History

Join scholars Dana El Kurd, University of Richmond, and Avishay Ben-Sasson-Gordis, Hebrew University, who will discuss the issues and…

Opening at the Tribeca film festival in 2023, Richland explores the environmental and human cost of the eastern Washington company town’s involvement with the Manhattan Project at Hanford during World War II. Filmmaker Irene Lusztig is intrigued by Richland’s present and past as “a community staking its identity and future on its nuclear origin story” and the “habits of thought that normalize the extraordinary violence of the past.”

Foley Lecture: The Roots of Middle East Violence