energy history

Division of History of Science, Technology and Environment

KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm

We’re back! After a 3-year hiatus, we are pleased to announce that the Canadian History & Environment Summer School (CHESS) is returning in 2023.

Please join the CHSTM Energy History Working Group at our next meeting this Friday, January 13 at 1:30 PM Eastern Time. 

We will be discussing two papers-in-progress this week. Ritam Sengupta, “The Laws of Electricity and the Laws of Men: Governing technical conduct in colonial India” and Matthew Shutzer, “Machines of Development: Ecology and Energy at the End of Empire.”

To view the full papers and to access the meeting zoom link, you need to be logged in to your CHSTM account. Once logged in, both of these links will appear on the Energy History Working Group page. 

Dear All,

21 DECEMBER 2022, 18h. (CET)

SEMINARS “Energy: Past & Present”

“The political economy of energy extraction: uncontested past, controversial present”

Roberto Cantoni (ICTA-Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)

Sessió online: https://uv-es.zoom.us/j/99279526970#success

30 NOVEMBER 18 h. (CET) .

"Power from wastes as a solution to the oil and garbage crises. Techno-politics of energy in an urban context (Montréal, 1980s-1990s)"
Anaël Marrec. Postdoctoral researcher, Centre d’histoire sociale des mondes contemporains (Université Paris 1), Labex DynamiTe

IILP-UV, Plaça Cisneros, 4, València

ZOOM: https://uv-es.zoom.us/s/99457894590

30/11/2022. 18 h. (UTC +1)

Seminar series : “Energy: Past & Present” (SCHCT-IILP)

"Desiring Energy: Toxic Fantasies of Fuel, Freedom, and Work."
Cara Dagget (Assistant Professor of Political Science, Virginia Tech.)

online

Wednesday 26 Oc 2022, 18 h.

Zoom: https://uv-es.zoom.us/s/95992322939

Please join the CHSTM Energy History Working Group for our next meeting for the semester: Friday, November 11 at 1:30 PM Eastern Time, via zoom. 

We will welcome Elizabeth Chatterjee and Sachaet Pandey to discuss their paper, "Dams and the Deep Earth: Human Geological Agency and the Koyna Earthquake of 1967." 

Call for Papers for an online workshop at KTH Royal Institute of Technology

Berlin Brandenburg Colloquium on Environmental History Winter 2022-23

This semester our colloquium will cover a broad range of issues - from Peat in Russia to nuclear risks, from the challenges of hi-tech agriculture to films and emotion regarding hydro dams.

It will be online: 

ONLINE: https://hu-berlin.zoom.us/j/66478482134?pwd=SGQzeWczUFB2bGdnSXlMU3lNOEwvZz09 ; Meeting-ID: 664 7848 2134, Passwort: 005056
Thursdays, 6:30-8:30 p.m. CET

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