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