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Starting in September 2022, Lidewyde Berckmoes was invited for a three-month Embassy Science Fellowship at the Embassy of the Netherlands in Jakarta. She was asked to contribute ‘to structurally strengthen Indonesian knowledge of Africa’ and relations with African countries’ research institutions.

Harry Wels has been appointed Extraordinary Professor at the Department of Women's and Gender Studies (WGS) at the University of the Western Cape (UWC) in South Africa. Harry's research is about organisational structures of cooperation in the context of nature conservation, touching on broader issues in Human-Animal studies. 

This seminar on 2 November by Sharyn Spicer, University of the Western Cape, uses a social justice lens to shed light on human-animal relationships and to develop contextually appropriate and culturally competent animal welfare interventions.

Azeb Amha and a group of scholars from various universities have won the 2nd and 3rd prize of the Grotevragenprijs competition of the Landelijke Onderzoekschool Taalwetenschap (National Research School of Linguistics, LOT). They have won the prize for an essay on language and interactions with non-human animals.

On 20 June 1962, Tanzanian poet, author, and essayist, Shaaban bin Robert, died in Dar es Salam at the age of 53. Robert is celebrated as one of the greatest Tanzanian Swahili thinkers, intellectuals and writers in East Africa and has been called "poet laureate of Swahili" and is also known as the "Father of Swahili."