Campus room: Burke Room, main floor of the Burke Museum
The public is invited to join the public speaker series connected to an anthropology course entitled “Climate Change and Nuclear Risk: Oceania” (Anth 479). The Wednesday lecture series is open and free to the public, and takes place in the Burke Room at 12:30 p.m.
Dr. Robert Jacobs, Hiroshima Peace Museum
Robert Jacobs is a historian studying the social and cultural aspects of nuclear technologies at the Hiroshima Peace Institute of Hiroshima City University in Japan. He is the author of The Dragon’s Tail: Americans Face the Atomic Age (2010), the editor of Filling the Hole in the Nuclear Future: Art and Popular Culture Respond to the Bomb (2010), and co-editor of Images of Rupture in Civilization Between East and West: The Iconography of Auschwitz and Hiroshima in Eastern European Arts and Media (2014). He has written extensively about nuclear issues, including the Fukushima nuclear disaster. He is the principal investigator of the Global Hibakusha Project that explores and social and cultural aspects of radiation exposures around the globe, primarily in nuclear test site communities, nuclear production communities, and nuclear accident sites. The project has recently focused on networking 3rd generation hibakusha and training them to collect oral histories in their communities. www.bojacobs.net
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