The Energy History Working Group will provide a showcase for works-in-progress within the field of energy history, globally conceived. There is strong interest for a dedicated group to discuss proposals, workshop papers, and share ideas within the field. Along with papers published in the Journal of Energy History, energy history papers and panels feature prominently at conferences such as American Society for Environmental History, Society for the History of Technology, Labor and Working Class History Association, and others. However, despite over two decades of growing interest, there are few dedicated venues for energy historians to gather and share work. This Working Group will help to fill this gap.

Friday, November 8, 2024 12:30 pm to 2:00 pm EST

Nicholas Misukanis, The Battle on the Border: Gorleben, Nuclear Waste, and Helmut Schmidt’s Quest for German Energy Autonomy

Friday, December 13, 2024 12:30 pm to 2:00 pm EST

Building a Bibliography! What are the best works in energy history? Both classics and new works? 

Friday, January 10, 2025 12:30 pm to 2:00 pm EST

Aleksandra Kaye and Bernardo S. Buarque, From Wells to Woes: Divergent Legacies of Early Oil Extraction in Galicia and Taranaki

Mercedes Fernández-Paradas, Carlos Larrinaga Rodríguez, and Antonio J. Pinto, Franco-Hispanic Energy Market in the 1930s: How Gas and Electricity Evolved During European Interwar

Friday, February 14, 2025 12:30 pm to 2:00 pm EST

Nataliia Laas, Waste Anxieties in the Late Soviet Union

Jan Wachter, Energy Policy in East Central Europe

Friday, March 14, 2025 12:30 pm to 2:00 pm EDT

Jake Stephen Milner, Decarbonising Deindustrial Places: Industrial Collective Memories in the Age of Green Economic Development

Aditi Basu, Hinduism and Sun Deification in India: Relevance in the 21st Century as Solar Energy

Friday, April 11, 2025 12:30 pm to 2:00 pm EDT

Nicholas Ostrum, Extracting Concessions and Losing Ground: The Twin Failures of Souédie and the Euphrates Dam, 1963-1969

Friday, May 9, 2025 12:30 pm to 2:00 pm EDT

Syllabus share! What should be on a syllabus for energy history and energy-related topics? 

Feature Image: Two Hydro surveyors setting up a battery-operated master station near a power site. Occupation – Engineers. Photo: Ontario Hydro News. Department of Citizenship and Immigration, Information Division. September 1959. Credit: Canada Department of Manpower and Immigration / Library and Archives Canada.