CfP: 'Energy Transportation', EOGAN Conference 2025

We are pleased to announce a call for papers for the 2025 Conference of Eogan, the Network of energy archives (www.eogan.org).

EOGAN provides a network for people working to preserve and promote the use of energy- related records across Europe, including:

→ archivists, records managers and records creators in the industry

→ energy companies wishing to develop business archives

→ archives, museums and organisations with an interest in energy history

→ universities and academics working on energy-related topics

The annual EOGAN conference is a meeting place for people to share ideas and develop valuable international links across the energy research and archives sectors. The conference language will be English. The conference will take place on the 12th June 2025, in-person only in Fondazione Dalmine (Dalmine, Italy).

Fondazione Dalmine preserves, manages, and enhances over 2 km of historical documentation produced by historical company Tenaris Dalmine — now part of the multinational group Tenaris — along with records from employees, consultants, and affiliated companies and subsidiaries.

Tenaris Group is the leading manufacturer of pipes and related services for the world's energy industry and certain other industrial applications. It’s manufacturing system integrates steelmaking, pipe rolling and forming, heat treatment, threading and finishing across 16 countries. The company has an R&D network focused on enhancing our product portfolio and improving our production processes. Tenaris Group team is based in more than 30 countries worldwide.

Tenaris Dalmine is a founding member of Fondazione Dalmine and supports all its activities.

The theme for the 2025 Conference is ‘Energy Transportation’, and the role of services companies and of infrastructures around energy production and transportation. Transportation is a key element of any energy production/consumption relation; at the same time, each type of energy that we consume requires radically different transportation modes, which define the ways in which energy is both produced and consumed, and fundamental geopolitical, social, economic relations around the type of energy used.

We welcome contributions that tackle the theme of energy transportation from any discipline, as long as the methodology involves the usage of archival material. Topics can include, without being limited to:

1. Research

→ Evolution of energy transportation in history and geopolitical, social, economic effects

→ The role of transportation in energy history

→ Problems related to energy transportation in a historical and comparative perspectives

→ Histories of energy transportation, services and transportation companies

→ Past and present patterns of energy transportation

→ Methodologies for the analysis of energy history

2. Sources/Methodologies

→ Presentation of historical archives and collections on energy, services and

transportation companies

→ Other general archival resources useful for energy sector archives, for studies and

researches in this

→ Relations between energy archivists/records managers, and political/economic actors

→ The role of archives in preserving and transporting energy information throughout the decades

We invite you to submit papers on the topics mentioned above, or any other aspect of our conference theme – we welcome a wide range of perspectives. Please submit your paper (max 10000 words excluding notes and bibliography) or an abstract (max 300 words) with a working title, to eogan.network[at]gmail.com by the 16 March 2025, along with a short biography including your name, email address and affiliation. The language will be in English.

For more information, visit our website: www.eogan.org

Fondazione Dalmine ETS was established by TenarisDalmine to promote industrial culture by preserving and celebrating the history of a steel company with deep local roots that has been part of the community for over a century and is now a global entity, Tenaris. Fondazione Dalmine ETS, in partnership with Tenaris, shares a commitment to the same core values of industrial culture, blending local community focus with a global vision. These values include innovation, work culture and skills, health and safety, business ethics and transparency, as well as sustainability, energy, and the circular economy.

Building on the preservation and enhancement of the company’s historical archive, Fondazione Dalmine ETS promotes research and studies in business history, as well as economic and social history.

It shares these findings through exhibitions and events and organises seminars and training sessions to further disseminate knowledge.

These are the foundations of a cultural project focused on the future, designed for a diverse audience of all ages, cultural backgrounds, and interests, including families, students, educational institutions, enthusiasts, and experts.

Fondazione Dalmine | https://fondazionedalmine.org

Deadline: 16 March 2025