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How can we place Oppenheimer, Christopher Nolan’s Academy Award–winning motion picture, into a larger frame and go beyond the story told by the film? What “more” can we learn beyond the film? Join us for a thought-provoking, interdisciplinary panel and Q&A discussion with historians, media scholars, and science & technology writers.

We’ll ask, what is the value of technology and what is the role of academia and scientists in war? How does the inclusion of indigenous voices reframe this history and its meaning? What is the tension between how popular narrative works and how science worked at the time? How did parts of this scientific culture shape foundations for the counterculture of the 1960s? What do we all make of the cultural phenomenon of the “Barbenheimer” summer? Why, in 2023, were these the two particular historical touchstones from the mid-century United States that the public found so useful and salient?

This event is co-presented by the On the Same Page program and the Center for Science, Technology, Medicine, and Society (CSTMS). It is part of a series this fall around Oppenheimer, presented by the On the Same Page program.