Napoli, Università degli Studi di Napoli ‘Federico II’
25e 26 settembre 2025
Sala Convegni della BRAU – Biblioteca di Area Umanistica
(Napoli, Piazza Bellini 59-60)
Giovedì 25 settembre
9.00 Institutional greetings – Andrea Mazzucchi (Director of the Department of Humanities, University of Naples Federico II)
9.15 Opening remarks – Elisabetta Bini (University of Naples Federico II)
9.30 Keynote Lecture – Teva Meyer (University of Haute-Alsace), Materialities of Power and the Political Geography of Nuclear Things
10.30 Coffee break
11.00 First session
Chair: Barbara Curli (University of Turin)
Megan Eardley (KTH), Reclaiming the Future? Organized Labor and Uranium Exposure in Post-Apartheid South Africa
Andrei Stsiapanau (Södertörn University), Reevaluating the Environmental Impact of the Soviet Nuclear Program: An Archival Study of the Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant in Lithuania
Discussants:
Markku Lehtonen (Pompeu Fabra University)
Gabriella Rago (University of Turin)
13.30 Lunch break
14.30 Second session
Chair: Mauro Elli (University of Milan Statale)
Linda Ross (University of the Highlands and Islands), Decommissioning as an Endangement Narrative: Nuclear Cultural Heritage-making
Federica Fava (University of Roma Tre), (Un)hearing Atomic Voices. The Borgo Sabotino Former Nuclear Power Plant between Urban Wellbeing and Territoril Reconciliation
15.30 Coffee break
Oana Tiganea (Polytechnic of Milan), Stei, The “Secret Uranium City”: The Hidden Legacy of the Cold War between Ecology and Preservation
Leila Dawney (University of Exeter), Decommissioning Dreams of Progress: Temporality, Endurance and Living on
Discussants:
Valerio Caruso (CNR-ISMed)
Markku Lehtonen (Pompeu Fabra University)
Venerdì 26 settembre
9.30 Third session
Chair: Elisabetta Bini (University of Naples Federico II)
Davide Orsini (Rachel Carson Center, University of Munich), Pioneers and Guinea Pigs: Echoes from Latina’s Post-nuclear Futures
Petra Tjitske Kalshoven (University of Manchester), Dwelling on Storied Land: Nuclear Leftovers in Scotland’s Far North
10.30 Coffee break
Chiara Zampieri (University of Naples Federico II), The Long Decommissioning: Politics, Mobilizations, and the Environment following the Shutdown of the Garigliano Nuclear Power Plant
Adna Čamdžić (University of Turin), From “Miracle” to “Nuclear Cemetery”: Governing the Afterlife of Corso’s Power Plant
Discussants:
Laura Ciglioni (Sapienza University of Rome)
Simone Neri Serneri (University of Florence)
For further information: Elisabetta Bini, University of Naples Federico II, (elisabetta.bini@unina.it)
This conference is organized as part of the project “Nuclear deindustrialization, Human capital, business restructuring, and environmental change in Italy (1971-1999)”; CUP: 2022F73293, Bando PRIN 2022 (PNRR M4C2)