Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world

Amani is 10 jaar wanneer hij na een traumatische nacht in Kinshasa wordt gescheiden van zijn moeder en wordt opgevangen en opgevoed door zijn grootmoeder. Nu, 10 jaar later, arriveert hij in Brussel, waar zijn moeder een nieuw leven heeft opgebouwd. Moeder en zoon proberen de band weer aan te halen, maar de demonen uit het verleden achtervolgen hen. Zullen ze de kracht en de moed vinden om die samen te overwinnen?

Met nagesprek in aanwezigheid van regisseur Nganji Mutiri.

The 75th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights will be celebrated on 10 December 2023. Since its adoption, the Declaration has been read in multiple ways. Some have been inspired by it, others have found it wanting. At this conference (6-8 December), Ghent University will take stock and look forward, embracing a resolute engagement with human rights in their multiple contemporary dimensions.

There is an interesting thematic track on decolonization and racial justice.

ECAS9 2023, 31 MAY - 3 JUNE 2023

ECAS9 will be organized by the Global South Studies Center (University of Cologne) and the IARA, Institute for Anthropological Research on Africa, University of Leuven, under the theme of “African Futures”. “African Futures” aims to explore the continent’s critical engagements with the past, present, and future of Africa’s global entanglements.

Prof. Dr. Ali Meghji will present his latest book: A Critical Synergy: Race, Decoloniality, and World Crises. Its central themes are the convergences and divergences between critical race theory and decolonial thought.

Dr Meghji is Associate Professor of Social Inequalities in the Department of Sociology, University of Cambridge. He is the author of Decolonizing Sociology, The Racialized Social System: Critical Race Theory as Social Theory, and Black Middle Class Britannia: Identities, Repertoires, Cultural Consumption. 

We welcome staff and students to join us in our discussion of this important book within the field of postcolonial and decolonization studies. The sessions will be moderated by Koen Bogaert (Department of Conflict & Development Studies).

In this book Kelley unearths freedom dreams in an exciting history of renegade intellectuals and artists of the African diaspora in the twentieth century. Focusing on the visions of activists from C. L. R. James to Aime Cesaire and Malcolm X, Kelley writes of the hope that Communism offered, the mindscapes of Surrealism, the transformative potential of radical feminism, and of the four-hundred-year-old dream of reparations for slavery and Jim Crow.

We kindly invite you to a workshop Moving beyond Development Cooperation that will take place on May 2 from 12:30 pm to 4:30 pm in Het Pand.

During this workshop, the findings and recommendations of a 2-year policy study on international cooperation between Ghent University and partners in the Global South will be discussed. The research examines the question of how international cooperation with partners in the Global South can take shape in the future, paying attention to reciprocity, equality and justice.

Be invited to our 7th Africa Film Festival Ghent. This will be an exciting four days with a combination of short films, documentaries, fully-fledged movies, music and debate.

Films will come from a variety of regional backgrounds, such as Cameroon, South Africa, Sudan, Senegal and Niger.

We will close on Saturday evening with a concert by Buadee + PE Live (reggae vibes).

Ghent University External Stakeholders' Networking Event with presentations and panel discussion on how to approach the current challenges in international (academic) cooperation, followed by a networking dinner

We invite our external parters for networking, presentations and discussions on building future-proof international partnerships, taking into consideration topics such as human rights, foreign interference, dual use, equal partnerships, ...