A conversation with Matthew Spellberg and Richard Falk of Nuclear Age Peace Foundation.
The Nuclear Age Peace Foundation presents Matthew Spellberg, our new President, and Richard Falk, the Foundation’s Senior Vice President and past Board Chair, in conversation about the path from ideas to action, the importance of utopian thinking in an age of technological danger, the calling of a ‘Citizen Pilgrim,’ and the future of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation.
Matthew Spellberg, a scholar and writer, is a past Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows and Editor-at-Large of Cabinet Magazine. He has taught at Harvard, Princeton, Rutgers, and the Rhode Island School of Design. For six years he worked in the New Jersey prison system as a teacher, organizer, and administrator. A longtime student of Indigenous languages, he was the founder of the Native Cultures of the Americas seminar at Harvard University.
Richard Falkwas on the faculty at Princeton for forty years. Since then he has been affiliated with Queen Mary University, London, and for the last twenty years with UC Santa Barbara. His memoir, Public Intellectual: The Life of a Citizen Pilgrim, was published this past year.
