Conference on Global Coal Transitions: extended deadline, early-career scholar support, and updates!
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Announcing: the Conference on Global Coal Transitions Early-Career Fellowship Program. Open to grad-students, post-docs, new faculty, and other coal-transition scholars in the Social Sciences or Humanities within 5 years of earning their PhD (or other terminal degree). Details available at https://u.osu.edu/globalcoal/early-career-fellows-program/ (or see attached). Selected applicants will receive airfare, lodging, and conference registration to attend all conference events and a special pre-conference workshop. Application Deadline February 25, 2024.
Announcing: Confirmed Keynote Speakers!
Dr. Brian J. Anderson, Director of the U.S. Interagency Working Group on Coal and Power Plant Communities
Heidi Binko, Director of the Just Transition Fund (USA)
Dr. Joyashree Roy, Jadavpur University (India) and Breakthrough Institute
Announcing: Special Conference Events!
In addition to the two-day academic conference (July 17-18, 2024) and the included one-day Ohio coal region field-visit experience (July 19, 2024), we are excited to announce a special encore production of the Calling Hours theatrical production, eulogizing the retired 2 Gigawatt Conesville, Ohio, coal-fired power plant, to be performed on the Ohio State University Campus in conjunction with the conference, in partnership with the Pomerene Center for the Arts, Wexner Center for the Arts, and the OSU Dept. of Theatre, Film, and Media Arts. AND a special exhibition and reception for the fine arts photography exhibition Better or Equal Use, by Jonas N.T. Becker, in partnership with the Wexner Center for the Arts.
For full conference details and to submit abstracts and/or applications for the Early-Career Fellows program, please visit https://u.osu.edu/globalcoal/