Lecture by Chrissy Kolaya, Assistant Professor of English at the University of Central Florida and Former Fellow at Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg Delmenhorst, as part of the Netias lecture series "Borders".
In this talk, Chrissy Kolaya will share excerpts from her novel Charmed Particles and discuss the research she conducted in preparation for writing it. As part of her background research for the book, she worked in the archives at Fermilab (one of the sites under consideration for the SSC), interviewed theoretical particle physicists working at Fermilab at the time of the SSC proposal, and combed through Environmental Impact Statements and transcripts of public hearings to bring voice to both sides of the conflict over the push, in the late 1980s, to find a location in the United States for the proposed (but never completed) Superconducting Super Collider (SSC).
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