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A Decade of Energy Humanities The Nuclear Societies Research Group is co-organising (with the University of Bristol) a two-day symposium in Bristol on 15-16 September 2026. See our call for abstracts below. Deadline for abstracts is 19 June 2026. Organisers: Caitlin Mullin (Exeter), Willow Ross (Bristol), Sebastian Koa (Exeter) Call for Papers We live in […]

Book Talk and Workshop11 May 2026, University of ExeterFunded by the Nuclear Waste Services We were delighted to welcome Professor Penny Harvey from the University of Manchester to speak to us about her work-in-progress monograph on the temporalities of nuclear waste management. Her book explores how nuclear power produces a range of distinctive and incommensurable […]

Call for Papers: RGS IBG 202611 February 2026, University of Exeter and University of Bristol– The call for papers is now closed – The Nuclear Societies is going to the Royal Geographical Society and Institute of British Geographers Annual Conference 2026! See our call for abstracts below: Session Title: Grounding nuclear imaginaries: placing geographies of nuclear […]

International Symposium9 – 10 September 2025, University of ExeterFunded by the Nuclear Waste Services and the Societies and Cultures Institute Organised by Sebastian Koa and Caitlin Mullin, this two-day Nuclear Societies international symposium explored the changing relations between energy infrastructures and the communities that depend on, form around, and evolve with them. It brought together […]

Workshop4 – 5 July 2023, University of ExeterFunded by the Societies and Cultures Institute Led by Karen Bickerstaff and Leila Dawney, this two-day Nuclear Societies workshop explored how working with ideas of failure could enrich and strengthen research being conducted within the Nuclear Societies group.  We had excellent keynotes talks from Catherine Alexander (Durham, Anthropology)  on […]