# Carbon Technocracy | Events ## expand\_more ## **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**](https://histsci.fas.harvard.edu/event/dhs-book-panel-victor-seow) ![Carbon Technocracy - DHS book launch](/sites/g/files/omnuum9656/files/styles/hwp_1_1__960x960_scale/public/seow/files/carbon_technocracy_-_dhs_book_launch.png?itok=bdmGumi7) **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**](https://www.harvard.com/event/virtual_event_victor_seow/) ![Book discussion - Harvard Book Store - April 1, 2022](/sites/g/files/omnuum9656/files/styles/hwp_1_1__960x960_scale/public/seow/files/book_discussion_-_harvard_book_store_-_april_1_2022.png?itok=EoKry57x) **"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**](https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/environment-in-asia-lecture-series-featuring-victor-seow-how-to-write-a-history-of-energy-in-modern-east-asia/) **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**](https://www.middlebury.edu/events/event/carbon-technocracy-energy-regimes-modern-east-asia) **"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 ![Placing Histories of Energy](/sites/g/files/omnuum9656/files/styles/hwp_1_1__960x960_scale/public/seow/files/placing_histories_of_energy_-_april_20_2022.png?itok=zDmovL85) **Book Discussion @ The Joint Center for History and Economics** (with Paul Sabin) Friday, April 22, 12:00–1:30 pm ET | Online Registration [**here**](https://histecon.fas.harvard.edu/carbon_technocracy/register.html?fbclid=IwAR1XB-MCVmtzjGYZXhLJYXwo_wjzeTy1qt9Xu_vylBj5NVJBnfP6xTqWUSE) **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**](https://chstm.org/content/science-across-regions-asia) **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**](https://harvard.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_9tajZO6bBE6C2hg) ![CT - HEAA - May 4, 2022](/sites/g/files/omnuum9656/files/styles/hwp_1_1__960x960_scale/public/seow/files/event_-_heaa_author_spotlight_-_may_4_2022.png?itok=icw3Lk_l) **"日据时期的抚顺煤矿" @ Shanxi University** (with Ling Zhang) Wednesday, May 11, 8:00–9:30 pm ET | Online ![Shanxi University - May 11, 2022](/sites/g/files/omnuum9656/files/styles/hwp_1_1__960x960_scale/public/seow/files/carbon_technocracy_-_shanxi_university_-_may_11_2022_-_poster.jpg?itok=Othfejc7) **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 ![CT event - KAIST](/sites/g/files/omnuum9656/files/styles/hwp_1_1__960x960_scale/public/seow/files/event_-_kaist_-_may_27_2022.png?itok=DH_8SYVy) **"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**](https://environment.harvard.edu/history-literature-extractive-age) ![Hist + Lit in an Extractive Age](/sites/g/files/omnuum9656/files/styles/hwp_1_1__960x960_scale/public/seow/files/history_literature_in_an_extractive_age_-_june_23_2022.png?itok=s9sBPNUv) **"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