Professor Hugh Gusterson speaks out about culture proliferation today

By: Elisabeth Steinhardt
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Professor Hugh Gusterson, Professor of Anthropology, Science and Technology Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

The Pell Center for International Relations and Public Policy presents Hugh Gusterson, Professor of Anthropology, Science and Technology Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Gusterson’s lecture “Nuclear Nightmares: The Culture Proliferation in Today’s World” will address issues of nuclear proliferation in the world, why states are failing to come to agreement on non-proliferation, and why there is reason to be afraid for the future.

He is the author of “Nuclear Rites: A Weapons Laboratory at the End of the Cold War,” and “People of the Bomb: Portraits of Americas Nuclear Complex.” He is also the co-editor of “Why America’s Top Pundits Are Wrong.”

Gusterson has published scholarly articles in Cultural Anthropology, the Journal of

Contemporary Ethnography, and Science, Technology and Human Values. His op-eds have appeared in the Boston Globe, Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, and the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists.

He will speak on Thurs., October 27, at 6:00 p.m. in the Pell Center, Young Building, corner of Bellevue and Ruggles Avenues, Newport. RSVP by noon on Thurs., 341-2927 or by e-mail pellcenter@salve.edu.

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