Gillian Mathys

Fractured Pasts in Lake Kivu’s Borderlands - Egmont Institute Prof. Dr. Gillian Mathys’ latest book provides an in-depth and historically grounded explanation of the ongoing conflict in East-Congo, beyond commonly assumed reductive narratives. As a historian wit...

Hello, I wrote a book. I am going to talk about it soon with Godefroid Muzalia and Koen Vlassenroot. You are all welcome on November 6 at the Egmont Institute in Brussels, but you'll have to register.

www.egmontinstitute.be/events/fract...

www.egmontinstitute.be/events/fract...

Oh it's out! Congratulations! I had been looking for it already!

New article 'Looking for the local: The Politics of Humanitarian Recruitment in DRC' reveals how aid agencies can fuel social tensions when the 'local' aid category interacts with existing discourses around belonging, authority, and territory muse.jhu.edu/pub/35/artic...

YouTube video by Sorbonne Université Ruben Um Nyobé. Mort d’un leader

13 septembre 1958, le leader indépendantiste camerounais Ruben Um Nyobé est assassiné.
📸 L’armée française prend son cadavre en photo. Pour quelles raisons ?
Les explications de @kramondy.bsky.social dans cette vidéo : youtu.be/T_ragmYeyHA?...

🤝 @sorbonne-universite.fr @cnrs.fr @aphg.bsky.social

Leaflet about Archival Ambivalence event, 28 October, London WC1B. Shows archivist looking in archive.

De Morgen published an op-ed by Prof. Gillian Mathys (UGent) & others: “Scrapping support for IOB: Flanders is shooting itself in the foot.” It warns that cutting IOB hurts knowledge, cooperation & reputation.
✍️ Sign & share: https://chng.it/8DhtrFSBpm
📖 Read (NL): https://loom.ly/Dg9QyZc

Ondersteuning voor het IOB schrappen: Vlaanderen schiet zichzelf in de voet

Gillian Mathys is hoofddocent Afrikaanse geschiedenis aan de UGent. De auteur schrijft dit opiniestuk samen met een tiental ondertekenaars.

Waarom Vlaanderen echt de financiële ondersteuning voor het @IOB niet mag stopzetten

www.demorgen.be/meningen/ond...

True. I do see more "delve" than ever before --and I feel sorry for people who've always used it 😅

True. I do see more "delve" than ever before --and I feel sorry for people who've always used it 😅

Turning him into a martyr

As a non-native English speaker, I've been using "navigating", "not just...but", and the construction with "merely" for years. I abhor AI-language, but I do think we need to be careful not to take the presence of these expressions now automatically as proof of an AI-generated text

Famous last words

Luddites of the world, unite?

Ik ga eerst deze kopen

Gaat het ook over Pokémon?

It turns out that protecting hate speech did not create the conditions to protect other kinds of speech; instead, it protected hate and allowed hate movements to take over all the institutions of that might have defended the rest of us.

"Exciting opportunity" is doing a lot here. Unbelievable

Manifestation nationale contre le génocide en cours à Gaza Retrouvez le groupe Amnesty International en face de la tour Luminus au 7 Boulevard Albert II 1210 Saint-Josse. ❌ Manifestation carton rouge ! (…)

7 Sep, Brussels

Manifestation nationale contre le génocide en cours à Gaza - Amnesty International Belgique

In Kinshasa they are already trying this (the traffic jams there are terrible, but the robot cannot be blamed for that)

Has anyone had some experience with letting students make annotated pdfs in part as a way to prevent them from just relying on AI summaries? There are always in class discussions, and there will be a kind of oral exam as well.

Idd, moraliteit is er de basis van...

Wat me vooral stoort is dat we nu in een wereld terecht zijn gekomen waarin gedaan wordt alsof "moraliteit" een probleem is. Euh ja, genocides zijn slecht.

Nee. Want hij heeft een riant loon, waarmee je heel veel zorg kunt afkopen. Had ik zijn loon, dan was alleenstaande ouder zijn veel en veel makkelijker

But as far as I can see those active people are more and more exclusively right wing *** (redacted)

I have an account, without posts. But I really do need it for research purposes. You cannot search without having the account

Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, scholars' association says Israel has strongly denied that its actions in Gaza amount to genocide and says they are justified as self defense. It is fighting a case at the International Court of Justice.

The world’s leading genocide scholars’ association has passed a resolution saying that the legal criteria have been met to establish Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, its president says.

There was no immediate response from the Israeli foreign ministry.

Please no, in the current state of the world this is really tempting fate

😂😂😂
(Dit is echt een goeie, I'm impressed)

Invité culture - Cinéma: «Le Sang et la Boue», la vie des creuseurs de RDC Le Sang et la Boue de Jean-Gabriel Leynaud est un documentaire qui nous entraîne à Numbi, au Sud-Kivu, où hommes, femmes et enfants creusent à mains nues pour extraire le coltan, pris dans un engrenag...

#RDC "Le Sang et la Boue de Jean-Gabriel Leynaud est un documentaire qui nous entraîne à Numbi, au Sud-Kivu, où hommes, femmes et enfants creusent à mains nues pour extraire le coltan, pris dans un engrenage violent et mondialisé" www.rfi.fr/fr/podcasts/...