Join us on Friday, March 27th at noon PT for our next Scholar Series webinar with Lovely Umayam.

In this presentation, Lovely Umayam aims to address the incongruity between space and scale in nuclear politics — the dominance of country-level analysis and the erasure of personal, embodied experience. Through the exploration and use of arts and multimedia, Lovely proposes an alternative introduction to nuclear history and politics: one that acknowledges and honors the intimacy of space and place. In this talk, she will focus on two experiences: uranium mining in Navajoland and the lives of Hibakusha (atomic bomb survivors) in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan. By insisting on this orientation as a starting point as we navigate our new nuclear era, we might refuse the path toward military competition and aggression, and instead find a way toward diplomacy and the practice of peace.

Funded in part by a Public Participation Grant from the Washington State Department of Ecology.