The Sawyer Seminars on Energy and Society Begin on Sept. 20

During the Fall 2010 and Spring 2011 semesters, the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future and the BU Department of Geography and Environment will convene the John Sawyer Seminars at Boston University on Energy Transitions and Society.

The first seminar in this new series will be held on Monday, September 20, 2010 and will feature Prof. Martin Melosi (History, University of Houston)
Prof. Bruce Podobnik (Sociology and Anthropology, Lewis and Clark College)
Prof. Cutler Cleveland (Boston University).

The focus of the panel for the first Sawyer Seminar of the year (the series will meet once a month throughout the Fall 2010 and Spring 2011 semesters) will be “Energy Transitions.” The seminar will meet on the 4th Floor of the BU School of Management (Hariri Building, 595 Commonwealth Avenue) from 10.00AM to 12.30PM. Please RSVP at pardee@bu.edu by end of day Wednesday, September  15, 2010. Seating is limited to 40 participants only.

The seminar series, supported by a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, will meet once each month during the Fall 2010 and Spring 2011 semesters. The interdisciplinary seminars will bring together leadings scholars from across the United States and abroad to discuss various aspects of how energy transitions are themselves socially constituted and how they have, and are likely to, impact society. To facilitate an interdisciplinary discourse, each seminar will feature three speakers, in most cases from different academic disciplines.

More details on the seminars and for a full calendar for the Fall 2010 semester here.