NuSPACES

November 16, 2023

Online seminar “Engaging the Publics with Nuclear Cultural Heritage of the Manhattan Project and Chornobyl”

The NuSPACES team warmly invite you to an online seminar “Engaging the Publics with Nuclear Cultural Heritage of the Manhattan Project and Chornobyl” which will feature talks by Aimee Slaughter and Veera Ojala and will be chaired by Egle Rindzeviciute. This is an online event on Zoom which is free to attend.

October 17, 2023

Linara Dovydaitytė gives an invited talk on nuclear legacy as a dissonant cultural heritage at Maarjamäe Palace, Tallinn

Linara Dovydaitytė gives an invited talk on nuclear legacy as a dissonant cultural heritage, taking part in the open dual lecture "Dissonant Heritage: Re-evaluating the Soviet Legacies" organized by the Estonian Academy of Arts at Maarjamäe Palace, Tallinn.

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October 10, 2023

Maria Taranger: what is special about Barsebäck?

Maria Taranger, the communications manager at Barsebäck Kraft, recently published an article on the website of UNIPER, the international energy company, detailing the participatory workshop that took place in Skåne, Sweden, in May of this year.

Archival research in Vilnius

In October Linara Dovydaitytė worked at the Lithuanian Central State Archives collecting material for the forthcoming article on exhibiting nuclear energy in Soviet and post-Soviet Lithuania.

October 9, 2023

Fieldwork at the Lithuanian Energy Institute

Linara Dovydaitytė visited the museum of the Lithuanian Energy Institute in Kaunas. The compact but material-rich exhibition preserves organizational memory of the state research institution that was once involved in the Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant site investigations and is now researching various factors related to decommissioning and radioactive waste management.

August 5, 2023

Egle Rindzeviciute was invited to contribute to the Third Tallinn Summer School in Soviet History & Culture

Egle Rindzeviciute was invited to contribute to “Disentangling Eurasia: Russian Empire, the Soviet Union, and their Successors,” the Third Tallinn Summer School in Soviet History & Culture, organised by Tallinn University on 28 July - 4 August 2023.

July 7, 2023

Egle Rindzeviciute presented an invited talk on the key findings of the NuSPACES project

Egle Rindzeviciute presented an invited talk on the key findings of the NuSPACES project at Charterhouse Nuclear History Conference 2023. The conference is supported by Centre for Science and Security (CSSS) at King’s College London (KCL) and is organised biannually at Charterhouse, Godalming, 7 July 2023.

June 29, 2023

Fieldwork in Visaginas

Linara Dovydaitytė and Oksana Denisenko interviewed two residents of Visaginas on June 27th, 2023. It is a part of an ongoing study on the memorialisation of the Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant and attitudes towards nuclear cultural heritage.

June 17, 2023

Eglė Rindzevičiūtė was invited to speak at the public event “Nuclear Temporalities”

Eglė Rindzevičiūtė was invited to speak at the public event “Nuclear Temporalities,” organised in relation to the closing of the art exhibition “If Disrupted, It Becomes Tangible: Infrastructures and Solidarities beyond the post-Soviet Condition,” Lithuanian National Art Gallery, 17 June 2023.

June 14, 2023

Eglė Rindzevičiūtė chaired a panel session “Challenges and Contentions”

Eglė Rindzevičiūtė chaired a panel session “Challenges and Contentions,” an international conference Cold War Museology: How Museums Shape our Understanding of the Cold War, organised by the University of Stirling and the National Museums Scotland, Edinburgh, 12-14 June 2023.

June 13, 2023

Fieldwork in Vilnius: visiting the “Transformation Hall” and the “Atomic Buffet”

On June 1, 2023, Linara Dovydaitytė and Oksana Denisenko visited the The Energy and Technology Museum's new exposition, interviewed the museum staff and planned for an upcoming workshop in Lithuania. Additionally, on the same day, the team explored a recent artwork “Atomic Buffet“ on a topic of everyday radioactivity.

June 9, 2023

Eglė Rindzevičiūtė did fieldwork in West Cumbria

Egle Rindzeviciute did fieldwork in West Cumbria, 5-9 June 2023, where she explored the archives in Whitehaven and the new exhibit at the Beacon Museum.

June 2, 2023

Eglė Rindzevičiūtė initiated an international symposium to celebrate the legacy of Bruno Latour

Together with Fred Vallee Tourangeau, Egle Rindzeviciute organised "We Have Always Been Hybrid", an international symposium to celebrate the legacy of Bruno Latour at Kingston University London and Stanley Picker Gallery on 2 June 2023.

May 7, 2023

New publication places nuclear narratives within the context of post-war development

Coming soon! Linda Ross has co-edited New Lives New Landscapes Revisited: Rural Modernity in Britain, which is due to be published for the British Academy by Oxford University Press on June 8. Her chapter focuses on Dounreay’s nuclear narratives, with particular emphasis on heritage. Dounreay, in the far north of Scotland, was the site of the UK’s first full-scale fast breeder reactor.

April 28, 2023

An invited talk in relation to the opening of the exhibition in The Estonian Museum of Architecture

Eglė Rindzevičiūtė delivered an invited talk in relation to the opening of the exhibition “Forecast and Fantasy: Architecture without Borders, 1960s-1980s,” in The Estonian Museum of Architecture, Tallinn, 27-28 April 2023.

April 25, 2023

Archival research in London

In late April Linda Ross spent a week at The National Archives (TNA) in Kew undertaking research for a forthcoming article. TNA is the official archive for the UK Government and houses the historic records of its nuclear industry.

April 19, 2023

Drawing workshop with children in Barsebäck

In the end of March, researchers from Linköping university and curators from Malmö Museums arranged a drawing workshop with children from a school located five kilometres from the Barsebäck NPP in southern Sweden. The children were encouraged to draw and write based on the question: “What do you think of when someone says Barsebäck nuclear power plant?”.

April 18, 2023

Visiting a landscape architectural archive “in the making”

Karin Edberg (Linköping university) and Yvonne Magnusson (Malmö Museums) recently had the opportunity to visit the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences and see the newly rediscovered original drawings of the Barsebäck NPP and its surroundings produced by the landscape architect Per Friberg and colleagues in the 1970s. A complex and time-consuming effort to preserve the material for the future is currently taking place.

April 17, 2023

Eglė Rindzevičiūtė will present a paper in the international workshop “Fragments of Utopias”

Eglė Rindzevičiūtė will present a paper “De-fragmenting Utopias: Inheriting Nuclear Material Culture in the Post-Soviet Russia” in the international workshop Fragments of Utopias, organised by the Collegium de Lyon and Institut d’études avancées, Marseille, France, 17-18 April 2023.

April 3, 2023

Eglė Rindzevičiūtė participated at the Annual Conference of the British Association for Slavic and East European Studies

Eglė Rindzevičiuūė served as Sociology and Geography stream convener for the Annual Conference of the British Association for Slavic and East European Studies (BASEES), which took place at the University of Glasgow on 31 March - 2 April 2023.

March 31, 2023

Eglė Rindzevičiūtė participated at the Nuclear Policy Storylistening Exercise Workshop

Eglė Rindzevičiūtė participated at the Nuclear Policy Storylistening Exercise Workshop in Birkbeck, UK, 29- 30 March 2023.

March 23, 2023

Linda Ross participated in the American Society for Environmental History Conference

On 23 March 2023 Linda Ross spoke at the American Society for Environmental History (https://aseh.org/) annual conference in Boston. Her paper placed the topic within the wider framework of the histories of low carbon energy.

March 15, 2023

Eglė Rindzevičiūtė presented a talk “Visualising the Nuclear Winter Across the Iron Curtain”

Eglė Rindzevičiūtė presented a talk “Visualising the Nuclear Winter Across the Iron Curtain” at the international workshop organised by Maija and Reuben Fowkes, who lead the ERC research project “SAVA: The Socialist Anthropocene in the Visual Arts,” the Institute of Advanced Studies, the UCL, London, UK, 14 March 2023.

Two online meetings relating to heritage in the UK’s nuclear industry

In March 2023 Linda Ross attended two online meetings relating to heritage in the UK’s nuclear industry. 15 March saw the 11th meeting of the Dounreay Heritage Advisory Panel, which was formed after the issuing of the Dounreay Heritage Strategy in 2010. On 29 March Linda Ross attended the 8th meeting of the NDA Heritage Advisory Panel – a cross-disciplinary body of industry representatives, heritage professionals and researchers – which is providing guidance on the NDA heritage initiative.

March 8, 2023

Swedish Team’s fieldwork in the region around the Barsebäck nuclear power plant

In early February, Karin Edberg and Anna Storm spent a fieldwork week in the region around the Barsebäck nuclear power plant. The primary task was to go through the separate archive of the so called Local Safety Commission, a body of local political representatives in direct dialogue with the nuclear power plant.

