Carbon Technocracy | Events
Upcoming Events
Book Talk @ University of Pittsburgh
Friday, January 27, 2023
Past Events
Book Launch @ Harvard University History of Science Deparment
(with Megan A. Black, Conevery Bolton Valenčius, Gabriela Soto Laveaga, and Shigehisa Kuriyama)
Thursday, March 31, 2022, 12:00–1:30 pm ET | Belfer Case Study Room, CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Details and registration: here
Book Discussion @ Harvard Book Store
Friday Forum
(with Sunil Amrith)
Friday, April 1, 2022, 12:00–1:00 pm ET | Online
Details and registration here
"How to Write a History of Energy in Modern East Asia" @ Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University
Environment in Asia Series
(with Ling Zhang)
Wednesday, April 6, 2022, 10:00–11:30 am ET | Online
Details and registration: here
Book Talk @ Middlebury College
Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs Program on Global History
Monday, April 18, 4:30–5:30 pm ET | Online
Details and registration here
"Placing Histories of Energy" @ Harvard University Center for the Environment
(with On Barak, Bathsheba Demuth, Jennifer Eaglin, Diana J. Montaño, and Elizabeth Chatterjee)
Wednesday, April 20, 12:00–1:30 pm ET | Online
Details and registration
Book Discussion @ The Joint Center for History and Economics
(with Paul Sabin)
Friday, April 22, 12:00–1:30 pm ET | Online
Registration here
Book Talk @ The Greenhouse
Environmental Humanities Book Talk Series
(with Dolly Jørgensen and Finn Arne Jørgensen)
Monday, April 25, 10:00–11:30 am ET | Online
"History of Energy in Asia" @ Science Across the Regions in Asia Working Group, Consortium for the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
(with On Barak)
Friday, April 29, 12:00–1:30 pm ET | Online
Details and registration here
Book Discussion @ Harvard Extension Alumni Association
Author Spotlight Series
(with Christina Thompson)
Wednesday, May 4, 12:00–1:00 pm ET | Online
Details and registration here
"日据时期的抚顺煤矿" @ Shanxi University
(with Ling Zhang)
Wednesday, May 11, 8:00–9:30 pm ET | Online
Book Launch @ Environmental Studies Workshop, The University of Chicago
(with Fredrik Albritton Jonsson and Elizabeth Chatterjee)
Wednesday, May 13, 12:00–1:30 pm CT | The University of Chicago, Cobb 409
Book Talk and Discussion @ KAIST
(with Yeonsil Kang, Jusoo Kim, and Sungeun Kim)
Friday, May 27, 10:30 am–noon Korea Time | Online
"History and Literature in an Extractive Age" @ Harvard University Center for the Environment
(with Elizabeth Carolyn Miller and Karen L. Thornber)
Thursday, June 23, 1:00–2:30 pm ET | Online
Details and registration here
"Carbon Technocracy: Energy Regimes in Modern East Asia" @ Environmental Research Center, Duke Kunshan University
Thursday, September 8, 2022
"Carbon Technocracy: Energy Regimes in Modern East Asia" @ Chao Center for Asian Studies, Rice University
Transnational Asia Speaker Series
Thursday, September 15, 2022
"Mining Industrial Modernity: A Story of Energy from Coal Seams to Corridors of Power" @ Department of History, University of Houston
Friday, September 16, 2022
"The World in a Mine: The Fushun Colliery and the Pattern of Our Planetary Predicaments" @ Department of History, University of Wisconsin–Madison
History of Science, Medicine, and Technology Colloquium
Friday, September 23, 2022
"Technologies of Extraction and the World that Carbon Made" @ Program in the History of Science, Princeton University
Tuesday, September 27, 2022
"Extractive States: How Energy Became Power in the Industrial Age" @ Department of History, University of Notre Dame
Thursday, September 29, 2022
"The World that Carbon Made" @ Northwestern University
(with Corey Byrnes)
Monday, October 17, 2022
"The State in the Rise of Fossil-Fueled Developmentalism" @ Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
Friday, October 21, 2022
"The Nature of Power: Energy Production and Environmental Policy in China" @ Paul Tsai China Center, Yale Law School
(with Zhao Zhong and Yangyang Cheng)
Monday, October 24, 2022
"Carbon Technocracy: Energy Regimes in Modern East Asia" @ Department of the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine, University of Oklahoma
Friday, October 28, 2022
"Energy Regimes and the Nature of the State: Views from East Asia's Onetime Coal Capital" @ Bowdoin College
Thursday, November 3, 2022
"Coal Capital: Fushun and the Contradictions of Fossil Fuel Extractivism" @ College of the Holy Cross
Monday, November 14, 2022
"Carbon Technocracy: Energy Regimes in Modern East Asia" @ University of Oxford
China Studies Seminar Series
Friday, December 2, 2022
"Mining Technologies and Energy Regimes in Industrial East Asia" @ Needham Research Institute, University of Cambridge
Friday, December 2, 2022
"Carbon Technocracy: Energy Regimes in Modern East Asia" @ King's College London
Monday, December 5, 2022