Nuclear revival and legacies: insights from humanities and social science

8:30 - 9:00 (30min)

Welcome Coffee

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9:00 - 10:15 (1h15)

Contaminated Legacies

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Chair: Christine FASSERT (LATTS - CNRS, École nationale des ponts et chaussées, Gustave Eiffel University)

› The Ocean on Fire: Pacific Stories from Nuclear Survivors and Climate Activists - Anais Maurer, Rutgers University System 09:03-09:20 (17min)

› Reconstruction and resilience after Fukushima: A critical analysis of nuclear risk and disaster - Rina KOJIMA, Rina Kojima 09:20-09:38 (18min)

› From radiation to air pollution: Infrastructural manoeuvring within citizen environmental monitoring - Shachi Mokashi, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam [Amsterdam] - Michiel Van Oudheusden, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam [Amsterdam] 09:38-09:55 (17min)

10:15 - 10:45 (30min)

Coffee break

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10:45 - 12:30 (1h45)

Nuclear Territories

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Chair: Romain Garcier (ENS Lyon)

› Fusion valley. The International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) and the territories (2006-2012) - Gabriella Rago, University of Turin, Federico II University of Naples 10:48-11:06 (18min)

› Spatial redevelopment trajectories of nuclear sites. The cases of Brunsbüttel and Fessenheim - Belinda Ravaz, Haute Ecole dÍngénierie et de Gestion du Canton de Vaud [Yverdon-les-Bains], Université de Haute-Alsace (UHA) Mulhouse - Colmar 11:06-11:24 (18min)

› The Territorial Bias of Consent to Nuclear Risk Ethnographic Study Among the Residents of the Dunkirk Coastline. - Alexis Spire, Centre national de la Recherche scientifique 11:24-11:42 (18min)

› Nothing has changed, everything has changed. The surge in public opinion in its support for nuclear energy in France and Europe (2020-2024) - Jérémy Bouillet, EDF R&D, Sciences Po 11:42-12:00 (18min)

12:30 - 13:50 (1h20)

Lunch

La Ruche

13:50 - 14:50 (1h)

Keynote : Can the atom ever be peaceful? Ukraine from nuclear weapons to reactors as weapons.

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Tatiana Kasperski (Södertörn University)

14:50 - 16:30 (1h40)

Nuclear Trajectories and Narratives

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Chair: Ulrike FELT (University of Vienna)

› Reconnecting and disconnecting from nuclear history - Imaginaries from Sweden's nuclear discourse - Vidar Ekström, Uppsala University, Division of Industrial Engineering and Management - Nina Kivinen, Uppsala University, Division of Industrial Engineering and Management 14:52-15:10 (18min)

› New Fears, New Hopes: Politics of Nuclear Power in Serbia - Dejan Jovanovic, Faculty of political sciences - University of Belgrade 15:10-15:28 (18min)

› Planning and the nuclear industry in ‘post-Messmer Plan' France - Stéphanie Tillement, IMT Atlantique, Laboratoire d'économie et de management de Nantes Atlantique - Frédéric Garcias, Université de Lille - IAE 15:28-15:46 (18min)

› Atoms from Abroad: A Transnational History of Nuclear Energy in Belgium (1953-1985) - Siegfried Evens, KULeuven 15:46-16:04 (18min)

16:30 - 17:00 (30min)

GENERAL DISCUSSION - CONCLUSION OF THE CONFERENCE

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Detailed programme with rooms and links to abstracts