BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//NextToU//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VEVENT UID:f5c62cfa-0297-4ec4-851d-edbb05762a55@nexttoyou DTSTAMP:20261106T175410Z DTSTART:20261120T213000Z DTEND:20261120T223000Z SUMMARY:Living Minerals: Nature\, Trade and Power in the Race for Lithium LOCATION:Bolivar House\, 582 Alvarado Row\, Stanford\, CA 94305 DESCRIPTION:Lithium has been described as ‘white gold’\, the next oil\, or a kind of savior from climate change. Consumers are buying electric vehi cles with lithium-ion batteries motivated by the belief that they are doi ng good and decarbonizing society. But\, is there any truth in these big claims? Is sustainable lithium extraction possible? In Living Minerals\, Javiera Barandiarán examines the history of lithium mining and uses durin g the 20th century to understand the current mining boom and why the rush to mine more lithium is unlikely to resolve climate change unless some k ind of sustainable trade is developed.\n\nLivestream Link\n\nJaviera Bara ndiaran is Professor and department chair in Global Studies at the Univer sity of California\, Santa Barbara and director of the CREW Center for Re storative Environmental Work. She received her PhD at UC Berkeley in Envi ronmental Science\, Policy and Management and a Masters in Public Policy also from Berkeley\, and completed her undergraduate studies in Politics at the University of Edinburgh. Her research explores the intersection of science\, environment\, and development in Latin America. Her books incl ude Living Minerals: Nature\, Trade and Power in the Race for Lithium and Science and Environment in Chile: The Politics of Expert Advice in a Neo liberal Democracy\, both with MIT Press. She has two collaboratively auth ored books that explore environmental aspects of Chile's 2022 constitutio nal reform effort\, one with Palgrave called Demanding a Radical Co\n\nht tp://next-to-u.app/events/f5c62cfa-0297-4ec4-851d-edbb05762a55 URL:http://next-to-u.app/events/f5c62cfa-0297-4ec4-851d-edbb05762a55 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR