The Art & Ecology research group at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts is happy to invite you to the next session of the Art & Ecology Reading Group.
The Reading Group gathers monthly at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp. Each meeting, we will read and discuss relevant and urgent selected articles within the field of enquiry of the Art & Ecology research group. The group welcomes everyone - researchers, staff, students, alumni or otherwise - who wishes to participate.
Thursday 23 April 2026, 17:00-19:00
During our meeting on 23 April, we'll discuss the first chapter ("The Wounds") from the publication The World We Once Lived In by Wangari Maathai - founder of the Green Belt Movement in Kenya and the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize in 2004.
The World We Once Lived In appeared in 2021 as a part of the Green Ideas series, published by Penguin Books.
In order to learn more about the Green Belt Movement, we will additionally read Maathai's acceptance speech at the Nobel Prize ceremony.
Warm regards,
Eva-Fiore Kovacovsky, Sina Hensel and Roel Arkesteijn
