Nuclear Natures
Conference program
The keynote talks (45 min. including discussion) and conference presentations (20 min. including discussion) take place on the 6th floor of the Museum of Work (auditorium “Folksamsalen”). Gentle Reminders is exhibited in the lounge area next to Folksamsalen. Coffee and lunch are served in the museum restaurant Vy, also on the 6th floor.
Wednesday
13.00–13.15 Welcome to the Nuclear Natures Conference, Anna Storm
13.15–14.00 KEYNOTE 1: ‘Natura Artis Magistra’: Analogies with ‘Natural’ Habitats in Modelling Post-Nuclear Landscapes, Petra Tjitske Kalshoven, University of Manchester. Chair: Anna Storm
14.00–15.30 PAPER SESSION 1: Radioactivity. Chair: Marko M Marila
- ’Traumatomic’ Ecomaterialities. Performing Radioactivity in Experimental Photofilmic Documents of Chernobyl, Beja Margitházi
- Following Radioactivity in the Pacific Waters: Environmental Surveillance of the French Nuclear Tests (1966–1974), Benjamin Furst
- 260m3 of Radioactive Contaminated Soil: Fragments of a Perforated Narrative, Agnès Villette
- Soviet Atomic Sausages: Food in Ukraine after the Accident at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, Tetiana Perga
15.30–16.00 Coffee break
16.00–17.30 PAPER SESSION 2: Science and Laboratories. Chair: Anna Storm
- Where the ‘Green Atom’ Was Born: Rebranding Nuclear Science at the Idaho National Laboratory, Lucie Genay
- Atomic Fish for Climate Change, Sergiu Novac
- The Role of Scientific Expertise in the History of German Repository Projects for Radioactive Waste, Sarah Glück
19.30–22.00 MOVIE NIGHT on the topic of Nuclear Natures at the movie theatre CNEMA, room “Birollen” (Kungsgatan 56, Norrköping) with introduction and comments by Sergiu Novac and Leila Dawney.
- Ness (Adam Scovell, 2019, 13 min)
- Aware (Tineke van Veen, 2014, 15 min)
- Strahlend grüne Wiese (Sophie Hilbert, 2021, 26 min)
- Decommissioning a Dream (Laurie Griffiths & Jonty Tacon, 2024, 25 min)
Thursday
09.15–10.00 KEYNOTE 2: Narrating the Nuclear, David E. Nye, University of Southern Denmark. Chair: Anna Storm
10.00–10.30 Coffee break
10.30–12.00 PAPER SESSION 3: Restoration and Rewilding. Chair: Anna Storm
- The (Un-)Making of Postnuclear Landscapes: Reflections on Nature Restoration at Fukushima Daiichi, Melina Antonia Buns
- Rewilding in Latency: Italy’s Experience in the Decommissioning of Fuel Cycle Plants in the 1990s, Mauro Elli
- Nuclear Natures as Living Archive: Multispecies Entanglements of the First Commercial NPP in the Global South, Sonali Huria & Kumar Sundaram
- Mining for Hope, Marko M Marila
12.00–13.30 Lunch
13.30–15.00 PAPER SESSION 4: Designing Landscapes. Chair: Sergiu Novac
- Nuclear Remnants: The Nature at Lemoniz Nuclear Power Plant, Spain, Carlos Gonzalvo
- Of Plants and ‘Plants’: A Landscape Study of Oak Ridge, Tennessee, Jeffrey Benjamin
Expressions of Nature and Energy Futures in Children’s Engagement with Decommissioning Nuclear Power Infrastructures, Karin Edberg- The Place for Nuclear Power: An Environmental Biography of Nuclear Sites, Davide Orsini
15.00–15.30 Coffee break
15.30–17.00 ARTISTIC INTERVENTION + PARTICIPANTS’ NUCLEAR OBJECTS/PHOTOS
- Presentation of Gentle Reminders by Pebble in My Shoe Research Collective.
- Presentation of personal nuclear objects or photos, PhD autumn school participants and interested conference delegates.
18.30 Conference dinner at restaurant Kvarterskrogen Asken (Skolgatan 1, Norrköping)
Friday
09.15–10.00 KEYNOTE 3: Out of Scope, Ele Carpenter, Umeå University. Chair: Marko M Marila
10.00–10.30 Coffee break
10.30–12.00 PAPER SESSION 5: Imaginations. Chair: Marko M Marila
- Of the Three-Legged Badger, the Calf and the Card Players, Grit Ruhland
- Timelessness and Nuclear Waste Futures: Reflections on the Incapacities, Limits, and Failures to Think Deep Time Scenarios, Thomas P Keating
- MicroTuning: Radiant Tensions in the Co-Living of Microbiomes and Cooling Towers of Nuclear Energy Facilities. An Artistic Inquiry with Philosophers, Physicists and Microbiologists, Bart Vandeput
12.00–13.30 Lunch
13.30–14.30 PAPER SESSION 6: Politicizing Landscapes. Chair: Thomas Keating
- Nuclear Strata: A Political Geology of Deep Geological Disposal in (Post-)Nuclear Switzerland, Rony Emmenegger
- ‘Remote’ Nuclear and ‘Wild’ Nature: Examining Essentialising Features of Landscape and Livelihoods Around a Nuclear Fuel Reprocessing Site in La Hague, France, Sarah O’Brien
- Radioactive Resurgence? Understanding Nuclear Natures in the Chornobyl Exclusion Zone, Jonathon Turnbull
14.30–15.00 Wrapping Up and Looking Ahead, Anna Storm and PhD autumn school participants
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