Nuclear weapons and humanitarian risks
| Dates: | 7 March 2023 |
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| Times: | 17:00 - 18:30 |
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| What is it: | Seminar |
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| Organiser: | Faculty of Humanities |
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| How much: | Free |
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| Who is it for: | University staff, Adults, Current University students, General public |
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| Speaker: | Dr Becky Alexis-Martin, Dr Frank Boulton |
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Speakers
Dr Becky Alexis-Martin
Role: PI and author
Organisation: University of Kent
Biography: Dr Alexis-Martin is a multidisciplinary academic in applied social sciences and humanities. Her research praxis coalesces around a nexus of science, technology and health, social justice & human rights, and postcolonial & decolonial discourse. She is the author of over 30 peer-reviewed academic papers and book chapters, and an award-winning pacifist scholar, author and photographer. Her first book, “Disarming Doomsday: The human impact of nuclear weapons since Hiroshima” (Pluto Press, 2019), critically considers the global social, cultural, and spatial inequalities and harms perpetuated by nuclear warfare and was the recipient of the 2020 L.H.M. Ling Outstanding First Book Prize. Her funded research projects have included “Nuclear Families: A social study of nuclear test veterans and their families” (2015-2018), and “Atomic Atolls” (2018-present).
Dr Frank Boulton
Role: Retired doctor and author
Organisation: Medact
Biography: Dr Frank Boulton is a retired NHS medical consultant and academic, though still teaches medical undergraduates at University of Southampton (haematology and global health).His concern about nuclear weapons started as an student in the 1960s, which included joining the CND Aldermaston March in 1963, co-founding the Edinburgh branch of the Medical Campaign Against Nuclear Weapons in 1980; was Secretary to the Oxford Research Group think-tank (1994 to 2012); was Chair of the Board of Medact (2007 to 2012) and was a Board member of International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (2017 to 2021). Dr Boulton has written extensively about nuclear warfare from a medical perspective, such as Nuclear war and public health: preparedness, protection and the case for prevention (Journal of Public Health - here) and his writing for Medicine, Conflict and Survival journal (here)
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