The Trail of the Atom - Image, Witness and Archive
Date Tuesday, March 10, 2015 - Tuesday, March 10, 2015 7:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. Location LY610 Dr. John Archer Library Main Campus Drawing from an archive of images arising from three research projects, this reading will trace a route from a remote mine on the shores of Great Bear Lake, to Japan, Holla...
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ftunivregina:oai:ourspace.uregina.ca:10294/5655 2023-10-09T21:51:49+02:00 The Trail of the Atom - Image, Witness and Archive van Wyck, Peter 2015-03-10 image/jpeg audio/mp3 http://hdl.handle.net/10294/5655 en eng University of Regina Library http://hdl.handle.net/10294/5655 atomic age Presentation 2015 ftunivregina 2023-09-16T22:13:30Z Date Tuesday, March 10, 2015 - Tuesday, March 10, 2015 7:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. Location LY610 Dr. John Archer Library Main Campus Drawing from an archive of images arising from three research projects, this reading will trace a route from a remote mine on the shores of Great Bear Lake, to Japan, Holland and the desert of New Mexico. Its itinerary seeks to chart the constellation of effects - with respect to memory in particular - wrought by atomic and nuclear threats and disaster. Peter C. van Wyck is Professor of Communication and Media Studies at Concordia University in Montréal. He is an interdisciplinary scholar and writer with an abiding interest in the theoretical and practical relations between culture, nature, environment, landscape, memory and waste. His most recent book, The Highway of the Atom (McGill-Queens University Press) - winner of the 2011 Gertrude J. Robinson book award from the Canadian Communication Association - is a theoretical and archival investigation tracing the origins of the atomic bomb in Canada's North. In addition to a variety of articles, book chapters, critical reviews and creative texts, he is also author of Signs of Danger: Waste, Trauma, and Nuclear Threat (University of Minnesota Press, 2005), and Primitives in the Wilderness: Deep Ecology and the Missing Human Subject (SUNY Press, 1997). Other no Conference Object Great Bear Lake oURspace - The University of Regina's Institutional Repository Great Bear Lake ENVELOPE(-120.753,-120.753,65.834,65.834) Gertrude ENVELOPE(70.217,70.217,-49.517,-49.517) Archer ENVELOPE(162.867,162.867,-76.850,-76.850) Wyck ENVELOPE(-62.100,-62.100,-64.317,-64.317) |
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Date Tuesday, March 10, 2015 - Tuesday, March 10, 2015 7:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. Location LY610 Dr. John Archer Library Main Campus Drawing from an archive of images arising from three research projects, this reading will trace a route from a remote mine on the shores of Great Bear Lake, to Japan, Holland and the desert of New Mexico. Its itinerary seeks to chart the constellation of effects - with respect to memory in particular - wrought by atomic and nuclear threats and disaster. Peter C. van Wyck is Professor of Communication and Media Studies at Concordia University in Montréal. He is an interdisciplinary scholar and writer with an abiding interest in the theoretical and practical relations between culture, nature, environment, landscape, memory and waste. His most recent book, The Highway of the Atom (McGill-Queens University Press) - winner of the 2011 Gertrude J. Robinson book award from the Canadian Communication Association - is a theoretical and archival investigation tracing the origins of the atomic bomb in Canada's North. In addition to a variety of articles, book chapters, critical reviews and creative texts, he is also author of Signs of Danger: Waste, Trauma, and Nuclear Threat (University of Minnesota Press, 2005), and Primitives in the Wilderness: Deep Ecology and the Missing Human Subject (SUNY Press, 1997). Other no |
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