Announcements

On 15 and 16 May 2023, the Future Africa Campus of the University of Pretoria will be the scene of the first AFREXTRACT conference. We are bringing together interdisciplinary scholars, artists, and activists interested in questions of environmental change, lived experiences, cultural expressions, and political responses in African localities of resource extraction.

This will be the first conference organised by the European Research Council funded project AFREXTRACT, ‘Environmental Histories of Resource Extraction in Africa: Understanding Cultural and Political Responses to Environmental Transformation’. We are interested to bring together interdisciplinary scholars, artists, and activists interested in questions of environmental change, lived experiences, cultural expressions, and political responses in African localities of resource extraction.
Submission deadline: 21 December 2022

AFREXTRACT presents a series of five webinars from November 2022 to February 2023.

This webinar series reflects on the environmental histories of mining and oil drilling regions in Africa. It also reviews the various sources, such as literature, art and research fields like ethnography, that we can deploy to write these histories. The book talks will have a Q&A format.