8:00 am – 9:00 am |
Welcome Breakfast
Sheffield-Massey Room (TNH 2.111), University of Texas School of Law
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9:00 am – 10:30 am |
Arts, Archives, and the Atom
Gayle Classroom (TNH 2.137), University of Texas School of Law
This panel explored the artistic and documentary channels that have been and continue to be used to challenge nuclear and environmental toxicity. From the Second World War to the present, arts and archives have defined human experiences and imaginaries around the nuclear, empowering viewers, readers, listeners, and learners to refigure their relationships to past and future generations affected by nuclear toxicity. Digging into the social and political contexts that shape these artistic and documentary endeavors, panelists considered how censorship and secrecy, but also humor and pedagogy, determine which memories are lost and which survive, from Japan and the Pacific Islands to the Navajo Nation.
Moderator
- Neville Hoad
Associate Professor of English and Co-director, the Bernard and Audre Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice
The University of Texas at Austin
Panelists
- Don Carleton
— Flash of Light, Wall of Fire: Japanese Photographers and the Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
J. R. Parten Chair in the Archives of American History and Executive Director, Dolph Briscoe Center for American History
The University of Texas at Austin
- Kirsten Cather
— How I Learned to Keep Worrying and Teach the Bomb
Associate Professor of Asian Studies and Director, Center for East Asian Studies
The University of Texas at Austin
- Anaïs Maurer
— The H-Bomb and Humor: The Pacific Arts of Laughing at Nuclear Death
Assistant Professor of French and Comparative Literature
Rutgers University
Faculty Associate
Center for Nuclear Studies, Columbia University
- Will Wilson
— Connecting the Dots for a Just Transition
Associate Professor of Studio Art
The University of Texas at Austin
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10:30 am – 10:45 am |
Coffee Break
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10:45 am – 12:15 pm |
Atomic Landscapes: Development and Destruction
Gayle Classroom (TNH 2.137), University of Texas School of Law
This panel engaged with some of the colonial and post-colonial histories of various landscapes that have been shaped by nuclear technologies. It considered landscapes not only in terms of the long half-life of radiation in land and water, and displacement of communities near nuclear sites, but also in the ways that nuclear technologies and their imaginaries have shaped how people conceive of themselves, their national identities in the postcolonial era, and their relationship to land, property, and the world. Panelists explored the nuanced, complex, and often quotidian relationships people have with nuclear technologies in various sites, from Ghana’s Atomic Junction to the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation. Moving beyond a bi-polar story of nuclear rivalry, these histories provided a more complete vision of the postcolonial atomic landscape.
Moderator
- Bruce J. Hunt
Professor of History
The University of Texas at Austin
Panelists
- Austin R. Cooper
— Saharan Fallout: French Explosions in Algeria and Nuclear Weapons in the Global Cold War
Assistant Professor of History
Purdue University
- Abena Dove Osseo-Asare
— The Proliferation of Atomic Lands: A View from Ghana
Professor of History
The University of Texas at Austin
- Hebatalla Taha
— Nuclear Imaginaries in the Middle East
Associate Senior Lecturer
Centre for Advanced Middle Eastern Studies and the Department of Political Science, Lund University
- Ella Weber
— The Missiles on Our Rez: Nuclear Colonialism on the Fort Berthold Reservation
Research Fellow, Nuclear Princeton
Princeton University
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12:15 pm – 1:45 pm |
Lunch Break
Sheffield-Massey Room (TNH 2.111) and Patman Family Plaza, University of Texas School of Law
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1:45 pm – 3:15 pm |
Nuclear Colonialism: Remembering, Resisting, and Repairing
Gayle Classroom (TNH 2.137), University of Texas School of Law
This panel centered Indigenous responses to what is often called “nuclear colonialism,” defined by Danielle Endres (2009) as “a system of domination through which governments and corporations target indigenous peoples and their lands to maintain the nuclear production process.” Drawing connections between generations and geographies, panelists discussed different ways that Indigenous peoples have excavated cultural memory and mobilized transnational solidarity to resist and repair the harms wrought by nuclear toxicity. The panel emphasized Indigenous visions that animate calls for just transitions and futures, from the Pacific Islands to the territories of the Sahtu Dene.
Moderator
- Luis E. Cárcamo-Huechante
Director of Native American and Indigenous Studies, Associate Professor of Spanish
University of Texas at Austin
Panelists
- David L. Eng
— Absolute Apology, Absolute Forgiveness
Richard L. Fisher Professor of English and Faculty Director of the Program in Asian American Studies
University of Pennsylvania
- Jennifer Graber
— “Only a Piece of the Total Prophecy”: Ghost Dancing Against Nuclear Waste
Gwyn Shive, Anita Nordan Lindsay, and Joe & Cherry Gray Professor of Religious Studies and Associate Director of the Program in Native American and Indigenous Studies
The University of Texas at Austin
- Rebecca Hogue
— Creative Arts and Anti-Nuclear Genealogies in South Australia
Postdoctoral Fellow
Mahindra Humanities Center at Harvard University
- Ian Zabarte
— Nuclear Awareness and Risk Management
Secretary of State
Western Shoshone National Council of the Western Bands of the Shoshone Nation of Indians
Secretary
Native Community Action Council
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3:15 pm – 3:30 pm |
Coffee Break
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3:30 pm – 5:00 pm |
Cold War Afterlives: Intergenerational Movements for Disarmament and Environmental Justice
Gayle Classroom (TNH 2.137), University of Texas School of Law
This panel resurfaced historical and contemporary mobilizations for disarmament to offer possible channels for intergenerational advocacy toward peace and environmental justice. Tracing disarmament and justice movements across generations—beginning in the Cold War and ending with the contemporary moment—panelists explored the histories, solidarities, and tensions that suggest disarmament’s link to other justice movements. Panelists considered intergenerational implications of Cold-War feminist activism against nuclear weapons, historical and contemporary local activism for nuclear-free zones, and transnational movements for peace and justice.
Moderator
- Cooper Christiancy
Postgraduate Fellow
The Bernard and Audre Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice
Panelists
- Itty Abraham
— From Peace to Justice: Changing Priorities for South Asian Nuclear Studies
Professor, School for the Future of Innovation in Society and Senior Global Futures Scholar
Arizona State University
- Karen Engle
— "Private" Diplomacy and Nuclear Disarmament: Revisiting the Cold War Activism of Women for a Meaningful Summit
Minerva House Drysdale Regents Chair in Law and Founder and Co-director, the Bernard and Audre Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice
The University of Texas School of Law
- Vanja Hamzić
— An “Islamic Bomb” and the Politics of Scientific Dissent: Pakistan's Feminist and Peace Disquietudes amidst an Unending Cold War
Reader in Law, History and Anthropology
SOAS University of London
- Hirokazu Miyazaki
— City Diplomacy for Nuclear Abolition
Kay Davis Professor of Anthropology
Northwestern University
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6:30 pm – 8:00 pm |
"A Body in Fukushima"
CRASHBOX Theatre, 5305 Bolm Rd. #12, Austin, TX 78721
Talkback Facilitator
- Rosemary Candelario
Associate Professor of Performance as Public Practice
The University of Texas at Austin
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9:00pm |
"A Body in Fukushima" (second performance)
CRASHBOX Theatre, 5305 Bolm Rd. #12, Austin, TX 78721
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