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SUMMARY:Containment - Film Screening and Discussion
DESCRIPTION:Can we contain some of the deadliest\, most long-lasting substances ever produced? Left over from the Cold War are a hundred million gallons of radioactive sludge\, covering vast radioactive lands. Governments around the world\, desperate to protect future generations\, have begun imagining society 10\,000 years from now in order to create monuments that will speak across time. \nPart observational essay filmed in weapons plants\, Fukushima and deep underground—and part graphic novel—Containment weaves between an uneasy present and an imaginative\, troubled far future\, exploring the idea that over millennia\, nothing stays put. \nIn 1989\, the Department of Energy hired futurologists\, astronomers\, science fiction writers\, and even experts on the search for extra-terrestrial intelligence\, to create “scenarios” in which our descendants heedlessly break into the waste burial sites. To guide us through these ten-thousand year futures\, historian Peter Galison and and filmmaker Robb Moss have filmed the scenarios’ authors and have interwoven a graphic narrative that explores these weird\, funny\, and unnerving images of the future. \nThe film further engages three radioactive sites where containment has already become a critical issue\, in the present. Each site explores a different aspect of the almost impossible task of isolating radioactive waste from the environment. \nPeter Galison is Pellegrino University Professor of the History of Science and of Physics at Harvard University. He was awarded a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Fellowship in 1997; won a 1998 Pfizer Award for Image and Logic as the best book that year in the History of Science; and in 1999 received the Max Planck and Humboldt Stiftung Prize. \nThis event is free and open to the public. For more information and to register\, please visit the  Consortium for History of Science\, Technology and Medicine website. \n 
URL:https://blogs.cuit.columbia.edu/scisoc/cssevent/containment-film-screening-and-discussion/
LOCATION:Academy of Natural Sciences\, Drexel University\, 1900 Benjamin Franklin Parkway \, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19103\, United States
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