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Fallout Memories: Impacts and Legacies of the Atomic Testing Era in the Marshall Islands & the United States


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Fallout Memories: Impacts and Legacies of the Atomic Testing Era in the Marshall Islands & the United States

DATE: Monday, September 14 2026
TIME: 2:00 pm - 4:30 pm MST
LOCATION: College of Law
COST: Free and open to the public.
No Continuing Legal Education credit available.
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A Wallace Stegner Center co-sponsored event

EVENT DETAILS:

fallout marketing posterThis program will feature a panel of experts who have lived experience with US atomic testing in the American West and the Marshall Islands, a screening of oral history interviews from the Great Basin Heritage Area Partnership’s Fallout of Fallout project, and a presentation from HEAL Utah about the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act (RECA) for downwinders.

 

ABOUT THE SPEAKERS:

Dr. Danielle Endres, Professor of Communication and Director of the Environmental Humanities Program, University of Utah
Mary Dickson, Downwinder, speaker, playwright
John Flynn, History PhD candidate, University of Utah
Yolanda Lodge Ned, President of the Utah Marshallese Association, Former Assistant Attorney General of the Republic of the Marshall Islands
Aisen Tima, Marshallese elder from Rongelap Atoll
Elio Boas, Marshallese elder from Rongelap Atoll

 

 

This event is sponsored by:

The Environmental Humanities Program, University of Utah
The American West Center, University of Utah
The Department of History, University of Utah
The Tanner Humanities Center, University of Utah
The Wallace Stegner Center for Land, Resources, and the Environment, University of Utah
The Center for Pasifika Indigenous Knowledges, University of Utah
The Great Basin Heritage Area Partnership, Baker, NV
The American Conservation Experience, Mellon Humanities Program (EPIC, national)

 

The views expressed in this lecture and in the event description are those of the speaker and do not necessarily reflect the views of the S.J. Quinney College of Law or the University of Utah.

 

For questions about this event email events@law.utah.edu.


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