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X-WR-CALNAME:"On Telling Contaminated Stories" - Dr. Shannon Cram
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DESCRIPTION:What does it mean to reckon with a contaminated world? Dr. Shan
 non Cram considers the social politics of this question and the regulatory
  infrastructures designed to answer it. In particular\, she investigates r
 emediation efforts at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation\, a former weapons c
 omplex in Washington State. Home to the majority of the nation's high-leve
 l nuclear waste and its largest environmental cleanup\, Hanford is tasked 
 with managing toxic materials that will long outlast the United States and
  its regulatory capacities. This talk considers the structural impossibili
 ties associated with Hanford’s cleanup as well as the normative categori
 es that inform environmental hazard. It recognizes that multi-millennial w
 aste will inevitably exceed its institutional containers\, and that admini
 stering eternity has unthinkable\, science-fiction-like qualities. But it 
 also explores the powerful conditions and contexts that define unthinkabil
 ity itself—the social relations that designate some impacts as reasonabl
 e and others as inconceivable\, allowing cleanup to distribute survival un
 evenly. Thus\, it considers both the concrete and constructed realities of
  contaminated life\, and the oft-blurred boundaries between the two.  \n\n
  \n\nDr. Shannon Cram is an associate professor of Interdisciplinary Arts 
 and Sciences at the University of Washington Bothell\, where she co-direct
 s the Science\, Technology\, and Society program. Her first book\, Unmakin
 g the Bomb: Environmental Cleanup and the Politics of Impossibility\, won 
 the Ludwik Fleck Prize\, the Julian Steward Award\, and was a finalist for
  the Washington State Book Award. She lives in the Snoqualmie Valley.\n\n 
 \n\nFunding provided by the Robert and Mabel Groseclose Endowment.
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LOCATION:Kimball Theatre in Hunter Conservatory
SUMMARY:"On Telling Contaminated Stories" - Dr. Shannon Cram
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CATEGORIES:Science\, Engineering & Technology
CATEGORIES:Government\, Law & Activism
CATEGORIES:Health & Medicine
CATEGORIES:Social & Human Services
CATEGORIES:Research
CATEGORIES:Environmental & Sustainability
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