I was funded by the minerals project to visit Museum Africa to consult its fascinating postcard collections on SA’s extractive histories. The postcards discussed in this article offer a glimpse into how this highly commercial medium shaped global perceptions of mining capitalism and abstract labor.
Read @gigitang.bsky.social reflection on the brilliant Critical Minerals symposium she & Katie Donnelly organised for the Minerals project. The symposium was generously supported by UCD College of Arts & Humanities seed funding & @ucdhumanities.bsky.social imperialminerals.ie/2025/12/19/c...
We're also happy to announce the Research Seminars in Photographic Cultures and Heritage, which start on 30 October, 5.30 pm with none other than Martha Langford! The seminars are all free and online, and you can register here: photographichistory.wordpress.com/2025/10/05/r... #photohist
The BAVS 2026 Annual Conference CfP is now live: victorianist.wordpress.com/2025/10/20/c...
We hope you can join us in Liverpool next year!
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One of my proudest essays to date is finally out! A text that would have helped me tremendously as a grad student: "The Political Economy of Museums" - ideal for anyone beginning to research this topic.
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📢Registration is OPEN! Join us at UCD on 7 Nov for the Critical Minerals Symposium – insights & networking all in one place! Register here: www.eventbrite.com/e/critical-m...
📢 Deadline Extended!
We’ve received requests for late submissions, so the deadline for the Critical Minerals Symposium has been extended until 31 August.
Inspiring abstracts are already coming in from across the globe. Don’t miss the chance to add your voice to the conversation!
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!
⏱️TWO MORE WEEKS to submit your abstract to our critical minerals symposium!!!
📢 Call for Papers!
Katie Donnelly and I are organising an interdisciplinary symposium on Critical Minerals.
🗓️ Deadline: 15 August
📍 University College Dublin @ 7 November 2025
Please share widely! #CFP #CriticalMinerals #EnvironmentalHumanities
#ThresholdOfKnowledge
#TransnationalisingHumanities
A real pleasure chairing the Minerals Roundtable series and engaging with the incredible research shared by our speakers - thank you so much for your contribution!
If you missed it, the sessions are now available as a podcast - tune in and let us know what you think!
you guys @sarahcomyn.bsky.social has developed an absolutely incredible research center on extractive practices & cultural production the C19 British world system, a model for comprehensive sociopolitical and aesthetic analysis— if you haven't checked it out, do:
imperialminerals.ie/about/
The coming Monday at 9 am!
Book cover: Camera Geologica: an elemental history of photography, Siobhan Angus
I just finished this by @siobhanangus.bsky.social, please all read it so we can talk about it. It's insightful and thought provoking and hits many of my interests (material-led histories of media, science, exploration and extraction). Now mentally curating the exhibition of the book...
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...
Looking forward to meeting our speakers and hearing their research on extractivism and material histories! The last three roundtables in this series were incredibly insightful—if you missed them and are interested, the recordings of the first two are available now on the Minerals Project website!
I'm thrilled to say that to celebrate the launch of my new book, I'll be doing two events in the DC area later this month:
Thurs, 4/24, 6 pm @ People's Book, Takoma Park / @peoplesbooktakoma.com
Sun, 4/27, 3 pm (w/ novelist Rabih Alameddine). Politics & Prose, DC / @politicsprose.bsky.social
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Book cover of Tales Things Tell: Material Histories of Early Globalisms by Finbarr Barry Flood and Beate Fricke.
Tales Things Tell: Material Histories of Early Globalisms
by Finbarr Barry Flood and Beate Fricke is the Winner of the International Center of Medieval Art Book Prize!
Learn more about this beautifully illustrated book: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
Job vacancy! We are looking for an Outreach Programme Manager (maternity cover). Email library.spec.coll.ed@ucl.ac.uk for the full job description. Please share with your networks! jobs.guidantglobal.com/job/outreach...
🦌It‘s TODAY!!!
In two week’s time! Our third minerals roundtable on April 7 at 3 am Dublin time! Online!
So delighted to witness my senior colleagues deep investment in the principles of EDI. Ever grateful for the support and the kind words too. @nlireland.bsky.social
Name and role: Kirstin Mills, General Editor Research Interests: the Gothic, long-nineteenth-century literature, adaptation studies, literature and science, folklore and the supernatural Who you'd like to hear from: If you work on anything to do with the nineteenth century, whatever that means to you, I want to hear from you! This journal takes a fresh approach - international, interdisciplinary and intertemporal - to broaden nineteenth-century studies and bring traditionally siloed fields together through articles, forums, practica, and reviews of books, exhibitions, recordings and more. Get in touch!
Today, we're delighted to introduce the next member of our Editorial team here at Advances in Nineteenth-Century Research:
General Editor, Kirstin Mills, from Macquarie University Australia 📚
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Please write to me on tapasyanarang1@gmail.com to RSVP
Join our online roundtable on April 7th and explore how literature, art, and more represent the stories of extraction with experts!!
Truly enjoyed the fabulous discussion, with a lot of take ways; excited to share that the podcast recording is now available!
DEADLINE EXTENDED to January 14th!!
Call for Writing Support Programme 2025 – @esehnextgate.bsky.social
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First read of the new year is this excellent little volume, which uncovers the debates and arguments that accompanied the emergence of the word ‘Capitalism’. Wishing you all a year of good books and much reading.
