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Stef Craps 🕊️
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Professor of English Literature at UGent | Memory & trauma studies, ecocriticism & environmental humanities, postcolonial & decolonial theory | How stories help us live with loss & imagine better futures | Born at 335 ppm | He/him/his | www.stefcraps.com
A conversation on academia and activism in a time of overlapping crises

🗓️ Fri 30 Jan, 10:00–12:00 | 📍 Ghent University, Campus Coupure, Building A, Room A1.1 Hop
🎓 With Jimmy Spire Ssentongo and Stef Craps

All are welcome – more info and registration via event.ugent.be/registration...
January 14, 2026 at 7:04 PM
It’s been a tough year for the world, and the next may not be gentler. Still, we walk on. Warm wishes for 2026. ✨👣
December 31, 2025 at 4:45 PM
📢 I’m delighted to share the publication of Climate Witnessing, a special issue of Memory Studies Review that I’ve guest-edited together with Rick Crownshaw and Rebecca Dolgoy.
🔗 TOC: brill.com/view/journal...
🔗 Introduction (Open Access): brill.com/view/journal... (1/5)
December 17, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Tonight, Ghent University’s iconic Boekentoren is lit in red to mark Remembrance Day for Lost Species — a quiet gesture honouring what’s already gone, and signalling vigilance for all that is under threat today. #LostSpeciesDay
November 30, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Mijn opiniestuk “Klimaatrouw als voorwaarde voor verandering” staat in NRC - mét illustratie van Kamagurka. Ik pleit voor een affectieve transitie: ecologische emoties zijn geen rem op klimaatactie maar een hefboom die de kloof tussen weten en leven verkleint. (1/2)
November 29, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Happy Thanksgiving to all who celebrate!
November 27, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Op 30 november markeren we in en om de Gentse Boekentoren de Remembrance Day for Lost Species – een ritueel moment om stille verdwijningen en ecologische rouw zichtbaar te maken in het publieke domein. 🌍💔
Meer info: boekentoren.gent/nl/artikels/...
November 18, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Van harte welkom op "Lost and Found – Caring for What Is (about to Disappear)", een cultureel drieluik over erfgoed en ecologie in de Boekentoren. 📚🌿

Op 30/11 – Lost Species Day – starten we met een rituele optocht en performance. Iedereen kan aansluiten.

Meer info: boekentoren.gent/lostandfound
November 16, 2025 at 4:26 PM
October 5, 2025 at 10:08 AM
RIP Jonathan Lear. Few philosophers have spoken so eloquently about mourning: not as an end point, but as a space in which radical hope might emerge. His voice will be missed, but his vision of resilience in the face of devastation remains with us.
September 24, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Can we meaningfully apologize for driving species to extinction? This newly published article explores how ecological apologies might open pathways towards care, justice, and moral repair beyond the human.
September 16, 2025 at 8:45 PM
August 8, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Gaza screams. The world scrolls.
July 22, 2025 at 3:51 PM
June 17, 2025 at 9:45 PM
📣 Publication alert!

Honoured to have joined Cathy Caruth, Marianne Hirsch, Jill Jarvis, and Ann Rigney for a pandemic-era roundtable on literature and memory - now published in The Palgrave Handbook of Literary Memory Studies, edited by Lucy Bond, Susannah Radstone, and Jessica Rapson. (1/2)
May 26, 2025 at 6:53 PM
"No Shakespeare yet, but here's another copy of 'Art of the Deal'." #InfiniteMonkeyTheorem 😂
May 26, 2025 at 5:03 AM
"The best lack all conviction, while the worst / Are full of passionate intensity."
May 25, 2025 at 7:30 PM
April 9, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Climate leader and soon-to-be UGent honorary doctor Christiana Figueres in conversation with students and staff! 💚🌎
March 20, 2025 at 10:19 PM
“‘We Are Witnessing a New Brain Drain’ as Scientists Flee America for France” gizmodo.com/we-are-witne...
March 15, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Gunter Demnig, initiator of the Stolpersteine project commemorating victims of Nazism, is receiving an honorary doctorate from UGent. On 20 March 2025, the Faculty of Arts and Philosophy will be hosting a public event featuring an interview with Demnig. RSVP here: event.ugent.be/registration....
March 11, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Hartelijk dank aan directeur Siemco Louwerse en medewerker internationalisering @joepjanssen.com voor de warme ontvangst en de inspirerende gesprekken! #ClimateJusticeForRosa 🌹 5/5
March 2, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Gezien onze gedeelde focus op het herdenken van overstromingsslachtoffers en het trekken van lessen voor de toekomst, voelen we ons natuurlijke partners. Tijdens ons bezoek hebben we mooie plannen gesmeed voor verdere samenwerking. 4/5
March 2, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Onze vzw streeft er op haar beurt naar effectieve en rechtvaardige klimaatactie te bevorderen door de herinnering levend te houden aan de slachtoffers van de overstromingen in Europa in de zomer van 2021 en klimaatrampen elders in de wereld. 3/5
March 2, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Dit indrukwekkende museum is gevestigd in de enorme caissons die werden gebruikt om het laatste dijkgat te sluiten na de watersnoodramp van 1953. Het bewaart de herinnering aan deze ramp, eert de slachtoffers en zet zich in voor waterveiligheid en bewustwording rond klimaatverandering. 2/5
March 2, 2025 at 3:14 PM