Environmental Histories of Post-Industrial Nuclear Sites: An Interdisciplinary Dialogue

Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II
Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici
Biblioteca di Area Umanistica – Sala refettorio
Piazza Bellini, 40

September 25, 9:00-13:30

Institutional greetings: Andrea Mazzucchi, Director of the Department of Humanities, University of Naples Federico II

Opening remarks: Elisabetta Bini, University of Naples Federico II

Keynote speech
Teva Meyer, University of Haute-Alsace
Materialities of Power and the Political Geography of Nuclear Things

First session, 11:00-13:30

Chair: Barbara Curli, University of Turin

Megan Eardley, KTH
Reclaiming the Future? Organized Labor and Uranium Exposure in Post-Apartheid South Africa

Andrei Stsiapanau, Södertörn University
Reevaluating the Environmental Impact of the Soviet Nuclear Program: An Archival Study of the Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant in Lithuania

Discussants:
Markku Lehtonen, University of Pompeu Fabra
Gabriella Rago, University of Turin

Lunch break, 13:30-14:30

Second session, 14:30-18:00

Chair: Mauro Elli, University of Milan Statale

Linda Ross, University of the Highlands and Islands
Decommissioning as an Endangerment Narrative: Nuclear Cultural Heritage-making

Federica Fava, University of Roma Tre
(Un)hearing Atomic Voices. The Borgo Sabotino Former Nuclear Power Plant between Urban Wellbeing and Territorial Reconciliation

Coffee break

Oana Tiganea, Polytechnic of Milan
Ștei, The “Secret Uranium City”: The Hidden Legacy of the Cold War between Ecology and Preservation

Leila Dawney, University of Exeter
Decommissioning Dreams of Progress: Temporality, Endurance and Living on

Discussants:
Valerio Caruso, CNR-ISMed
Markku Lehtonen, University of Pompeu Fabra

September 26, 9.30-13:00

Third session

Chair: Elisabetta Bini, University of Naples Federico II

Davide Orsini, Rachel Carson Center, University of Munich
Pioneers and Guinea Pigs: Echoes from Latina’s Post-nuclear Futures

Petra Tjitske Kalshoven, University of Manchester
Dwelling on Storied Land: Nuclear Leftovers in Scotland’s Far North

Coffee break

Chiara Zampieri, University of Naples Federico II
The Long Decommissioning: Politics, Mobilizations, and the Environment following the Shutdown of the Garigliano Nuclear Power Plant

Adna Čamdžić, University of Turin
From “Miracle” to “Nuclear Cemetery”: Governing the Afterlife of Caorso’s Power Plant

Discussants:
Laura Ciglioni, Sapienza University of Rome
Simone Neri Serneri, University of Florence