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In-Person
Seminar

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

Harvard Faculty, Fellows, Staff, and Students

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. 

For more information, contact susan_lynch@hks.harvard.edu

Date: Time: - Location: One Brattle Square, 350

Speaker
Chloë Mayoux

Chloe Mayoux
In Ekker, a French Nuclear Test Site in Algeria
In Ekker, 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.

Speaker: Chloë Mayoux, Ernest May Fellow in History & Policy, International Security Program

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.