| Webinar Monday, November 8, 2021, 2-3:15pm EST/ 7-8:15pm GMT/ 8-9:15pm CMT Multidisciplinary Webinar under the auspices of the International Center for MultiGenerational Legacies of Trauma. 8 November is the anniversary of the 1957 British Grapple X test at Kiritimas Island in what is now Kiribati. It was the United Kingdom’s first thermo-nuclear blast. Speakers  H.E. Amatlain Elizabeth Kabua (Opening remarks) Ambassador Amatlain Elizabeth Kabua is in her second term as Permanent Representative of the Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI) to the United Nations. She attended grade school in the Marshall Islands, in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands and in Honolulu. She then attended Chaminade University in Honolulu. She has had a distinguished career in the foreign service of the RMI, including terms as Ambassador to Japan and to the Republic of Fiji.  Roger Clark (Overview of testing in the Pacific) Roger Clark is Board of Governors Professor Emeritus at Rutgers Law School. At the International Court of Justice, he was a member of the legal teams that represented Samoa in 1995-6 in the Advisory Proceedings on the Legality of Nuclear Weapons, and the Republic of the Marshall Islands in 2014-6 in the RMI’s cases against the nuclear powers for their failure to negotiate nuclear disarmament in good faith .  Glenn Alcalay (Tests in the Republic of the Marshall Islands) An anthropologist by training, Glenn Alcalay is a Professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York. He was a Peace Corps volunteer in RMI in 1975-7 and has done extensive study of the human and environmental aftermath of nuclear testing.  Sue Roff (Tests in Australia and Kiribati) Sue Roff is a social scientist and journalist, formerly of Dundee University Medical School in Scotland. She has studied the long-term health effects of participation in the United Kingdom’s atomic and nuclear tests for the past two decades. In an earlier life, she represented the Minority Rights Group at the United Nations.  Nabil Ahmed (Tests in French Polynesia) Nabil Ahmed is a Professor at the Trondheim Academy of Fine Art, Faculty of Architecture and Design, in Norway. He runs a research and design studio dedicated to environmental justice and advocacy. His work lies at the intersection of spatial practice, visual culture and environmental humanities. Moderator:  Dr. Yael Danieli, Founder and Executive Director, International Center for MultiGenerational Legacies of Trauma. REGISTER FOR WEBINAR HERE |
