Taming the Nuclear: Between Past and Future Imaginaries | Nükleer’i Evcilleştirmek: Geçmiş ve Gelecek Tahayyülleri Arasında
Konuşmacı | Speaker: Prof. Ulrike Felt
Moderasyon | Moderation: Dr. Duygu Kaşdoğan
Kürasyon | Curation: Dr. Duygu Kaşdoğan & Doç. Dr. Ebru Yetişkin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSmLMFRXgEo
Whatever choice might be made in any given national context (and beyond) to expand the use of or to phase out of nuclear energy, we have come to live in “nuclear times”. And this well beyond any temporal horizon we usually think about. This invites to pose the question of what we can collectively learn from the ways nuclear pasts evolved? What futures did we imagine back then and how did major incidents (Three Mile Island, Chernobyl and Fukushima) disrupt the respective prevailing imaginaries of the nuclear and make us develop new ones? Using the notion of “taming the nuc...