SciBar: March

The fourth SciBar of the 2018/19 series is with Dr Becky Alexis-Martin, Lecturer in Cultural and Political Geography at Manchester Metropolitan University.

March's topic is: Radiophobia: Exploring nuclear culture from bananas to bombs

This talk will explore how nuclear science and culture have merged since 1945, from the Pip-Boys of Fallout gamers to the Kataribe tales of Hiroshima survivors. It presents a pit-stop tour of international research into nuclear spaces and places, from the Doomsday Stones of Los Alamos to Ramsar, which is the most naturally radioactive inhabited place on Earth. So, how do we separate fact from fiction? Who died “tickling the dragon”? Where is the safest place on Earth? And what have bananas got to do with nuclear warfare, anyway?

Author of the book “Disarming Doomsday”

* Please note the change of venue for SciBar. The new venue for this year will be Gullivers, 109 Oldham Street, Manchester, M4 1LW