{"id":27486,"date":"2019-10-16T20:48:01","date_gmt":"2019-10-17T00:48:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/necc.edu\/newsroom2\/2019\/10\/17\/harvards-elaine-scarry-to-speak-at-necc-on-nuclear-weapons\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T14:19:55","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T18:19:55","slug":"harvards-elaine-scarry-to-speak-at-necc-on-nuclear-weapons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/necc.edu\/newsroom\/2019\/10\/16\/harvards-elaine-scarry-to-speak-at-necc-on-nuclear-weapons\/","title":{"rendered":"Harvard\u2019s Professor Speaks on Nuclear Weapons"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_21600\" style=\"width: 210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/media-old\/2019\/10\/img14.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-21600\" class=\"wp-image-21600 size-medium\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/media-old\/2019\/10\/img14-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"Elaine Scarry in all black with a bookcase behind her\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-21600\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Harvard Professor Elaine Scarry<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The last time nuclear weapons were used in combat was in 1945. So why is the discussion about these weapons relevant today?<\/p>\n<p>Nuclear weapons will be discussed during Harvard Professor Elaine Scarry\u2019s presentation \u2018Are These Our Last Days on Earth?\u2019 on November 13, 2019. The event starts at 11 a.m. in the Spurk Building\u2019s Pentucket Bank Lecture Hall A, on the NECC Haverhill campus, 100 Elliott Street. Scarry\u2019s discussion will explore information related to the United States strategic posture on nuclear war and the danger to humanity.<\/p>\n<p>Scarry teaches at Harvard where she is the Cabot Professor of Aesthetics and the General Theory of Value.\u00a0She was elected to the American Philosophical Society and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Her awards include honorary degrees from Northwestern University in the United States and Uppsala University in Sweden, as well as the Truman Capote Award for literary criticism, and most recently, the Zabel Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters for a writer \u201cof progressive, original, and experimental tendencies.\u201d In 2005, Prospect Magazine and Foreign Policy named her one of the top 100 leading intellectuals.<\/p>\n<p>She lectures both nationally and internationally on nuclear war, law, literature, and medicine.\u00a0She has worked for nuclear disarmament for the last\u00a030\u00a0years.\u00a0 Her recent book \u2013\u00a0Thermonuclear Monarchy: Choosing between Democracy and Doom\u00a0\u2013\u00a0explores her stance\u00a0that nuclear weapons and governance are mutually exclusive.<\/p>\n<p>This event is sponsored by the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.necc.mass.edu\/experience\/student-activities\/civic-engagement\/\">Civic Engagement Center<\/a> and the Amnesty International and Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) clubs, it is free and open to all students and faculty of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.necc.mass.edu\/\">NECC<\/a>. For more information on the event contact\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:sslaner@necc.mass.edu\">sslaner@necc.mass.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The last time nuclear weapons were used in combat was in 1945. So why is the discussion about these weapons relevant today? 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