INVITATION TO THE CYCLE SEMINAR: YOUNG PEOPLE AND ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY
Organized by CNR-ISMed with SISAm (Italian Society of Environmental History):

Fusion Valley
Socio-environmental history of the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (2006-12).

January 29, 2024 10 a.m.

CNR-ISMed
Humanities Pole (VI floor)
Via Cardinale Guglielmo Sanfelice, 8
80134 Naples

REMOTE ACCESS
on Teams

This seminar addresses the territorial impact of the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER), the world’s largest experimental nuclear fusion facility, currently under construction in Cadarache, France. Through this case study, we will ask: How do nuclear test territories change from a socio-environmental perspective? Do they themselves become experiments?

The analysis will focus on strategies for building social acceptability of high-tech projects, from integrating public opinion into decision-making processes through the practice of public debates, to ecological compensation mechanisms. It will thus be possible to see how the energy transition on a local scale translates into a real territorial transition, that is, a transition of relations between population and territory and of the territory itself. Since 2006, in fact, even before being set in motion within the walls of the mega-reactor, the experiment has extended to the entire surrounding territory, making it in turn a social, economic, cultural and political experiment.

THE SPEAKER. Gabriella Rago received a bachelor’s degree in Theoretical Philosophy and a master’s degree in Social History from the University of Naples Federico II. She then carried out at the Department of Social Sciences of the University Federico II of Naples an archival research on the consequences of the Chernobyl disaster in Italy. She is currently a doctoral candidate in “Global History of Empires” at the University of Turin and her research interests are in the history of science and technology and the global history of energy.

SPEAKER

Gabriella Rago
University of Turin

INTRODUCES AND MODERATES

Gloria Pessina
Polytechnic University of Milan
CNR-ISMed

FINAL DEBATE

SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE:
Alessandro Agosta, Valerio Caruso, Gabriella Corona, Giovanni Ferrarese, Walter Palmieri
CNR-ISMed

OPEN TO THE PUBLIC until seats are available
REMOTE ACCESS on Teams

INFO AND CONTACTS
valerio.caruso@ismed.cnr.it
www.ismed.cnr.it
www.storiaambientale.it

In annex flyer of seminar and 2023-2024 program