Using the digital image archive of the former nuclear research center at KIT, Karlsruhe Campus Süd as a starting point, participants develop individual projects within the broader context of the nuclear age—beginning with the atomic tests at Bikini Atoll, the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, nuclear accidents like Three Mile Island, Chernobyl, Fukushima, and into current debates about nuclear power and AI or nuclear warfare.
The seminar begins with a research phase featuring workshops by Manuela Gantner, Florian Wüst, and Susanne Kriemann. We study publications and films from the 1970s–1990s addressing both pro- and anti-nuclear movements.
A study trip to Amsterdam includes meetings with social sciences and humanities scholar Dr. Kyveli Mavrokordopoulou and her students from Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Together we exchange research topics, visit the Institute of Social Sciences to explore materials from global anti-nuclear movements, and visit exhibitions.
We return to KIT Campus South and our classroom for discussions with Dr. Klaus Nippert and Simone Dahringer-Boy who share their expertises on some of the archival images taken by professional photographers at the former nuclear research center between 1960ties to 1990ties.
After the Christmas break, students focus on their individual research projects—exploring themes such as the representation of humans and technology, scientific documentation, and the handling, scaling, or reinterpretation of image, text, or performance in relation to what we do not small, hear, see or scent, radioactivity.
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Mittwoch 29.10., 10.11., 11.11., 12.12., 24.11., 25.11., 26.11., 10.12., 17.12.2025, 7.01., 21.01., 4.02., 18.02.2026
Workshop with Florian Wüst: 11.11., 12.11., 13.11.2025
Exkursion nach Amsterdam 24.11., 25.11., 26.11.2025
The seminar begins with a research phase featuring workshops by Manuela Gantner, Florian Wüst, and Susanne Kriemann. We study publications and films from the 1970s–1990s addressing both pro- and anti-nuclear movements.
A study trip to Amsterdam includes meetings with social sciences and humanities scholar Dr. Kyveli Mavrokordopoulou and her students from Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Together we exchange research topics, visit the Institute of Social Sciences to explore materials from global anti-nuclear movements, and visit exhibitions.
We return to KIT Campus South and our classroom for discussions with Dr. Klaus Nippert and Simone Dahringer-Boy who share their expertises on some of the archival images taken by professional photographers at the former nuclear research center between 1960ties to 1990ties.
After the Christmas break, students focus on their individual research projects—exploring themes such as the representation of humans and technology, scientific documentation, and the handling, scaling, or reinterpretation of image, text, or performance in relation to what we do not small, hear, see or scent, radioactivity.
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Mittwoch 29.10., 10.11., 11.11., 12.12., 24.11., 25.11., 26.11., 10.12., 17.12.2025, 7.01., 21.01., 4.02., 18.02.2026
Workshop with Florian Wüst: 11.11., 12.11., 13.11.2025
Exkursion nach Amsterdam 24.11., 25.11., 26.11.2025
- Dozent/in: Susanne Kriemann