The Manhattan Project and its Afterlives
Event Details
End: May 1, 2019
Contact: Michael.Mays@wsu.edu
More Info: http://www.tricities.wsu.edu/hanfordhistory
Conference CFP
"The Manhattan Project and its Afterlives”
September 25-28, 2019
Hanford History Project at Washington State University Tri-Cities
Richland WA
Proposal deadline: May 1, 2019
Possible topics may include:
- Environmental afterlives of nuclear materials production
- The afterlife of science: The politicization of science and the scientific community
- Diversity and difference: The contested spaces of/after the Manhattan Project and Cold War
- Nowhere to remember: The afterlives of displaced indigenous and settler communities
- Atomic diplomacy and the Cold War
- Nuclear borderlands: Afterlives of nuclear testing/test sites
- Afterlives of the secret cities
- After Manhattan: “Managing” the new postwar nuclear industry in the public sphere
- Radiation Safety: Facts and fictions
- The atomic frontier and its afterlives
- The afterlife of public policy and practice in the atomic age
- Activism as afterlife
- Making things up: Invention, innovation, fabrication, statistics
- The afterlife of nuclear weaponry: The rise (and fall) of the nuclear power industry
- The nuclear uncanny: The culture of the new atomic age
- The Manhattan Project National Historical Park: Memory, commemoration, and the challenges of public history and interpretation
- Afterlife as/and “slow apocalypse”
- The Manhattan Project in the popular imagination
- The after-afterlife: Can there be a post-nuclear age?
Please send abstracts (<300 words) and brief professional biography to Michael.Mays@wsu.edu.
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