The monthly series Mining Conversations continues with its seventh session, The Futurepasts of… Uranium. The online forum brings together practitioners, researchers, and artists to critically engage with extraction and energy landscapes—connecting histories of resource regimes with their ongoing economic, ecological, and territorial impacts. 

This session focuses on uranium and the legacies of its extraction—tracing contamination, Indigenous resistance, and the intergenerational politics of energy and toxicity. 

Speakers include:

– Laura Goyhenex, social anthropologist, University of Aberdeen – on contamination on Indigenous lands in Canada (Northwest Territories, Alberta)
– Grit Ruhland, artist and researcher, Bauhaus University Weimar – on uranium mining in Saxony and East Germany
– Kirisitina Sailiata, professor of Indigenous Studies, Macalester College – exploring Indigenous perspectives on extractive histories and futures

Organised by the Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology and the Anthropocene Commons network, the Mining Conversations series is open to all.

The Anthropocene Curriculum began in 2013 as a long-term initiative exploring frameworks for critical knowledge and education in our ongoing transition into a new, human dominated geological epoch—the Anthropocene. The project has drawn together heterogeneous knowledge practices, inviting academics, artists, and activists from around the world to co-develop curricular experiments that collectively respond to this crisis of the customary. It has done so by producing experimental co-learning situations and research possibilities for transdisciplinary collaboration that are capable of explicitly tackling the epistemic and geo-social dimensions of knowledge that are at stake in this new epoch.