Please join us for our Lecture series in Global and regional History. First meeting, next week, Eric Jennings with "A global history of vanilla". For more on the lecture series: see www.grh.ugent.be/activities/

Unfortunately the lecture with Joachim Goma-Thethet had to be cancelled.

In Kinshasa they are already trying this (the traffic jams there are terrible, but the robot cannot be blamed for that)

Weird seeing your book out in the wild on a picture in someone else's hand and not having touched and smelled it yourself yet.

I really want to see it myself now!

I've been laughing for 5 minutes straight at this title. Somehow it's very Belgian

My book Fractured Pasts @universitypress.cambridge.org was officially launched today. Grateful for everyone who attended, and thanks to everyone who contributed in big and small ways. You can order it here www.cambridge.org/core/books/f... and you can get a 20% discount at checkout using FPLKB2025.

With a better version of the poster, Didier Gondola on restitution and the Africamuseum, June 20th at Ghent University.

Looking forward to seeing you there!

Very happy to announce that Didier Gondola is giving a lecture on "Provenance and restitution: Africamuseum and its colonial legacy at the University of Ghent", Friday June 20 at 12.30 pm. Organised by Eline Mestdagh (TAPAS) in collaboration with the Lecture series in global and African history.

My book Fractured Pasts in Lake Kivu's Borderlands can now be pre-ordered with a 20% discount

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Never judge a book by its cover, but I wouldn't mind being judged on this cover. My book is coming out in June with @cambridgeup.bsky.social in the African Studies Series (@mariasolemarsh.bsky.social). You can pre-order here: www.cambridge.org/core/books/f...