Contested futures for Coal – Historical and Economic Foundations of the Energy Transition(s).

Programm

9:00 – 9:15        Arrival and Registration 9:15 – 9:30        Opening and Introduction                            Ulrike Zeigermann, OVGU and Gilles Lepesant, CMB 9:30 – 11:00      Panel I: Phase-in Coal in European and Global History in the 19th and 20th Century Chair : Silke Mende (Centre Marc Bloch) Mining: the invention of a tradition, Jakob Vogel, Centre Marc Bloch Historical Developments of Primary and Secondary Coal Regions Helge Wendt, Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte Historiographies of coal phase-in in Britain, Germany, and the United States, Thomas Turnbull. Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte From 1950 to 1990: Pathways in East and West Germany, Pao-Yu Oei, Technische Universität Berlin 11:00 – 11:30   Coffee Break 11:30 – 13:00    Panel II : Coal Phase-Out? Socio-Economic Challenges and Contested Pathways in the 21st Century Chair : Ulrike Zeigermann (OVGU) Social and political challenges in Lausitz, Johannes Staemmler, IASS Challenges for climate transparency in the coal phase-out, Hannah Schindler, HVGP From restructuring to sustainable development. The case of Upper Silesia., Zofia Wetmańska, Wise Europa, Warsaw Spatialities of a contested German energy region, Ludger Gailing, IRS Leibnitz 13:00 – 14:00 Lunch Break 14:00 – 15:30 Roundtable Discussion: Contested Futures for Coal Chair : Gretchen Bakke (IRI THESys) Opening Remarks: Uwe Steffen, Referatsleiter im Ministerium für Wirtschaft und Energie des Landes Brandenburg Wiebke Witt, Klima-Allianz Deutschland Rebekka Popp and Alexander Reitzenstein, Third Generation Environmentalism  E3G Julia Wambach, Max-Planck-Institut für Bildungsforschung (tbc) 15:30 – 16:30 Reception With the support of the French Embassy, Berlin – Service scientifique / Wissenschaftsabteilung In Cooperation with the Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg Kontakt: Gilles Lepesant lepesant  ( at )  cmb.hu-berlin.de Ulrike Zeigermann zeigermann  ( at )  cmb.hu-berlin.de