What Do Businesses and Business Historians #Know about Sustainability?

June 26, 2025

Keynote talk, European Business History Association
Université Libre de Bruxelles

There’s No Such Thing as the Oil Industry… and This Is a History of It

April 3, 2024

Colorado School of Mines Engineering, Design & Society Hybrid Seminar.

New Perspectives on Energy Innovation

October 19, 2023

Co-sponsored by the Smithsonian Institution’s Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation, Arizona State University’s Consortium for Science, Policy & Outcomes, and Johns Hopkins University’s Department of History of Science and Technology and Department of the History of Medicine.

Black and Green? Towards an Environmental History of the Oil Industry

June 15-16, 2023

Co-sponsored by Managing Scarcity and the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society: https://t.co/JBSX031GgQ

The History of Energy and Environment: Academic Research vs. Investigative Journalism

March 16, 2023

6:00 pm – 8:30 pm EDT (UTC-4)

Co-sponsored by Managing Scarcity and the Science History Institute: https://www.sciencehistory.org/event/academic-research-vs-investigative-journalism – video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywLjG9WFSyY.

Panel discussion with Neela Banerjee (deputy senior supervising climate editor, National Public Radio) and Paul Sabin (Randolph W. Townsend Professor of History, Yale University), moderated by Cyrus Mody.

From Scarcity to Denialism: The Oil Industry, Alternative Energy, and Global Environmental Governance, 1968-1986

December 16, 2022

Hosted by EASTS Journal, the Taiwan STS Association, and the STS/Science Communication cluster of the National Science & Technology Council of Taiwan

Science at the Crossroads: Intersections between Academic Research and Journalism

November 2-4, 2022

In partnership with the Science History Institute and NanoBubbles (a European Research Council Synergy grant project, award 951393)

Cultures of Energy 10: Spillovers

May 12, 2022

In partnership with Rice University’s Center for Environmental Studies

Fusion Research: Through the Eyes of Social Scientists and Humanities Scholars

May 12, 2022

Event associated with Managing Scarcity, but part of an ERC Horizon 2020 project. Organized by Richelle Boone and Michiel Bron.