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Symposium Announcement: “The History of Oil in America: Before and After the Gulf Spill”
Date: Wednesday, October 20, 2010
Time: 4:30pm-6:00pm
Location: 211 Dickinson Hall, Princeton University, Princeton, N.J.
Panelists:
Karen R. Merrill, Professor of History, Williams College
(Author of The Oil Crisis of 1973-1974)
“Oil, the Gulf Spill, and the Challenge for Political History”
Tyler Priest, Director of Global Studies, C.T. Bauer College of Business, University of Houston
(Author of The Offshore Imperative: Shell Oil’s Search for Petroleum in Postwar America)
“Deepwater Horizons: The History and Prospects of Offshore Oil in the United States”
Paul Sabin, Assistant Professor of Environmental History, Yale University
(Author of Crude Politics: The California Oil Market, 1900-1940)
"Crisis and Continuity in United States Energy Politics"
Commentator:
Michael Oppenheimer, Albert G. Milbank Professor of Geosciences and International Affairs, Princeton University
Nobel Prize in Peace 2007 and Lead Author of The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Fourth Assessment Report (2007)
Co-Sponsors:
Modern America Workshop, Princeton History Department
Princeton Environmental Institute
Free and open to the public. No registration necessary.
For more information, please contact:
Matthew A. Axtell, M.A., J.D., at maxtell@princeton.edu
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