Lowell Lecture
Kate Brown: "The Interminable Cycles of Chernobyl’s Catastrophes: War, Accident, and War Again"
Date & Time
Oct. 25, 2023 at 7 p.m.
Location
Boston College - Gasson 100
140 Commonwealth Avenue Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
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Speaker(s)
Kate Brown
Presenting Organization
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Contact
Avner Goldstein (avner.goldstein@bc.edu, )
Kate Brown is the Thomas M. Siebel Distinguished Professor in the History of Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She is the author of several prize-winning histories, including Plutopia: Nuclear Families, Atomic Cities, and the Great Soviet and American Plutonium Disasters (Oxford 2013). Her latest book Manual for Survival: A Chernobyl Guide to the Future (Norton 2019), translated into six languages, won the Marshall Shulman and Reginald Zelnik Prizes for the best book in East European History, plus the Silver Medal for Laura Shannon Book Prize. Manual for Survival was also a finalist for the 2020 National Book Critics Circle Award, the Pushkin House Award and the Ryszard Kapuściński Award for Literary Reportage.
Cosponsored by the Boston College History Department and The Schiller Institute for Integrated Science and Society.