Call for Papers: African Oil, 03/05

The American Society of Environmental Historians will be holding its annual conference in Houston from March 16-20, 2005. The theme of the meeting is Energy, Space, and Time." Running concurrently with the conference will be four panel sessions on "energy" in a general sense (not necessarily related to the environment), organized by Joe Pratt, renowned oil historian and Cullen Professor of Business and History at the University of Houston We are looking to organize one of these sessions around issues of the oil industry in Africa or other regions of the "South" (i.e., "Third World"), and as stated above, are open to topics that are not necessarily
environmentally related. The panel is still in the process of being formed; I (Kairn Klieman) will present something on the history of oil extraction in the Gulf of Guinea (Africa) based on research I'll carry out in the National Archives this summer. We would like to encourage anyone interested in issues of oil and Africa to submit proposals, so that we might organize a dynamic and intellectually invigorating session. Please send paper proposals to Joe Pratt at joepratt@uh.edu ASAP, as the panels must be organized and submitted to the ASEH program board by July 1, 2005.

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