10.00 - 11.00: Head Speaker professor Thomas P. Hughes, University of Pennsylvania: "Creating Systems from Edison to Internet"

11.00 - 12.00: Lunch at "Bølgen & Moi"

12.00 - 14.00 : Session 1: Changes of Socio-technical Systems
Organiser: Ole Andreas Engen, RF - Rogaland Research

• Manager Gunnar Nerheim, Norwegian Technical Museum: "Black gold and white coal"
• Dr. Mats Fridlund, University of Linköping, "The Tough Love of the Developmental State: Public-Private Cooperation in Swedish Electric Power"
• Prof. Arne Kaijser, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm: "Ruling gas: The creation of a regulatory regime for natural gas in the Netherlands"

14.00 - 15.00 Coffee. The museum is open

15.00 - 17.00: Session 2: Energy and ethics
Organiser: Dr. Astrid Forland, Stavanger University College

• Professor Gabrielle Hecht, University of Michigan: "Fuelling Power. Uranium, Mining and Colonialism after World War II"
• Dr. Deborah Oughton, Department of Chemistry and Biology, Agricultural University of Norway: "Ethical judgement of the nuclear industry, with examples from British and Russian industry"
• Senior researcher Helge Ole Bergesen, Fridtjof Nansen Institute: "Oil wealth under repressive regimes - risks and rewards for international companies"
  

18.30 - 21.00 Dinner at "Bølgen & Moi"

4 August:
9.00 - 11.00: Session 3: Regulation and deregulation of energy markets
Organiser: Kristin Øye Gjerde, The Norwegian Petroleum Museum

• Professor Richard Hirsh, History Department Virginia Tech Blacksburg: "Technological Change and Restructuring of the American Electric Utility System"
• Dr. Lars Thue, Norwegian School of Management: "Deregulation of the Norwegian energy market"
• Dr. Ole Gunnar Austvik, Lillehammer College: "Liberalisation of the European gasmarket"
  
  

11.00 - 12.00: Lunch at "Bølgen & Moi"

12.00 - 14.00 Session 4: Energy, technology and culture
Organiser: Kristin Øye Gjerde, The Norwegian Petroleum Museum

• Professor David Nye, Odense University: "Energy and narrative"
• Dr. Øyvind Thomassen, Centre for Technology and Society, Norwegian University of Science and Technology: "Energy and mobility"
• Ph. D. Employee Peter van Overbeeke, Eindhoven University of Technology, "Choice of the consumers? Introduction of natural gas in Dutch households in the 1960s"
  

14.00 -15.00 Coffee. The museum is open

15.00 -17.00 Session 5: Water - environment - conflict
Organiser: Nils Henrik Fuglestad, The Norwegian Petroleum Museum

• Research Director, Terje Tvedt, Centre for Development Studies, University of Bergen: ?Hydropower and big Politics. A case study from the river Nile.?
  
  
  

5 August:

9.00:Departure by boat from Stavanger
11.00: Sightseeing at Lysebotn hydroelectric powerstation
12.30: Lunch at ?Eagles Nest?
13.30: Departure to Stavanger by coach