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Michael Rothberg @mrothberg.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

The award-winning Palestinian poet and writer Mosab Abu Toha was castigated by the president of Le Moyne College for using the word "genocide" to describe the situation in Gaza. The Genocide and Holocaust Studies Crisis Network responded with a letter on Mosab's behalf. www.ghscn.org/letters-and-...

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GHSCN - Letters and Statements

April 29, 2026 - Letter to Le Moyne College in support of Mosab Abu Toha

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Stef Craps 🕊️ @stefcraps.com · 22/04/2026

For #EarthDay, a poem that continues to speak to this damaged, living world: W. S. Merwin's "Thanks".

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Ed Hawkins @edhawkins.org · 22/04/2026

Looking for the latest warming stripes for over 1000 countries, regions and cities? #ShowYourStripes Fully updated to 2025: www.ShowYourStripes.info

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Michael Rothberg @mrothberg.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Come listen online to four Palestinian scholars discuss the Nakba in light of ongoing war and destruction. Tomorrow. Registration link here: www.ghscn.org/events

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Michael Rothberg @mrothberg.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

The Nakba after Genocide—a panel organized by the Genocide and Holocaust Studies Crisis Network. Tuesday, April 7.

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Stef Craps 🕊️ @stefcraps.com · 18/03/2026

Interview in Frontaal, het ledenblad van het Gents MilieuFront, over ecologische rouw – en over hoe we woorden en vormen kunnen vinden voor wat het verlies van soorten, landschappen en leefwerelden met ons doet. 👉 Lees het volledige nummer hier: drive.google.com/file/d/137Ho...

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Bruce Springsteen @brucespringsteen.net · 28/01/2026

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

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Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)

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Stef Craps 🕊️ @stefcraps.com · 14/01/2026

A conversation on academia and activism in a time of overlapping crises 🗓️ Fri 30 Jan, 10:00–12:00 | 📍 Ghent University, Campus Coupure, Building A, Room A1.1 Hop 🎓 With Jimmy Spire Ssentongo and Stef Craps All are welcome – more info and registration via event.ugent.be/registration...

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Environmental Politics @environmentalpol.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

New Special Issue! New Special Issue on Eco-emotions from guest editors Mihaela Mihai and Danielle Celermajer. environmentalpoliticsjournal.net/editorial-an...

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Special Issue on Eco-emotions, Vol 35, Issue 1 out now – Environmental Politics Journal

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Stef Craps 🕊️ @stefcraps.com · 31/12/2025

It’s been a tough year for the world, and the next may not be gentler. Still, we walk on. Warm wishes for 2026. ✨👣

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Stef Craps 🕊️ @stefcraps.com · 18/12/2025

"Geen activistische ontsporing van de universiteit, maar het opnemen van haar publieke verantwoordelijkheid": opiniestuk over biodiversiteitsverlies, ecologische rouw en de rol van academici in tijden van ecologische crisis, n.a.v. ons Boekentoren-evenement rond Remembrance Day for Lost Species.

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‘De universiteit is geen toeschouwer: over biodiversiteitsverlies, ecologische rouw en samenwerking met activisten’ - ScienceGuide

Hoogleraar Stef Craps (Universiteit Gent) legt uit waarom hij als academicus samenwerkt met XR-activisten.

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Stef Craps 🕊️ @stefcraps.com · 17/12/2025

Huge thanks to all our contributors for their thoughtful and innovative work – and special thanks to my co-editors and our editorial assistant Marion De Schepper for making this such a rewarding collaboration. (5/5)

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Stef Craps 🕊️ @stefcraps.com · 17/12/2025

This special issue grew out of conversations within the Slow Memory COST Action, whose support we gratefully acknowledge. Almost half of the articles, including the introduction, are Open Access. (4/5)

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Stef Craps 🕊️ @stefcraps.com · 17/12/2025

the contributions explore how environmental loss is registered, mediated, and remembered across human and more-than-human scales – from slow violence and deep time to ecological grief, material and aesthetic witnessing, and questions of responsibility and justice. (3/5)

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Stef Craps 🕊️ @stefcraps.com · 17/12/2025

The issue brings together scholars and artists working at the intersection of memory studies, the environmental humanities, and museum and media studies to rethink witnessing in the age of climate breakdown. Building on and extending trauma and testimony theory, (2/5)

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Stef Craps 🕊️ @stefcraps.com · 17/12/2025

📢 I’m delighted to share the publication of Climate Witnessing, a special issue of Memory Studies Review that I’ve guest-edited together with Rick Crownshaw and Rebecca Dolgoy. 🔗 TOC: brill.com/view/journal... 🔗 Introduction (Open Access): brill.com/view/journal... (1/5)

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Stef Craps 🕊️ @stefcraps.com · 16/12/2025

It captures the atmosphere, meaning, and intent of the event far better than words alone ever could. Please watch – and feel free to share. 🌍💔🌱 More info: boekentoren.gent/nl/artikels/... 3/3

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Lost

Lost trapt op zondag 30 november het drieluik Lost and Found – Caring for What Is (about to Disappear) af met een rituele optocht van De Krook naar de Boekentoren, gevolgd door een ingetogen performan...

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Stef Craps 🕊️ @stefcraps.com · 16/12/2025

It was a moment of collective reflection, mourning, and care – for lives and worlds already lost, and for those currently under threat. I'm very glad we now have this exquisite after-movie, created by Muriel Grégoire and narrated by Emilie Hermans and yours truly. 2/3

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Stef Craps 🕊️ @stefcraps.com · 16/12/2025

A few weeks ago, we marked #LostSpeciesDay with a beautiful and moving event: a silent procession from De Krook to the Boekentoren, led by the Red Rebels and Earth Rebels of Extinction Rebellion, ending in an intimate performance in the university library’s reading room. vimeo.com/1146898823 1/3

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Lost (EN subtitled)

Lost marks the opening of the triptych Lost and Found – Caring for What Is (about to Disappear), in which the Boekentoren brings together ecology…

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Stef Craps 🕊️ @stefcraps.com · 30/11/2025

Tonight, Ghent University’s iconic Boekentoren is lit in red to mark Remembrance Day for Lost Species — a quiet gesture honouring what’s already gone, and signalling vigilance for all that is under threat today. #LostSpeciesDay

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Stef Craps 🕊️ @stefcraps.com · 29/11/2025

💡 Alle antwoorden op vraag van Beste-ID: www.beste-id.nl/jaarlijkse-v... 📰 NRC-selectie: www.stefcraps.com/wp-content/u... 👉 Mijn antwoord: www.beste-id.nl/jaarlijkse-v... 🦤 Remembrance Day for Lost Species event info: boekentoren.gent/nl/artikels/... 🌹 CJfR: www.climatejusticeforrosa.org (2/2)

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Stef Craps 🕊️ @stefcraps.com · 29/11/2025

Mijn opiniestuk “Klimaatrouw als voorwaarde voor verandering” staat in NRC - mét illustratie van Kamagurka. Ik pleit voor een affectieve transitie: ecologische emoties zijn geen rem op klimaatactie maar een hefboom die de kloof tussen weten en leven verkleint. (1/2)

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Stef Craps 🕊️ @stefcraps.com · 27/11/2025

Happy Thanksgiving to all who celebrate!

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Stef Craps 🕊️ @stefcraps.com · 18/11/2025

Op 30 november markeren we in en om de Gentse Boekentoren de Remembrance Day for Lost Species – een ritueel moment om stille verdwijningen en ecologische rouw zichtbaar te maken in het publieke domein. 🌍💔 Meer info: boekentoren.gent/nl/artikels/...

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Stef Craps 🕊️ @stefcraps.com · 17/11/2025

Blij dat het Nederlands Dagblad vandaag aandacht besteedt aan ecologische rouw, en dat ik iets mocht vertellen over de trage, vaak onzichtbare verliezen waar zoveel mensen mee worstelen, alsook over het belang van gedeelde taal en rituelen.

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Het bestaat echt: rouwen om natuur die verloren gaat. ‘Dit moet uit de taboesfeer’

Ben je weleens verdrietig over de huismussen of merels die uit jouw buurt zijn verdwenen? Bezorgd over al het zwerfafval in de natuur? Of heb je heimwee naar de winters met sneeuw en ijspret? Dan ben ...

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Stef Craps 🕊️ @stefcraps.com · 16/11/2025

Van harte welkom op "Lost and Found – Caring for What Is (about to Disappear)", een cultureel drieluik over erfgoed en ecologie in de Boekentoren. 📚🌿 Op 30/11 – Lost Species Day – starten we met een rituele optocht en performance. Iedereen kan aansluiten. Meer info: boekentoren.gent/lostandfound

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Michael Rothberg @mrothberg.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

The Genocide and Holocaust Studies Crisis Network invites you to an online panel: "Denying Genocide: Comparative Reflections from Armenia, Bosnia, the Holocaust, and Palestine." Register for this November 17 event here: wakeforest-university.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

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M Gessen @mashagessen.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

In which I talk with the woman who won't shut up (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/o...

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Opinion | The U.S. Denounces Her. Multinationals Threaten Her. She Likes Her Odds.

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Environmental Politics @environmentalpol.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

New article from @stefcraps.com! Ecological apologies: reckoning with grief, guilt, and multispecies justice. doi.org/10.1080/0964...

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Focusing on British artist Marcus Coates’s Apology to the Great Auk, a short film documenting an official apology to an extinct bird, this article explores the possibility and desirability of political apologies for anthropogenic species extinction. While the apology presented in the film fails to meet key criteria, it nonetheless offers something of political value. Coates’s work constitutes an audacious and innovative attempt to leverage ecological grief and guilt to counteract dominant discourses that devalue more-than-human life; to redraw the boundaries of the moral, legal, and political community; and to imagine a future of multispecies flourishing. By interpreting Apology to the Great Auk through the lenses of environmental transitional justice, bad environmentalism, and ecological prefiguration, the article demonstrates its potential as an artistic project, and the potential of ecological apologies more generally, to help us think and work towards care, justice, and moral repair beyond the human.

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Stef Craps 🕊️ @stefcraps.com · 24/09/2025

RIP Jonathan Lear. Few philosophers have spoken so eloquently about mourning: not as an end point, but as a space in which radical hope might emerge. His voice will be missed, but his vision of resilience in the face of devastation remains with us.

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Scott L Greer @scottlgreer.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

“52% of all autocratization episodes become U-Turns, which increases to 73% when focusing on the last 30 years. The vast majority of U-Turns (90%) lead to restored or even improved levels of democracy” V-Dem data

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When autocratization is reversed: episodes of U-Turns since 1900

The world is in a “wave of autocratization.” Yet, recent events in Brazil, the Maldives, and Zambia demonstrate that autocratization can be halted and reversed. This article introduces “U-Turn” as ...

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Michael Rothberg @mrothberg.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

Statement in Solidarity with the Intern. Assoc. of Genocide Scholars by the Genocide & Holocaust Studies Crisis Network: We condemn attacks on the IAGS Gaza genocide resolution & abhor the denialism & bad faith that persist among some in the fields of Holocaust & Genocide Studies.

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IAGS Solidarity Statement 9-18-25.pdf

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Stef Craps 🕊️ @stefcraps.com · 16/09/2025

🌱 Fully funded PhD scholarship in Environmental Humanities at Ghent University! A unique opportunity to collaborate with Marco Caracciolo, Elly McCausland, and me on innovative research connecting literature, culture, and ecology.

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PhD Scholarship in Environmental Humanities at Ghent University

Discover a PhD Scholarship in Environmental Humanities on jobs.ac.uk. Apply now and explore other PhD opportunities.

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Stef Craps 🕊️ @stefcraps.com · 16/09/2025

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Stef Craps 🕊️ @stefcraps.com · 16/09/2025

Can we meaningfully apologize for driving species to extinction? This newly published article explores how ecological apologies might open pathways towards care, justice, and moral repair beyond the human.

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Stef Craps 🕊️ @stefcraps.com · 26/08/2025

🌳💔 Vandaag in De Morgen: mijn opiniestuk over de maatschappelijke betekenis van ecologische rouw, naar aanleiding van de bomenkap in Deurne. Ecologische emoties zijn geen aanstellerij: ze tonen onze verbondenheid met de levende wereld en doorbreken wat Robert Macfarlane een “war on nature” noemt.

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Wie volwassen bomen kapt, berooft de omgeving van schaduw én ziel

Stef Craps is hoogleraar Engelse letterkunde en directeur van het Cultural Memory Studies Initiative (UGent). Hij keek naar de rouwende buurtbewoners na de bomenkap in Deurne-Zuid en stelt dat we iets...

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Mnemonics: Network for Memory Studies @mnemonics.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

Public Events on Memory & Responsibility 🌍 Roundtable: Practising Memory in Times of Crisis — Amani El Haddad, Manoeuvre vzw, Pieter Lagrou, Ann Rigney & Michael Rothberg 🎓 Keynotes: Carlos Fonseca · Sara Dybris McQuaid · Hanna Meretoja Info and registration: event.ugent.be/registration...

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Stef Craps 🕊️ @stefcraps.com · 24/07/2025

Joanna Macy is overleden. Mijn eerbetoon aan deze grande dame van de ecologische beweging staat op MO*: www.mo.be/opinie/in-me.... Ze leerde ons verdriet om de aarde niet te onderdrukken maar te doorvoelen - als bron van verbondenheid, hoop en actie.

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‘Joanna Macy hielp een andere taal vinden voor deze tijd van ecologische afbraak’ – MO*

Op 19 juli overleed Joanna Macy, die een kompas zal blijven voor wie weigert de wereld op te geven, aldus Stef Craps.

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Stef Craps 🕊️ @stefcraps.com · 22/07/2025

Gaza screams. The world scrolls.

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Jonathon Catlin @joncatlin.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

Today at @memstudiesassoc.bsky.social: @stefcraps.com explores our hunger for fake news and the collective fantasy of nature miraculously healing itself during the "anthropause" of the Covid-19 panedmic. Would that it were so! #MSAPrague2025

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Stef Craps 🕊️ @stefcraps.com · 29/06/2025

“[F]alling birthrates are not the answer to our world’s problems. Confronting climate change requires that billions of people live differently. It does not require that billions of future people never live.“

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Opinion | The Population Bust Won’t Solve the Climate Crisis

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