5th Carolina Seminar on "Russia and Its Empires, East and West"

Time: Tuesday, April 7, 2009, 6:00 p.m.
Location:UNC FedEx Global Education Center, Room 4003 (directions follow at the bottom)
Lecture Title: Lethal Landscapes: the secret history of plutonium, radiation and the communities that learned to love the bomb


Sponsored by the Center for Slavic, Eurasian, and East European Studies, the History Department, and Carolina Seminars

Kate Brown is an associate professor of History at the University of Maryland (UMBC).

She is the author of A Biography of No Place: From Ethnic Borderland to Soviet Heartland (Harvard 2004) which won the American Historical Association’s George Louis Beer Prize for the Best Book in International European History, the Heldt Prize from the Association of Women in Slavic Studies and Honorary Mention for the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies’ Wayne C. Vucinich Prize for 2005. She has published in the American Historical Review, Chronicle of Higher Education, Harper’s on-line edition, Kritika, and contributes to the TLS. Brown will spend 2009-2010 on a Guggenheim Fellowship working on a cultural history of the world’s first two plutonium cities.

Directions to the FedEx Global Education Center from Franklin Street coming from the east:

Turn LEFT onto S. Columbia St. from Franklin St. Follow the road through a couple of lights, it will force you to go right at the intersection by the Carolina Inn, and then take a LEFT turn onto Pittsboro St. You will pass the Carolina Inn on your left. At the next light, you will see the building in front of you. It is next door to the School of Social Work and behind the Pharmacy School. There is free parking after 5pm in the lot below the building, with entrance on McCauley Street.
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Room 4003 is just off the elevators on the 4th floor. The main stairs stop at the 3rd floor, so please take the elevator.