March 7, 2023

Eglė Rindzevičiūtė gave an invited talk at the roundtable “Science Diplomacy in the Fragmented World”

Eglė Rindzevičiūtė gave an invited talk at the roundtable “Science Diplomacy in the Fragmented World,” which was organised by the International Science Council (ISC) at the annual conference of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Washington DC, USA, 1-6 March 2023.

February 23, 2023

Infrastructuring the Soviet Nuclear Culture in Atomic Towns: Eglė Rindzevičiūtė’s online talk

Egle Rindzeviciute gave an online talk “Infrastructuring the Soviet Nuclear Culture in Atomic Towns” as part of the departmental seminar series at the Department of Ethnology, Uppsala University, Sweden, 22 February 2023.

December 12, 2022

NuSPACES project meeting & online catch-up with Associate Partners

NuSPACES project team gathered in Linköping University (Sweden) to exchange updates and ideas on research papers and upcoming activities, 6-8 December 2022. In addition, an online meeting with associated partners was organised, 7 December 2022.

November 25, 2022

Orchestrating the Nuclear Futures: Eglė Rindzevičiūtė presented a paper at the international workshop in Belgium

Eglė Rindzevičiūtė presented a paper “Orchestrating the Nuclear Futures,” at the international workshop "Remembering the Past in the Future: Building Awareness of Radioactive Waste Repositories Together" in Dessel, Belgium, 22-24 November 2022.

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October 11, 2022

Malmö Museums were invited to give a talk about the Barsebäck and NuSpaces projects at the MuSund’s conference

When MuSund had its annual conference in september this year, this time in Copenhagen, staff from Malmö Museums were invited to give a talk about the Barsebäck and NuSpaces projects.

October 10, 2022

NuSPACES Swedish team activities

For three days – 4-6 October 2022 – the NuSPACES’ Swedish team gathered in Malmö, Barsebäck and Kävlinge to exchange ideas and updates on individual project activities, to plan for the NuSPACES workshop in Sweden 2023, and to work in the municipal archive close to Barsebäck.

September 28, 2022

Eglė Rindzevičiūtė shared insights from the Fieldwork in Russian Atomic Heritage Sites

Eglė Rindzevičiūtė gave a talk “Can Nuclear Cultural Heritage Be Subversive? Insights from the Fieldwork in Russian Atomic Heritage Sites” as part of the Environmental History Research Seminar of the Trinity Centre for Environmental Humanities, 28 September 2022.

September 22, 2022

Linara Dovydaitytė gave a talk about the nuclear heritage in Anthropocene

Linara Dovydaitytė took a part in the roundtable session on Modern Heritage and Anthropocene at the international conference “Modernism for the Future. Interpretations” which was organized as a part of Kaunas - European Capital of Culture 2022, 22 September 2022.

September 20, 2022

Part of the NuSpaces team participated in the 12th International Conference on Cultural Policy Research

Eglė Rindzevičiūtė, Linara Dovydaitytė and Oksana Denisenko presented two papers on cultural heritage participating in the 12th International Conference on Cultural Policy Research in Antwerp, Belgium.

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September 13, 2022

Documenting nuclear heritage: Malmö Museums collect first-hand stories from Barsebäck Nuclear Power Plant

Malmö Museums put an effort to document Barsebäck Nuclear Power Plant heritage by meeting former employees and exploring their personal archives. Malmö Museums aim to demonstrate different attitudes toward nuclear power.

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September 9, 2022

Malmö Museums document nuclear power resistance as a part of nuclear cultural heritage

As a part of the work at Malmö Museums to documenting the nuclear cultural heritage at Barsebäck Nuclear Power Plant, a visit to the ”Moder Jord” collective has been payed together with staff from Kulturen.

August 3, 2022

“It had been possible to preserve the control room from the Ågesta plant”, says Anna Storm on debate article regarding the dismantling of the Ågesta NPP

Anna Storm published a debate article regarding the dismantling of the small nuclear power plant from the 60s, Ågesta, in southern Stockholm. It is published in the widely spread paper “Ny Teknik” (New Technology). The article was followed by the response from the Swedish power company “Vattenfall” and A. Storm’s final statement.

June 3, 2022

How does nuclear energy train the imagination? Linara Dovydaitytė talks about “atomic imagination” on Lithuanian National Television

According to art historian Linara Dovydaitytė, nuclear science not only led to the development of the atomic industry, both peaceful and military, but also gave rise to the phenomenon of the "atomic imagination”. What is it?

