Awarding of the 2026 Dirk Jacob Veegens Prize
June 12, 2026
Koninklijke Hollandsche Maatschappij der Wetenschappen (Royal Hollandic Society of Sciences)
in recognition of Michiel Bron’s dissertation, The Petro-atom: A century of ubiquitous oil involvement in nuclear energy, 1895-1993, and its contribution to original research on the economic, political, and/or social history of the Netherlands
Oil and Its Alternatives: The Oil Industry’s Other Business in the 20th century
May 21, 2026
Peking University Department of History of Science, Technology, and Medicine lecture series
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.
Managing Scarcity 
