Kate Brown, the Thomas M. Siebel Distinguished Professor in the History of Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, will present “The Interminable Cycles of Chernobyl’s Catastrophes: War, Accident, and War Again” at Boston College on October 25. Brown is the author of Manual for Survival: A Chernobyl Guide to the Future, which won the Marshall D. Shulman Book Prize and Reginald Zelnik Book Prize in history. Manual for Survival was also a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Ryszard Kapuściński Award for Literary Reportage. Drawing on a decade of archival research and on-the-ground interviews in Ukraine, Russia, and Belarus, Brown unveils the full breadth of the devastation of the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster and offers a chilling exposé of the international effort to minimize the health and environmental consequences of nuclear radiation in its wake. Her talk, at 7 p.m. in Gasson Hall 100, is presented by the BC Lowell Humanities Series and co-sponsored by the History Department and the Schiller Institute for Integrated Science and Society.