In this lecture prof. Natalia Solano-Meza will talk about her ongoing research The United Fruit Company Spaces in the Caribbean Region of Costa Rica between 1890 and 1930: Railroad Infrastructure, Agricultural Enclaves and Architectural Forms, an interdisciplinary project informed by notions of pollution, toxicity, and environmental degradation focused on the architecture produced by the United Fruit Company.

The first Call for Proposals of the new Intra-Africa Academic Mobility Scheme (2022-2027) financed under the Neighbourhood, Development and International Cooperation Instrument (NDICI-Global Europe), should be published in the coming weeks.

Ahead of the publication of the Call for Proposals, EACEA is organising an online information session on 13 March 2023 (14.30 – 17.30 Brussels Time). During this session, the speakers will inform participants on the Programme and its policy framework. They will also give advice on how to get prepared to submit a proposal.

The core group Transition UGent organses its top meeting again, where experts, policymakers and committed staff and students discuss about a sustainable transition and the role they themselves can take.

One seat will be reserved for Elizabeth Wathuti, a Kenyan climate activist. At past climate summits, she addressed world leaders on their responsibility and called for climate justice. The other chairs are for students Tina Kasse B'nicco and Michael McMahon (fac. GE), climate expert Hans Verbeeck (fac. BW) and policy makers Ann Buysse (dean PPW), Isabel Van Driessche (dean WE) and Peter Vandenabeele (coard member of Ghent University). Claire Dupont (fac. EB) will moderate the debate.

How can we make our campuses and communities sustainable? Let’s talk about it in the 2nd edition of the ENLIGHT Global Dialogue 2023!

The ENLIGHT Global Dialogue invites student organisations, associations or project team from the ENLIGHT partner universities and across the globe to talk about student–led sustainability initiatives and share best practice. The event will take place online in April & May 2023 to facilitate global participation.

The best contributions will be invited to present their projects at the ENLIGHT Teaching & Learning Conference in October 2023.

Deadline for submitting a proposal is March 30, 2023.

Class and Sexual Politics in New Writing from Nigeria and Kenya

The digital space provides a new avenue to move literature beyond the restrictions of book publishing on the continent. Arguing that writers are putting their work on cyberspace because communities are emerging from this space, and because increasing numbers of Africans use the internet as part of their day-to-day engagement with their societies and the world, UGent African Studies colleague Shola Adenekan explores this transformative development in Nigeria and Kenya.

Through this analysis, the book articulates the difference in attitudes towards queerness, sexuality, and hetero-normativity among successive generations of writers.

EU Short-Term Energy Policy Inconsistencies and their Possible Long-Term Consequences - The case of Algeria

Reinhilde Bouckaert is a Doctoral Assistant at the Department of Public Management and Administration at the University of Ghent.

Her research focuses on the changing relationship between the MENA (Middle East and North Africa) and the EU in the context of the energy transition.

The Research Foundation – Flanders (FWO) is delighted to announce the launch of a new call for joint research projects with South Africa (NRF) concerning fundamental research in all domains. Projects have a duration of 3 years and the Flemish part of the project can request funding for staff, consumables, and equipment.

Project proposals have to be submitted both at FWO by a research group from Flanders and at NRF by a research group from South Africa. Deadline for submission is the 1st of June 2023 (5pm, Belgian time) at FWO. Projects will start in January 2024.