Mining lives and relations, reflecting on Boom2Dust’s first workshop in Africa

On 23 and 24 June 2025 the members of the Boom2Dust Project, Prof. dr. Jan-Bart Gewald, Maaike Rozema and Walker Swindell hosted the project’s first workshop in Africa titled “Mining Lives and Relations.” The latest Boom2Dust blog post is an overview of the event as well as a reflection on the papers that were presented and how they contributed to this project on the multi-species history of mining in southern Africa. The workshop was held in the Lady Oppenheimer Hall at the McGregor Museum in the city of Kimberley, South Africa.

Read the full blog here.