@RLifset

Energy and Environmental Historian at the University of Oklahoma and author of Power on the Hudson (https://xitter.cf/t.co/uZMVMRjDXx

 Norman, OK
robertlifset.com
Joined August 2013
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join the @chstmorg Energy History Working Group this Friday, Feb 9th, at 1:30 pm EST. We will discuss Chad Montrie's “‘What is Labour’s Stake?’: Workers and the History of Environmentalism in Alberta.” Paper + zoom head to: chstm.org/content/energy-his… @NiCHE_Canada @lawcha_org
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Join the @chstmorg Energy History Working Group this Friday Dec 8 1:30 PM EST. We will discuss a paper from Wout Saelens, “Energy politics: urban fuel policy and the transition to coal in Ghent (eighteenth-nineteenth centuries).” chstm.org/content/energy-his… for zoom link + paper.
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Join the @chstmorg Energy History Working Group this Friday Nov 10 1:30 PM EST. We will discuss a paper from Petra Dolata and @vrsmcfarland on “Oil Consultant Walter J. Levy.” See chstm.org/content/energy-his… for zoom link + paper.
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Join the @chstmorg Energy History Working Group this Friday, October 13, 1:30 pm EST to discuss Chao Ren's paper, “Global Circulation of Low-End Expertise: Knowledge, Hierarchy, and Labor Migration in a Burmese Oilfield.” Go to chstm.org/content/energy-his… zoom link + paper pdf.
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Paul Sabin@paulesabin18 Sep 2023
"New Perspectives in Energy History"-- we're going to bring back our one-day environmental history conference @yale with a focus on energy history-- save the date and propose a paper environmentalhistory.yale.ed…
Yale Env Humanities@YaleEnvHum18 Sep 2023
CFP for “New Perspectives in Energy History” March 2, 2024 conference @yale now available. Abstracts due Nov 10. #environmentalhistory #energyhistory environmentalhistory.yale.ed…
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Join the @chstmorg Energy History Working Group this friday (Sept 8) at 1:30 EST for our first meeting of 2023-24. We will discuss a paper from Tobah Aukland-Peck titled "Crude Oils: Petroleum Culture in Postwar Britain." Paper link + zoom: chstm.org/content/energy-his….
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We are hiring! Engineering Ethics in Society at @CUBoulder is looking for a full-time Teaching Assistant Professor in Hist of/Sci/Med/Tech or STS. jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDe…. I'm chairing the committee. Please get in touch with questions.
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The Seven Stages of climate denial: 1. It's not real 2. It's not us 3. It's not that bad 4. We have time 5. It's too expensive to fix 6. Here's a fake solution 7. It's too late: you should have warned us earlier Trolls use all of these stages to deny reality of #climatechange
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Cyrus Mody@ccmmody7 Jul 2023
interesting source re: our conversation w/ @RLifset ab/ different policy aims of small & big US oil producers. Atlantic Richfield (as usual?) the company stirring things up (NB @odinnmelsted @Bron_Michiel)
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Energy historians! Come present your work with the Energy History Working Group. We are building the 2023-24 schedule now. We workshop full length WIP work in the field of energy history. Priority deadline August 15th.
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E was happy to give this talk on the 1973 "oil shock" at the @CarsonCenter in the context of a stimulating conference ("Towards and Environmental History of the Oil Industry) organized by @odinnmelsted @ccmmody @moneschleper youtu.be/2rlI5WjBy3w
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Cyrus Mody@ccmmody26 Jun 2023
nice present-day example of the kind of oil spillovers into alternative energy that we study in the Managing Scarcity project. very similar to innovations in uranium leaching in the 1970s (@Bron_Michiel). even a mention of geothermal for @odinnmelsted ft.com/content/7616a9f4-e0db…
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@chstmorg Energy History Working Group, Fri June 9, 1:30 PM EST. Two Euro #energyhist papers: Tobah Aukland-Peck, mines and British Modernism; Helge Wendt, coal waste in the interwar period in Fr and Ger. To see papers and meeting zoom, log in chstm.org/content/energy-his…. #envirohist
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Join us virtually today! Come for the yellowcake, stay for the nuclear conspiracy! @chstmorg @brianleechphd @vrsmcfarland @RLifset
Sarah Stanford-McIntyre@sarahthestan14 Apr 2023
Join the Energy History Working Group tomorrow, April 14, 1:30 PM Eastern Time to discuss nuclear history with Michiel Bron, on uranium and Hilary Blum on Hanford secrecy. To view papers and to access the zoom link, log in at chstm.org/content/energy-his….
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Lee Vinsel
@STS_News26 Mar 2023
Joel is the best. Such a kind and thoughtful guy. I loved hanging out with him when I was a grad student at Carnegie Mellon.
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@KyivPost24 Mar 2023
🇺🇦🇮🇹 Italian Prime Minister Giorgia #Meloni delivered an emotional speech in support of #Ukraine and explained to local politicians why calls for "peace" at the expense of territorial concessions are unacceptable. 📹: Grunt Media
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Pleased to share a free excerpt from WVU's upcoming collection American Energy Cinema (edited by @RLifset, @raechellutz, and @sarahthestan) about Appalachian history and the movie Matewan. booktimist.com/2023/01/25/jo…

John Sayles’s Matewan and Appalachian history: An excerpt from American Energy Cinema

This spring, West Virginia University Press will publish the collection American Energy Cinema, edited by Robert Lifset, Raechel Lutz, and Sarah Stanford-McIntyre. A volume that explores how Hollyw…

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John Sayles’s Matewan and Appalachian history: An excerpt from American Energy Cinema – Booktimist booktimist.com/2023/01/25/jo…

John Sayles’s Matewan and Appalachian history: An excerpt from American Energy Cinema

This spring, West Virginia University Press will publish the collection American Energy Cinema, edited by Robert Lifset, Raechel Lutz, and Sarah Stanford-McIntyre. A volume that explores how Hollyw…

booktimist.com
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