[video] On the Ruins of Epistemicide

Decolonising Westernised Solidarity through Epistemic Blackness (JIAS Seminar) In Februari 2020 I embarked on a stimulating Writing Fellowship at the Johannesburg Institute for Advanced Studies (JIAS) in Johannesburg, South Africa. On 18 March 2020 I got the chance to present my work in progress – a monograph for the special book series Kilombo, of Rowman…

[Video] Interview Zwijgen is Geen Optie

** now with English and Dutch subtitles** (massive thanks to Sam de Vocht). In September 2019 I was blessed to sit down with Anthony Bosschem and Tom Mahy from Zwijgen is geen optie (‘Not speaking up is not an option’) – I forgot how gratifying it is to sit across from people who actually want to…

[Video] On Babies and Bathwater: Decolonising Development Studies

In this Sussex Development Lecture (7 December 2017), I offer a conversation between personal experiences, reflections and decolonial scholarship to reflect on the fundamental, practical, institutional and epistemological implications of recognising the coloniality in the international development project. When we seek to part with the coloniality but not with the desire and imperative of global…

(Radio) Touché – te gast bij Friedl’ Lesage [Dutch]

Op 17 december 2017 was ik te gast bij Friedl’ Lesage in het radio 1 programma Touché. Happy memories. Killer soundtrack 😀 herbeluister hier Anthony Hamilton- Ain’t nobody worryin’ Stevie Wonder- Free Bob Marley – Redemption Song Nusrat fateh ali Khan & Eddie Vedder – The Face Of Love uit Soundtrack Dead Man Walking Lauryn…

(VIDEO) On Ethical Retreat and Humanitarian Crisis

speech and debate at the “Humanitarian Changes, Humanitarian Challenges and the Protection of Civilians”seminar organised by NUPI, Oslo on April 27th, 2016 with Kristin Bergtora Sandvik, Senior researcher at PRIO and the Director of the Norwegian Centre for Humanitarian Studies; Alex de Waal, Executive Director of the World Peace Foundation and a Research Professor at…

Geloof in Antwerpen – debat

Fragment uit panelgesprek “Geloof in Mij” met Patrick Loobuyck, Mohamed Chatouani, Hendrik Hoet, gemodereerd door Joel de Ceulaer in Atlas, Antwerpen in op 13 juni 2013 over geloof in Antwerpen.

Angela Davis on activism, prisons, Obama, Palestine,…[VIDEO]

Angela Davis in Brussels @ULB on May 14 2012 accepting her honourary doctorate and @ press conference in Hotel Metropole, Brussels on May 15 2012 speaking on: activism, prison industrial complex, gender, Palestine, racism, Occupy, Obama, civil rights movements, DSK, religious fundamentalism,… must watch! … on Obama … on the prison industrial complex 1  …

TEDxTalk: Decolonizing the Western Minds

TEDxFlanders Talk delivered at the Flemish Opera House in Antwerp, Belgium on 24 September 2011.