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Vacancy Post-doctoral Researcher on Sovereignty and Aesthetics Politics

You will join the Sovereign Performance project, which is funded by an ERC Consolidator Grant. The project will grow into a team of five post-docs and is coordinated by Bart Klem

Event: Building Capacities: “Washout”: Film Showing and Global South-North Conversations on the Politics of Land, Resistance and Solidarity

July 7, 2026
13:30–16:00
Stadsacademie / Green Office Gent / Green Hub, Ghent University
Sint-Pietersnieuwstraat 31, 9000 Ghent
Lunch will be provided at 12:30 (same venue).

Event: Policy Roundtable Advancing integrated climate–security responses: the role of local institutions, youth, and gender in flood-prone western Burundi

27 May 2026
14.00-15.30
Venue: Permanent Representation of Belgium to the EU, Belliardstraat 65, 1040 Brussels

CRG Book Launches 22: Girlhood at War: Interpreting War and Liberation in Kosovo by Vjosa Musliu

Pieter Troch (UGent, GCSEES) in conversation with Vjosa Musliu (VUB)
When: 12 May 2026 (Tuesday)
Time: 16:00–17:30 CET
Where: 3rd Floor, John Vincke Room, Technicum 1, UFO Campus, Ghent University

CRG Book Launches 21: Le plus grand des maux: Sociologie des guerres civiles by Gilles Dorronsoro.

Koen Vlassenroot (CRG) in conversation with Gilles Dorronsoro (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne)
May 5, 2026 ( Tue)
11:00-12:30

EVENT: Social Movements and the Law: Global South–North Conversations on Law, Resistance, and Justice

This event brings together voices from the Global South and the Global North to explore how communities and legal advocates confront power, both within and beyond formal legal systems.

Closing Workshop: The Politics of Hidden Urbanisation amidst conflict and forced displacement in the DRC

Date: March 26, 2026 ( Thu)

Time: 10:00- 16:00 CET

Venue: Rm. 301, 3rd Floor, Technicum 1 Bldg., UFO Campus, Ghent University

PANEL DISCUSSION: Cartooning and Democracy in Times of Crisis: Lessons from Uganda, Belgium, and beyond

This panel discussion explores how political cartoons critically engage with and intervene in our political and democratic lives, particularly in relation to national and global crises.

Call for Submissions: Sri Lanka Roundtable 2026

We are pleased to announce the next “Sri Lanka Roundtable” on 6 and 7 May 2026 in Ghent, Belgium.