"Each spring, Himalayan families forage the caterpillar fungus. This parasitic organism has become the most valuable in the world. It sustains precarious livelihoods in Nepal while feeding China’s hunger for health. What does this journey reveal about the fragile ties between ecology and economy?"

Booking (8-4€) via Cinema RITCS: www.cinemaritcs.be/production/u... 🎥🍄

"Up on the Mountain follows 3 groups of commercial mushroom pickers as they travel on the “mushroom circuit”—a year-round migration that can take them anywhere from Alaska to California, Washington, Oregon, Montana, Idaho, and Wyoming—to harvest wild mushrooms from public forests."

The program will culminate with an exhibition at PILAR (tinyurl.com/58p4kemh) in May-June 26. In the coming months, we will organise talks, lectures, screenings and performances. Stay tuned, more details coming... very soon!

This is the next-to-last chapter of the edited volume "Textures of Power. Central Africa in the Long 20th Century", a groundbreaking, multidisciplinary and longue durée overview of current research across African studies. Also available in print and OA: tinyurl.com/236xydsj 🤓

You can learn more about Alice's project here: ercforagency.eu/index.php/cu...

Wed 29/01, at 2 PM, B. Henriet & E. Gontard: panel 2 "Colonialism, Environment and Territoriality". Fri 31/01: A. Vittoria panel 7 "Embodied Memory and Postcolonial Mobility", 11.15 AM, and T. Costers: panel 8 "Shifting Labour and Social Identities", 2 PM. All hours GMT +4

"Foraging" will come back soon for a second season, with a new format, theme and participants... We will keep you posted, and are already grateful to all of you who dropped in to listen to our first four episodes! 🙏

For more information on AFREXTRACT, please visit their website: www.rug.nl/research/ico...