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Below is information about a lecture and film series I organize on anti-nuclear activism and research. All events open to the public.
Below is information about a lecture and film series I organize on anti-nuclear activism and research. All events open to the public.
Half-Life of Memory: America’s Forgotten Atomic Bomb Factory film screening and Q&A with director Jeff Gipe
February 25th, 5:00-6:30pm
University of Oregon
Lawrence Hall 115
Half-Life of Memory exposes the dangerous legacy of Rocky Flats, the central nuclear bomb production facility in the United States from 1952 until 1989, located near Denver, Colorado. The most notorious instances of contamination, neglect, and cover-ups occurred at the Rocky Flats--radioactive and hazardous waste was illegally dumped, released in deadly fires at the site, and contaminated the Denver metro area with long-lived radioactive toxins. Through powerful testimonials and extraordinary archival media, Half-Life of Memory reveals Rocky Flats' dark past and prompts critical reflection on the implications of the nation's renewed nuclear weapons buildup.https://halflifeofmemory.com/
Director Jeff Gipe is a visual artist and filmmaker whose work delves into the far-reaching implications of the US nuclear legacy.
Film Screening and Roundtable - Silent War: The Shadow of Atomic Bombs (2025)
Wednesday, February 11, 4-6:30pm
University of Oregon
McKenzie Hall 129
This screening and roundtable will address the global history and legacy of the atomic bombings of Japan and the Cold War era nuclear weapons testing. The film, Silent war: The Shadow of Atomic Bombs, is based on Dr. Jacob’s book, Nuclear Bodies: The Global Hibakusha (Yale, 2022). The roundtable will discuss the film and Dr. Jacob’s work on atomic bombs. This is especially relevant because 2025 was the 80th anniversary of the atomic bombs dropped on Japan.
Roundtable Presenters
Dr Robert Jacobs: Historian of Nuclear Technologies, Professor Emeritus Hiroshima Peace Institute Hiroshima City University, Japan
Dr. Ran Zwigenberg: Professor of Asian Studies and Jewish Studies, and History, Penn State University
Dr. Vincent Intondi, Executive Director, Oregon Physicians for Social Responsibility
Lecture: Jacob Hamblin
Lecture: Jacob Hamblin
“Models of Harm for Radiation Effects in the Nuclear Age”
“Models of Harm for Radiation Effects in the Nuclear Age”
Tuesday May 6, 4:00-5:30
Tuesday May 6, 4:00-5:30
University of Oregon
University of Oregon
Lillis 112
Lillis 112
Dr. Hamblin, Professor of History, Oregon State University, is a leading environmental historian and expert on the international dimensions of science, technology, and the environment, especially related to nuclear issues, ecology, oceans, and climate. His 2021 book The Wretched Atom: America’s Global Gamble with Peaceful Nuclear Technology won the Oregon Book Award in general nonfiction. He also recently co-edited Making the Unseen Visible: Science and the Contested Histories of Radiation Exposure, which came out of his National Science Foundation funded Downwinders Project about Hanford and other nuclear sites. He will speak about the long history of using animals, humans, and computer simulations to model harm from radiation effects.
Image Courtesy National Archives
Lecture: Shannon Cram
Lecture: Shannon Cram
Unmaking the Bomb: Environmental Cleanup and the Politics of Impossibility
Unmaking the Bomb: Environmental Cleanup and the Politics of Impossibility
February 2025
Dr. Cram is an interdisciplinary scholar working at the intersections of geography, anthropology, science and technology studies, and the environmental humanities. She will talk about her new, award-winning book, Unmaking the Bomb: Environmental Cleanup and the Politics of Impossibility, which blends history, ethnography, and memoir. She investigates remediation efforts at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation, the former weapons complex in Washington State. Home to the majority of the nation's high-level nuclear waste and its largest environmental cleanup, Hanford is tasked with managing toxic materials that will long outlast the United States and its institutional capacities.
Film Screening: SOS: The San Onofre Syndrome
Film Screening: SOS: The San Onofre Syndrome
Film Screening & Q&A with Directors Mary Beth Branagan and James Heddle
February 2025
An award-winning documentary that dramatically chronicles how Southern California residents came together to force the shutdown of an aging, leaking nuclear power plant only to be confronted by an alarming reality: tons of nuclear waste left near a popular beach, only 100 feet from the rising sea, that menaces present and future generations. The solution for the waste, to ship it to a storage site on indigenous land in the Southwest, causes the residents to rethink the decision to export their toxic waste.
Film Screening: Atomic Bamboozle
Film Screening: Atomic Bamboozle
Film Screening and Q&A with Director Jan Haaken
February 2024
This 46-minute film follows anti-nuclear activists, tribal leaders, scientists and attorneys as they draw lessons from the decades-long campaign to shut down the Trojan Nuclear Power plant in Oregon and extend those lessons into a new struggle to stop small modular nuclear reactors (SMRs) from being built in the Pacific Northwest and elsewhere in the country. The film revisits the toxic legacy of the Hanford Nuclear Reservation and its impacts on tribal communities and exposes the true costs of SMR designs that have been aggressively promoted by the US Department of Energy and the nuclear industry in response to the climate crisis.
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