Conference Energy and Public Communication 24–25 July 2019 Science and Industry Museum, Manchester, UK Funded by the Arts and Humani

Energy Transitions in the 20th century: Lessons from the Past for the Future For event reports and finding sheets, please see here. 6.00pm, Thur

On 6 October 2017, the MCE project and the British Film Institute (BFI) are co-organising a workshop on energy related films. The provisional programm

With the 'Energy History' project, based at the Centre for History and Economics, Cambridge and Harvard, the MCE project is organising the two-day wor

  CALL FOR PAPERS TRANSITIONS IN ENERGY LANDSCAPES AND EVERYDAY LIFE IN THE NINETEENTH AND TWENTIETH CENTURIES: A Workshop organized by the M

As part of our partnership with Saijo City, we organised a public event at the Saijo Culture Centre. The event featured talks by the Deputy

Hiroki Shin is presenting a paper at the 2015 Annual Conference of the International Association for the History of Transport, Traffic and Mobility (T

Rebecca Wright is giving a talk 'The Aesthetics of Energy’ at Chisenhale Gallery, London on 16 July. This talk considers the ways that culture can b

Frank Trentmann is giving a Carl-von-Carlowitz lecture at the Annual Conference of the Council for Sustainable Development (Rat für Nachhaltige Entwi

Rebecca Wright is giving a talk at the Science Museum on the 27th of May as part of the museum's 'Lates: Let There Be Light' event. Her talk 'Tuning i

April 2015 Association of American Geographers, Chicago: Heather Chappells presented a paper on behalf of the MCE project at the Association of Am

Material Cultures of Energy hosted a Workshop on ‘Scales of Disruption: Methods, Experiences and Insights for Change’ at Birkbeck College, London,

MCE team members took part in the 'Mondes Électriques (Electric Worlds), 19e-21e siècles: Creations, Circulations, Tensions, Transitions, Internatio

MCE team members co-organised and participated in a recent event at Caltech: ‘Coping with Scarcity: Energy Shortages, Food Crises, Drought, and Crit

Hiroki Shin and Frank Trentmann presented papers at the History of Consumer Culture Conference: ‘Moving Around: People, Things and Practices in Cons