Fall 2024 OLLI Digital Catalog

NEW – History of the World Oil Market … in One Slide (SE304)

SE – Special Event

This is a hybrid course. One section meets on site at the location listed; and one section meets online only.

Oil is the most strategic commodity in the world and has been so for over 100 years. The twists and turns in the control and the price of oil have mirrored the rise and fall of power more generally. This lecture uses a graph of the price of a barrel of oil from the 1850’s to last year to chart how power in the world oil market has shifted over time. The lecture concludes with a reflection on oil’s centrality during our current period of energy transition and climate change.

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This offering meets for a total of 1 session(s).

INSTRUCTOR: F. Gregory Gause

GAUSE III, F. GREGORY – Ph.D., Harvard University; B.A., St. Joseph’s University. Professor of International Affairs and John H. Lindsey ’44 Chair at the Bush School of Government and Public Service, Texas A&M University. Authored three books and numerous articles on Middle Eastern politics, focusing on the Arabian Peninsula and the Persian Gulf. Taught at the University of Vermont and Columbia University and was a Fellow for Arab and Islamic Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. Held visiting positions at Harvard University, the American University in Kuwait and the King Faisal Center in Riyadh.

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