Fallout Memories

September 14, Moot Court Room, S.J. Quinney College of Law, 2-4 PM

This 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.

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

Co-sponsored by: 

The Environmental Humanities Program

The Department of History

The Tanner Humanities Center

The Wallace Stegner Center for Land, Resources, and the Environment

The Center for Pasifika Indigenous Knowledges

The Great Basin Heritage Area Partnership, Baker, NV

The American Conservation Experience, Mellon Humanities Program (EPIC, national)

The Mountains Are Calling, But at What Price? 

September 30th, LNCO 2910, 12-1 PM. Lunch provided. Please RSVP by emailing cory.pike@utah.edu

Over four million people visit Yosemite National Park every year. They come to stand at the base of Yosemite Falls, walk among the giant sequoias of Mariposa Grove, and listen to a ranger tell of the park’s natural history during a fireside talk. This number underscores both Yosemite’s popularity and tourism’s costs. Based on his recent book, The Mountains Are Calling: Tourists and the Unmaking of Yosemite National Park, Colorado State University history professor Michael Childers will explain how visitor’s helped build Yosemite’s popularity, while also becoming its greatest environmental threat.

Dr. Michael Childers is an associate professor of history at Colorado State University and the author of The Mountains Are Calling: Tourists and the Unmaking of Yosemite National Park. Born and raised in Colorado mountains, his work focuses on the mounting challenges facing the American West from water development to tourism.

Co-sponsored by the Environmental Humanities Program and the Department of History.