The Scripps College Humanities Institute announces its fall 2006 program, “The End of Oil.” The program features a film series and lectures by analysts and scholars to discuss the impact of “The End of Oil.” All events are free and open to the public. For more information and a complete schedule of events, please call the Humanities Institute at (909) 621-8326.
The Scripps College Humanities Institute is sponsoring a lecture series on the topic of the economic, geopolitical, and environmental impacts of the end of oil. The Humanities Institute has invited energy analysts, journalists, scientists, and political scientists to discuss what a post-oil age may look like.
The program will feature several films and lectures addressing these issues. Films include: An Inconvenient Truth, Davis Guggenheim, director, U.S.A., 1006 (September 20); Syriana, Stephen Gaghan, director, U.S.A., 2006 (September 27); Who Killed the Electric Car?, Chris Paine, director, U.S.A., 2006 (October 4); The Source (Zdroj), Martin Marecek, director, Czech Republic, 2005 (October 11); and The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil, Faith Morgan, director, U.S.A., 2006 (October 25).
The Institute’s fall lecture series will include: “Out of Gas: The End of the Age of Oil,” David Goodstein, vice provost and professor of physics and applied physics, California Institute of Technology (September 13); “Peak Oil: Opportunities and Challenges at the End of Cheap Petroleum,” Richard Heinberg, New College of California, research fellow of the Post Carbon Institute (September 18); “The End of Oil,” Paul Roberts, journalist, author (October 3); “Nuclear Power is Not the Answer,” Helen Caldicott, president, Nuclear Policy Research Institute (October 10); “Petrodollar Warfare: Oil, Iraq, and the Future of the Dollar,” and William Clark, author (October 24); and “Oil, Geopolitics, and War: The Security Implications of Global Petroleum Insufficiency,” Michael T. Klare, Five College Professor of Peace and World Security Studies, a joint appointment at Amherst, Hampshire, Mount Holyoke, Smith colleges, and the University of Massachusetts at Amherst (November 15).
For a full schedule of events related to the fall 2006 program, contact the Scripps College Humanities Institute at (909) 621-8326.