Come listen online to four Palestinian scholars discuss the Nakba in light of ongoing war and destruction. Tomorrow. Registration link here: www.ghscn.org/events

The Nakba after Genocide—a panel organized by the Genocide and Holocaust Studies Crisis Network. Tuesday, April 7.

Interview in Frontaal, het ledenblad van het Gents MilieuFront, over ecologische rouw – en over hoe we woorden en vormen kunnen vinden voor wat het verlies van soorten, landschappen en leefwerelden met ons doet.

👉 Lees het volledige nummer hier: drive.google.com/file/d/137Ho...

Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio) YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.

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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...

New Special Issue!

New Special Issue on Eco-emotions from guest editors
Mihaela Mihai and Danielle Celermajer.

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It’s been a tough year for the world, and the next may not be gentler. Still, we walk on. Warm wishes for 2026. ✨👣

‘De universiteit is geen toeschouwer: over biodiversiteitsverlies, ecologische rouw en samenwerking met activisten’ - ScienceGuide Hoogleraar Stef Craps (Universiteit Gent) legt uit waarom hij als academicus samenwerkt met XR-activisten.

"Geen activistische ontsporing van de universiteit, maar het opnemen van haar publieke verantwoordelijkheid": opiniestuk over biodiversiteitsverlies, ecologische rouw en de rol van academici in tijden van ecologische crisis, n.a.v. ons Boekentoren-evenement rond Remembrance Day for Lost Species.

Huge thanks to all our contributors for their thoughtful and innovative work – and special thanks to my co-editors and our editorial assistant Marion De Schepper for making this such a rewarding collaboration. (5/5)

This special issue grew out of conversations within the Slow Memory COST Action, whose support we gratefully acknowledge. Almost half of the articles, including the introduction, are Open Access. (4/5)

the contributions explore how environmental loss is registered, mediated, and remembered across human and more-than-human scales – from slow violence and deep time to ecological grief, material and aesthetic witnessing, and questions of responsibility and justice. (3/5)

The issue brings together scholars and artists working at the intersection of memory studies, the environmental humanities, and museum and media studies to rethink witnessing in the age of climate breakdown. Building on and extending trauma and testimony theory, (2/5)

📢 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)

Lost Lost trapt op zondag 30 november het drieluik Lost and Found – Caring for What Is (about to Disappear) af met een rituele optocht van De Krook naar de Boekentoren, gevolgd door een ingetogen performan...

It captures the atmosphere, meaning, and intent of the event far better than words alone ever could. Please watch – and feel free to share. 🌍💔🌱

More info: boekentoren.gent/nl/artikels/... 3/3

It was a moment of collective reflection, mourning, and care – for lives and worlds already lost, and for those currently under threat.

I'm very glad we now have this exquisite after-movie, created by Muriel Grégoire and narrated by Emilie Hermans and yours truly. 2/3

Lost (EN subtitled) Lost marks the opening of the triptych Lost and Found – Caring for What Is (about to Disappear), in which the Boekentoren brings together ecology…

A few weeks ago, we marked #LostSpeciesDay with a beautiful and moving event: a silent procession from De Krook to the Boekentoren, led by the Red Rebels and Earth Rebels of Extinction Rebellion, ending in an intimate performance in the university library’s reading room. vimeo.com/1146898823 1/3

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

💡 Alle antwoorden op vraag van Beste-ID: www.beste-id.nl/jaarlijkse-v...
📰 NRC-selectie: www.stefcraps.com/wp-content/u...
👉 Mijn antwoord: www.beste-id.nl/jaarlijkse-v...
🦤 Remembrance Day for Lost Species event info: boekentoren.gent/nl/artikels/...
🌹 CJfR: www.climatejusticeforrosa.org (2/2)

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)

Happy Thanksgiving to all who celebrate!

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/...

Het bestaat echt: rouwen om natuur die verloren gaat. ‘Dit moet uit de taboesfeer’ Ben je weleens verdrietig over de huismussen of merels die uit jouw buurt zijn verdwenen? Bezorgd over al het zwerfafval in de natuur? Of heb je heimwee naar de winters met sneeuw en ijspret? Dan ben ...

Blij dat het Nederlands Dagblad vandaag aandacht besteedt aan ecologische rouw, en dat ik iets mocht vertellen over de trage, vaak onzichtbare verliezen waar zoveel mensen mee worstelen, alsook over het belang van gedeelde taal en rituelen.

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

The Genocide and Holocaust Studies Crisis Network invites you to an online panel: "Denying Genocide: Comparative Reflections from Armenia, Bosnia, the Holocaust, and Palestine."

Register for this November 17 event here: wakeforest-university.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

I Am Your King - Monty Python And The Holy Grail. Remastered [HD] YouTube video by The Channel That Can't Take Anything Seriously

#NoKings

Opinion | The U.S. Denounces Her. Multinationals Threaten Her. She Likes Her Odds.

In which I talk with the woman who won't shut up (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/o...

Arts of Memory and Mourning in the Anthropocene: Masterclass and Lecture with Prof. Stef Craps - Netherlands Research School for Literary Studies (OSL) Professor Stef Craps (Ghent University) will visit Radboud University Nijmegen on 4–5 November 2025 to give a masterclass for PhD and ReMA students and a public lecture followed by a roundtable. The e...

Looking forward to giving a lecture and masterclass and joining a roundtable on memory, mourning, and the Anthropocene at Radboud University Nijmegen on 4–5 November. Details here: www.oslit.nl/arts-of-memo....

ABSTRACT Focusing on British artist Marcus Coates’s Apology to the Great Auk, a short film documenting an official apology to an extinct bird, this article explores the possibility and desirability of political apologies for anthropogenic species extinction. While the apology presented in the film fails to meet key criteria, it nonetheless offers something of political value. Coates’s work constitutes an audacious and innovative attempt to leverage ecological grief and guilt to counteract dominant discourses that devalue more-than-human life; to redraw the boundaries of the moral, legal, and political community; and to imagine a future of multispecies flourishing. By interpreting Apology to the Great Auk through the lenses of environmental transitional justice, bad environmentalism, and ecological prefiguration, the article demonstrates its potential as an artistic project, and the potential of ecological apologies more generally, to help us think and work towards care, justice, and moral repair beyond the human.

New article from @stefcraps.com!

Ecological apologies: reckoning with grief, guilt, and multispecies justice.

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Trump delivers dumbest climate speech of all time The president's easily-debunked 10-minute climate tirade at the U.N. was so stupid and unoriginal, it was actually kind of funny.

The neatest and most hilarious debunking of Trump's climate disinformation you'll see this week, courtesy of @emorwee.bsky.social 😎

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