Joint Center for History and Economics

Date: 

Friday, November 14, 2014, 1:00pm to 5:00pm

Location: 

CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Room S050

Panel Discussion: "New Directions in Energy History" (1:30PM–3:00PM)

"Ecological Teleconnections of the Industrial Revolution"

Speaker:

John R. McNeill, University Professor, Georgetown University.

"The Forgotten King: Coal, Energy, and History"

Speaker:

Christopher F. Jones, Assistant Professor of History, School of Historical, Philosophical, and Religious Studies, Arizona State University.

Comments and Response:

Paul Warde, Professor of Environmental History, University of East Anglia.

Chair:

Ian J. Miller, Assistant Professor of History, Harvard University.

Roundtable: "New Directions in Energy History" (3:30PM–5:00PM)

This workshop is part of the Global History of Energy project at the Joint Center for History and Economics and the Harvard University Center for the Environment.

Contact:

histproj@fas.harvard.edu