USC anthropologist Dr. Magdalena Stawkowski will speak at the United Nations Headquarters in New York on December 3, 2026 as part of the First Review Conference of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW). She will join an international panel, "More than 2,000 Nuclear Explosions Later: Is It Safe?", organized by the French branch of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN France), recipient of the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize. Dr. Stawkowski will present her research on the lasting human and environmental impacts of nuclear testing at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in Kazakhstan and Novaya Zemlya in Russia.