After the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in April of 1986, more than a million children from Belarus, Ukraine, and Russia were sent abroad to recover from radiation exposure. Dr. Melanie Arndt tells how the Chernobyl children became witnesses and symbols of life in the Anthropocene — an age where human impact on the planet has become increasingly borderless.

Arndt has led several international research projects, including Politics and Society after Chernobyl at the Leibniz Center for Contemporary History Potsdam and Contemporary Environmental History of the Soviet Union at the Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European History in Regensburg.

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Monday | October 7 | 7:00 PM