Division of History of Science, Technology and Environment
KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm
Online Workshop
European Energy Shortages during the Short Coal Age (1860-1960)
1 February 2023, 10–16h30 CET
https://kth-se.zoom.us/j/67820518026
10.00–10.10 AM: Welcome and Introduction
Per Högselius and Aliaksandr Piahanau, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm
10.10 – 11.00 AM: Session 1. Coal Shortages in the Cities
Cheap coal, poor people. Energy prices and living standards among the working class in Ghent (Belgium) during the long nineteenth century (1750-1950).
Wout Saelens, University of Antwerp and Vrije Universiteit Brussel
The Outbreak of the First World War and Coal Shortages in Warsaw: How Warsaw-Vienna Railway saved the City in September 1914
Nikolay Bogomazov, St. Petersburg State University
11.10–12.00 AM: Session 2: Fighting Energy Scarcity with Lignite
The State, Geo-politics and Coal in Greece: An Historical Perspective
Domna Iordanidou, Greece State Archives – Historical Archives of Macedonia in Thessaloniki
The “brown gold” of East Berlin: a look at East German energy policy in the ‘50s
Anna Maria Scognamiglio, Università degli Studi di Milano / Universität Bremen
LUNCH BREAK
1.00 – 1.50 PM: Session 3: Exploring Coal Shortages through Media
Fuel, Fear, and Fault: Mass Media and Monopoly Blaming during the German Coal Crisis of 1900
Shaun Yajima, University of Tokyo / Ruhr Universität Bochum
Coal Shortage, Hydroelectrification, and Environmental Change in the First Austrian Republic,
1918-1934
Marc Landry, University of New Orleans
2.00 – 2.50 PM: Session 4: Coal Hunger at War & After
Starving for coal in times of war: the case of Greece during the Second World War
Vasilis G. Manousakis, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Coal shortage in Denmark after WWII
Sissel Bjerrum Fossat, Museum Odense, and Mogens Rüdiger, Aalborg University
3.00 – 3.50 PM: Session 5: International Cooperation against Coal Shortages
The European Coal Organisation (1945-1947)
Marloes Beers, University of Utrecht
The Soviet bloc´s political crisis in 1956 as an energy crisis? Coal as a geoeconomical and geopolitical factor in the relations between two COMECON members, Czechoslovakia and Poland in 1956
Jan Adamec, independent researcher, Prague
4.00 – 4.30 PM: Concluding remarks
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