Presentations

Poster: L’art des problèmes. Penser avec Isabelle Stengers Conference

Olivia Angé

L’art des problèmes. Penser avec Isabelle Stengers
12 > 18 August 2026
Cover : Réserve écrite de la vie des pommes de terre Conference

Olivia Angé & Thierry de Crombrugghe

Les livres de l’Institut de Sociologie
18 June 2026
Planting the Scene Discussant

Olivia Angé

Planting the Scene
20 May 2026
Image Phd Defense Thesis PhD Thesis Defense

Gabriel Roman Graton

Flourishing Milpas: Respectful Care among Humans, Maize, and Deities in the Mixe Highlands, Mexico
18 December 2025
Seeds Scenius Keynote

Olivia Angé

Seed Scenius: Reinventing the History of Seed Innovation
26 March 2026
Rau: Decolonising Plant Knowledge: Voices from Subverted Plant Worlds Seminar

Olivia Angé

Rau: Decolonising Plant Knowledge: Voices from Subverted Plant Worlds
11 March 2026
Seed Pasts / Seeding Futures Interdisciplinary Symposium

Olivia Angé

Seed Pasts / Seeding Futures
12 & 13 April 2025
Workshop

Olivia Angé

Les diversités dans les mondes humains-non-humains.
6 February 2025
National University of Laos - Transition to Market-Oriented Wet-Rice Cultivation Lecture and panel discussion

Paul-David Lutz

National University of Laos - Transition to Market-Oriented Wet-Rice Cultivation
18 December 2024
Human Potato Relatedness and Affective Attunement across Species in the Peruvian Highlands Conference

Olivia Angé

Social and Cultural Anthropology Lab Seminar Series
8 March 2024
Potato Portraits for a Subversive Seed Catalogue in the Peruvian Andes Conference

Olivia Angé

Images, Sound and Performance as Ways of Knowing
6 March 2024
Care and respect in the mixe milpas Virtual seminar

Gabriel G. Roman & Diana A. Prelorenzo

Seminario Diálogos Interdisciplinarios (CEMCA)
20 December 2023
The seeds are not lost preservation and loss of mixe corn in Tamazulapam del espirito santo Seminar

Gabriel G. Roman

Universidad Comunal del Cempoaltepetl (UNICEM)
26 November 2023
Logo Royal Anthropological Institute Reviewer Meets Reviewed Virtual seminar

Olivia Angé & Sofia Ugarte

Royal Anthropological Institute Reviewer meets Reviewed
11 October 2023
Potato Verses as Interspecies Respect in the Potato Park of the Peruvian Highlands Keynote Address

Olivia Angé

Multispecies Ethnography Artistic Methods
4 July 2023
Tuberous Worskshop

Olivia Angé

SPIRAL Seminar
7 April 2023
Tradition is the New Normal: Food and Farming Revivalism as Response to Crises Conference

Owen McNamara

Finnish Anthropological Society
21 > 23 March 2023
Plant as/and Humans: Southern Epistemologies and Floral Turn Conference

Olivia Angé

Plants as/and Humans: Southern Epistemologies and ‘Floral Turn’
21 & 22 November 2022
Cover: Anthropology Department Seminar KUL Conference

Olivia Angé

Anthropology Department Seminar KUL
19 October 2022
Heroes and Villains in the Anthropocene Virtual seminar

Olivia Angé

Heroes and Villains in the Anthropocene
8 & 9 September 2022
Building bridges Around David Graeber’s legacy Conference

Anna-Céline Sommerfeld

Building bridges Around David Graeber’s legacy
7 > 9 July 2022
Collège de France Workshop

Gabriel G. Roman

Ordinary Life in Philosophy and Anthropology
16 & 17 June 2022

Workshops and Conferences

Poster: Eating in Theory - Conversations with Annemarie Mol Conference

Olivia Angé, Sarah O'Neill, Sasha Newell

Eating in Theory - Conversations with Annemarie Mol
19 May 2026
Human-Plant Relations in Latin America Workshop

Gabriel G. Roman

Human-Plant Relations in Latin America
18 October 2024
Journée Art Science ULB Conference

Vanessa Yupanki Huarka, Olivia Angé, Thierry de Crombrugghe

Journée Art-Science ULB
18 October 2024
Ethics, Affect and Moral Judgement amidst Momentous Change in Laos Conference panel

Paul-David Lutz & Rosalie Stolz

EEUROSEAS Conference
22 > 26 July 2024
Plantas personas y florecimiento mutuo en Oaxaca Workshop

Gabriel G. