28 Rue Serpente
75006 Paris-6E-Arrondissement
France
Friday, 4th of November
Amphitheatre, Sorbonne University, Maison de la Recherche – Rue Serpente
9h30 Welcome
Prof. Barthélémy Jobert, President of the Sorbonne University
9h30-9h40 Opening
Prof. Eric Bussière (Sorbonne University, Director of the Labex EHNE)
9h40-10h00 Introduction to the Theme “Oil Imperialism”
Prof. Alain Beltran (CNRS, UMR Sirice 8138)
10h00-10h20 Coffee/tea break
Panel 1 : Oil, Empire, and International Relations
10h20-12h20 Chair : Prof. Youssef Cassis, European University Institute
Guillemette Crouzet, Graduate Institute, Geneva
British Oil Imperialism in Bakhtiaristan at the Beginning of the 20th Century
Benjamin Bengobeyi, University Paris I-Panthéon Sorbonne
Le Pétrole une arme ? L’Irak et la libération de la Nation arabe : l’exemple de la guerre du Kippour
Victor McFarland, University of Missouri
Oil, Empire, and the U.S. Role in the Gulf
Emily Meierding, U.S. Naval Postgraduate School
Oil vs. Islands : Disentangling the Causes of Conflict in the East China Sea
12h20-14h20 Lunch, Club des Enseignants
Site: Sorbonne
Panel 2 : State and Corporate Power : National and Multinational Oil Companies
14h20-16h20 Chair : Prof. Jean-Pierre Dormois, Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Bordeaux
Marta Musso, European University Institute
Hunting grounds for their monopoly : France, Italy and the State oilmen
Touraj Atabaki, Leiden University
Labour and the Birth of Oil Capitalism : The Emergence of Oil Imperialism in the First World War
Kevin Wunsthorn, University Paris I-Panthéon Sorbonne
Entre rivalité et coopération : la Compagnie française des pétroles face à l’impérialisme pétrolier anglo-saxon dans le golfe Arabo-Persique
16h20-16h40 Coffee/tea break
16h40-17h40 Keynote Address : Prof. Myrna Santiago, Saint Mary’s College
Oil Imperialism and Its Discontents
Chair : Barbara Curli, University of Turin
19h30 Conference dinner for participants
Restaurant : La Ferrandaise.
Saturday, 5th of November
Amphitheatre, Sorbonne University, Maison de la Recherche – Rue Serpente
Panel 3 : Oil, Anti-Imperialism, and Decolonization
9h30-11h00 Chair : Prof. Phillipe Chassaigne, University Bordeaux Montaigne
Giuliano Garavini, New York University Abu Dhabi OPEC
The Making of an Anti-Imperial Organisation
Elisabetta Bini, University of Trieste Decolonizing Labor
American Politics and the Rise of Oil Nationalism in Libya, 1960s-1980s
Philippe Tristani, Agrégé d’histoire, Sorbonne University
L’Iraq National Oil Company contre l’Iraq Petroleum Company de 1961 à 1972. Le rôle de la compagnie nationale irakienne des pétroles dans la lutte contre l’impérialisme
Katayoun Shafie, UCL London, Institute of Advanced Studies
Long-Distance Machineries of Oil : Managing Nationalism, Combating Nationalization in Iran
11h30-13h30 Lunch, Club des Enseignants
Site : Sorbonne
Panel 4 : Oil Companies, the State, and the Future of Oil Imperialism in a Postcolonial World
13h30-15h30 Chair : Prof. Alain Beltran (CNRS, UMR Sirice 8138)
Duccio Basosi, Ca’ Foscari University
Venice Oil, Dollars, and Power : Petrodollar Recycling Revisited
Francesco Petrini, University of Padua
« Jumped on the Boat of a Territorialist Organization »: Oil Multinationals and State Power in the 20th Century
Simone Selva, University
“L’Orientale”, Naples Transnational Capital Markets and Development Policies in the 1970s : Oil Shocks, the Rise of Energy Finance, and the Reshaping of U.S. Foreign Economic Relations in Latin America
15h30-15h50 Concluding remarks
Victor McFarland, University of Missouri