Amitav Ghosh

Amitav Ghosh is an Indian writer best known for his bestselling novels, but his non-fiction work also makes him an important voice in today’s climate justice movement. In The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable (2016) he explores how the climate crisis has affected every aspect of human existence. Ghosh calls to action to take responsibility and restore the earth for the coming generations. In The Nutmeg’s Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis (2021), Ghosh argues that the dynamics of climate change today are rooted in the geopolitical order constructed by Western colonialism.

Amitav Ghosh has received numerous literary awards and four honorary doctorates. His work has been translated into more than thirty languages and his essays have appeared in The New Yorker, The New Republic and The New York Times. In 2019 Foreign Policy Magazine named him one of the most important global thinkers of the past decade.

BOZAR, 21/9

Roman Krznaric

Born in Austrialia, Roman Krznaric is one of the most popular British philosophers and the author of a variety of books on the power of ideas to change society, including Empathy: Why It Matters, and How to Get It; How to Find Fulfilling Work; and The Wonderbox: Curious Histories of How to Live.

His latest book,  The Good Ancestor, is an original combination of history and stories. In it, we are asked how we would like our grandchildren to assess us, what stories we will tell them about our relationship with the world and he summons us to join movements that base their activities on intergenerational justice and a profound love for our planet.  

KC Buda, 1/10

Sébastien Hendrickx

KC Buda, 2/10

Omar Fassi Fehri

Omar Fassi Fehri is a French teacher, a professional translator (English/French/Arabic and Spanish), a theatre workshop facilitator and a cultural actor. He is from Morocco and has lived in Brussels since 2018. He graduated in Political Sciences at the University of Grenada, Spain and in French Literature at the Fez University, Morocco. At present, he is taking a Master’s degree in Cultural Management at the ULB, Belgium with a dissertation on The access of racialized minorities to public theatre schools in the Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles. 

Minority Walk, Brussel, 15/10

Chiara Tomalino

Chiara graduated in Art history at the UCL (Université catholique de Louvain) with a thesis on the representation of female artists in modern art museums. Since 2018, she has been a city guide in Brussels and a project coordinator for Arkadia. Being a specialist in street art and contemporary art and driven by a passion for gender issues, she joined L’architecture qui dégenre in 2021, the initiator of the Belgian edition of Heritage Days. This not-for-profit organization creates guided tours, training sessions, conferences and animation on a variety of themes such as gender, the city, architecture, history, art and culture in general. 

The Witches’ Brussels: Feminist walk (Brussel, 15/10)

Dalilla Hermans

Dalilla Hermans (1986) is a journalist, author, playwright and podcast host. In 2017, her book Brief aan Cooper en de wereld was published. She contributed to the ‘Zwart’ publication in 2018 and later that year, she published the children’s book Brown Girl Magic and in 2019 the thriller Black-out. In 2020,  Het laatste wat ik nog wil zeggen over racisme was published and also that year she made her debut as a playwright for NTGent with Her(e), followed by a second play,  Us, (k)now, two years later. Dalilla writes columns for the daily De Standaard and has hosted the Keihard podcast together with Jozefien Daelemans since 2021.

Panel discussion: Colonisation as the exploitation of people & nature (AB, 15/10)

Jumana Emil Abboud

Panel discussion: Colonisation as the exploitation of people & nature (AB, 15/10)

Báyò Akómoláfé

Bayo Akomolafe (Ph.D.) is rooted in the Yoruba people and in a more than-human world. He is a partner, father of two, son and brother. He is a celebrated international speaker, posthumanist thinker, poet, teacher, public intellectual, essayist and author of two books: These Wilds beyond our Fences: Letters to My Daughter on Humanity’s Search for Home (North Atlantic Books) and We Will Tell Our Own Story: the Lions of Africa Speak. Besides, he is founder of The Emergence Network and host to the online post-activist course We Will Dance with Mountains. 

Panel discussion: Colonisation as the exploitation of people & nature (AB, 15/10)

Mihnea Tănăsescu

Mihnea Tănăsescu is a political theoretician at the Department of Political Science of the VUB (Vrije Universiteit Brussel), Belgium. He has been active in the fields of political ecology and human and environmental sciences focusing on various topics including legal and political representation of  nature and nature restoration policy. His latest books are Understanding the Rights of Nature and Ecocene Politics.

Panel discussion: Colonisation as the exploitation of people & nature (AB, 15/10)

Apolline Vranken

After graduating as an architect, Apolline Vranken founded the platform L’architecture qui dégenre in order to draw attention to the position of women in public space. The platform co-organized the Days of Matrimony to highlight women’s role in shaping the city.

Panel discussion: Different jobs, one planet (AB, 15/10)

Jérémy Désir-Weber

Panel discussion: Different jobs, one planet (AB, 15/10)

Enkidu Khaled

TANK TINK / ONE: The environmental impact of war (AB, 15/10)

Joachim Robbrecht

TANK TINK / ONE: The environmental impact of war (AB, 15/10)

Eric Corijn

Lecture (AB, 15/10)

Olave Nduwanje

Moderator: Colonisation as the exploitation of people & nature (AB, 15/10)

Thomas Goorden

Panel discussion: Different jobs, one planet (AB, 15/10)

Virginie Platteau

Presentation (AB, 15/10)

Caroline Van Peteghem

Moderator: Different jobs, one planet (AB, 15/10)