It runs through Maand is curated by Oakland University professor of Art History Claude Baillargeon.In the crackling first days after Hamas slaughtered 1,200 people in Israel and took more than 200 hostages, a fast consensus emerged on the American political scene: The pro-Palestinian left was going to suffer. It is called McMillan's Chernobyl: An Imitation of the Way the World Would End. The current exhibit is related to this year's Varner Vitality Lecture. See more David McMillan photos from Chernobyl at the Oakland University Art Gallery. Visit the Oakland University Art Gallery to learn more:

Seating limited to first 100 registrants Click here to registerĪfternoon Session: Oakland Center, Founders Ballrooms Click here for more details Morning Session: Meadow Brook Hall Ballroom Request special assistance, contact: (248) 370-2190.Ĭhernobyl Then and Now: A Global Perspective Symposium This is a free event and no tickets are required to attend.įor more information, visit the 2019 Varner Vitality webpage or to Oakland University Founders Ballrooms A and B This Lecture is sponsored by the Division of Academic Affairs. This series aims to energize and sustain the highest academic and scholarly aspirations of the university community. The Varner Vitality Lecture Series is named in honor of Oakland’s first chancellor, Durward “Woody” Varner. There, and in Kiev cancer wards that will continue to receive victims for decades, he learned not only that the world can’t afford another Chernobyl, but also that we couldn’t afford the first one, either. In this year’s Varner Vitality Lecture, Weisman will describe visiting the decaying reactor and the lush farms that comprised the Soviet Union’s most fertile land, until Chernobyl’s fallout left them lethally radioactive.

They were tasked with designing safe ways for people to remain in surrounding regions. A few years after the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster, best-selling author and journalist Alan Weisman traveled to the site with Russian, Ukrainian and American scientists.

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