BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 CALSCALE:GREGORIAN PRODID:iCalendar-Ruby BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Lectures & Presentations DESCRIPTION:The Contemporary History Institute hosts Dr. Ran Zwigenberg dis cussing his book “Nuclear Minds: Cold War Psychological Science and the Bom bings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on March 5 at 4:45 p.m. in Bentley Hall 129 .\n\nZwigenberg holds the positions of Associate Professor of Asian Studies and Jewish Studies and Director of Graduate Studies at Pennsylvania State University. Zwigenberg’s research focuses on modern Japanese and European h istory\, with a specialization in memory and intellectual history. He has t aught and lectured in the United States\, Europe\, Israel\, and Japan\, and published on issues of war memory\, heritage\, atomic energy\, psychiatry\ , and survivor politics. \n\nHis first book\, Hiroshima: The Origins of Gl obal Memory Culture\, was the winner of the 2016 Association for Asian Stud ies’ John W. Hall book award. His second\, co-authored book\, Japan’s Castl es: Citadels of Modernity in War and Peace\, came out in 2019. His latest b ook\, Nuclear Minds\, published in July 2023 by The University of Chicago P ress\, traces how researchers understood the atomic bomb’s effects on the h uman psyche before the recognition of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder.\n\nTh is event is free and open to the public. DTEND:20240305T230000Z DTSTAMP:20241123T222828Z DTSTART:20240305T214500Z GEO:39.326372;-82.102202 LOCATION:Bentley Hall\, 129 SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY: Contemporary History Institute | Dr. Ran Zwigenberg UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_45065867155486 URL:https://calendar.ohio.edu/event/contemporary_history_institute_dr_ran_z wigenberg END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR