Publication Types:

Rouw om de planeet: Leven met verlies in het antropoceen

General-Audience Article
Stef Craps
rekto:verso 7 March 2024. Rpt. and trans. (into Croatian) in Kulturpunkt.hr 2024.
Publication year: 2024

Verdriet, angst, wanhoop, schuldgevoelens en woede: geconfronteerd met de klimaatcatastrofe spelen verschillende emoties op, maar die krijgen vooralsnog weinig plaats en erkenning in de samenleving. Kunstenaars en activisten ontwikkelen ondertussen rouwpraktijken. Die zijn niet zaligmakend, maar wel noodzakelijk om voorbij het collectieve ontwijkingsgedrag te geraken.

Putting the Anthropocene on Display: An Inspiration Guide

General-Audience Article
Stef Craps, Rick Crownshaw, Deniz Gündoğan İbrişim, and Jenny Wüstenberg
Working Paper 2, WG5 “Transformation of the Environment,” Slow Memory COST Action. 22 May 2024.
Publication year: 2024

This working paper presents a multifaceted examination of four innovative impact projects that address the challenge of memorializing the Anthropocene, the new geological epoch characterized by massive human influence on the planet. Authored by four members of the “Transformation of the Environment” working group of the Slow Memory COST Action, it delves into diverse initiatives spanning the realms of art, museum curation, commemoration, and tourism. Each project offers a distinct and unique approach to getting the public to engage with the realities, complexities, and complicities of living in a time of climate and ecological crisis.

Stef Craps discusses a climate-themed guided tour of the Museum of Fine Arts Ghent in Belgium that aims to initiate conversations about environmental change among museum visitors by interpreting historical artworks as climate witnesses. Rick Crownshaw proposes a new methodology for exhibiting the Anthropocene that seeks to transform encyclopaedic museum spaces such as the Royal Albert Memorial Museum in Exeter, UK, into platforms for public reflection and education on humanity’s role in shaping planetary systems. Deniz Gündoğan İbrişim explores the Gümüşlük Academy Foundation’s “Garden” in Turkey’s ancient Aegean region, which serves as a nexus for interdisciplinary dialogue on the socio-environmental challenges of the Anthropocene. Finally, Jenny Wüstenberg introduces the MEMO Project’s ambitious endeavour to commemorate extinct species and foster biodiversity awareness through an immersive underground experience at the Eden Portland site on England’s Jurassic Coast, assisted by a mobile app that allows users to engage with this remote site from wherever they find themselves.

Together, these projects exemplify a variety of ways to put the Anthropocene on display that, we hope, will inspire other memory scholars and practitioners to develop novel creative practices of engagement with our environmental predicament.

Literatuur is een krachtig middel om aandacht te vragen voor de ongelijke gevolgen van de klimaatcrisis

General-Audience Article
Stef Craps
Green Deal Klimaatbestendige Omgeving 17 September 2024.
Publication year: 2024

Groene geesten: De humanities en de klimaatcrisis

General-Audience Article
Stef Craps
Binnenstebuiten 6 (September 2024): 3-4.
Publication year: 2024

Even voorstellen: Ursula Heise

General-Audience Article
Stef Craps
Binnenstebuiten 6 (September 2024): 18-19.
Publication year: 2024

Een Maus in de koolmijn

General-Audience Article
Stef Craps
De Standaard 2 Feb. 2022. 34-35.
Publication year: 2022

Literatuur en klimaathoop

General-Audience Article
Stef Craps
Dilemma: Studentenblad van de Blandijn 17 (March 2021): 41-42.
Publication year: 2021

Introduction to Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower

General-Audience Article
Stef Craps
“Literature / History / Human Rights,” a public-facing online reading project at the University of Tromsø, Norway, 29 March 2021.
Publication year: 2021

Fragment 95 and commentary for hand-written lockdown edition of Max Havelaar by Multatuli

General-Audience Article
Stef Craps
Ed. Jacqueline Bel and Willemien van Dijk. Amsterdam: Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, 2020-2021.
Publication year: 2021

Poëtisch verzet tegen de teloorgang van de natuur

General-Audience Article
Stef Craps
Gent Leest 3 Feb. 2020.
Publication year: 2020

Leestip: Verloren woorden van Robert Macfarlane en Jackie Morris, vertaald door Bibi Dumon Tak.

