Karen P. Merrill, Williams College; Tyler Priest, University of Houston; Paul Sabin, Yale University
Princeton Modern America Workshop and Princeton Environmental Institute
Time: 4:30 - 6:30 p.m.
Place: 211 Dickinson Hall, Princeton University
Information: maxtell@princeton.edu
This year's Deepwater Horizon incident on the Gulf Coast was historic in its geographic scope, environmental impact, political significance, economic fallout, and legal consequences. This symposium will bring together leading political historians of the American environment to discuss the impact of the recent Deepwater Horizon blowout and spill on contemporary American environmental politics, while also placing the incident into the broader historical context of U.S. energy policy, technology, consumption, and business practices.
Panelists:
Karen R. Merrill, Professor of History, Williams College
“Oil, the Gulf Spill, and the Challenge for Political History”
Tyler Priest, Director of Global Studies, C.T. Bauer College of Business,
University of Houston
“Deepwater Horizons: The History and Prospects of Offshore Oil in the
United States”
Paul Sabin, Assistant Professor of Environmental History, Yale University
"Crisis and Continuity in United States Energy Politics"
Commentator: Michael Oppenheimer, Albert G. Milbank Professor of Geosciences and International Affairs, Princeton University