Performing and Rehearsing Colonial Toxicity

For the Spring 2025 Henry M. Jackson Endowed Lectureship in International Relations, Professor Samia Henni will present her latest research on the French nuclear weapons testing program (1960–1966) in the Algerian Sahara, which unfolded in three outcomes: a series of translations of testimonies of nuclear victims, a traveling exhibition Performing Colonial Toxicity, and a published book, titled Colonial Toxicity: Rehearsing French Radioactive Architecture and Landscape in the Sahara. The event is sponsored by the Politics Department and the Henry M. Jackson Endowed Lectureship in International Relations.