A Place in the World: Negotiating Nuclear Power and Independence in Africa

The seminar will add nuclear power back into the history of decolonization in Africa, showing the extent to which things like French nuclear tests featured in independence negotiations and demonstrating also the ways in which African laypeople and scientists participated in the very first debate about the global environment. But the speaker will also suggest that the coincidence between the advent of the nuclear age and the end of empire had long-term consequences for today's world.

Admittance is on a first come–first served basis. Tea and Coffee Provided. 

Photo Caption: In Ekker, Algeria, 16 April 2014. At its Algerian nuclear test site, In Ekker, France performed 13 underground nuclear detonations, causing vast radioactive contamination of soil, air, and possibly even underground aquifers and directly exposing hundreds of people to radiation.