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Nuclear Legacy Week 2024: Commemorate. Educate. Empower.

Conference Schedule

Welcome to MEI's Nuclear Legacy Week 2024 Conference! 

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Chapel Capelle

The Descent of a Thousand Suns

Thursday, Feb. 29

Our Shared Nuclear Legacy

12:30 PM - Conference opens with exhibits and information at Jones Center Auditorium

Registration pickup*

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1:00 - Opening remarks / Speakers

Benetick Kabua Maddison, MEI Executive Director

Carolina Tarbwillin, RMI Office of the Consul General, Springdale

April L. Brown, PhD, MEI Cofounder & COO

Jessica A. Schwartz, PhD, MEI Cofounder & Academic Advisor, Associate Professor, Department of Musicology, UCLA

Seth Shelden, International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons

 

2:00 - Video, MEI and Youth for Nuclear Justice

 

Break

 

2:30 Youth Panel on Nuclear Legacy

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Corinne Salter, PhD candidate, LSU, Huel D. Perkins Fellow, Climate Pelicans Co-Founder, 2022, Yale Environmental Fellow, and 2022-2024 UCAR Next Gen Fellow, MEI Youth for Nuclear Justice Fellow

 

Aigerim Seitenova, Kazakhstan, Centre for Feminist Foreign Policy, Founding Member STOP: Steppe Organization for Peace (Qazaq Youth Initiative for Nuclear Justice)

 

Oemwa Johnson, Kiribati, Reverse the Trend

 

Keita Takagaki, Japanese Youth Member of the International Committee of the Red Cross, Cofounder and Coordinator for the Youth Community for Global Hibakusha

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3:30 Break

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6:00 Film Screening, Downwind

Q&A with Ian Zabarte, Principle Man of the Western Band of the Shoshone Nation of Indians and Dr. Jessica Schwartz, MEI & UCLA

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Thursday's events held at Jones Center Auditorium

Address: Jones Center for Families, 922 E Emma Ave., Springdale, AR 72764

Friday, March 1

Health & Environmental Consequences of the Nuclear Legacy

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Artwork by

Richard Laraya

9:30 AM - Panel on Health Impacts

Moderator: Lori Williamson, MEI Board President, Heartlands Genetics, Assistant Professor, College of Health Professions, UAMS

Albious Latior, Ozark Atolls

Paul Griego, National Association of Atomic Veterans 

Kayleigh Warren, Tewa Women United

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11:00 AM - Panel on Environmental Consequences

Moderator: Corinne Salter, PhD candidate, LSU, MEI Youth for Nuclear Justice Fellow

Tina Stege, RMI Climate Envoy

Kayleigh Warren, Tewa Women United

Leona Morgan, Diné, Haul No!

Mari Inoue, Manhattan Project for a Nuclear Free World

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Lunch Break

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1:30 PM - Speaker: Ivana Nikolić Hughes, Ph.D., President, Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, Director of Frontiers of Science and Senior Lecturer in Discipline in the Department of Chemistry, Columbia University

 

2:00 - Introduction by Franscine Anmontha, Rongelap/Utah, MEI Youth for Nuclear Justice Fellow, Reverse the Trend

Film Screening: Nuclear Savage

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Break

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Friday's events held at Jones Center Auditorium

Address: Jones Center for Families, 922 E Emma Ave., Springdale, AR 72764

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5-6 PM Community Reception preceding the NVRD commemoration

Center for Nonprofits at the JTL 

Address:  614 E Emma Ave, Springdale, AR 72764

NVRD will be held at the Jones Center Auditorium

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Nuclear Victims' Remembrance Day commemoration
6-8 PM, Jones Center Auditorium

(5-6 PM, Community Reception, Center for Nonprofits at the JTL - 614 E Emma Ave, Springdale, AR 72764)

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Castle Bravo, mural by Marshallese youth artists, 2021

Marcina Langrine and Marino Morris, emcees

 

Benetick Kabua Maddison, Executive Director, MEI

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Kristina Stege, Republic of the Marshall Islands Climate Envoy

 

Mari Ichida, Executive Director, Lucky Dragon Museum, Tokyo, Japan 

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Paul Griego, National Association of Atomic Veterans

 

H.E. Charles Paul, Ambassador from the Republic of the Marshall Islands to the United States

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Youth Multimedia Presentation

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Sen. David Anitok, Republic of the Marshall Islands Presidential Envoy on Nuclear Justice and Human Rights

 

Moment of Silence

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Saturday, March 2

Environmental and Cultural Consequences of the Nuclear Legacy;
and Challenges and Opportunities

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Marcina Langrine

TikTok

Events held at the Apollo on Emma

308 W Emma Ave, Springdale, AR 72764

Street Parking Available

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9:30 AM - Emily Mitchell-Eaton, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, Colgate University

 

10:00 AM - Panel on Cultural Consequences

Moderator: Pam Kingfisher, Cherokee Nation, Nuclear Truth Project

Marcina Langrine, MEI

Aigerim Seitenova, Kazakhstan, Centre for Feminist Foreign Policy

Kayleigh Warren, Tewa Women United

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Break

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11:30 AM - Robin Narruhn, PhD, MN, RN

Associate Professor, College of Nursing, Seattle University 

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Lunch Break

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1:00 PM - Panel on Treaties, Agreements, and Sovereignty

Moderator: Lilly Adams, Union of Concerned Scientists

Ian Zabarte, Principle Man, Western Band of the Shoshone Nation

Glenn Alcalay, John Jay College of Criminal Justice

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2:30 PM - Petuuche Gilbert, Acoma Pueblo, President of the Indigenous World Association

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Break

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3:15 PM - Roundtable on the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons 

Moderator: Christian Ciobanu, Nuclear Age Peace Foundation/Reverse the Trend, TPNW Advisor to the Mission of Kiribati

H.E. Teburoro Tito, Ambassador to the United Nations from Kiribati

Zhangeldy Syrymbet, Counselor, Permanent Mission to the United Nations from Kazakhstan

Sam Lanwi, Deputy, Permanent Mission to the United Nations from the RMI, Geneva  

Seth Shelden, International Campaign to Abolish  Nuclear Weapons

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6:00 PM - Closing Reception 

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Good Shepherd Lutheran Church Meeting Hall

2925 Old Missouri Road, Fayetteville, AR 72703

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MEI wants to extend our heartfelt appreciation to our generous funders, partner organizations, and individual supporters who helped make this week possible: Ploughshares Fund, Christopher Hormel, Union of Concerned Scientists, and the United Council of Churches, Christian Ciobanu and RTT/NAPF, Kathleen Sullivan, Pam Kingfigher and Nuclear Truth Project, Lilly Adams, Petuuche Gilbert, Brian Campbell and PSR, the Affected Communities & Allies Working Group, Albious Latior, Glenn Alcalay, Holly Barker, and all MEI staff and board members.

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