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FORAGENCY @foragency.bsky.social · 10h

A view from Poklujka in Slovenia, where Alice Vittoria has attended the 'Foraging Futures' symposium organised by the 'Foraging at the edges of capitalism' team. More info on thisgreat project here: foraging.work

FORAGENCY @foragency.bsky.social · 16d

Booking (8-4€) via Cinema RITCS: www.cinemaritcs.be/production/u... 🎥🍄

Up on the Mountain (2022) – Olivier Matthon – Cinema Ritcs

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FORAGENCY @foragency.bsky.social · 16d

"Up on the Mountain follows 3 groups of commercial mushroom pickers as they travel on the “mushroom circuit”—a year-round migration that can take them anywhere from Alaska to California, Washington, Oregon, Montana, Idaho, and Wyoming—to harvest wild mushrooms from public forests."

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FORAGENCY @foragency.bsky.social · 16d

The Foragers #1: Film screening, Up on the Mountain (dir. O. Mathon & M. Reis, 2022). Cinema RITCS, Brussels 21 Sept, 7 PM. followed by a discussion with O. Mathon and FORAGENCY members B. Henriet & A. Vittoria. Synopsis of the doc 👇

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FORAGENCY @foragency.bsky.social · 16d

The program will culminate with an exhibition at PILAR (tinyurl.com/58p4kemh) in May-June 26. In the coming months, we will organise talks, lectures, screenings and performances. Stay tuned, more details coming... very soon!

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FORAGENCY @foragency.bsky.social · 16d

We are thrilled to officially launch "The Foragers: Engagements Beyond the Human", an arts-sciences crossover which will run from October 25 until late 27
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FORAGENCY @foragency.bsky.social · Jun 17

This is the next-to-last chapter of the edited volume "Textures of Power. Central Africa in the Long 20th Century", a groundbreaking, multidisciplinary and longue durée overview of current research across African studies. Also available in print and OA: tinyurl.com/236xydsj 🤓

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FORAGENCY @foragency.bsky.social · Jun 17

FORAGENCY's first publication is out! In "Weaving the Future", Etienne Gontard studies duikers hides trade in French Equatorial Africa from a multispecies vantage point. Available in print and in OA
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Out now: “Weaving the Future”, FORAGENCY’s first publication – FORAGENCY

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FORAGENCY @foragency.bsky.social · May 27

The garden of the National Archives of the R. of Congo 🌱 The FORAGENCY historians now plough through the records of the Gouvernement Général of French Equatorial Africa. So far, stories arose on food shortages, intoxication along the railway and tensions in the logging industry, more soon!

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FORAGENCY @foragency.bsky.social · Apr 22

You can learn more about Alice's project here: ercforagency.eu/index.php/cu...

Curative Uses of the Environment – FORAGENCY

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FORAGENCY @foragency.bsky.social · Apr 22

Alice Vittoria, FORAGENCY's postdoc anthropologist working on plants/humans relations in care and healing, has just started a 2 1/2 months fieldwork in the North of the Republic of Congo. Looking forward to sharing her insights and findings in the coming months!

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FORAGENCY @foragency.bsky.social · Mar 24

Basel on a sunny-ish, early Spring morning - thank you so much to the colleagues of Universität Basel for the invitation to take part to the African History seminar, very grateful for their thought provoking questions and comments!

FORAGENCY @foragency.bsky.social · Feb 12

Welcome to Bsky to our great colleagues of @cattlefrontiers.bsky.social a fascinating #ERCStG on cattle and commodity frontiers in sub-Saharan Africa and Madagascar. Do not hesitate to follow them!

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FORAGENCY @foragency.bsky.social · Feb 10

On 20 Feb (10-12 AM CET) Benoît Henriet will present his ongoing research on locust invasions in colonial Burundi in UGent's lecture series in African and global history. Very grateful to @samuelcoghe.bsky.social and to our wonderful colleagues from UGent for the kind invitation!

Samuël Coghe @samuelcoghe.bsky.social · Feb 7

Very happy to announce our programme for the Lecture Series in African and Global History, Second Term 2024-25, at Ghent University. Abstracts can be found at ecc.ugent.be/activities/. All talks only in presence. Thank you @n-klimenko.bsky.social for the wonderful poster!

