Pickford Film Center and Political Science Department in CHSS to screen "Richland" tonight at 5:15 p.m.

WWU's Political Science and Sociology departments, the Institute for Global Engagement, and the International Affairs Association are co-sponsoring a screening of "Richland" at the Pickford Film Center on Wednesday, Oct. 25 at 5:15 p.m.

Free tickets are available for interested students. Please email politicalscience@wwu.edu. There will be a follow up discussion of the film (with coffee and donuts) on Thursday at 9 a.m. in Arntzen Hall 415. An additional screening of "Richland" has been added on Saturday, October 28 at 1:25 p.m.

About "Richland"

Built by the US government to house the Hanford nuclear site workers who manufactured weapons-grade plutonium for the Manhattan Project, Richland, Washington, is proud of its heritage as a nuclear company town and proud of the atomic bomb it helped create. "Richland" offers a prismatic, placemaking portrait of a community staking its identity and future on its nuclear origin story, presenting a timely examination of the habits of thought that normalize the extraordinary violence of the past. Moving between archival past and observational present, and across encounters with nuclear workers, community members, archeologists, local tribes, and a Japanese granddaughter of atomic bomb survivors, the film blooms into an expansive and lyrical meditation on home, safety, whiteness, land, and deep time.