Participants:
Mary MacNaughton
Director, Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery and Associate Professor of Art History
Atomic Sublime: Abstract Expressionism in the Nuclear Age
October 17, 4:15 p.m.
Hampton Room, Malott Commons
Hugh Gusterson
Anthropology and Science Studies, Program in Science, Technology, and Society
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
“The Second Nuclear Age”
Margot Henriksen
Department of History
The University of Hawaii at Manoa
“Las Vegas Explosions: Morality Tales from the Nevada Test Site”
7:30 p.m.
Jonathan Schell
Visiting Fellow, The Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy, Kennedy School of government,
Harvard University
“America in the Second Nuclear Age: Empire or Republic?”