Energy in the Americas: Critical Reflections on Energy & History Rozsa Centre, October 23-24, 2014 Visit larc.ucalgary.ca/energyintheamericas for program information and to register. With the understanding that researchers must critically analyse the past in order to better plan for the future, participants in “Energy in the Americas” will present original research that advances understanding of the economic, social, cultural, political, and environmental effects of the production and use of energy resources and technologies in the history of the Americas. This workshop-style conference is framed within the University of Calgary’s Energy Research Strategy – Energy Innovations for Today and Tomorrow, and will feature international experts and emerging scholars in the field of energy studies from Canada, the United States, Europe, and Latin America to present their research and contribute to this critical reflection. Generous financial support provided by the Office of the Vice President (Research), UC International, the Faculty of Arts and the Latin American Research Centre at the University of Calgary, and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. www.larc.ucalgary.ca PROGRAM AT A GLANCE DAY ONE – Thursday, October 23, 2014 Panel sessions will be in the CIBC Hub Room 8:00 8:15-10:15 OPENING REMARKS M. Anne Katzenburg, FRSC, Associate Vice President for Research, University of Calgary THE ROLE OF THE STATE Chair: Hendrik Kraay, Professor, Department of History, Interim Director, LARC, University of Calgary Isabelle Rousseau, Profesor Investigador, Centro de Estudios Internacionales, El Colegio de México (Mexico): “Les dynamiques évolutives des compagnies pétrolières latino américaines: Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex) et Petróleos de Venezuela, S.A (PdVSA).” Gail D. Triner, Professor, Department of History, Rutgers University: “Regulatory Regimes for Petroleum Production in Brazil.” Esteban Seranni, Docente Investigador, Centro de Estudios Sociales de la Economía, del Instituto de Altos Estudios Sociales de la Universidad de San Martin: “La expropiación de YPF en perspectiva histórica. Límites y desafíos de la intervención energética estatal en la Argentina actual.” João Rodrigues Neto, Departamento de Economia, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte (Brazil): “As Reservas de Petróleo na Camada do Pré Sal e as Perspectivas do Futuro do Setor Petrolífero Brasileiro.” 10:15-10:30 COFFEE BREAK - GREAT HALL 10:30-12:30 RHETORIC AND IDEOLOGY Chair: Saulesh Yessenova, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Calgary Dominique Perron, Associate Professor, Department of French, Italian and Spanish, University of Calgary: “Entre Hydro-Québec, Suncor et Enbridge: la représentation promotionnelle et euphémisation de l’énergie.” Petra Dolata, Associate Professor, Department of History, University of Calgary: “Narrating Crisis: The Construction of U.S. Energy Security in the 1970s.” www.larc.ucalgary.ca Pablo Heidrich, Adjunct Research Professor, Institute of Political Economy, Carleton University “Latin American Oil and Gas Policies. Views on Energy as a Tradable, Public and Common Good.” Donald V. Kingsbury, Lecturer, Department of Political Science, University of Toronto: “The ‘Coloniality of Oil’ and Venezuela’s Bolivarian Revolution.” 12:30-14:00 LUNCH - KEYNOTE ADDRESS - GREAT HALL Harrie Vredenburg, Professor, Haskayne School of Business, University of Calgary “Energy security, technological innovation and access to energy markets: The energy industry’s rapid evolution in the early 21st century.” Dr. Harrie Vredenburg is Professor of Strategy at the University of Calgary’s Haskayne School of Business and holds the Suncor Energy Chair in Strategy and Sustainability, a Haskayne research chair affiliated with the University’s Institute for Sustainable Energy, Environment & Economy. He also holds an appointment as an International Research Fellow at Oxford University’s Saïd Business School. He is Academic Director of the Global Energy Executive MBA for mid-career energy industry managers, a program with modules in Calgary, Houston, London, Doha and Beijing/Shanghai and online, offered jointly by Haskayne and IHS, the Cambridge Massachusetts-based global energy consultancy. Harrie has authored or co-authored more than 50 papers on strategy and sustainability in journals such as Strategic Management Journal, MIT Sloan Management Review, Organization Science, and Harvard Business Review. Besides serving as an advisor to corporations and governments, he is a member of the board of directors of Touchstone Exploration, a TSX-listed technology-focused oil company with operations in Canada and Latin America and of Kainji International, an African-focused oil company, and of Teric Power, an Alberta independent power producer. He previously served for eight years on the board of directors of Petrobank, a TSX-listed energy company with operations in Canada and Latin America. He has also served as a member of the Alberta Environmental Appeals Board, a quasi-judicial tribunal, and as a member of the board of directors of the Pembina Institute, an environmental think-tank. Harrie earned an honours BA in history from the University of Toronto, which he followed with an MBA in international business and finance with Dean’s List Distinction from McMaster University and a PhD in strategic management from the University of Western Ontario. Before joining the University of Calgary he taught at McGill University. He was a visiting professor at the Rotterdam School of Management at Erasmus University’s and at the University of British Columbia. www.larc.ucalgary.ca 14:00-15:30 LOCAL POLITICS AND ENVIRONMENTS Chair: Denise F. Brown, Associate Professor, Latin American Studies and Geography, University of Calgary Elvin Delgado, Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, Central Washington University: “Re-defining the Materiality of Hydrocarbons: Oil Politics and the Spatial Transformation of Lake Maracaibo, Venezuela.” Michael Camp, Graduate Student, Department of History, Emory University: “‘Wandering in the Desert’: The Clinch River Breeder Reactor Debate, 1973-1983.” Gustav Cederlof, Graduate Student, Department of Geography, King’s College London: “Electricity, those without, Cuban socialism, and the power of a blackout.” 