Everyday Radioactive Life in Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan

Activity Type: 
Lecture
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Presenter: 
Magdalena Edyta Stawkowski, Department of Sociology & Anthropology, North Carolina State University
Date: 
Thursday, October 10, 2019 - 16:00
Event Status: 
As Scheduled
Location: 
4130 Wesley W. Posvar Hall
Contact Person: 
Sera Passerini
Contact Phone: 
4126487407
Contact Email: 
smp125@pitt.edu

From 1949 to 1989, the Soviet Union conducted 456 nuclear tests at Semipalatinsk nuclear test site in Kazakhstan. Despite decades of nuclear fallout, Kazakh rural communities inhabit the area around the site. How has living around a nuclear test site shaped those communities and their post-Soviet experience? This live interview with Magdalena Stawkowski will discuss her ethnographic work and the ways the Semipalatinsk test site still shapes economy, environment and subjectivities.

UCIS Unit: 
Center for African Studies
Asian Studies Center
Center for Russian East European and Eurasian Studies
Director's Office
European Studies Center
Global Studies Center
Other Pitt Sponsors: 
Matthew B. Ridgway Center for International Security Studies
Department of Communications
Department of History
Cultural Studies Program
World History Center
World Regions: 
Europe and Russia
Russia/Eastern Europe
Is Event Already in University Calendar?: 
No