May 6, 2025 | Category: Final Conference
Cristóbal Bonelli
Final Conference – Worlds of Lithium: After Replacements / Transforming Transitions
🗓️ June 12–13, 2025
📍 University Library, University of Amsterdam
📌 Registration
Main Conference (June 12–13): Register here
SPUI25 Roundtable: Register at SPUI25
What kinds of transformations unfold as lithium travels—across continents, deserts, laboratories, financial dreams, and fractured ecologies?
For the past five years, Worlds of Lithium has followed these travels, not to draw a global map of supply chains, but to attend to the places they disturb, animate, and reconfigure.
From the mining territories of northern Chile to the industrial and urban landscapes of China and the experimental infrastructures of Norway, the project has explored how strategies to decarbonize transport do not simply take place—they make place, bringing into contact heterogeneous worlds, temporalities, and ways of knowing.
This final conference marks the end of a collective experiment in tracing how energy transitions are lived—not as smooth technical replacements, but as contested and uneven reorganizations of life.
Titled After Replacements / Transforming Transitions, the event opens a space for reflecting on what endures, what resists, and what quietly insists amid planetary change.
Keynote Speakers
Gabrielle Hecht – Stanford University
Andrew Barry – University College London
Mario Blaser – Memorial University
David Tyfield – Lancaster University
Public Roundtable at SPUI25
Bipolar Transitions: Situated Worlds, Uneven Futures
🗓️ June 12, 20:00 – SPUI25, Amsterdam
Transitions don’t simply replace one system with another. They fracture, pulse, and recombine. They unfold through unstable humors—manic drives to electrify and decarbonize entangled with melancholic residues of depletion, loss, and exhaustion.
This roundtable introduces the concept of bipolar transitions to name the affective and material instabilities of our climate moment.
From lithium-rich deserts to electrified megacities, we ask: how do transitions reorganize not just energy systems, but worlds? And how do we stay with what resists conversion, with what endures unevenly?
🔗 Free but registration required – Register at SPUI25
📌 Registration
Main Conference (June 12–13): Register here
