4TH ANNUAL
CULTURES OF ENERGY
April 16-18
2015
SPRING RESEARCH SYMPOSIUM
THURSDAY APRIL 16
RICE MEMORIAL CHAPEL
RICE UNIVERSITY
3:00-3:45 PM
FRIDAY APRIL 17
KYLE MORROW ROOM
FONDREN LIBRARY, RICE
8:30-9:00 AM
WELCOME AND OPENING REMARKS
BREAKFAST
Yousif Shamoo, Rice
Vice Provost for Research
9:00-11:30 AM
Ramon Gonzalez, Rice
Director, Energy and Environmental
Initiative
INTRODUCTION OF KEYNOTE
SPEAKER
Dominic Boyer, Rice
Director, CENHS
4:00-5:00 PM
Jón Gnarr, Rice
CENHS Writer-in-Residence
“Climate Change: An Icelandic
Perspective”
Followed by Q&A session
5:00-6:00 PM
RECEPTION
PANEL A: INFRASTRUCTURES,
MATERIALS, GEOGRAPHIES
Moderator: Randal Hall, Rice
Neyran Turan, Rice
“Strait: Resource Geographies in the
Imagination”
SATURDAY APRIL 18
Damian Hampshire, Durham
“The European Fusion Energy
KYLE MORROW ROOM
Reference Laboratory for
FONDREN LIBRARY, RICE
Superconducting Materials in Durham”
8:30-9:00 AM
Duncan Connors, Durham
“The Economics of Nuclear Power
Generation as the Industry Evolves to
Meet the Societal Challenges of the
Twenty First Century”
9:00-11:00AM
Catherine Alexander, Durham
“Cleaning Up and Moving On:
Kazakhstan’s Nuclear Renaissance”
Moderator: Matthew SchneiderMayerson, Rice
BREAKFAST
PANEL D: I MPASSES &
INEVITABILITIES
Chris Jones, Arizona State
Janet Stewart, Durham
“The Forgotten King: Coal in the Late
“Nuclear Power? Nein, Danke!: Nuclear
20th Century”
Energy in the Austrian Cultural
Rania Ghosn, MIT
Imaginary”
“The Geographies of the Trans-Arabian
Matthew Huber, Syracuse
Pipeline”
“Energized Politics: Neoliberalism and
3:00-3:15 PM
the Ecology of Entrepreneurial Life”
Gretchen Bakke, McGill
COFFEE BREAK
“The Immaterialization of Power”
David Hughes, Rutgers
“Why
Oil Can’t be Stopped (or so They
3:15-5:15 PM
James Elliott & Kyle Shelton, Rice
Say)”
PANEL C: ARTS & ENVIRONMENTS
“The Regulatory Nature of Urban
Ports: The Case of Houston”
Roy Scranton, Princeton
Moderator: Caroline Levander, Rice
“The Compulsion of Strife”
Jenny Carlson, UT-Austin/Rice
Adrian Ivakhiv, Vermont
“Taking Place in the Glasshouses:
“Cinema, Ecology, and the Death of
11:00-12:30PM
Non-representational Perspectives on
Carbon Capitalism”
PLENARY DISCUSSION: FUTURES OF
Germany’s Energy Transition”
ENERGY HUMANITIES
James Nisbet, Irvine
11:30-1:00 PM
“On the Energiatype and
Moderator: Dominic Boyer, Rice
Photography’s First Decade in
LUNCH
England”
Undergraduate research posters on display
Discussants:
Cymene Howe, Rice
Chantal Bilodeau, The Arctic Cycle
Kairn Klieman, U Houston
1:00-3:00 PM
“Communicating Climate Change”
Cyrus Mody, Rice
PANEL B: A NUCLEAR FUTURE?
Albert Pope, Rice
Toby Lee, NYU
Janet Stewart, Durham
Moderator: Neal Lane, Rice
“Single Stream: Waste & the Politics of
(In)visibility”
Simon Hogg, Durham
12:30-1:30PM
“The Durham Energy Institute: An
LUNCH
Overview”
HOSTED BY
THE CENTER FOR ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL
RESEARCH IN THE HUMAN SCIENCES, RICE UNIVERSITY
For more information, including paper abstracts, please visit culturesofenergy.org