Bochum: Internationale Konferenz “Boom – Crisis – Heritage. King Coal and the energy revolutions after 1945”, 14.-16. März 2018
The conference “Boom – Crisis – Heritage. King Coal and the energy revolutions after 1945” is based on the interdisciplinary research project “From Boom to Crisis – German Coal Mining after 1945“. It is our aim to consider the multi-layered processes of social, economic and cultural change triggered by transitions of energy regimes from international and comparative perspectives…
Rather than restricting our scope to a study of coal mining, the conference will also cover coal’s competitors as well as consumers and users of various forms of energy. This broad sweep is designed to enable the presumed existence of unique paths of development and their specific regional and national characteristics.
The conference explores topics in two subject areas. One investigates the economic, social and technological development of the coal mining industry and related industries. In this theme we consider contemporary responses to the upheaval within the energy sector after 1945 and analyse the transformation of the European Energy Market from the point of view of technological, environmental, economic, corporate, social or scientific history.
The other explores the tangible and intangible legacy of coal mining. We would like to put a spotlight on culturalisation and touristification processes in relict energy landscapes as well as subsequent reuse.
Zur Projektwebsite
http://www.bergbaumuseum.de/index.php/de/forschung/projekte/sgm-boom-krise
Programm:
Wednesday 14 Mar
11:00 – 12:30 Guided Tour
Deutsches Bergbau-Museum Bochum (Entrance DBM+)
12:00 – 13:00 Registration
13:00 – 13:30 Opening address
13:30 – 14:30 Keynote I
Chair: Juliane Czierpka, Deutsches Bergbau-Museum Bochum
Per Högselius, KTH Royal Institute of Technology:
The European Energy System in an Age of Globalization
14:30 – 14:40 Short break
14:40 – 15:50 Section I: Coal Policy and Politics
Chair: Dieter Ziegler, Ruhr-Universität Bochum
Simon Yin, Hefei University of Technology:
Transformation of Coal Industry in China
Robert Andrzejczyk, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Torun:
Coal diplomacy. Polish hard coal in the Scandinavian market (1945-1949)
15:50 – 16:20 Coffee break
16:20 – 18:00 Section II: Changing Energies in Regional Perspective I
Chair: Nikolai Ingenerf, Deutsches Bergbau-Museum Bochum
Andrea Pokludová & Petr Popelka, University of Ostrava:
From the “steel heart of Czechoslovakia” to the postindustrial space. Boom, crisis and cultural heritage of the Ostrava-Karviná mining district (1945-2017)
Miles K. Oglethorpe, Industrial Heritage at Historic Environment Scotland: Losing our Mines – Scotland’s Coal Industry in Context
Michael Farrenkopf, Deutsches Bergbau-Museum Bochum:
Short-time rise and decades decline – German hard coal mining after 1945
18:00 – 18:10 Short break
18:10 – 19:20 Section III: Changing Energies in Regional Perspective II. The Case of France
Chair: Stefanie van de Kerkhof, Universität Mannheim
Alain Beltran, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne:
Changing a national energy policy – The case of France during the sixties
Douglas Yates, University of Cergy-Pontoise:
The French Oil industry and the Corps des Mines. From family firms to national champions to private multinationals
19:20 Dinner
Thursday 15 Mar
09:00 – 10:40 Section IV: Expectations and Institutions from the 1950s to the 1980s
Chair: Daniel Trabalski, Deutsches Bergbau-Musuem Bochum
Juliane Czierpka, Deutsches Bergbau-Museum Bochum:
Ruhr coal and oil. The DKBL and their predictions about the development of the market for energy in West-Germany in the early 1950s
Brian Shaev, Leiden University:
Coal and Common Market. Consumers, Producers, and Crisis Management in the Early European Parliament, 1954-1964
Henning Türk, Centre for Contemporary History Potsdam:
