Energy In/Out of Place

A Virtual Energy Humanities Research-Creation Workshop

and online around the world

Contact: energyandplace@gmail.com

Participants in this virtual research-creation workshop will explore the many roles of energy in shaping and mediating a diverse array of places around the world. In addition to two keynote addresses, five teams of researchers will present work-in-progress for discussion by other workshop teams and registered participants. Through these projects and discussions we will reflect together on sites in and around where we live and work that carry potential for deep changes in the energy regimes that dominate everyday life. What historical forms have been etched into the landscape, infrastructures, and imaginaries of the site? How does energy traverse geographic and social boundaries, making and unmaking places in the process? What flows of energy, conversely, might chart new relations to place? How do global energy systems localize themselves in different geographies, cultures, and quotidian experiences—and how might we, as researchers, seek to do the same?