The Department of History will host Kate Brown, University of Maryland history professor.

Brown will give a lecture, “Plutopia: Nuclear Families in Atomic Cities and the Great Soviet and American Plutonium Disasters” 6 p.m. March 2, Swen Parson Hall, Room 188. 

Brown will also give a graduate seminar, “Dispatches from Dystopia: Histories of Places Not Yet Forgotten” 2 p.m. March 2, Watson Hall, Room 110. 

This event is part of a series called the Graduate Colloquium. Go to bit.ly/1Ov9dWt for a full list of upcoming lectures.