Call for papers: 'Beyond the Blue: Interdisciplinary Explorations of Water in Africa'. A conference organised by the Netherlands Association for African Studies (NVAS) in Delft on 11-12 September 2026! Join us and send in your abstract: www.afrikastudies.nl #envhum #envhist #AfricanStudies

Extremely excited to announce the AFREXTRACT conference 'Rethinking Environmentalism: Perspectives from Africa' 17-18 September 2026 in Groningen! If you study environmental thought, activism, and environmental lifeworlds anywhere in Africa, please send us your abstract! www.rug.nl/research/ico...

Join us for a book talk of African Climate Futures with Carl Death on 2 December from 15.00-16.30 (CET) The book is excellent! #AfricanStudies #EnvHums #AfricanLiterature

In August 2026, I'll organise a panel with Julia Tischler and Mucha Musemwa on 'A Spirited Environmental History' for the VAD 2026 conference (African Studies, Germany) in beautiful Basel - please apply: africanperspectives.ch/call-for-pap...

The deadline for submitting a paper, panel or round table for the Biannual CRG African History is nearing. This year it's at Ghent University, and we'll be happy to welcome you! aegis-eu.org/collaborativ...

Jabulani Shaba and Henrique Brenner Gasperin will be co-organising a panel at POLLEN 2026 in wonderful Barcelona on 'Extraction and Plural Environmentalisms in the Global South'! APPLY!! pollenpoliticalecology.network/pollen-2026/... #envhums #extraction

Happy to be involved in the new RUG University Minor 'Climate Change and Inequality' - here's a little piece in the Wubbo Ockels' newsletter about us: www.rug.nl/wubbo-ockels... The students are amazing! They come from all of our different faculties!!

Check out our article Just food transitions: a plurality of framings and repertoires from below www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... with Lidia Cabral, matias Volonterio, Gearoid Millar, and Melanie Levick-Parkin

Reframing the Anthropocene through an African lens, our podcast of the week argues that colonial resource extraction created the very environmental crises now disproportionately harming the continent. With @ivapesa.bsky.social, Jabulani Shaba & Tholithemba Ndaba buff.ly/a1qityd

Special issue on "Business and activists"🚨 co-edited with @phvandam.bsky.social With @alexh33.bsky.social @hiskearts.bsky.social @ivapesa.bsky.social @acontestataires.bsky.social #BizHis #activism #CSR #DEI #vegetarianism #labor #RSE #greenwashing #sustainability shs.cairn.info/revue-entrep...

Want to learn about values in the Anthropocene? Check out this open web resource: rethinkingvalue.github.io/anthropocene/ With entries on Lake Titicaca, the Carribean, Georgia, India, and Marseille! It was a pleasure to work on this with Simone Schleper, Paul Merchant, Dan Finch-Race and Leo Steeds

www.scmp.com/news/china/d... Apparently a casual email is enough to be cited as a source in a newspaper article - still good that this issue is receiving coverage!

I reviewed Gabrielle Hecht's Residual Governance for the American Historical Review, academic.oup.com/ahr/article-... This book really bridges environmental humanities, African studies, and it shows why we should all care about South African mine dumps!