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Learning from Energy History: education, dissemination and access to memory
We are pleased to announce a call for papers for the 9th Conference of the European Oil & Gas Archives Network (EOGAN) which will be generously hosted by the Norwegian Oil and Gas Archives and Petroleum Museum in Stavanger.
The conference will take place on 7th-8th June 2018, with an informal reception on the evening of 6th June and conference dinner on the 7th.
EOGAN provides a network for people working to preserve and promote the use of oil and gas- related records across Europe, including:
· archivists, records managers and records creators in the industry
· oil and gas companies wishing to develop business archives
· museums and organisations with an interest in energy history
· universities and academics working on energy-related topics
The annual EOGAN conference is a meeting place for people to share ideas and to develop valuable international links across the energy research and archives sectors.
The theme for the 2018 Conference is ‘Learning From Energy History’ and we will be exploring the following broad topics:
· Accessibility of archival collections
· Dissemination of energy history
· Using archives in energy-related education
· Lessons from history for current energy issues
· Preservation of and access to memory
· Methodologies for energy history
· Quantitative and qualitative data: one or the other?
We invite you to submit papers on the topics mentioned above, or any other aspect of our conference theme – we welcome a wide range of perspectives. Please submit your paper or an abstract of 200-250 words with a working title, to [log in to unmask] by 1st March 2018, along with a short bio including name, email address and organisation. The conference language will be English.
For more information, visit our website: www.eogan.org. You can also follow us on Twitter @EoganNetwork and join our Facebook group: www.facebook.com/groups/eogan
*I apologize in advance for any cross-posting*
Still another call for papers for a session at this summer’s RGS-IBG conference in Cardiff that some of you may find of interest.
Cheers, Jeremy
Call for Papers: Relation to Place Within Socio-Technical Energy Transitions
Session Sponsor: Energies Geographies Research Group
Session convenor: Jeremy Firestone, University of Delaware, [log in to unmask]
Abstract:
This session will focus on socio-psychological interaction with place within the broader topic of renewable energy transition. The purpose is to revisit and juxtapose various extant place-related constructs to move toward a deeper understanding of their interconnectedness and draw out a more concerted approach to studying the changing landscape engendered by the transition.
Utility-scale renewable energy operations such as wind and solar have large footprints and share a need for expansion and upgrading of transmission systems as well. De-carbonization of electricity is thus resulting in shifting interactions between energy infrastructure and people, places, and landscapes.
Scholars considering this phenomenon have often done so through a lens of place attachment, which to some includes emotional, functional, and social dimensions, and have emphasized place-protective behavior. Place identity and place dependency constructs also arise and, with place attachment, can form an overarching sense of place. Meaning arises in how individuals interpret these new technologies, which can be symbolic. This has led others to focus on whether renewable energy transitions are place consistent (in-place or out-of-place) and how they may be judged at the individual level against specific place meanings. In sum, a complex dialogue concerning renewable energy and place has evolved with branching, yet interdependent and overlapping constructs of how an individual interprets place effects that may be engendered by a proposed renewable energy transformation in one of their communities.
This session thus seeks scholars irrespective of disciplinary training who through their research consider the interaction of renewable energy transformation and one or more place constructs and who are interested in dialogue in an attempt to distill conceptually and at least partially reconcile these constructs.
Session Format: Traditional, seeking to attract 4 papers, followed by questions
Please email an abstract of not more than 250 words, along with title, author(s), affiliation and contact coordinates to Jeremy Firestone, [log in to unmask], by Friday 9th February. If you would like to discuss an idea, please drop me a message sooner.
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_______________ Jeremy Firestone
Professor, College of Earth, Ocean, and Environment
Director, Center for Carbon-free Power Integration
373 ISE Lab
University of Delaware
Newark, DE, USA 19716
1.302.831.0228 (landline)
http://www.ceoe.udel.edu/our-
people/profiles/jf