Nuclear Life in the Anthropocene THREE HANFORD CONVERSATIONS

Please join us for brown bag discussions about weapons production, waste, and cleanup at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation!

Monday, January 23: Lindsey Schneider Noon ‐ 1pm, Denny 313 Lindsey Schneider is the Program Coordinator for University of Idaho's Native American Student Center. She is a scholar of indigeneity whose research explores Indian fishing and geographies of settler colonialism in the Columbia River basin.

Wednesday, February 1: Kathleen Flenniken Noon ‐ 1pm, Simpson Center 202 Kathleen Flenniken is a poet, editor, and teacher in Seattle. Her poetry collection Plume, a meditation on the Hanford nuclear site and her hometown of Richland, WA, won the Washington State Book Award. She was the 2012-2014 Washington State Poet Laureate.

Monday, February 13: John Findlay and Bruce Hevly Noon ‐ 1pm, Simpson Center 202 John Findlay and Bruce Hevly are co-authors of Atomic Frontier Days: Hanford and the American West, which was a finalist for the Washington State Book Award. Dr. Findlay is a UW Professor of History specializing in social and urban history of the Pacific Northwest and is the managing editor of Pacific Northwest Quarterly. Dr. Hevly is an Associate Professor of History at the University of Washington and specializes in the history of science and technology with a particular focus on Big Science and the field of physics.

Co-organized by Shannon Cram (UW Bothell, Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences), Holly Barker (UW Seattle, Anthropology), & Liz Mattson (Hanford Challenge) in conjunction with The Anthropocene, a crossdisciplinary research cluster of the Simpson Center for the Humanities