Mining Conversations | The Futurepasts of ... Uranium
- Date: Feb 23, 2026
- Time: 08:00 AM - 09:00 AM (Local Time Germany)
- Speaker: Laura Goyhenex; Grit Ruhland; Kirisitina Sailiata; Thomas Turnbull
- Location: Online
- Host: Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology and Anthropocene Commons
- Topic: Discussion and debate formats, lectures
Mining Conversations is a monthly online discussion series dedicated to how knowledge practices on local and planetary scales shape the energy landscapes we see today, whether influenced by past or present extraction practices. Each session connects different perspectives to better understand the social, material, technological, and environmental forces at play. The series seeks to provide the needed space for cross-practice, international and reflective conversations about mining among artists, academics, activists, and other persons interested in mining.
Speaker Information
- Laura Goyhenex, scholar in Social Anthropology at the University of Aberdeen, focusing on contamination events on Indigenous lands in Canada (Northwest Territories and Alberta).
- Grit Ruhland, artist, lecturer, expert author and curator, Bauhaus University Weimar. Deputy chair of the Saxony State Association of Fine Arts.
- Kirisitina Sailiata, professor of Indigenous Studies at Macalester College and affiliate of the Mississippi River Open School and the Macalester Native and Indigenous Initiative.
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Thomas Turnbull (chair), historical geographer interested in energy in all its forms, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science