Contested futures for Coal – Historical and Economic Foundations of the Energy Transition(s).
December 19 | 09:00
Energy Transition(s)
Pour une approche interdisciplinaire de l’énergie
Contested futures for Coal – Historical and Economic Foundations of the Energy Transition(s)
19 December 2019; Centre Marc Bloch, Friedrichstraße 191 Berlin
Program
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 transparencyin 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
Location
Germaine-Tillion-SaalCentre Marc Bloch
Friedrichstrasse 191
10117 Berlin