Thursday, September 26
1.00-1.30 pm Registration
1.30-2.00 pm Introduction: Frank Bösch/Rüdiger Graf

I. National Reactions to the Oil Crises

2.00-3.30 pm Energy and the State in the USA and Western Europe
Chair: Frank Bösch
Robert D. Lifset (Oklahoma): A New Understanding of the American Energy Crisis of the 1970s
Rüdiger Graf (Bochum): Periodization, Petroknowledge, and Sovereignty. The Oil Crisis of 1973/74 in Contemporary History
Nuno Madureira (Lisbon): Planning in the Midst of the Storm: The First Oil Shock in Britain and in France

4.00-5.00 pm Alternative Energy Paths in Western Europe
Chair: Frank Bösch
Alain Beltran (Paris): France and the Oil Question: The “Grand Projet” without Europe?
Mogens Rüdiger (Aalborg): The Oil Crisis as a Game Changer in Danish Energy Policy

5.00-6.30 pm A Different Energy Crisis in the East?
Chair: Klaus Gestwa (Tübingen)
Anna Veronika Wendland (Marburg): Oil Crisis and Nuclear Response in Eastern Europe
Jeronim Perovic/Dunja Krempin (Zurich): The Soviet Union and the Energy Crises of the 1970s

8.00 pm Conference Dinner (Café Haider, Friedrich-Ebert-Strasse 29)

Friday, September 27

II. Changes within the International Order

9.00-10.30 am Energy and the Cold War
Chair: Dirk van Laak (Giessen)
David Painter (Washington): Oil and Geopolitics: The Oil Crises of the 1970s and the Cold War
Frank Bösch (Potsdam): Energy Diplomacy. Eastern and Western Europe after the Oil Crises
Elisabetta Bini (Rome): Oil and the Reshaping of International Relations in the Mediterranean during the Cold War, 1956-1979

11.00-12.00 am Reshaping International Organizations
Chair: Dirk van Laak (Giessen)
Henning Türk (Duisburg/Essen): Anti-OPEC or Neutral Consumer Organization? The Establishment of the International Energy Agency 1973/74
Frank Reichherzer (Berlin): Making Energy International. The Trilateral Commission and the Framing of an International Energy Policy

12.00-2.00 pm Lunch Break

III. Energy Consumption – National and International Patterns
Panel sponsored by the Rachel Carson Center, Munich

Chair: Uwe Lübken (Munich)
2.00-3.30 Energy, Policy and Consumption
Marina Fischer-Kowalski (Vienna): Learning from the Seventies? Assessing the Impact of Energy Policy on the Marked Stabilization of per Capita Energy Consumption in the early 1970s
Mathias Mutz (Aachen): Daylight Saving = Energy Saving. Time Politics as Crisis Strategy in Germany, France, and the U.S.
Brian Black (Penn State Altoona): Struggling to Green the American Ride: Consumer Culture Meets Petroleum Scarcity in the 1970s

Coffee Break

IV. Economic and Ecological Reactions

4.00-5.00 Economic Reactions
Chair: Ralf Ahrens (Potsdam)
Christopher Kopper (Bielefeld): Primary and Secondary Consequences of the Oil Crisis for Capital Markets and State Debts
André Steiner (Potsdam): Economic Reactions to the Oil Crises of the 1970s in the GDR

Sightseeing /8.00 pm Conference Dinner

Saturday, September 28

9.00-10.30 am Companies and the Oil Crises
Chair: Ralf Ahrens (Potsdam)
Jonathan Kuiken (Boston College): “We are fully aware of the industry’s problems.” The deterioration of the British Government’s relations with British Petroleum and Shell prior to the 1973 Oil Crisis
Hendrik Ehrhardt (Jena): Utility Companies and the Oil Crisis. Electricity Industries in West Germany between Coal and Immission Control
Christian Marx (Trier): “Conflict over the Energy Gap” – Atomic Power and Coal as Solutions to the Crisis? Resources of the German Chemical Industry after the Boom

Coffee Break

11.00-12.00 am Shaping Spaces: Aftermaths of Exploitation
Chair: Klaus Gestwa (Tübingen)
Valentina Roxo (Munich): Competing Visions: West Siberian Oil, Russian Modernity and Environment
Rania Ghosn (Ann Arbor): The Ends of Tapline: Frictions of Oil Circulation in Arabia and the Middle East

12.00-12.30 am Concluding Remarks and Final Discussion
Chairs: Frank Bösch/Rüdiger Graf