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May 27, 2022

Energy and Technology Museum Vilnius shares the impressions from the participatory workshop in West Cumbria

Žilvinas Mikulėnas from the Energy and Technology Museum in Vilnius presents the ideas and impressions he took back from the first NuSPACES participatory workshop in West Cumbria in his press release “Shut down nuclear power plants - museums of the future?” for the Lithuanian news portal 15min.lt. The text in Lithuanian is available here.

May 16, 2022

Anna Storm is interviewed in the film “Ågesta R3: A ripple in time”

Anna Storm is interviewed in the film “Ågesta R3: A ripple in time”, 35 min, produced by David and Hi-Jin Hodge, New Story Space, and commissioned by Tekniska Museet/The Swedish National Museum of Science and Technology.

Anna Storm gives a public lecture in the series “Fokus Promzona“ at Uppsala art museum

Anna Storm gives a public lecture in the series “Fokus Promzona” on the topic of “Post-industrial scars and Soviet industrial heritage” at Uppsala art museum, 7th of April 2022, together with Martin Kragh (in Swedish).

March 14, 2022

Linara Dovydaitytė is interviewed by the Lithuanian National Radio on atomic art in the context of war in Ukraine

Linara Dovydaitytė talks about atomic art and its meanings in the context of war in Ukraine for the Lithuanian National Radio. The record (in Lithuanian) is available here.

March 9, 2022

Linara Dovydaitytė gives a public lecture on nuclear aesthetics in the face of war

Linara Dovydaitytė gives a public lecture “Imagining the Future: Nuclear Aesthetics in the Face of War” at the Lithuanian National Museum of Art, Vilnius.

March 7, 2022

Linara Dovydaitytė is interviewed about how nuclear imaginaries define our experience

Linara Dovydaitytė is interviewed by Lithuanian news portal 15min.lt about the nuclear aesthetics and how the nuclear threat affects our imagination.

March 4, 2022

Call for action against the war in Ukraine

The NuSPACES team condemn Russia’s invasion in Ukraine and stand in solidarity with the Ukrainian people and their government as they are bravely defending their country.

November 24, 2021

Anna Storm gives a public lecture on the topic of “Ågesta, Sweden and nuclear power”

Anna Storm gives a public lecture together with art historian Fredrik Krohn Andersson on the topic of “Ågesta, Sverige och kärnkraften” [Ågesta, Sweden and nuclear power] in Farsta, Stockholm.

November 19, 2021

Eglė Rindzevičiūtė at the Annual Conference of the Society of History of Technology (SHOT)

Eglė Rindzevičiūtė acted as commentator for the panel session “Systems Thinking and Its Politics in Cold-War East Asia and Beyond,” at the Annual Conference of the Society of History of Technology (SHOT).

November 17, 2021

The advisory board meeting for the research project “Materialising the Cold War”

Eglė Rindzevičiūtė participated in the advisory board meeting for the research project “Materialising the Cold War,” led by Sam Alberti (National Museums Scotland) and Holger Nehring (University of Stirling, UK).

November 15, 2021

The kick-off meeting with associate project partners from UK, Sweden and Lithuania took place in the form of on-line workshop

The presentation of the NuSPACES project was followed by the opening talk ‘What is nuclear cultural heritage?’ delivered by Dr Miles Oglethorpe (President of the TICCIH).

November 11, 2021

Eglė Rindzevičiūtė presented a keynote at the 10th Nordic Conference on Cultural Policy Research (NCCPR)

Eglė Rindzevičiūtė presented a keynote “Cultural Policy in Northern Europe: Beyond Residual Governance” at the 10th Nordic Conference on Cultural Policy Research (NCCPR).

October 23, 2021

Eglė Rindzevičiūtė gave an invited talk at the conference “Troubling Anniversaries”

Eglė Rindzevičiūtė gave an invited talk at a roundtable “Nuclear Memories: An International Comparison”, an international conference “Troubling Anniversaries”.

October 7, 2021

Eglė Rindzevičiūtė and Linara Dovydaitytė took part in the on-line discussion “Working with the Post-Cold War Heritages in the Baltics and Beyond”

Eglė Rindzevičiūtė presented the paper ‘Heritage and Predictability’ and Linara Dovydaitytė took a part as a respondent in the on-line discussion “Working with the Post-Cold War Heritages in the Baltics and Beyond”.