BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID:-//Columba Systems Ltd//NONSGML CPNG/SpringViewer/ICal Output/3.3- M3//EN VERSION:2.0 CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250226T100344Z DTSTART:20250305T163000Z DTEND:20250305T180000Z SUMMARY:EAS-FeRN Seminar – Nuclear Minds: Anxiety and Transformation in A -bomb Psychology UID:{http://www.columbasystems.com/customers/uom/gpp/eventid/}z1qz-m7lqo1 oh-w0noae DESCRIPTION:In 1945\, researchers on a mission to Hiroshima with the Unit ed States Strategic Bombing Survey canvassed survivors of the nuclear at tack. This marked the beginning of global efforts—by psychiatrists\, psy chologists\, and other social scientists—to tackle the complex ways huma n minds were affected by the advent of the nuclear age. Nuclear Minds tr aces these efforts and the ways they were interpreted differently across communities of researchers and victims. The manuscript explores how the bomb’s psychological impact on survivors was understood before the inve ntion/ discovery of the concept of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) . In fact\, I argue\, psychological and psychiatric research on Hiroshim a and Nagasaki rarely referred to trauma or similar categories. Instead\ , institutional\, and political constraints—most notably the psychologic al sciences’ entanglement with Cold War science—led researchers to conce ntrate on short-term damage and somatic reactions or even led\, in some cases\, the denial of victims’ suffering. As a result\, very few doctors tried to ameliorate suffering. This does not mean the professions “fail ed” to diagnose PTSD (a non-existent category at the time)\, rather both doctors and\, even more importantly\, survivors\, understood and experi enced psychological suffering and their role in society differently. Thi s is made clear by comparing and connecting the nuclear case with that o f Holocaust\, military veterans\, and other victims. Thus\, the book set out\, first\, to understand the historical\, cultural\, and scientific constraints in which researchers and victims were acting and\, second\, to explore the way suffering was understood in different cultural contex ts before PTSD was a category of analysis.\n \nBio\n \nRan Zwigenberg is associate professor at Pennsylvania State University. His research focu ses on modern Japanese and European history\, with a specialization in m emory and intellectual history. He has taught and lectured in the United States\, Europe\, Israel\, and Japan\, and published on issues of war m emory\, atomic energy\, psychiatry\, heritage\, regionalism\, and surviv or politics. Zwigenberg’s first book\, Hiroshima: The Origins of Global Memory Culture (Cambridge University Press\, 2014)\, won the 2016 Assoc iation for Asian Studies’ John W. Hall book award. His latest book\, Nuc lear Minds: Cold War Psychological Science and the Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (Chicago: University of Chicago\, 2023) deals with the psy chological aftermath of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. For more inform ation on this and other projects\, please see https://pennstate.academia .edu/RanZwigenberg STATUS:TENTATIVE TRANSP:TRANSPARENT CLASS:PUBLIC LOCATION:A7\, Samuel Alexander Building END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR