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Past Events
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
Podcast: Cartooning and Democracy in Times of Crisis: Lessons from Uganda, Belgium, and Beyond
This panel discussion explores how political cartooning critically engages with and intervenes in our political and democratic life, particularly in relation to national and global crises.
Public Lecture: Sub-imperial Power in Arabia: The Gulf Arab States and their Precarious Regional Role in Sudan and Beyond By Isa Blum
When:December 11, 4:30-6 PM
Where: Auditorium 4 'Jaap Kruithof' Campus Boekentoren, Blandijnberg 2.
FREE FILM SHOWING AND TALK: Academia Goes Cinema: Indigenous Storytelling About the Environment and Human Rights
December 10, 2025 (20:00 CET) Sphinx Cinema Ghent, Belgium.
CRG Book Launches 20: Fractured Pasts in Lake Kivu’s Borderlands Conflicts, Connections and Mobility in Central Africa By Gillian Mathys
Godefroid Muzalia ( GEC-SH, DRC) in Coversation with Gillian Mathys ( UGent, Dept. of History)
November 25, 2025 ( Tue)
CRG Book Launch 18: The Police, the State and the Congo Cop by Michel Thill, PhD (swisspeace)
Koen Vlassenroot ( CRG) in conversation with Michel Thill
This open access book offers the first full-length, empirical deep-dive into everyday policework in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Public Lecture: Sub-imperial Power in Arabia: The Gulf Arab States and their Precarious Regional Role in Sudan and Beyond By Isa Blum
When:December 11, 4:30-6 PM
Where: Auditorium 4 'Jaap Kruithof' Campus Boekentoren, Blandijnberg 2.
CRG Book Launch: Dawn Rose on a Dead Body: Armed Violence and Poppy Farming in Mexico
Who are the poppy farmers, caught between military repression and exploitation by those who buy their crops? What does it mean to be a woman in a place where men’s violence looms?
Bandung Conference and South-South Cooperation: Knowledge, Solidarities, and Worldmaking
Doctoral School Course
May 6-8, 2025
UFO Campus, Ghent University
Book Launches 17: Learning through Collective Memory Work- Troubling Testimonio in Post-war Peru by Goya Wilson Vasquez
Dr. Eva Willems will be in conversation with Goya Wilson Vasquez (University of Bristol) .