The New Energy History: Energy Transitions in the 20th and 21st Centuries
November 1-2, 2018
New York University
Remarque Institute
60 5th Avenue, 8th Floor
New York, NY 10011
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Over the past two centuries energy transitions have occurred across the world at a seemingly relentless pace, reshaping forms of social life, economic organization, and political governance. This conference will explore the causes, courses, effects, and aftershocks of energy transitions—both those that succeeded and those that failed—in North America and Europe during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
Conference Program
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 1
1. 9:30-10:45: Energy Transitions and Domestic Politics
Joseph Bohling (Portland State University), 'The Oil from Our Land': French Alcohol Fuel Against Foreign Oil After the World Wars
Stephen Gross (NYU), Chains of Oil: West Germany in the Global Hydrocarbon Web, 1955–1970
Victor McFarland (University of Missouri), U.S. Energy Transition Politics in the 1970s
2. 11:00-12:15: International Organizations and Energy Transitions
Matthew Shutzer (NYU), The World Bank and the Energy Question in Global and Postcolonial Perspectives, 1949–1975
Henning Türk (ZZF Potsdam), The International Energy Agency and the Western Industrialized Countries’ Restructuring of Energy Supply in the 1970s
Giuliano Garavini (NYU Abu Dhabi), Having it Cheap Again: The Western European Struggle for a Low Price Regime in the 1980s
3. 2:00-3:15: Nuclear Energy and Political Visions
Dolores Augustine (St. Johns University), Resisting the Transition to Nuclear Power in Germany
Sonja Schmid (Virginia Tech University), Nuclear Energy and the Dream of Independence: The Case of Eastern Europe
Natasha Zaretsky (Southern Illinois University), Contamination Without Representation: Nation, Citizenship, and Emotion in the Atomic Age
4. 3:45-5:15: Energy, Labor, and Capital
Ryan Tate (Rutgers University), “Hard Hat Cowboys”: Energy Workers and Strip Mining in the Powder River Basin
Trish Kahle (University of Chicago), Graveyard Shift: The Moral Economy of High-Energy Capitalism
Troy Vettese (NYU), Tar Sands Industry and Other Non-Conventional Hydrocarbons: A New Era of Fossil Capital?
Zachary Cuyler (NYU), ‘A Better Life for Whom?’ The Labor History of Tapline in Lebanon
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 2
5. 9:15-10:45: Energy Transition, Knowledge, and a Post-Petroleum World?
Thomas Turnbull (Max Planck Institute, Berlin), The Science of Energy Resource Conservation in the United States during the 1970s: An Unrecognised Transition
Duccio Basosi (Università Ca' Foscari, Venice), Thinking a Post-Petroleum World in Times of “Cheap Oil”
Benjamin Franta (Stanford University), Energy Transitions and the US Oil and Gas industry, 1950s to the Present
Andrew Needham (NYU), The Never-ending Age of Coal: Energy Transition and Post-Industrialism in Coal-Fired America
6. 11:15-12:30: Renewable Energies and their Obstacles
Eva Oberloskamp (IfZ Munich), Renewable Energies in the United Kingdom and West Germany, 1970s to 1990s
Carol Hager (Bryn Mawr University), The German Local Energy Transition in a Changing National Policy Context
Frank N. Laird (University of Denver), Missing the Target: Framing Renewable Energy in the United States