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Programme des séances du séminaireResource wealth is a chance for prosperity, but also puts societies under enormous strain: The blessing of plenty may tip into economic scarcity, social disruption and political marginalization. Studies of energy resources and resource politics often focus on geopolitical issues, national and regional decision-making. The ZMO lecture series examines how such decisions shape – and are shaped by – the non-elites or ‘small people’ usually left out of these analyses.The series investigates how oil extractive industries, attempts to introduce alternative energies or connected domestic and international development plans affect local populations – for betteror worse. Considering the ‘small people’ as active participants rather than bystanders or solely victims of these processes, the lectures highlight people’s multiple strategies of – and sometimes failure of – engaging, challenging or coping with the consequences of resource wealth.Thursday, 26 September 2013, 5 pmThe Devil’s Money: A Multi-level Approach to the Disordering in Oil-producing Southern ChadDr Andrea Behrends (Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg)Thursday, 31 October 2013, 6 pmResource Sovereignties: Converting Energy into Political PowerDr John-Andrew McNeish (Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Aas)Thursday, 28 November 2013, 6 pmSolar Power for the Poor: New Models of Business and User Networks in IndiaDr Jamie Cross (University of Edinburgh)Thursday, 12 December 2013, 6 pmOil, Water, and the Writing of History in Southern ArabiaProf. Mandana E. Limbert (Queens College, New York)Thursday, 30 January 2014, 6 pmCrude Power: Rethinking Oil and Politics. A look at IranProf. Kaveh Ehsani (DePaul University, Chicago)&#160;Zentrum Moderner OrientKirchweg 33 14129 BerlinTelefon: 030/80307-0Fax: 030/80307-210Email: zmo@zmo.de Internet: www.zmo.deVenue:Zentrum Moderner OrientKirchweg 3314129 Berlin