Uploaded February 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Join us in this conversation as we step into the chilling world of the bomb, an immersive art installation by filmmaker Smriti Keshari and writer Eric Schlosser.
Eric Schlosser is a writer and filmmaker. His book Command and Control, a finalist for the 2014 Pulitzer Prize in History, describes the challenges of managing America’s nuclear arsenal. His book Fast Food Nation (2001) helped to launch the modern food movement. Smriti Keshari is an acclaimed Indian-American director and is an artist-in-residence at the Brooklyn Academy of Music and the National Theatre in London.
This event is a part of the Phil Lind Initiative series What It Means to Be “American”: Navigating Identity in a Changing Nation, which grapples with the fluid and multifaceted nature of American identity amid rapid social and political turmoil and transformation. Learn more here: lindinitiative.ubc.ca/series/what-it-means-to-be-american
Presented by UBC’s School of Public Policy and Global Affairs in partnership with the Chan Centre for the Performing Arts.
Join us in this conversation as we step into the chilling world of the bomb, an immersive art installation by filmmaker Smriti Keshari and writer Eric Schlosser.
Eric Schlosser is a writer and filmmaker. His book Command and Control, a finalist for the 2014 Pulitzer Prize in History, describes the challenges of managing America’s nuclear arsenal. His book Fast Food Nation (2001) helped to launch the modern food movement. Smriti Keshari is an acclaimed Indian-American director and is an artist-in-residence at the Brooklyn Academy of Music and the National Theatre in London.
This event is a part of the Phil Lind Initiative series What It Means to Be “American”: Navigating Identity in a Changing Nation, which grapples with the fluid and multifaceted nature of American identity amid rapid social and political turmoil and transformation. Learn more here: lindinitiative.ubc.ca/series/what-it-means-to-be-american
Presented by UBC’s School of Public Policy and Global Affairs in partnership with the Chan Centre for the Performing Arts.
