European Politics Seminar: "Energy and Power: Germany in the Age of Oil, Atoms, and Climate Change"

Since the 1970s, Germany has experienced five energy transitions. In 2018, the country started to rethink its dependence on fossil fuels and initiated a plan to a low-carbon, nuclear free economy. This policy, known as Energiewende, has met significant challenges. This seminar will explore the difficulties, political battles, and unintended consequences that the country has had to face.

Speaker: Stephen Gross, Associate Professor of History & European Studies, New York University; Director, Center for European and Mediterranean Studies, New York University
Discussant: Jamie Martin, Assistant Professor of History and of Social Studies, Department of History, Harvard University
Moderator: Herrick Chapman, Professor Emeritus of History, New York University; Local Affiliate & Seminar Co-chair, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University

Sponsored by the European Politics Seminar