Stef Craps 🕊️
Professor of English Literature at UGent | Memory & trauma studies, ecocriticism & environmental humanities, postcolonial & decolonial theory | How stories help us live with loss & imagine better futures | Born at 335 ppm | He/him/his | www.stefcraps.com
- Reposted by Stef Craps 🕊️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
- 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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- It’s been a tough year for the world, and the next may not be gentler. Still, we walk on. Warm wishes for 2026. ✨👣
- "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.
- 📢 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)
- 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
- 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
- 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)
- Happy Thanksgiving to all who celebrate!
- 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/...
- 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.
- 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
- Reposted by Stef Craps 🕊️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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In which I talk with the woman who won't shut up (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/o... - Looking forward to giving a lecture and masterclass and joining a roundtable on memory, mourning, and the Anthropocene at Radboud University Nijmegen on 4–5 November. Details here: www.oslit.nl/arts-of-memo....
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- 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.
- Reposted by Stef Craps 🕊️“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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- 🌱 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.
- 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.
- 🌳💔 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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- 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.
- Gaza screams. The world scrolls.
- Born 100 years ago today, Frantz Fanon remains a towering figure of decolonial thought and resistance. Rest in power. www.dw.com/en/frantz-fa...
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- “[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.“
- Reposted by Stef Craps 🕊️Remembering this great tweet on the Summer Solstice
- Reposted by Stef Craps 🕊️Facebook decided to suspend my account because of a piece (below) I wrote Monday about violence which in no way advocates for it (but does point out who is violent in the current ruckus).
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- 📣 Publication alert! Honoured to have joined Cathy Caruth, Marianne Hirsch, Jill Jarvis, and Ann Rigney for a pandemic-era roundtable on literature and memory - now published in The Palgrave Handbook of Literary Memory Studies, edited by Lucy Bond, Susannah Radstone, and Jessica Rapson. (1/2)
- "No Shakespeare yet, but here's another copy of 'Art of the Deal'." #InfiniteMonkeyTheorem 😂
- "The best lack all conviction, while the worst / Are full of passionate intensity."
- Reposted by Stef Craps 🕊️staging a show-and-tell about a fake genocide during a real genocide to the government that has done the most to seek justice for that real genocide is designed to break our brains. They know what they are doing. www.cnn.com/2025/05/21/w...
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- 📣 Just one week left to apply for Mnemonics 2025! The upcoming edition of the Mnemonics Summer School—on the theme of “Memory and Responsibility”—will take place in Ghent, Belgium, from 10 to 12 September 2025.
- Climate leader and soon-to-be UGent honorary doctor Christiana Figueres in conversation with students and staff! 💚🌎
- "If anything, my detention is a testament to the strength of the student movement in shifting public opinion toward Palestinian liberation. Students have long been at the forefront of change . . . Today, too, . . . it is students who steer us toward truth and justice."
- “‘We Are Witnessing a New Brain Drain’ as Scientists Flee America for France” gizmodo.com/we-are-witne...
- Gunter Demnig, initiator of the Stolpersteine project commemorating victims of Nazism, is receiving an honorary doctorate from UGent. On 20 March 2025, the Faculty of Arts and Philosophy will be hosting a public event featuring an interview with Demnig. RSVP here: event.ugent.be/registration....
- "It comes after a Future Forum survey found that 72% of 14-18-year-olds want more relevant and rigorous climate change education, with a demand for more humanities and social sciences-based climate education."
