Extension Project debates energy transition, human rights and global power, based on Oppenheimer’s utopia

2023-09-20 17:56:51

Robert Oppenheimer: American theoretical physicist and director of the Manhattan Project’s Los Alamos Laboratory during World War II.

The Extension Project International Conjuncture, Systems of Global Power and the Perspectives for the CPLP’s Insertion in the Multipolar World, coordinated by professor Sebastião de Lima, from the Sociology Course, will take place next Monday, September 25th, from 2pm , in Auditorium E109, on the Auroras Campus, a debate on “Energy Transition, Human Rights and Global Power – Oppenheimer’s Utopia”.

This theme permeates the relationships between the new energy transitions, the human rights discourses of the powers and the use of nuclear energy as an expression of geopolitical and warmongering power based on the analysis of the Manhattan Project in the USA.

The project will make 80 vacancies available. Interested parties can register by sending an email to: [email protected]

“With the war in Ukraine, the threat of a nuclear war on a global scale once again emerged, an intention that was reduced with the end of the Cold War in the early 1990s. The repositioning of new powers on the world stage such as China and Russia, advancing in strategic areas for the West/NATO/USA, it intensifies conflicts and threatens to emerge into a global conflict. How are the human rights of the people of Africa, Latin America, the Middle East and other emerging regions perceived and exercised in a world in turmoil? Did Robert Oppenheimer’s utopia of using nuclear energy after the Second World War for the benefit of Humanity fail? The event will analyze these unknowns”, explains professor Sebastião de Lima.