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...

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

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....

New article from @stefcraps.com! Ecological apologies: reckoning with grief, guilt, and multispecies justice. doi.org/10.1080/0964...

The neatest and most hilarious debunking of Trump's climate disinformation you'll see this week, courtesy of @emorwee.bsky.social 😎 open.substack.com/pub/heated/p...

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.

“52% of all autocratization episodes become U-Turns, which increases to 73% when focusing on the last 30 years. The vast majority of U-Turns (90%) lead to restored or even improved levels of democracy” V-Dem data

Statement in Solidarity with the Intern. Assoc. of Genocide Scholars by the Genocide & Holocaust Studies Crisis Network: We condemn attacks on the IAGS Gaza genocide resolution & abhor the denialism & bad faith that persist among some in the fields of Holocaust & Genocide Studies.

🌱 Fully funded PhD scholarship in Environmental Humanities at Ghent University! A unique opportunity to collaborate with Marco Caracciolo, Elly McCausland, and me on innovative research connecting literature, culture, and ecology.

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.

🌳💔 Vandaag in De Morgen: mijn opiniestuk over de maatschappelijke betekenis van ecologische rouw, naar aanleiding van de bomenkap in Deurne. Ecologische emoties zijn geen aanstellerij: ze tonen onze verbondenheid met de levende wereld en doorbreken wat Robert Macfarlane een “war on nature” noemt.

Public Events on Memory & Responsibility 🌍 Roundtable: Practising Memory in Times of Crisis — Amani El Haddad, Manoeuvre vzw, Pieter Lagrou, Ann Rigney & Michael Rothberg 🎓 Keynotes: Carlos Fonseca · Sara Dybris McQuaid · Hanna Meretoja Info and registration: event.ugent.be/registration...

Joanna Macy is overleden. Mijn eerbetoon aan deze grande dame van de ecologische beweging staat op MO*: www.mo.be/opinie/in-me.... Ze leerde ons verdriet om de aarde niet te onderdrukken maar te doorvoelen - als bron van verbondenheid, hoop en actie.

Gaza screams. The world scrolls.

Born 100 years ago today, Frantz Fanon remains a towering figure of decolonial thought and resistance. Rest in power. www.dw.com/en/frantz-fa...

Today at @memstudiesassoc.bsky.social: @stefcraps.com explores our hunger for fake news and the collective fantasy of nature miraculously healing itself during the "anthropause" of the Covid-19 panedmic. Would that it were so! #MSAPrague2025

“[F]alling birthrates are not the answer to our world’s problems. Confronting climate change requires that billions of people live differently. It does not require that billions of future people never live.“

Remembering this great tweet on the Summer Solstice

Facebook decided to suspend my account because of a piece (below) I wrote Monday about violence which in no way advocates for it (but does point out who is violent in the current ruckus).

“The president’s solutions-focused approach to legal roadblocks necessitated thinking outside the constitutional box.”

Gift link wapo.st/4jrT0HR

📣 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)

"No Shakespeare yet, but here's another copy of 'Art of the Deal'." #InfiniteMonkeyTheorem 😂

"The best lack all conviction, while the worst / Are full of passionate intensity."

staging a show-and-tell about a fake genocide during a real genocide to the government that has done the most to seek justice for that real genocide is designed to break our brains. They know what they are doing. www.cnn.com/2025/05/21/w...

Historians: Quibbling Over Exact Definition Of Concentration Camp Sign Of Healthy Society

📣 Just one week left to apply for Mnemonics 2025! The upcoming edition of the Mnemonics Summer School—on the theme of “Memory and Responsibility”—will take place in Ghent, Belgium, from 10 to 12 September 2025.

Climate leader and soon-to-be UGent honorary doctor Christiana Figueres in conversation with students and staff! 💚🌎

"If anything, my detention is a testament to the strength of the student movement in shifting public opinion toward Palestinian liberation. Students have long been at the forefront of change . . . Today, too, . . . it is students who steer us toward truth and justice."

“‘We Are Witnessing a New Brain Drain’ as Scientists Flee America for France” gizmodo.com/we-are-witne...

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....

"It comes after a Future Forum survey found that 72% of 14-18-year-olds want more relevant and rigorous climate change education, with a demand for more humanities and social sciences-based climate education."

Gisteren brachten Benjamin Van Bunderen Robberechts, Alec Van Vaerenbergh en ikzelf als bestuurders van Climate Justice for Rosa vzw een bezoek aan het Watersnoodmuseum in Ouwerkerk, Zeeland. 1/5

Philip Larkin: What will survive of us is love. Scientists: Well actually…

Out next month: _Witness Literature: Culture, Memory and Contested Truths_ by Minoli Salgado. www.bloomsbury.com/uk/witness-l... My blurb for this remarkable book: (1/5)

Mood.

The call for papers for the 2025 Mnemonics Summer School on “Memory and Responsibility” (Ghent, Belgium, 10-12 September 2025) is now open. Featuring keynote lectures by Carlos Fonseca, Sara Dybris McQuaid, and Hanna Meretoja. Please help spread the word! www.mnemonics.ugent.be/news/call-fo...

It’s hard not to think of Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower as I watch the news of LA burning. Written in the early 1990s, the novel, which conjures a dystopian vision of environmental and societal collapse, imagines deadly fires sweeping through LA in 2025. 1/3