Category: News and Events
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The Wretched Atom book release
I am pleased to announce that my book, The Wretched Atom, was published this summer by Oxford University Press. I will post review snippets and other relevant information on this site. Head over to Amazon, Goodreads, or the OUP site to see more about the book. Here is a description: A groundbreaking narrative of how…
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Connecting to the Living History of Radiation Exposure
I’m pleased to announce a special issue of the Journal of the History of Biology (vol. 54, issue 1), which I have guest-edited with my colleague Linda M. Richards. It focuses on the history of radiation exposure, and it draws together stories of science, activism, art, culture, and struggles over historical narrative. It includes essays…
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Downwinders Workshop: Making the Unseen Visible
I was delighted to co-lead (with Linda Richards) our final workshop for the OSU Downwinders Project this summer. It coincided with the 75th anniversary of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Due to the pandemic, we had to cancel the flights of our visitors and conduct the workshop over Zoom. The silver lining on that…
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Ways of Knowing and Radiation Exposure
I’m delighted to be part of this Downwinders Project at Oregon State University. I’m posting the call for papers of an event to be held in June 2019, but please visit the site dedicated to that project too. Call for Papers Workshop: “Ways of Knowing and Radiation Exposure.” June 19-21, 2019 (Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday)…
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Downwinders and Dose Reconstruction
I sent this email out today. Want to be involved in some way? Please get in touch. Friends and colleagues, Linda Richards, Anna Dvorak (PhD student in History of Science) and I have proposed a project to the National Science Foundation related to the Hanford Downwinders case, a controversial topic touching many lives in our region. It…
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Speaking at Princeton University on Environmental Transformation and Nuclear Reactors
Here’s the info for my talk at Princeton University on May 3, 2017, at the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies. ‘Water was Blood’: Environmental Transformation and Nuclear Reactors in the Middle East Jacob Darwin Hamblin, Oregon State University WEDNESDAY, MAY 3, 2017 – 4:30PM TO 6:00PM LOUIS A. SIMPSON INTERNATIONAL BLDG., RM. A71…
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Hamblin Wins the Davis Prize of the History of Science Society
I have scheduled this post ahead of time, because I can’t contain my enthusiasm, yet I’ve agreed to hold off talking about it until the prizewinners are announced. But I’m delighted to report that my book Arming Mother Nature has won the 2016 Helen Miles Davis and Watson Davis Prize, from the History of Science…
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OMSI’s Reel Science: Planetary with Jacob Darwin Hamblin
Date: Apr. 22, 2015 Time: 6:30-9:30 p.m. Located at: Empirical Theater at OMSI Who is this for: All ages Cost: $7 non-members; $6 members Reel Science: Planetary with Jacob Darwin Hamblin, author and associate professor of history at Oregon State University Watch and learn at The Empirical Theater as OMSI highlights the science of documentaries on the big screen. Perfect…
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Arming Mother Nature wins Birdsall Prize
I am delighted to report that my most recent book, Arming Mother Nature: the Birth of Catastrophic Environmentalism, was awarded the 2014 Paul Birdsall Prize from the American Historical Association. I was able to pick up the prize just after spending an incredible New Year’s eve and day staying in Times Square, the venue of the…
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Want to speed up the pulse of nature?
I am fanatically enthusiastic about the organizers of this summer’s Congress on the History of Science, Technology and Medicine, in Manchester, UK. This is how conferences should be done! They have rejected curmudgeon-hood and have fully embraced social media. They have started a blog beforehand, and they have included a list of presenting historians of science —…
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My O'Sullivan Memorial Lecture on nuclear technology is now online
Back in November, I wasn’t sure if anyone would mind that I used Wikileaks for historical research. Some might have called it unpatriotic. But I should have expected that no one seemed to mind (or care?). I did it because I was about to give a lecture on the promotion of nuclear technology, and found…
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Imagining Cold War Environments
I’m looking forward to going to Philadelphia later this month, to meet with fellow scholars working on the environmental dimensions of the Cold War. The meeting, titled “Imagining Cold War Environments,” will be hosted on April 26 and 27 (2012) by Temple University’s Center for the Study of Force and Diplomacy. A PDF of the…
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The Nuclear Promise
In November I traveled to Boca Raton, Florida, to give the annual John O’Sullivan Memorial Lecture at Florida Atlantic University. John O’Sullivan was a scholar of the twentieth century, and was deeply concerned with nuclear issues. I was honored to be asked to talk to a packed auditorium of locals wanting to learn how to…
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