Our project is at ECAS2023!

rewilding at ECAS2023....

The European Conference on African Studies will take place from May 31 to June 3, 2023 in Cologne!

The project “Rewilding the Anthropocene” will be represented. Check out where you can meet us!

Panel Anth12 “Wilder Futures: Rewilding and Multispecies Coexistence in rural Africa”

Participating researchers: Léa Lacan, Julia Brekl, Emilie Köhler

Panel Envi03 “Conservation: a viable transformative vision for Eastern Africa?”

Partipating researcher: Léa Lacan

Panel Anth60 “Ethnographies of extraction and extraversion in Africa”

Participating researcher: Paula Alexiou

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Upcoming workshop in Botswana: Human-Carnivore Co-adaptation. Exploring changing behaviours, perceptions and (research) practices

Click here to view program Hosts Global South Studies Center (GSSC), the University of Cologne Rewilding the Anthropocene – A European Research Council Advanced Grant ...

Elephant Modernities: Thinking along blurry lines between humans, elephants and technologies – An interdisciplinary workshop

Click here to view program HostsGlobal South Studies Center (GSSC), the University of CologneRewilding the Anthropocene – A European Research Council Advanced Grant Project OrganizersProf. ...

Upcoming Workshop: Fieldwork & Fiction I: Rewilding Narratives

Venue: Auerbach Library, MESH Date: January 17, 2025 Our workshop on Rewilding Narratives is a collaboration between the Multidisciplinary Environmental Studies in the Humanities (MESH) ...

Just published: Article on multispecies assemblages

Picture by Léa Lacan, southwestern Zambia, March 2023. The article “The Assemblage: A Framework for Anthropological Research in Multispecies Studies” by Léa Lacan, Paula Alexiou, ...

Upcoming workshop on ‘wildlife-livestock interfaces in northern Botswana’

Photo by Jeroen van Rooyen workshop programme The wildlife-livestock interface (WLI) is an ecological concept that describes the spatial dimension of encounters between wild and ...

New Rewilding article in Journal of Southern African Studies

Image: Pearl Millet “Closing its Eyes” in Nkandebwe village, Simangani Ward, Zimbabwe. Copyright: Manuel Bollmann The article “One Livelihood Risk Factor Too Many? How Unintended ...