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SHOC VUB @shoc-vub.bsky.social · Jan 28

We are delighted to announce that SHOC colleague Benoît Henriet has been appointed as the new chairholder for the Chair Casterman-Hamers: History and Philosophy of Sciences (2025-2027)! We look forward to communicating about the programme linked to this!

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SHOC colleague Benoît Henriet appointed as chairholder of the Chair

From 2025-2027, Benoît Henriet, Associate Professor of History at VUB and member of our research group SHOC, has been appointed as the new chairholder for the Chair Casterman-Hamers: History and

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FORAGENCY @foragency.bsky.social · Jan 29

Wed 29/01, at 2 PM, B. Henriet & E. Gontard: panel 2 "Colonialism, Environment and Territoriality". Fri 31/01: A. Vittoria panel 7 "Embodied Memory and Postcolonial Mobility", 11.15 AM, and T. Costers: panel 8 "Shifting Labour and Social Identities", 2 PM. All hours GMT +4

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FORAGENCY @foragency.bsky.social · Jan 29

The FORAGENCY team is attending the 6th Congo Research Network Conference, hosted by the Africa Institute in Sharjah. You can follow the presentations online here: www.theafricainstitute.org/institute-pr...

Congolese Horizons: Weaving Temporalities in Congo Studies - theafricainstitute

African Institute

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FORAGENCY @foragency.bsky.social · Jan 23

We are thrilled to welcome Prof. Tim Ingold on 3 March, for a lecture titled "Manifesto for a New Humanism" + a discussion with our very own Alice Vittoria! Attendance is free, but registration mandatory, feel free to come and spread the word! @shoc-vub.bsky.social
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Lecture by Prof. dr. Tim Ingold: Manifesto for a New Humanism, VUB, 3 March 2025, 6-8 PM – FORAGENCY

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FORAGENCY @foragency.bsky.social · Dec 17

"Foraging" will come back soon for a second season, with a new format, theme and participants... We will keep you posted, and are already grateful to all of you who dropped in to listen to our first four episodes! 🙏

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FORAGENCY @foragency.bsky.social · Dec 17

For more information on AFREXTRACT, please visit their website: www.rug.nl/research/ico...

AFREXTRACT

Resource extraction industries on the African continent have experienced an immense boom during the 20th century, leaving drastic environmental changes...

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FORAGENCY @foragency.bsky.social · Dec 17

The final episode of Foraging's first season is out! Tune it to listen to Iva Pesa talking about pollution, belonging in toxic places, and her exciting ERC project, AFREXTRACT open.spotify.com/episode/2sBg...

Episode 1.04 Iva Peša on the histories of pollution

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FORAGENCY @foragency.bsky.social · Dec 10

The 3rd episode of Foraging is out! Tune in to listen to anthropologist Emelien Devos talk about elephant trails, the challenges of multispecies anthropology and the meanings of « healthiness » in Tanzania

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Foraging Episode 1.03 Emelien Devos on multispecies anthropology

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FORAGENCY @foragency.bsky.social · Dec 2

The second episode of 'Foraging' is out! Tune in to listen to Prof. Kwame Edwin Otu talk about (e-)waste, queerness, positionality and the potential for personal emancipation in ethnography
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Foraging episode 1.02 Kwame Edwin Otu on the queerness of waste – FORAGENCY

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FORAGENCY @foragency.bsky.social · Dec 2

Our research group @shoc-vub.bsky.social (Social History of Capitalism) has just joined BlueSky 🤗. You can follow us for research on capitalism in the longue durée and its manifold impacts on humans, non-humans, social structures, bodies and infrastructures

FORAGENCY @foragency.bsky.social · Nov 25

This edited volume is a true goldmine for anyone interested in the environmental guises of (post)colonialism:
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More-than-Human Histories of Latin America and the Caribbean

A consideration of other-than-human elements defining history in Latin America and the Caribbean. The Latin American and Caribbean regions’ historical trajectories have been shaped by complex human-no...

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