Ele Carpenter contributed to the workshop on 'Deconstructing acceptance – Siting radioactive waste repositories from societal and scientific perspectives' organized by the Environmental Policy Research Centre, FU Berlin, in the framework of the ENTRIA project (Disposal Options for Radioactive Residues: Interdisciplinary Analyses and Development of Evaluation Principles).

The Nuclear Culture Research Group is an interdisciplinary group of artists, curators and scholars in the nuclear arts and humanities within and connected through Goldsmiths College, University of London. The group is part of the Nuclear Culture research project to develop artistic and curatorial enquiry into nuclear culture in the UK and internationally led by Ele Carpenter in partnership with The Arts Catalyst.

The Sonic Arts Festival in Amsterdam, Netherlands, explored the Geologic Imagination, and included a conference on the impact of the anthropocene considered through speculative and non-human centered thinking about the deep time of the future 26 Feb - 1 March 2015.
http://www.sonicacts.com/2015/conference

Constructing Memory (Construire la mémoire). An International Conference and Debate on the Preservation of Records, Knowledge and Memory (RK&M) of Radioactive Waste across Generations took place at the Centre Mondial de la Paix, Verdun, France, 15-17 September 2014.