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URL:https://www.hmc.edu/calendar/events/hsa-science-technology-and-society
 -candidate-research-talk-vincent-ialenti/
SUMMARY:HSA Science\, Technology\, and Society Candidate Research Talk\, Vi
 ncent Ialenti
DESCRIPTION:Finalists for the position of assistant professor of science\, 
 technology\, and society will present a research talk.\n\nVincent Ialenti\
 , PhD in sociocultural anthropology\, Cornell University\, will discuss "N
 uclear Waste Governance and Long-term Institutional Planning."\n\nHow do i
 nstitutions plan for environmental security futures they will never see? H
 ow do bureaucratic artifacts elicit paradoxes that persist beyond their cr
 eators\, subtly mediating the time horizons of long-term human-ecological 
 security? This talk explores how spectral infrastructures of nuclear waste
  governance absorb sociopolitical inertias\, technocratic rubrics\, toxic 
 material aftermaths\, budgeting logics\, and community-level public feedba
 ck to render fragile models of future societies\, bodies\, and ecosystems.
  Drawing on fieldwork among Finland’s spent nuclear fuel repository safe
 ty assessors\, U.S. nuclear weapons waste managers\, and billionaire-funde
 d Silicon Valley technoculturists\, it tracks how Promethean aesthetics of
  technocratic optimism and systems resilience are mobilized as implicit re
 assurances of long-term institutional continuity. Of special interest is h
 ow ghost protocols—residual program architectures of past technopolitica
 l compromises—linger in liminal spaces just beyond immediate perception\
 , subtly constraining institutional agency by shaping the boundaries of wh
 at can be said\, planned\, or imagined. Studying them ethnographically rev
 eals how bureaucratic legacy-making collides with the uncertainties of geo
 physical time\, regulatory entropy\, and sociopolitical volatility to endo
 w planetary hazard governance with trans-temporal legitimacy. This nexus h
 as provided a compass for the job candidate to implement his anthropologic
 al expertise as a U.S. Department of Energy official\, as a transdisciplin
 ary STS scholar\, and as a public intellectual featured by Scientific Amer
 ican\, BBC\, Forbes\, NPR\, and other outlets.
CATEGORIES:Faculty,Staff,Students
LOCATION:Shanahan Center\, 320 E. Foothill Blvd.\, Claremont\, CA\, 91711\,
  United States
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