[ATHENA] Workshop: Energy governance and sectoral trajectories: France and Japan in evolutionary perspective, 6 June 2016, EHESS (190 Ave de France), 9.30-18.00

["Umemura Maki" (maki.umemura AT ehess.fr via athena Mailing List) <athena AT services.cnrs.fr>]

Energy governance and sectoral trajectories: France and Japan in evolutionary perspective

6 June 2016, 9.30-18.00, 190 Avenue de France, 638 (6th floor)

 

Morning

9.30-9.45               Introduction and welcome, Sebastien Lechevalier (EHESS) and Patrick Fridenson (EHESS)

9.50-10.30             Alexandre Rojey (Fondation Tuck)

                              The energy transition in France and in the world - Objectives and obstacles

10.35-11.15           Yukiko Fukasaku (Independent scholar)      

                              The energy transition in Japan – Challenges and opportunities in comparative context

11.20-12.00           Miyuki Tsuchiya (Université Paris II / Cersa)

                              Governing energy: the ambiguous link between policy and politic after 3/11. A comparison between France and Japan

Lunch

Afternoon

13.00-13.40           Takeo Kikkawa  (Tokyo University of Science)

                              The evolution of Japan’s electricity industry since the 20^th century

13.45-14.25           Alain Beltran (CNRS / Université Panthéon-Sorbonne, Paris I)

                              The history of French electricity since the 20th century

14.30-15.10           Chenxiao Xia (Kyoto University)

                              Japanese electrification as contrast with the West 

Tea break

15.35-16.15           Aleksandra Kobiljski (CNRS / Institut d'Asie Orientale)

                              Energy workaround: Upgrading coal in Japan’s steel industry

16.20-17.00           Maki Umemura  (Cardiff University / FFJ)

                              Innovation, governance and uncertain shifts in Japan’s photovoltaics industry

17.05-17.45           Christophe Bouneau (Université Bordeaux III Michel de Montaigne)

                              Governance strategies and innovation dynamics in the French energy sector since the Interwar period

17.50-18.00           Concluding remarks          

 

Please email ffj AT ehess.fr to register attendance. For further information or queries, please email umemuram AT cardiff.ac.uk