FORAGENCY methodological workshops January-May 2024
These workshops are designed to bring PhD candidates in conversation with more experienced scholars around research themes and methodologies in colonial history, African studies and environmental humanities. Each speaker will present one of their publications, and take the participants through their step-by-step research process. The workshops close with a collective Q&A. Discussed publications will be sent to the participants one week prior to the workshop.
Registrations are opened until two weeks before each session’s date. Sessions are limited to ten participants and will only take place physically, as to allow optimal conditions for exchanges and discussion.
Venues: Hoek 38 (Leuvensesteenweg 38, 1000 Brussels) & VUB Main Campus (Pleinlaan 2, 1050 Elsene, building C, 5th Floor )
Attendance is free, but registration is mandatory, via this link
PROGRAM
11 January, 2-5 PM: History beyond the human (venue: Hoek 38, room Magnetiet)
–Diogo de Carvalho Cabral (Trinity College Dublin): Meaningful Clearings. Human-Ant negotiated landscapes in 19th century Brazil
–Iva Pesa (University of Groningen): Studying Mining through Plants on the Central African Copperbelt
–Violette Pouillard (CNRS/UGent): Animal History as Social History
5 February, 2-5 PM: Oral history (venue: Hoek 38, room Magnetiet)
–Margot Luyckfasseel (VUB/SAB): Scratching the surface: Ngwana Women in and Around Kisangani at the Turn of the 20th century
–Enid Guene (UGent): Studying the History of Hunter-Gatherers in a Rural Setting: Combining Oral Testimonies, (an Absence of) Archives, and Other Sources
–Gillian Mathys (UGent): “Entangled pasts and presents: Decentring dominant paradigms and tracing the trajectories of oral narratives in conflict settings (Lake Kivu region)”.
11 March, 2-5 PM : Studying material Culture (venue: Hoek 38, room Magnetiet)
–Peter Lambertz (ULB): Kobeta Toles: Repairing Mobility on Congo’s Inland Waterways
–Nicolas Nikis (ULB/AfricaMuseum): Pulling the Wires in the Trade Networks. Metallurgical Techniques Diffusion in South-Central and East Africa in the 19th century AD
–Laurent Nieblas Ramirez (ULB): Fishing in pre-colonial Central Africa, linking present and past
2 May, 2-5 PM: Ethnographic methods (venue: VUB main campus, meeting room LW)
–Emmelien Devos (UGent): Elephants as Roadbuilders in West Tanzania: Medicinal and Hunting perspectives on More-than-Human Agency
–Lys Alcayna-Stevens (University of Oxford): title TBD
–Romain Duda: Ethnography and oral history to understand disease emergence in Central African Republic
Photo credits: Mondia whitei, loof en bloeiwyse, Manie vd Schijff BT, 2016