Mining Conversations | The Futurepasts of … invites you to their seventh session – this time on Uranium. Mining Conversations are an open monthly online space for exchanges and collaborations across practices, temporalities, and across extraction and energy landscapes.

The next session will take place on February 23, 2026, 8pm (CEST), please register via the link here.

The session will host the following speakers:

– 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.

The series is hosted by the Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology and the Anthropocene Commons network.