Thursday 1ST June
09:30 – 10.00 Registrations open – coffee
10:00 – 10:15 Welcome: TOTAL representative
10.15 – 10.30 Welcome: Siobhan Convery, Convener, EOGAN
10.30 – 12.30 SESSION 1: Energy Transitions – Lessons From History (1)
Session Chair
Professor Brian Black
Penn State University
‘Leaping the Gap: Tracing Changing Conceptions of Energy in World History’
Professor Yves Bouvier
Paris-Sorbonne University & Dr Leonard Laborie
National Center for Scientific Research, UMR Sirice (Paris)
‘Lessons Learnt from Writing History with Energy Transition’
Dr John Bowlus
Center for Energy and Sustainable Development
Kadir Has University, Istanbul
‘The conversion of the British, German, and U.S. navies from using coal-fuelled steam engines to oil-fuelled diesel engines in
1901-17’
12.30 – 13.30 Lunch and exhibition of material from TOTAL’s corporate archives.
13.30 – 15.00 SESSION 2 : Energy Transitions - Lessons From History (2)
Session Chair
4.
Trude Meland
‘Kristiansund:
A small city facing a major industry’
5.
Joe Chapman
University of Aberdeen
‘Are reports of North Sea oil’s death greatly exaggerated? Lessons from history’
6.
Emiliano Travieso
Universidad de la República (Uruguay)
‘Grass and Coal: Energy Transitions and Livestock in New Zealand and Uruguay,
1870-1913’
15.00 - 15.30 Coffee
15.30 – 17.00 SESSION 3: Documenting transition
Session Chair
7.
Ine Fintland & Torkel Thime
The Regional State Archives in Stavanger
‘The Value of Archives in Times of Transition’
8.
Dr Terry Brotherstone & Andrew MacGregor
University of Aberdeen
‘From Creator to Archivist to User – How the Oral Record Contributes to Energy History:
examples from the experience of the Lives in the Oil Industry Project’
9.
Eivind Skarung
The Norwegian Oil and Gas Archive,
The Regional State Archives in Stavanger
‘Decommissioning: challenges and opportunities for archival institutions’
17.15 – 18.30 Reception: drinks and canapés – free evening
Friday 2ND June
09.00 – 09.30 Coffee
09.30 – 10.30 SESSION 4 – Keynote & QA
10.30 – 11.00 Coffee
11.00 – 12.30 SESSION 5: Energy History in France and the French-speaking world
Session Chair
11.
Dr Marta Musso
European University Institute
‘Oil for development: French-Algerian and Italian-Algerian negotiations in the aftermath of the independence war (1962-1971)’
12.
Dr Radouan Mounecif
University of Paris
‘Petroleum engineers and technicians in colonial and postcolonial Algeria: a contribution to social history of French oil industry (1944-1971)’
12.30 - 13.30 Lunch
13.30 – 14.30 SESSION 6: Capturing transition
14.
Fabrizio Trisolgio
Fondazione AEM
‘The Cathedrals of Energy: tradition and innovation in AEM Historical Archives’
15.
Rudmer Canjels
Shell
Filming Royal Dutch Shell: Prospecting for Science, Technology and Progress
14.30 – 14.45 Coffee
14.45 – 16.00 SESSION 7: Energy transitions - technological innovations
Session Chair
16.
Dr Emmanuelle Gallo
École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Bretagne
‘Sources and Methodology for Studying Energy Consumption in some Parisian Public Buildings (19th - 20th Centuries)’
17.
Kristin Øye Gjerde
Norwegian Petroleum Museum
‘The subsea-technology development on the Norwegian continental shelf’
18.
Finn Harald Sandberg
Norwegian Petroleum Museum
New Energy – same technology (Hydro – Petro - Ventus)
15.00 – 16.00 Members meeting & AGM