Program on Science, Technology and Society at HarvardHarvard Kennedy School of Government | Harvard University |
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Invisible Worlds: Fukushima and the Legacy of Nuclear ForgetfulnessMarch 29, 2019, 2:30-6:30pm AbstractThe 2011 Fukushima disaster brought to light the complex ways in which nations and peoples have dealt with the power of the atom since the attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. This interdisciplinary workshop, enabled by a grant from the National Science Foundation, explores how dimensions of risk and responsibility appear and disappear in narratives of nuclearity. Speakers will present perspectives from journalism, sociology, STS, law, public policy, and nuclear engineering. Speakers and PanelistsHiroko AiharaFukushima Journalist Matthew BunnProfessor of Practice, Harvard Kennedy School Denia DjokicPostdoctoral Fellow, Harvard Kennedy School Belfer Center Ulrike FeltDean of Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Vienna Sheila JasanoffPforzheimer Professor of Science and Technology Studies, Harvard Kennedy School Christopher LawrencePostdoctoral Fellow, Harvard Kennedy School Belfer Center & STS Program Sebastien PhilippePostdoctoral Fellow, Harvard Kennedy School Belfer Center Kyoko SatoAssociate Director of the Program in Science, Technology, and Society, Stanford University Makoto TakahashiFellow, Harvard Kennedy School STS Program
Program
2:30-3:30pmHiroko Aihara Eight Years On: Damage, discrimination, and resistance in Fukushima Comment: Makoto Takahashi
3:30-4:30 panel 1 – risk and remembranceMatthew Bunn Missing the Nose on Our Face: How critical risk information is sometimes ignored Sebastien Phillipe Forgetting the Unknown: Fukushima’s invisible ripples in the nuclear weapons complex Ulrike Felt Between Pasts and Futures: On radically reconfiguring a national sociotechnical imaginary of nuclear energy
5:00-6:00 panel 2 – forgetting the futureKyoko Sato Atomic Survivals: Radiation knowledge and Hibakusha Narratives Denia Djokic Invisible Toxicity: Entrenched narratives in the nuclear patriarchy Sheila Jasanoff Landscapes of Erasure: Contamination, community, and law in Fukushima
6:00-6:30 wrap up and adjournChristopher Lawrence |
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