Cultures of Energy Lecture Series

Friday, September 30, 2011 to Friday, April 13, 2012

Culture of Energy public talks:

September 30, 2011: "Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming"
Naomi Oreskes, Professor of History and Science Studies at University of California, San Diego

November 10, 2011  
Kristin Shrader-Frechette, University of Notre Dame 

December 9, 2011: "US Oil Companies, the Lend-Lease Program, and American Diplomacy in Africa, 1940-45"  
Kairn Klieman, University of Houston and HRC External Faculty Fellow, Fall 2011 

January 13, 2012: "Reason in a Dark Time: Ethics and Politics in a Greenhouse World"
Dale Jamieson, New York University 

February 3, 2012: "Knowing the Invisible: Climate Change, Nuclear Things, and their Entangled Histories"  
Paul Edwards & Gabrielle Hecht, University of Michigan 

April 13, 2012: "The Prize from Fairyland: Histories of Oil and Matters of Democracy"  
Timothy Mitchell, Columbia University