Spring 2024 Anthropology UN3893 section 001

THE BOMB

Call Number 10913
Day & Time
Location
T 10:10am-12:00pm
467 EXT Schermerhorn Hall [SCH]
Points 4
Grading Mode Standard
Approvals Required Instructor
Instructor Karen Seeley
Type SEMINAR
Method of Instruction In-Person
Course Description

This course investigates the social history of nuclear arms in the context of World War II and the Cold War, exploring their ramifications for subjects and societies. We consider historical, ethnographic, medical and psychiatric accounts of the bomb’s invention and fallout, including the unknowable bodily injuries caused by radiation and the ecological contamination inflicted on indigenous communities where atomic weapons were tested. Throughout the course, we investigate government propaganda designed to produce political subjects who both endorse and fear nuclear imperatives; who support expanding militarization and funding for weapons development; and who abide escalating political rhetorics of nuclear aggression.

Web Site Vergil
Department Anthropology
Enrollment 11 students (14 max) as of 9:06PM Thursday, December 12, 2024
Subject Anthropology
Number UN3893
Section 001
Division Interschool
Note The permission of the instructor is required
Section key 20241ANTH3893V001