FORAGENCY
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ERC Starting Grant FORAGENCY. Foraging, Colonialism and More-than-Human Agency in Central Africa
Social History of Capitalism Research Group (SHOC) @shoc-vub.bsky.social
Vrije Universiteit Brussel
For more info, check our website: www.ercforagency.eu
Social History of Capitalism Research Group (SHOC) @shoc-vub.bsky.social
Vrije Universiteit Brussel
For more info, check our website: www.ercforagency.eu
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...
An Interspecies Contact Zone: Locusts and Humans in Colonial Burundi | Institute of African Studies
An Interspecies Contact Zone: Locusts and Humans in Colonial Burundi (1924-1939) – Benoit Henriet Columbia University Seminars: Studies in Contemporary Africa Date: December 3, 5:00 PM Location: Facu...
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November 11, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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
Details and registration here: tinyurl.com/3ntntw5b
October 29, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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
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
October 8, 2025 at 7:59 AM
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 👇
September 22, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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
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September 22, 2025 at 7:49 AM
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
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
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Out now: “Weaving the Future”, FORAGENCY’s first publication – FORAGENCY
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June 17, 2025 at 5:31 AM
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
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!
May 27, 2025 at 6:21 AM
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!
April 22, 2025 at 7:00 AM
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!
March 24, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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!
February 12, 2025 at 9:42 AM
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!
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!
February 10, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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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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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January 28, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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.research.vub.be/en/shoc-coll...
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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January 29, 2025 at 4:35 AM
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...
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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January 23, 2025 at 10:12 AM
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
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
Foraging: a podcast in environmental humanities · Episode
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December 17, 2024 at 7:50 AM
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...
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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December 10, 2024 at 6:17 PM
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...
open.spotify.com/episode/0CoB...
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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December 2, 2024 at 3:02 PM
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...
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
December 2, 2024 at 12:17 PM
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
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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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November 25, 2024 at 6:40 PM
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...
ercforagency.eu/index.php/20...
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
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Introducing Foraging: a podcast in environmental humanities – FORAGENCY
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November 19, 2024 at 9:36 AM
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...
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 👇
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Home - ECAS 2025
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November 18, 2024 at 8:59 AM
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/
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...
FORAGENCY welcomes new team members – FORAGENCY
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November 14, 2024 at 12:23 PM
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 👇
October 21, 2024 at 6:32 AM
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!
October 6, 2024 at 6:28 PM
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 ⬇️
October 3, 2024 at 8:46 AM
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 ⬇️