Testimony for #WeChangeForLife

General-Audience Article
Stef Craps
#WeChangeForLife initiative, featuring testimonies by 250 scientists and scholars about taking action for the environment. 13 Apr. 2019.
Publication year: 2019

Op wandel met Guido in Leuven, Gent en Ieper

General-Audience Article
Stef Craps
Sparks and Lustrous Words: Literary Walks, Cultural Pilgrimages: Essays in Honour of Guido Latré. Ed. Paul Arblaster, Ingrid Bertrand, Véronique Bragard, and Dirk Delabastita. Louvain-la-Neuve: Presses universitaires de Louvain, 2019. 393-94.
Publication year: 2019

Klimaatfictie in de Lage Landen?

General-Audience Article
Stef Craps and Mahlu Mertens
rekto:verso 27 Feb. 2019. Rpt. in Er hangt iets in de lucht: Jongerenverzet tegen klimaatonverschilligheid. Ed. Lukas De Vos. Arkprijs van het Vrije Woord 2019: Kyra Gantois & Anuna De Wever (Youth for Climate). Antwerp: De Vrienden van de Zwarte Panter, 2019. 65-73.
Publication year: 2019

Met het water al bijna aan de lippen vragen Stef Craps en Mahlu Mertens zich af of de klimaatopwarming Nederlandstalige fictieschrijvers niet een beetje te koud laat.

De verbeelding van het Antropoceen

General-Audience Article
Stef Craps
Antropoceen. Spec. issue of AGORA Magazine 34.1 (2018): 22-23.
Publication year: 2018

Het Antropoceen is geen puur geologische aangelegenheid. Het concept mag dan wel uit de koker van “harde” wetenschappers zijn ontsproten; het zorgt ook voor grote bedrijvigheid bij “zachte” wetenschappers en cultuurmakers. Zij worstelen met de morele en existentiële vragen die het tijdperk van de mens oproept.

The Grey Zone

General-Audience Article
Stef Craps
Encylopédie critique du témoignage et de la mémoire. Ed. Philippe Mesnard. 21 Aug. 2016.
Publication year: 2016

The One. Essay on Roger Federer

General-Audience Article
Stef Craps
De adelaar van Benidorm: Over bijnamen in de sport. Ed. Arne De Winde, Oliver Ibsen, Steffy Merlevede, and Pieter Verstraeten. Antwerp: Houtekiet, 2015. 27-29.
Publication year: 2015

"In ruil voor zogenaamde vrijheid en gratis spullen laten we toe dat we worden bespied": Interview met Dave Eggers en Mimi Lok

General-Audience Article
Sean Bex and Stef Craps
Knack.be 31 Oct. 2015.
Publication year: 2015

The Grey Zone

General-Audience Article
Stef Craps
Dictionnaire testimonial et mémoriel. Témoigner: Entre histoire et mémoire 118 (Sept. 2014): 202-03.
Publication year: 2014

Interview met Graham Swift

General-Audience Article
Stef Craps
Knack.be 14 Nov. 2009.
Publication year: 2009

De ware roeping van de schrijver: Interview met Graham Swift

General-Audience Article
Stef Craps
rekto:verso 38 (Nov.-Dec. 2009).
Publication year: 2009

No Short-Cuts to Salvation: Trauma and Ethics in the Novels of Graham Swift

General-Audience Article
Stef Craps
Mededelingenblad van de Leuvense Germanistenvereniging 17.1 (2003-2004): 38-40.
Publication year: 2004

"Getting Rid of 'Needless Painful Knowledge''': The Flight from Trauma in Graham Swift's Shuttlecock

General-Audience Article
Stef Craps
The Victorian Web. Website maintained by George P. Landow, Brown University. 7 May 2003.
Publication year: 2003

Woeste hoogten. Article on Wuthering Heights, by Emily Brontë

General-Audience Article
Stef Craps
Muziek & Woord Apr. 1999: 17.
Publication year: 1999

De onversaagde Hemingway-held. Article on Ernest Hemingway

General-Audience Article
Stef Craps
Muziek & Woord Feb. 1999: 15.
Publication year: 1999

Fatale ficties. Essay on Salman Rushdie

General-Audience Article
Stef Craps
Nieuw Wereldtijdschrift 15.4 (1998): 40-46.
Publication year: 1998