Dr. Peter Wynn Kirby is an environmental specialist and waste ethnographer in the School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford, UK. He holds a PhD in Social Anthropology from the University of Cambridge. Peter focuses on toxic waste and nuclear risk in Japan–notably in the irradiated aftermath of the 2011 tsunami disaster in Tohoku–and scrutinizes the cultural underpinnings of environmental attitudes, from popular culture to conceptions of purity and pollution. He also conducts research into transnational flows of waste and resulting toxic fallout in China and elsewhere.
Free.
Start Time: 12:00 p.m., Apr. 18, 2016.
End Time: 1:30 p.m., Apr. 18, 2016.
Location: Merrick Hall, 301.
OWU Sponsoring Organization/Office: Sagan National Colloquium.
Contact: John Krygier at jbkrygier@owu.edu.