Thursday, November 27

From 14:00 Welcome Coffee

15:00-17:00
Introduction (Organizers)
Chair: Tanja Penter
Susanne Bauer (IFK Wien/U Frankfurt/Main): Semipalatinsk after the Cold War. Perspectives from Science and Technology Studies
Hiroko Takahashi (Hiroshima Peace Institute): The Long-Term Aftermath of the Nuclear Bombs in Hiroshima and Nagasaki

17:00-17:30 Coffee/Tea

17:30-18:15
Chair: Laura Sembritzki
Egle Rindzeviciute (Science Po, Paris): Virtual Nuclear Landscapes in Cold War Computer Models, the 1980s
19:00 Dinner IWH

Friday, November 28

9:00-10:30
Chair: Klaus Gestwa
Laura Sembritzki (U Heidelberg): Soviet Radiation Expertise in the Southern Urals in the late 1950s and early 1960s
Olga Nikonova (U Chelyabinsk): Expert Communities and Environmental Policy in the Disaster Area Affected by Radiation (Chelyabinsk) (in Russian)

10:30-11:00 Coffee

11:00-12:30
Chair: Melanie Arndt
Stefan Guth (U Bern): Atomic-Powered Communism on the Southern Soviet Periphery - the Nuclear City of Shevchenko/Aktau, 1959-2019
Magdalena Stawkowski (Stanford U): From Mutant Butterflies to Nuclear Subjectivities: Everyday Survival on the Semipalatinsk Nuclear Test Site

12:30-13:30 Lunch

13:30-15:00
Chair: Susanne Bauer
Elena Maltseva (U Nazarbayev): Living by a Nuclear Power Plant: Social Disruption and Welfare Response in Post-Soviet States
Tanja Penter (U Heidelberg): Dealing with Victims of Radioactive Contamination: Compensation Laws in Post-Soviet Russia, Ukraine, Belarus and Kazachstan

15:00-15:30 Coffee

15:30-16:15
Chair TBA
Olga Kuchinskaya (U Pittsburgh): Radiation Issues in Belarus after the Chernobyl Accident

16:15-16:30 Coffee

16:30-18:00
Roundtable: Commentaries (Klaus Gestwa, U Tübingen; Melanie Arndt, U Regensburg) and general discussion
19:00 Closing Dinner