Nuclear Futures

Tuesday, 12th February 2013 - 14:30-17:30

With

• Soraya Boudia (Université Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée)

Soraya Boudia is Professor of Sociology at the University Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée. Former Director of the Curie Museum in Paris (1999-2003) and Professor of STS at the University of Strasbourg, her main area of research has been the history of radioactivity and its applications. She currently studies the global expertise and regulation of nuclear risks and environmental hazards. she published among others Patrimoine, savoirs et communautés savantes,  (Ed.  with A. Rasmussen and S. Soubiran, Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2009); Marie Curie et son laboratoire : sciences et industrie de la radioactivité  en  France (Éditions des archives contemporaines, 2001).She will edit in 2013 with Nathalie Jas, Toxic World. Toxicants, Health and Regulation in the XXth Century (Pickering and Chatto, forthcoming).

• Gabrielle Hecht (University of Michigan)

Gabrielle Hecht is Professor of History at the University of Michigan. She is the author of Being Nuclear: Africans and the Global Uranium Trade (MIT Press, 2012) and of The Radiance of France: Nuclear Power and National Identity after World War II (MIT Press, 1998) which has been reedited in 2009 and translated in 2004 (Le rayonnement de la France: Énergie nucléaire et identité nationale après la seconde guerre mondiale. La Découverte, 2004).

• Luis Aparicio (Andra)

Luis Aparicio holds a PhD in Science and Technology studies from the University of Strasbourg and the University of Vienna. Since 2008, he is in charge of Social Sciences and Humanities at the R&D Division of the French Radioactive Waste Management Agency (Andra). He has edited the book Making nuclear waste governable. Deep underground disposal and the challenge of reversibility (Andra/Springer, 2010).

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