15:30-15:45 COFFEE BREAK - GREAT HALL 15:45-17:15 THE TRANSNATIONAL ORIGINS OF ENERGY PRODUCTION Chair: Amelia M. Kiddle, Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of Calgary. Linda B. Hall, Professor, Department of History, University of New Mexico: “Mexican Oil 1917-2014.” Brian McBeth, Senior Common Room Member, St. Anthony’s College, Oxford University: ‘The Commercial and Political Dynamics of the Crude Oil Industry: the case of the Royal Dutch – Shell Group in Venezuela, 1913-1922.” Mark Sholdice, Graduate Student, Department of History, University of Guelph: “Among the People of Hydro Land”: American Debates about Ontario’s Hydro Commission during the 1920s.” 17:15-18:30 RECEPTION - GREAT HALL DAY TWO – Friday, October 24, 2014 Panel sessions will be in the CIBC Hub Room 8:00-10:00 ENERGY NATIONALISM Chair: Stephen Randall, FRSC, Professor Emeritus, Department of History, University of Calgary Joseph A. Pratt, Professor of History, University of Houston: “Exxon in Venezuela: The Rise of Producer Power from Inside the Largest International Oil Company.” www.larc.ucalgary.ca Daniel Macfarlane, Assistant Professor, Environmental and Sustainability Studies, Western Michigan University: “The St. Lawrence and Niagara Megaprojects: Canadian-American Energy Relations in the 1950s.” Joseph García, Graduate Student, Department of History, University of New Mexico: “Petro para la patria: The Historical Revolutionary Trajectory of Lázaro Cárdenas and Fidel Castro on Natural Resource Sovereignty in Mexico and Cuba.” Eric Gettig, Graduate Student, Department of History, Georgetown University: “The International Politics of Cuban Oil Nationalism in the Era of the Cuban Revolution.” 10:00-10:15 COFFEE BREAK – GREAT HALL 10:15-12:15 CONSUMPTION PATTERNS Chair: Pablo Policzer, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Calgary César Yañez, Profesor Titular, Universidad de Valparaiso (Chile) and Universidad de Barcelona (Spain): “Primary energy consumption and economic growth in Chile, 1844-2010.” Robert D. Lifset, Assistant Professor, Honors College, University of Oklahoma: “The Electrical Energy Crisis of the 1970s.” Martín Garrido Lepe, Graduate Student, Universidad de Valparaiso (Chile): “Coal Consumption in Chile during the twentieth century.” Richard W. Unger, Professor, Department of History, University of British Columbia and Mar Rubio, Profesor Titular, Department of Economics, Universidad Pública de Navarra (Spain): “Long run energy consumption in aluminum production: A comparison of Canada and Brazil.” 12:15-13:45 LUNCH - INDIGENOUS COMMUNITIES AND ALBERTA OIL SANDS DEVELOPMENT – GREAT HALL Video and Roundtable Presentation by Peter Fortna, Hereward Longley and Tara Joly (Willow Springs Strategic Solutions) and Bori Arrobo (Fort McKay First Nation) Video: “Moose Lake: Home and Refuge” Open pit Oil Sands mines surround the Dene, Cree, and Métis community of Fort McKay on three sides, with the closest less than 4 kilometres away. Recent aggressive industrial development within their traditional territory has placed unique significance on the historical www.larc.ucalgary.ca settlement at their reserve at Moose Lake, 80 kilometres from Fort McKay. Moose Lake has become what most community members consider their “last refuge”. The next wave of Oil Sands development is proposed at the border of this reserve and with it tremendous concern and resolve to address the potential impacts. In response, the community funded a cumulative effects study to assess the implications of “business-as-usual” Oil Sands development on environmental and social indicators over the next 100 years. With this disturbing new scientific research in hand, they have stepped forward with a plan to reduce the effects of Oil Sands development and protect their way of life. 13:45- 15:30 COMPARATIVE INDIGENOUS POLITICS Chair: Heather Devine, Associate Professor, Department of History, University of Calgary Patricia McCormack, Professor Emerita, Faculty of Native Studies, University of Alberta: “Conflicting Obligations: Oil Sands Development in Northeast Alberta and Treaty No. 8.” Chris Hebdon, Graduate Student, Department of Anthropology, Yale University: “Energotransition Imaginaries: Buen Vivir vs. Sumak Kawsay in Ecuador.” Dermot O’Connor and Juan Pablo Bohorquez Montoya, Willow Springs Strategic Solutions: “What does the experience of Indigenous Groups in Canada’s Oilsands suggest about the prospects for Sustainable Development for Communities in Extractive Resource Zones in Latin America?” 15:30-15:45 COFFEE BREAK – GREAT HALL 15:45-17:15 NEW ENERGY SOURCES Chair: Sarah Jordaan, Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Calgary Paul Chastko, Instructor, Department of History, University of Calgary: “The Shale Gas Revolution and its Implications for Canadian Energy Producers.” Jeffrey T. Manuel, Assistant Professor, Department of History, Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville: “The Ethanol Fix: The Politics and Culture of Alcohol Fuel in the United States during the Twentieth Century” Tyler Priest, Associate Professor of History and Geography, University of Iowa: “Deciphering Deepwater: Oil from the Depths of the U.S. Gulf of Mexico and Brazil’s Campos Basin.” www.larc.ucalgary.ca www.larc.ucalgary.ca