Organizers: Michiel Bron, Odinn Melsted, Cyrus Mody, and Jelena Stankovic (Maastricht University)

Venue: Maastricht University

Monday, October 20

9:00-11:00: Exploring the Resource Frontier

A Wealth of Promise: Economic Forecasting, Polymetallic Nodules, and the Making of an International Regime of the Deep Seabed (circa 1960-1982)
Yoram Carboex (Norwegian University of Science and Technology)

Born of Coal and Crisis: US Solid Oxide Fuel Cell Development in the 1960s and 1970s
Mark Cassidy (University of Edinburgh)

Petroleum Proxies: The American Petroleum Institute and the Making of the Interwar Ocean Floor
Erik Isberg (KTH Royal Institute of Technology)

11:00-11:30: coffee break

11:30-12:30: presentation of the Managing Scarcity project

Michiel Bron, Odinn Melsted, Cyrus Mody, and Jelena Stankovic (Maastricht University)

12:30-13:30: lunch

13:30-15:30: The Nuclear Option

Failed Futures: Belgium’s Nuclear Ambitions in the Postwar Period (1950s-1980s)
Siegfried Evens (KU Leuven)

Italy’s Nuclear Energy Policy and the European Fusion Programme: Strategic Alignment and Institutional Constraints, 1975-1990
Mauro Elli (University of Milan “La Statale”)

Nuclear Democracy: Scenarios in the Dutch ‘Public Debate on Energy’
Mathijs Boom (International Institute for Social History)

15:30-16:00: coffee break

16:00-18:00: Renewables [Question Mark]

Tidal Power as an Energy Alternative. Techno-Politics, Conflicts and Environmental Activism in Brittany, 1960-1986
Anaël Marrec (Nantes University)

The “Sunrise” of Solar Energy in Italy: First Steps for a New Alternative Energy Source
Anna Maria Scognamiglio (University of Rome “Sapienza”)

Maintain Me! On Technological Artefacts, Technological Knowledge and their Role in the Rise of Danish and Global Wind Energy (1970 to the Present)
Thomas Harbøll Schrøder (KTH Royal Institute of Technology)

Tuesday, October 21

9:00-11:00: Alternative Narratives/Narrating Alternatives

Unlearning Energy Histories: Usable Pasts of Counter-Narratives for Transformation
Timothy Moss and Pauline Münch (Humboldt University of Berlin)

From Enthusiasm to Failure: Hydrogen Visions 1970-2000
Matthias Heymann (Aarhus University)

Balancing the Machine: Distributed Generation, Spatial-Temporal Mismatch, and the Interconnection Conundrum
Matthew Eisler (University of Strathclyde)

11:00-11:30: coffee break

11:30-12:30: keynote talk

Alexander Beunder (Momus)

12:30-13:30: lunch

13:30-15:30: Imagining Publics

“Our Housekeeping:” Public Imaginaries of Energy Gaps in the German Democratic Republic
Mario Bianchini (Leibniz Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung)

Good Day Sunshine: Diverging Futures of Alternative Energy in Greenpeace’s Solaris Campaign
Peter van Dam (University of Amsterdam)

What Happened When Oil Interfered with Envisioning a Norwegian Energy Future in the 1970s?
Håvard Brede Aven (Western Norwegian University of Applied Sciences) and Pål Nygaard (BI Norwegian Business School)

15:30-16:00: coffee break

16:00-18:00: A (Limits to) Growth Industry

The Vanguard Approach: Carroll Wilson’s Designs on the Science-Policy Interface
Emil Flatø (New York University)

Defending the Hard Path: Bent Elbek and the Struggle for Alternative Energies in Denmark and beyond, 1973-1985
Rune Korgaard (University of Copenhagen)

The Limits of Growth at the Highways? Mobility Scenarios as Future Research
Sönke Hebing (RWTH Aachen)