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Recent technological advancements have drastically altered (and accelerated) contemporary scientific insights into fungi.

Artists and researchers explore the speculative tradition of plant fiction, called 'Radical Botany'.

In his lecture and accompanying text, philosopher Ali Benmakhlouf elaborates on Andalusian philosophy and the thoughts of Averroes.

Arabist and art historian Silvia Naef reflects on the relationship between religion, images and art within Islam.

Leïla Tauil elaborates on the secular feminist movements in the Arab world and the place of women in the different discourses.

Zakiyyah Jackson adresses the human-animal distinction that persistently reproduces the racial logic in orders of Western thought.

In her fourth vlog, Graciela researches further how the black experience in Belgium can be properly documented.

Anita L. Allen elaborates on privacy through the lenses of race and gender, followed by a Q&A with Gloria González Fuster and Sabrine Ingabire.

Geertrui Cazaux, Agnes Trzak, Anaïs Van Ertvelde and Olava Nduwanje explore the intersections between animal liberation and disability liberation.

Graciela looks further into documenting and archiving the Black womxn and feminist experience in Belgium in this week's vlog.

In this week's video blog, Graciela continues her research with talks with anthropologist Stephanie Collingwoode Williams and For All Queens.

Through video blogs, Graciela Dutrieux shares the process and results of the mapping of Black womxn and feminist networks in Brussels.

In these two texts Anita Allen, Erin Mack and Eden Osucha examine privacy through the lenses of race and gender.

In his lecture and accompanying text, Michiel Leezenberg demonstrates the tradition of philosophical freethinking in classical Islam.

During the three-day-program, researchers, activists and artists explored the meaning and potential of justice in a multi-species world.

This Lexicon is made as a tool for the Series of More-Than-Human Encounters. With each new talk, we filter out new terms to add here.

In her lecture and accompanying essay, Hela Ouardi, analyzes the founding period of Islam.

Two texts by Maneesha Deckha on the notion of animals as legal beings.

Online talk and performance with Debra Solomon and Samah Hijawi on (re)developing urban environments for humans and more-than-humans.

Lecture by sociologist Julia O'Connell Davidson on modern forms of trafficking and slavery and interview with Gie Goris (MO*).

Journalist Ewald Pironet talks to the American economist Joseph E. Stiglitz.

Thomas Piketty in conversation with Béatrice Delvaux (Le Soir) and Jeroen Zuallaert (Knack).

BRUZZ-reportage over 'The racial origins of fatphobia', een samenwerking van VUB Crosstalks met Black History Month Belgium en VUB RHEA.

Lecture by Sara Ahmed on abuses of power within universities and the painstaking labor of trying to transform institutions.

Fatima Mernissi Leerstoel debat over de dekolonisering van de academische wereld met Nadia Fadil, Sarah Bracke, Sophie Withaeckx en Bambi Ceuppens.