22-4-2025
Part of the panel Anthropology of Viability. Paper: Viable Futures in a Post-Disaster Landscape. Thinking with Soil. At the HEATH conference, Durham, Royal Anthropological Society, co-organised by Durham and Edinburgh Universities.
15-11-2024
Participant round table discussion at the WAU congress in Johannesburg on the future of disaster anthropology, Fifty Years of Disaster Study: Changing Imperatives, Outlived Terms, New Frontiers (Part 2)
29-10-2024
Guest lecturer MA Course Environmental Anthropology ULB with artist Wency Mendes. Course giver Peter Lambertz. I discussed the first findings of my research on mud with master’s students at ULB.
26-10-2024
Co-organised Workshop Sensorial Mapping given by visual artist Wency Mendes titled A Mapping Exercise of a Liminal Space at Marrais de Wiels in Brussels/Swamp of Wiels for students from ULB and others.
22-8-2024
Presented Paper ‘Sludge matters!’ An inquiry into the composition of post-flood river sludge and its impact on socioecological life on riverbanks in the Netherlands. Panel Multispecies Landscapes and Cultures. At World Congress of Environmental History University of Olou Finland.
16-7-24
“Time Traveling with Mud. Understanding the Repercussions of the 2021 Flood in Limburg through the Properties, Texture and Composition of River Mud.” Paper Presentation for the Panel In the wake of ecological disaster: navigating pasts and generating futures. European Association for the Study of Science and Technology (EASST) Athena Institute VU Amsterdam.
10-12- 23
Workshop ‘Mud Matters!. A post-humanist approach to the long-term effects of floodings.’ at the National Institute for Design (NID) Ahmedabad (India) for the open elective series ‘Water Matters’. In this workshop I combined discussions within post-humanist literature, exercises on different anthropological methods with fieldwork in flood-prone locations inside and outside Ahmedabad.
10-6-23
“Sludge Matters! An inquiry into the composition of post-flood river sludge and its impact on socioecological life on riverbanks in Belgium and The Netherlands”. Paper presented at the International Workshop ‘Shifty Muds Land, Water and Life in a ‘Patchy Anthropocene’’ at the New Europe College Institute for Advanced Studies Bucharest