Our series of essays and commentary relating to the ongoing genocide in Palestine is free to read, share and download until tomorrow, 30 September 2025. @jich.bsky.social #FreeAccess

Do you want to be a part of our mass digitisation project, and potentially have your research shared more widely? As we wrap up on this momentous project, we’re keen to showcase how Kew’s data is being used in research across the globe 🌍 Could you help us tell this story? ✨

Friendly reminder that you can still send us your proposals! 📝🩺 The workshop is free and open to all 🙌

A reminder that if you’re in the UK, you can directly support Palestinian farmers and manufacturers by buying @zaytouncic.bsky.social Fairtrade/fairly traded olive oil, freekeh, almonds, maftoul, soap, za’atar, dates - from most Oxfam shops or the Zaytoun website: zaytoun.uk/products/

Action against the slave trade from 1807 enabled British colonisation, but Jane Lydon shows here how achieving the abolition of slavery in 1833 and expanding territory through conquest were also interrelated, not separate, processes. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Stuart Hall Essay Prize. Please disseminate: www.stuarthallfoundation.org/foundation/s...

Hey you. Wanna apply for a fellowship on collections? the AHRC Early career fellowships in cultural & heritage institutions are open! The Natural History Museum priorities are below. If you wanna talk birds, hit me up. Collectors, colonialism, Canada, Australia & more www.ukri.org/opportunity/...

Small mining companies with African operations will often have on their boards former European government ministers, retired senior military figures and businessmen whose personal wealth is not dissimiliar to the GDP of the country they are investing in.

I know people are already teaching these episodes, as I can see the backlinks from LMS. To assist such efforts, as I did with the HBCU arc from earlier in the season, I've created a landing page for the "Technofeudal Trilogy" with accessible readings by @yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social & many others.

JOB: One-year postdoctoral research fellowships at The Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry on 2026-27 theme of “habitat”, Emory University (USA). Appropriate for #envhist & #envhum scholars! networks.h-net.org/jobs/69069/e...

RALLY TO SAVE MEANJIN Thursday 11 Sep 9am Outside the Melbourne University Publishing office, 715 Swanston St, Carlton. A number of Australian writers and editors will speak in support of this vital cultural institution

In this episode, Megan and I speak to the Irish artist Luke Casserly about his performance piece 'Distillation', growing up in the Irish midlands, and how to start important conversations about the climate crisis. It was an absolute joy to learn from Luke. Enjoy! soundcloud.com/ucd-humaniti...

As part of the Extractivist Landscapes project, Megan Kuster and I interviewed artists from around the world to learn how they are working to reimagine the potential futures of mined, excavated, and extractivist landscapes. And today is launch day of our first episode!

Final days to get your abstracts in for this very timely conference exploring the ethical, political, and environmental stakes of minerals. See more details here: imperialminerals.ie/events/criti...

Over 80 Palestinian students with places at UK universities are unable to leave Gaza. With no functioning visa centres in Gaza and no safe route out, they are effectively blocked from taking up their places. NUS is calling on the UK government to help - please sign www.nus.org.uk/support_pale...

The Call for Papers for 'Talking Records: Pollution in the Archive', a symposium at The National Archives in London, 4 December 2025, is now open! Submission deadline: Friday 19 Sept See the CFP and details about bursaries for speakers here: orlo.uk/Z8StS #envhum #envhist

It has been a profoundly challenging experience, both emotionally and linguistically, to work on this extraordinary piece of carceral writing. I tried translating it into vernacular Cantonese but had to give up after a few pages. How malleable language can be when under the bend of lived experience!

Read this fascinating new blog post by @gigitang.bsky.social examining a petition written by the Chinese digger, Jong Ah Siug, from the asylum in colonial Melbourne. The petition takes the form of a palm-sized bound book and includes hand-drawn maps. imperialminerals.ie/2025/08/18/a...

@gigitang.bsky.social and Katie Donnelly from the Minerals team are organising this fantastic symposium on Critical Minerals @ucdhumanities.bsky.social in November. Find the CFP here with a deadline of 31 August: imperialminerals.ie/events/criti...

Hello all! I have had a cancellation for Romancing the Gothic and am therefore looking for talk proposals on any American Gothic (I am including every country from Chile to Canada here) for 11th September. Give me a shout if you have a pitch! (Online talk, runs twice, paid)

Great summary of the Belfast EVENT conference last year by Justin Livingston and Alex Murray, which includes a nice account of the Minerals project research presented at the conference: 'Victorian Studies in Ireland' www.euppublishing.com/doi/full/10....

Applications are invited for the position of Post-Doctoral Researcher with expertise in digital and spatial humanities (11 months, whole-time) - to work with me and @insightcentre.bsky.social on a project called 'Data Travels: Analysing the Ladies of Llangollen'. ore.ucc.ie (Job ID: 088233)

Important news for the #envhist crowd: We are hiring an Associate Professor of Environmental History! www.jobbnorge.no/en/available... Application deadline is August 7. Some tips for those interested from abroad in thread 👇

Come join us @ucdhumanities.bsky.social in early September for a conference on food and belonging. The event is free but registration is required. Megan Kuster & I will even be running a session involving seeded paper🙂 More details and draft programme here: www.ucd.ie/humanities/e...

