Wednesday, February 19th, Dr. Shannon Cram will be giving a guest lecture at the University of Oregon. The lecture will be held from 4-5:30 pm at Lillis Hall, Room 111. 

Dr. Cram is an interdisciplinary scholar working at the intersections of geography, anthropology, science and technology studies, and the environmental humanities. She will talk about her new, award-winning book, Unmaking the Bomb: Environmental Cleanup and the Politics of Impossibility, which blends history, ethnography, and memoir, as she investigates remediation efforts at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation, the former weapons complex in Washington State. Home to the majority of the nation’s high-level nuclear waste and its largest environmental cleanup, Hanford is tasked with managing toxic materials that will long outlast the United States and its institutional capacities.