The virtual seminar will be held from Noon to 1:30 p.m. (ET)
This talk will present a new project involving Native-American undergraduate students at Princeton that investigates the impacts of the nuclear age on Native Nations in the United States and Princeton’s role in helping shape this age. The project aims to revisit the under-acknowledged impacts of nuclear science, technology, and engineering on Native lands and communities. It will explore how accomplishments in the nuclear sciences were made possible by institutionalized secrecy, environmental degradation, cultural disruptions, and the mobilization of Native communities. The project also will look at Princeton based research in opposition to nuclear weapons and the threats from nuclear energy programs and the experiences of Native resistance. The project is being done in collaboration with the student groups Natives at Princeton and Princeton Indigenous Advocacy Coalition (PIAC). It also supports efforts to establish an Indigenous Studies certificate program. One of the goals of the project moving into the fall is to create a syllabus for a course that investigates Indigenous communities and nuclear science. It also will provide an opportunity to underrepresented groups to explore alternative narratives that center their own and their communities’ experiences. For more, see https://nuclearprinceton.princeton.edu/