Here's the CfP for the Critical Minerals Symposium (7 Nov '25, Dublin). Organised by @gigitang.bsky.social & Katie Donnelly (both in the UCD School of English, Drama & Film; Resident Scholars @ucdhumanities.bsky.social; and researchers on the Research Ireland @imperialminerals.bsky.social project)

Missed the Minerals roundtable series? Luckily we recorded all the sessions & the final two are now available! Listen to Roundtable III: Extraction & Forms of Representation with @nathankhensley.bsky.social @juliaditter.bsky.social Adelene Buckland & Charlotte Rogers: soundcloud.com/ucd-humaniti...

Intensive PhD course Ecocritical Theory: Literature, Culture and Environment www.uia.no/om-uia/fakul... At the University of Agder, Kristiansand, Norway, 26–28 November 2025. Can be taken as a 2 or 5 ECTS course. Registration open now. #envhum #ecocrit

Reminder: our final Minerals online roundtable will take place on Monday 28 April at 9am (Dublin). We have an early Irish start time to make it feasible for colleagues in Asia Pacific to join us, so please do! Look forward to seeing you on Monday Register👇 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/minerals-o...

Exhibition launch day! 🥳Lovely to start it with a great write up of the Casimir Markievicz show curated by me and @katymilligan.bsky.social in the @irishtimes.com today by @frankie49.bsky.social www.irishtimes.com/opinion/an-i...

A British right wing culture war magazine, The Critic, has published an attack on me for the objections I make to historical misinformation. Here’s my response: alanlester.co.uk/blog/a-lesse...

Our final online Minerals roundtable will explore extractivism and material histories on Monday 28 April, 9am (Dublin). Our fantastic line-up of speakers: Dr Madhavi Jha Dr Oliver Tappe Dr Nicholas Y. H. Wong Register here 👇 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/minerals-o...

We (mostly not me, just an ad hoc group I'm part of) are collecting all the information we can about ICE seizing students and academics here www.wearehighered.org/campus-abduc...

Excited to be a tiny part of Sarah’s incredible *Imperial Minerals* project — check it out if you haven’t yet

The third roundtable in the online Minerals series is just a week away! "Extraction and Forms of Representation" features a stellar line-up: Adelene Buckland, @juliaditter.bsky.social, Charlotte Rogers, @nathankhensley.bsky.social There's still time to register: www.eventbrite.ie/e/minerals-r...

Happy New Year from the Minerals team! The podcast recording for our second online roundtable on extraction and racial capitalism is now available: imperialminerals.ie/podcasts/ Featuring: Danielle Kinsey, Rebecca Macklin & Nick McGee and chaired by Gigi Tang. Have a listen—it's great! 👇

Minerals is hosting our second online roundtable, Thursday 21 November at 3pm (GMT). This sessions seeks to unravel the complex interplay between resource extraction, labour dynamics, and racial capitalism in both historical and literary contexts. Register www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/minerals-r...

If you missed our first online roundtable, you can now listen to the recording of it 🥳 You can find all our past event recordings on the podcast page of our website: imperialminerals.ie/podcasts/

With the recent mass Xodus & new followers, I'd like to invite you to some upcoming events. The @imperialminerals.bsky.social online roundtable series continues with session II on 'Extraction and Racial Capitalism' on Thursday 21 November at 3:30pm (GMT): www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/minerals-r...

Doing some final art prep for today’s Extracts Critical Theory/Creative Praxis reading group. This piece is inspired by Amy Maricle’s slow art journal prompts and is responding to Jeanine Oleson’s Crossed Wires. Join us for future sessions! extractivistlandscapes.com/extracts-rea...

Roundtable II in our 24/25 series will be on Thurs 21 November at 3pm (GMT): 'Extraction and Racial Capitalism' featuring: Dr Danielle Kinsey, Carleton University Dr Rebecca Macklin, University of Aberdeen Dr Nick McGee, Durham University Please register here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/minerals-r...

You can register for the roundtable here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/minerals-o...

A reminder that first roundtable in our online series for 24/25 is taking place this Thursday at 4:30pm (Dublin). Inviting a critical examination of the intersecting themes of extraction, infrastructure and networks in literature it’s speakers are: Dominic Davies, Nicola Kirkby & Aims McGuinness

Join us on 17 October for our first Minerals roundtable, 'Extraction, Infrastructures and Networks' in our online series for 24/25. Featuring: Dr Dominic Davies, Dr Nicola Kirkby, Assoc. Prof. Aims McGuinness. More details and to register👇 imperialminerals.ie/events/miner...

We are advertising for an Assistant Professorship in Modern British History at the University of Cambridge. This is a permanent post, starting October 2025. Please share widely! www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/48371/

New Minerals blog post by PhD student, Katie Donnelly, about her recent archival visit to Australia and New Zealand. In it Katie asks: How can the periodical form be used to trace the growth of mining literature for children? imperialminerals.ie/2024/09/23/i...

New Minerals blog post by postdoctoral fellow, Dr Gigi Tang on her research in Chinese petitions on the South African gold mines: imperialminerals.ie/2024/09/20/w...

Copies of my new book, Political Economy, arrived in the post and I was never going to pass up the opportunity to dress like my book. Published 🥳

Two new items up on Minerals website: The final seminar in our 'Methodologies concerning Extractivism' series by Dr Jarrod Hore (UNSW) is now available as a podcast: 'Earth Science from the Geological South' soundcloud.com/ucd-humaniti...

Political Economy is almost here and I have a discount code to share. Use Code AFLY02 and flyer with further info attached :)

The launch of the Minerals Wiki is getting close! Would you look at all those texts just waiting for you to explore. So many categories to use for cross-comparison too. I can't fully describe how much work has gone into formulating and designing this wiki for ease of use, but our excitement is huge!