KEYNOTE LECTURES

Keynote Speaker: Dr. Traci Brynee Voyles, Professor of History, North Carolina State University

Keynote Speaker: Dr. Vincent Intondi, Senior Lecturer, Webster University-Leiden

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

  • Traci Brynne Voyles

    Wastelanding: Histories of Colonialism and Nuclearism in the US West
    April 11, 2024

    Bio
    Dr. Traci Brynne Voyles is Professor and Head of the Department of History at North Carolina State University. She is the author of two books: The Settler Sea: California’s Salton Sea and the Consequences of Colonialism (Many Wests book series, University of Nebraska Press, 2021), which won the 2022 Caughey Prize for best work on the American West, and Wastelanding: Legacies of Uranium Mining in Navajo Country (University of Minnesota Press, 2015).

  • Mary Olson

    Gender and Radiation Impact
    April 12, 2024

    Bio
    Mary Olson, founder of Gender and Radiation Impact Project (2017) was educated in evolutionary biology. Olson has worked nationally and globally on radioactive waste policy. An educator on radiation and human health (1991—2019, Nuclear Information and Resource Service; 2017--present Gender and Radiation Impact Project), Olson made an independent finding (2011) that ionizing radiation is more harmful to female bodies than to male bodies and the difference is greatest when the exposure is to young children. This finding contributed to the Humanitarian Initiative on nuclear weapons at the UN, and ultimately to the new Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons which came into force in 2021.

    Her publications include:

    • Mary Olson (2019) Disproportionate impact of radiation and radiation regulation, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, 44:2, 131-139, DOI: 10.1080/03080188.2019.1603864

    • UNODA (2016) chapter in Civil Society and Disarmament. Human Consequences of Radiation: A Gender Factor in Atomic Harm.

    See also: www.genderandradiation.org

  • Vincent Intondi

    Links in the Same Chain: Race Nuclear Weapons and Colonialism
    April 13, 2024

    Bio
    Dr. Vincent Intondi is Senior Lecturer, in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at Webster University-Leiden. He is the author of two books, African Americans Against the Bomb: Nuclear Weapons, Colonialism, and the Black Freedom Movement (Stanford University Press, 2015) and Saving the World from Nuclear War: The June 12, 1982, Disarmament Rally and Beyond (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2023). From 2013-2023, Intondi was a Professor of History at Montgomery College in Takoma Park, Maryland. From 2018-2023, Intondi was also director for Montgomery College’s Institute for Race, Justice, and Civic Engagement. Prior to teaching at Montgomery College, Intondi served as Director of Research for American University’s Nuclear Studies Institute in Washington, DC and was an Associate Professor of History at Seminole State College in Sanford, Florida. An expert on the intersection of race and nuclear weapons, Intondi regularly works with organizations exploring ways to include more diverse voices in the nuclear disarmament movement. His current research and next book focus on the role of Africa in the nuclear disarmament movement.

    Twitter: @VincentIntondi

    Website: www.vincentintondi.com