Mining Conversations. The Futurepasts of ... Forests
The series is hosted by the Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology and the Anthropocene Commons network.
- Date: May 8, 2025
- Time: 08:00 PM - 09:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
- Speaker: P. Charoenpacharaporn, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand/ N. Gándara, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, Chile/ M. José Iturralde, Fundación Pachaysana & Humans for Abundance, Ecuador/ M. C. Rocha, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brasil
- Location: online
- Host: Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology and Anthropocene Commons
- Contact: rossee@gea.mpg.de

Mining Conversations invites you to join its second online session The Futurepasts of … Forests. The monthly online series critically reflects and discusses extraction and energy landscapes, across geographies and temporalities—up to this moment in which resource regimes more than ever shape economic, societal and environmental realities planetarily and locally in very unequal ways.
About the Speakers
After an exciting launch session on Copper, Mining Conversations | The Futurepasts of … invites to the second session of its online series.
The session will be hosted by historian Freg Stokes, MPI of Geoanthropology, with the following speakers sparking the conversation:
- Patcharaviral Charoenpacharaporn, historian, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand
- Natalia Gándara, historian, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, Chile
- María José Iturralde, educator and social entrepreneur, Fundación Pachaysana & Humans for Abundance, Ecuador
- Maria Cecília Rocha, urbanist and architect, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brasil