On France, Niger, Uranium, and Nuclear Power

On Sunday, December 10th, the French Presse (a conversation series hosted by the Society for French Historical Studies) hosted a conversation on the history of France-Niger relations, nuclear power, and everyday life in the former French colony.

The Nigerien coup d’état of 2023 invites reflection on the fascinating imbrications of past in present. Historian Carina Rey and filmmaker Idrissou Mora-Kpai launch the discussion using his extraordinary film “Arlit: Deuxième Paris” as springboard. The film, “a case study in environmental racism set in a uranium mining town in the Sahara desert of Niger,” is the perfect way to begin a conversation that touches on policy, economy, environment, public health, and politics from the perspective of lived experience on the mining site.

Commentator: Carina E. Ray, A.M. and H.P. Bentley Chair in African History and Associate Professor of History, University of Michigan is author of Crossing the Color Line: Race, Sex, and the Contested Politics of Colonialism in Ghana (Athens, OH, 2015); and she co-edited Darfur and the Crisis of Governance in Sudan: A Critical Reader (Ithaca, 2019).

Idrissou Mora-Kpai, is a Guggenheim fellow as well as at The Africa Institute, Sharjah, UAE and Assistant Professor in the Department of Media Arts, Sciences and Studies, Ithaca College. An award-winning filmmaker whose works have been screened worldwide, including two recent works, “America Street” (2020) and “Indochina—Traces of a Mother” (2011).

Sponsored by the Center for Civic Engagement, Center for Human Rights and the Arts, French Studies Program, Historical Studies Program, Human Rights Project, Office of the Dean of the College, and Science, Technology, and Society Program.

https://idrimora.com/

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