From oil to coal? The International Energy Agency (IEA) and international coal policy since the end of the 1970s
10:40 – 10:50 Short break
10:50 – 11:50 Keynote II
Chair: Torsten Meyer, Deutsches Bergbau-Museum Bochum
Timothy LeCain, Montana State University:
Mining the Anthropocene. How the Metallic and Mineral Environment Created the Age of Humans
11:50 – 13:10 Lunch break
13:10 – 14:50 Section V: Environmental History and Industrial Nature
Chair: Helmut Maier, Ruhr-Universität Bochum
Torsten Meyer, Deutsches Bergbau-Museum Bochum:
Biofacts – Recultivating post-mining landscapes in the Anthropocene
Anna Storm, Stockholm University:
Nuclear Fish and (Post-)Industrial Nature Imaginaries
Pia Eiringhaus, Institute for Social Movements:
Postindustrial Representations of Nature and Region in the Ruhr Area – A Critical Perspective on the Success Story ”from Black to Green”
14:50 – 15:20 Coffee break
15:20 – 17:00 Section VI: Industrial Heritage
Chair: Helmuth Albrecht, TU Bergakademie Freiberg
Barry L. Stiefel, College of Charleston:
Black Diamond Heritage: A Multinational Comparative Study of Coal Mining Preservation
Malte Helfer, University of Luxembourg:
The legacy of coal mining – a view on examples in Belgium and France
Bruno De Corte, Antwerpen:
From Green to Black and back to Green again – The Story of Safeguarding the Coalmining Heritage in the Limburg Area (Belgium)
17:00 – 18:30 Dinner
18:30 – 20:00 Film & Panel Discussion
18:30 – 19:30 Tom Hansell, Appalachian State University:
After coal. Welsh and Appalachian Mining Communities (Film)
19:30 – 20:00 Panel Discussion
Tom Hansell, Appalachian State University; Stefan Berger, Ruhr-Universität Bochum; Stefan Moitra & Stefan Przigoda, Deutsches Bergbau-Museum Bochum
Friday 16 Mar
09:00 – 10:40 Section VII: Meaning and Representation of Mining
Chair: Jana Golombek, Deutsches Bergbau-Museum Bochum
Jörg Arnold, University of Nottingham:
Shifting Pasts, Receding Futures – The British Coal Industry, generational change and the politics of temporality (ca. 1967-1987)
Gisela Parak, TU Bergakademie Freiberg:
Pulse for Preservation – Bernd & Hilla Becher and the Role of Photography in Industrial Heritage
Sigrun Lehnert, Hamburg Media School:
Representation of Mining in the German Post-war Newsreel (East-West) (1948-1965)
10:40 – 11:10 Coffee break
11:10 – 12:50 Section VIII: Social Policy of Coal Mining
Chair: Martha Poplawski, Deutsches Bergbau-Museum Bochum
Lars Bluma, Deutsches Bergbau-Museum Bochum:
“Humanisation of Work”. A watershed in Biopolitics of German Coal Mining?
Sara-Marie Demiriz, History of the Ruhr Foundation:
Qualifying the stranger. Educational policies for migrant workers in the German west mining industry
Jan Kellershohn, Institute for Social Movements:
The rationalisation of minds. Mining industry and the negotiation of knowledge under ”deindustrialisation“
12:50 – 13:30 Closing address
Michael Farrenkopf & Lars Bluma, Deutsches Bergbau-Museum Bochum
13:30 – 17:00 Excursion: Zollverein UNESCO World Heritage Site
Organizer
Mining History Section, Deutsches Bergbau-Museum Bochum
Montanhistorisches Dokumentationszentrum (montan.dok), Deutsches Bergbau-Museum Bochum
In cooperation with
Department of History, Ruhr-Universität Bochum and Institut für Industriearchäologie, Wissenschafts- und Technikgeschichte (IWTG), TU Bergakademie Freiberg
With generous support
The conference and the research project “From Boom to Crisis – German Coal Mining after 1945“ are funded by the RAG-Stiftung.
Organizational matters
Registration
The registration period ends on 16 February 2018.
Please use the registration form at www.bergbaumuseum.de/BCH2018
Venue
Technische Hochschule Georg Agricola
Studierendenzentrum
Gebäude 3 / Eingang C
Herner Straße 45
44787 Bochum
Contact
Dr. Juliane Czierpka, juliane.czierpka@bergbaumuseum.de, Tel.: +49 (234) 968-4134
Dr. Torsten Meyer, torsten.meyer@bergbaumuseum.de, Tel.: +49 (234) 968-4134
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