{"670468":{"#nid":"670468","#data":{"type":"event","title":"Doing Energy and Environmental History: A Conversation between Charles-Fran\u00e7ois Mathis and Brigitte Stepanov","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EEvent local time: 3:30 \u2013 4:45 p.m. (Paris time)\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EJoin us for a discussion about why historical analyses \u2013 and humanistic modes of thought more broadly \u2013 are indispensable to understanding how societies fuel themselves and conceive of energy over time. We will be focusing on how evaluating past notions of energy can allow us to take better stock of our current energy crises and help us find equitable and just solutions moving forward.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ECo-sponsored by the Atlanta Global Studies Center.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch2\u003EAbout the Speakers\u003C\/h2\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBrigitte Stepanov\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;is an assistant professor of French and Francophone studies at Georgia Tech and a 2023-2024 Energy Equity, Environmental Justice, and Community Engagement Faculty Fellow. She writes and teaches about how categories of being, knowledge, and aesthetic forms are stretched and blurred by violence against land and life, and in turn, how ontologies and epistemologies are shaped by violent events. This thinking is inseparable from the weaponization of energy in conflict and the ecological consequences of war. In her current book project,\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003ECruelty, War, Fiction: Redefining the In-Human\u003C\/em\u003E, she dissects, through legal and literary frames, martial violence witnessed in Algeria, Rwanda, and France. Trained as a mathematician and a scholar of French and Francophone Studies, she finds herself at the intersection of several disciplines, each lending a lens through which to view our present and its shifting paradigms. She is the founder and director of the Energy Today Lab, an interdisciplinary research hub that reflects creatively and analytically on the energy \u2013 broadly defined from labor to thermodynamics \u2013 of our contemporary world.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ECharles-Fran\u00e7ois Mathis\u003C\/strong\u003E is a professor of contemporary history at the University of Paris 1 Panth\u00e9on-Sorbonne and a member of the Institute of Modern and Contemporary History. Former president of the University Network of Researchers on Environmental History, he is on the editorial committee of the Environment and History journal and director of the \u201cThe Environment has a History\u201d collection, published by Champ Vallon. A specialist of environmental and British history, he is notably the author of \u003Cem\u003EIn Nature We Trust. Les paysages anglais \u00e0 l\u2019\u00e8re industrielle (In Nature We Trust: English landscapes in the Industrial Age\u003C\/em\u003E), \u003Cem\u003EGreening the City: Nature in French Towns from the 17th Century\u003C\/em\u003E, co-authored with Emilie-Anne P\u00e9py (The White Horse Press, 2020), and \u003Cem\u003ELa Civilisation du Charbon\u003C\/em\u003E (Coal Civilization, Vend\u00e9miaire, 2021).\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EFrench Biography: Charles-Fran\u00e7ois Mathis est Professeur d\u2019histoire contemporaine \u00e0 l\u2019Universit\u00e9 Paris 1 Panth\u00e9on-Sorbonne, membre de l\u2019Institut d\u2019Histoire Moderne et Contemporaine. Ancien pr\u00e9sident du R\u00e9seau Universitaire de Chercheurs en Histoire Environnementale, il est membre du comit\u00e9 \u00e9ditorial de la revue Environment and History et dirige la collection \u00ab L\u2019Environnement a une histoire \u00bb, chez Champ Vallon. Sp\u00e9cialiste d\u2019histoire environnementale et britannique, il est notamment l\u2019auteur de In Nature We Trust. Les paysages anglais \u00e0 l\u2019\u00e8re industrielle (2010), de La Ville v\u00e9g\u00e9tale. Une histoire de la nature en milieu urbain (France, XVIIe \u2013 XXIe si\u00e8cles), co\u00e9crit avec Emilie-Anne P\u00e9py (2017) et de La Civilisation du Charbon (Vend\u00e9miaire, 2021).\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EJoin us for a discussion about why historical analyses \u2013 and humanistic modes of thought more broadly \u2013 are indispensable to understanding how societies fuel themselves and conceive of energy over time. 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