Popular Culture Approaches to Nuclear Witnessing.

Hibakusha Mr Yukihiro Ishikawa, carrying the message of peace from Hiroshima to the Westheimer Peace Symposium.

Second generation Hibakusha, Masae Shoda, w/Nuclear Hotseat’s Libbe HaLevy

“Witnessing and Photographing Atomic Bomb Sufferers” – a zoom Conversation with 92-year-old Murasato Sakae in Japan (lower right), interpreter and researcher Yoshiko Tanigawa (lower left) Peace Resource Center Director Tanya Maus handling the tech (upper right), and Prof. Claude Baillargeon, Curator of the exhibit providing a guided online tour (upper left.)

And the obligatory multi-selfie of three great anti-nuclear warrior/friends:
(l-r) Norma Field, Libbe HaLevy, Yuki Miyamoto.