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On April 26, 1986, the world’s worst nuclear accident took place at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant near the city of Pripyat in northern Ukraine. On April 29 and 30, 2021, two virtual events examining Chernobyl’s fallout, as still felt today, will occur:
An associated Carsey-Wolf Center virtual discussion of the award-winning documentary “The Babushkas of Chernobyl,” with Director Holly Morris, will take place on Thursday, April 29, 2021, at 4:00pm (Pacific Time, US & Canada), before which registered participants may pre-screen the film.
The interdisciplinary virtual conference “Fallout: Chernobyl and the Ecology of Disaster" will take place on Friday, April 30, 2021, from 9:00am to 4:00pm (Pacific Time, US & Canada), when an international slate of speakers representing a variety of disciplines will share their insights on the 35th anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster.
Information on registering for both events and on the conference is available via these links:
Register for the Virtual Conference at 9am-4pm Pacific Time (US & Canada) on Friday, April 30, 2021
Sponsored by the Division of Arts and Letters and the T. A. Barron Environmental Fund. Event partners include the Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies, the Graduate Center for Literary Research, and the Carsey-Wolf Center. Other sponsors include the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center, Department of Global Studies, Comparative Literature Program, Environmental Studies, Center for Cold War Studies and International History, College of Creative Studies, and History Department.
