How have energy exploration and exploitation shaped human history and the planet?
What stories have we told ourselves about coal, oil, and solar power?
What means exist to help us reach a just energy future?

12:15 - 1:15 p.m. Reflections on Coal: A Human History

• Barbara Freese (environmental attorney, energy policy analyst, and former Assistant Attorney General for Minnesota)

1:30-3:15 p.m. New Directions in Energy Humanities

• Oil, Kinship, and Affect in Neoliberal Argentina
  Elana Shever (Anthropology, Colgate)
• Energy Narratives on the Gulf Coast
  Juliette Lapeyrouse-Cherry (PhD candidate, Rhetoric and Scientific and Technical Communication)
• Shale Oil, Risk Rhetoric, and the Lac-Mégantic Disaster
  Christian Angelich (PhD candidate, Communication Studies)
• Energy Education through Participatory Public Art
  Jonee Brigham (MN Design Center Fellow)
• Community Solar and the Commons
  Kathryn Milun (Sociology/Anthropology, UMD)

3:30- 5 p.m. The Transition to Alternative Energies in the U.S. (IAS Thursdays; in the Best Buy Theater, 4th Floor, Northrop)

• David E. Nye (Senior Research Fellow, UMN Charles Babbage Institute, and Professor Emeritus of History, University of Southern Denmark)

5 - 6 p.m. Reception with appetizers

6 p.m. Screening of AWAKE, A Dream from Standing Rock (2017, 1h 30m)

This symposium is presented by UMN’s Environmental Humanities Initiative with support from the Institute for Advanced Study.