On Thursday 23/04, the exhibition "The Foragers", curated by Gosie Vervloesem, will open at Pilar, on the VUB campus. It will showcase the work of young, emerging artists engaging beyond the human. Come and have a look! tinyurl.com/3meuz7jd

The second season of our podcast 'Foraging' is on. We will shed light on artists taking part to the exhibition "The Foragers", which will open on 23 April at Pilar. Listen here to the first episode: "A Forest that Answers Back" 🌱 👇 ercforagency.eu/index.php/20...

We are thrilled to welcome our colleagues J-M. Nduwayo, M. Nduwayezu, V. Nseyingumva & A. Havyarimana for one month @shoc-vub.bsky.social - objective: furthering our collaboration and writing three joint papers! 💪

The Foragers #4: film screening Neptune Frost (2021), 11 Feb. 2026, 7 PM, Cinema RITCS, Brussels tinyurl.com/3jb9ubte

We finish 2025 in beauty with the publication of PhD candidate Thijs Costers' first article 🥳 "Banana beer in Belgian Burundi: a social metabolist history of intoxication (1916–1962)" is now available in OA in the Journal of Eastern African Studies tinyurl.com/2xdnnjnd

Banana beer in Belgian Burundi: a social metabolist history of intoxication (1916–1962)

This paper traces the ways in which colonisation transformed banana beer in Burundi. Through the framework of energy circulations, inspired by eco-Marxists such as Fischer-Kowalski, it analyses how...

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On Dec 3, at 5PM Eastern Time, Benoît Henriet will present his research on locust invasions in colonial Burundi at the Inst of Afr Studies of Columbia University. Registration and information here 👉 ias.columbia.edu/events/inter...

The Foragers #2: Preview Screening 'Summer Grass, Winter Worm', of Matjaz Pinter, BoZar, Brussels, 12 Nov. 7 PM. Details and registration here: tinyurl.com/3ntntw5b

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

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 👇

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 tinyurl.com/3xkbcvmb

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 tinyurl.com/3vmsmt6m

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!

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!

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!

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!

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!

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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!

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! shoc.research.vub.be/en/shoc-coll...

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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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...

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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 tinyurl.com/m2jhdh3h

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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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 open.spotify.com/episode/0CoB...

Foraging Episode 1.03 Emelien Devos on multispecies anthropology

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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 ercforagency.eu/index.php/20...

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

The first episode of our podcast is out! Tune in to listen to Diogo Cabral on MTH history, leafcutting ants in the Amazon, the activist nature of #envhist and on the edited volume MTH histories of Latin America and the Carribbean ercforagency.eu/index.php/20...

Episode 1.01. Diogo De Carvhalo Cabral on history beyond the human

For the first episode of Foraging, we hosted Prof. Diogo de Carvhalo Cabral, of Trinity College Dublin. Diogo is a fascinating voice in more-than-human history. His groundbreaking research on the...

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We are thrilled to announce the publication of the first season of "Foraging. A podcast in Environmental Humanities" 🌱: 4 in-depth interviews with historians and anthropologists on their work, methods, inspirations ercforagency.eu/index.php/20...

The call for individual papers for #ECAS2025 is now open! Do not hesitate to submit your proposal for the two panels co-organised by FORAGENCY team members 👇 www.ecasconference.org/2025/

A year into the project, FORAGENCY has welcomed three new team members, you can get to know them better here: ercforagency.eu/index.php/20...

We are now halfway in our second Burundian fieldwork. Here is a quick recap of what we did so far 👇

The FORAGENCY team is back in the field - 4 weeks of data collection in Burundi. Updates coming soon!

We recently welcomed the teams of 4 other #ERCStG in #envhum & #Africanstudies. It was a great opportunity to get to know each other's work better, and to discuss in depth our sources, methods & objectives. Please find below a short intro to those projects ⬇️