Critical Minerals Symposium
Date: Friday, 7 November 2025
Time: TBC
Venue: Humanities Institute (H204 / top floor)
Recent geopolitical contestations over Ukraine’s rare earths, global debates on ‘critical’ minerals in the context of green energy transitions, and growing scholarly engagement – such as Museum and Society’s recent special issue on minerals – have all highlighted the ethical, political, and environmental stakes of minerals.
This one-day, interdisciplinary symposium addresses these urgent concerns by bringing together scholars and professionals from the humanities, social sciences, arts, and museums to examine minerals as political and cultural agents.
By fostering interdisciplinary dialogue, this symposium aims to deepen the understanding of the geopolitical and environmental consequences of minerals, and to encourage more sustainable and ethical perspectives on the mineral foundations of our modern life.
Please contact the symposium co-organisers (opens in a new window)Dr Gigi Tang or (opens in a new window)Katie Donnelly for further information.
Event co-sponsored by the UCD Humanities Institute.