Plutopia: How Nuclear Disasters Created Utopian Cities
College of Arts and Humanities | History
Friday, September 4, 2015 11:00 am
Francis Scott Key Hall,
2120
Kate Brown, a 2009 Guggenheim Fellow, lives in Washington DC and is Professor of History at UMBC. Brown’s book, Plutopia: Nuclear Families in Atomic Cities and the Great Soviet and American Plutonium Disasters (Oxford 2013) won six prizes including the American Historical Association’s Albert J. Beveridge Prize for best book on the Americas. Her first book, A Biography of No Place: From Ethnic Borderland to Soviet Heartland (Harvard 2004), won the AHA’s George Louis Beer Prize for the best book in international history. Brown’s most recent book Dispatches from Dystopia: History of Places Not Yet Forgotten was published in 2015 by the University of Chicago Press. She is currently writing a history of human survival and endurance among the communities circling the Pripiat Marshes. To welcome you back and to mark the start of the new academic year, the Department is sponsoring a catered lunch after the talk. To ensure that we order the right amount of food, please RSVP at
millercenter@umd.edu or call 301-405-4299. Brown’s books will be available for reading at the Miller Center and a relevant chapter will be circulated before the talk on our website.