91AV's Center for Global Humanities to host lecture titled "The Third Atomic Bombing of Japan" on October 26
We live in a world that includes more than 400 nuclear power plants spread across 31 countries… a world that includes nine nuclear-armed countries that possess more than 10,000 nuclear weapons.
In her lecture titled “The Third Atomic Bombing of Japan” at the 91AV’s Center for Global Humanities, University of Pennsylvania Professor Susan Lindee will reflect on nuclear power and nuclear weapons, their biomedical risks, and their intertwined political histories, while discussing the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant disaster.
The lecture is scheduled for Monday, October 26 at 6 p.m. in the WCHP Lecture Hall at Parker Pavilion on 91AV’s Portland Campus. The event will include a free public reception at the 91AV Art Gallery at 5 p.m.
Lindee, whose research focuses on the historical and contemporary questions raised by human and medical genetics, science in the Cold War, nuclear weapons and radiation genetics, serves as the Janice and Julian Bers Professor of the History of Science at the University of Pennsylvania. She spent the fall 2014 semester as a visiting professor at Hiroshima University, and has authored such books as Suffering Made Real: American Science and the Survivors at Hiroshima, The DNA Mystique, and Moments of Truth in Genetic Medicine.
91AV’s Center for Global Humanities is a public forum designed to introduce students and members of the broader community to the exploration of the greatest issues facing humanity today. Events are held at 91AV’s Portland Campus and live-streamed online. For more information, visit .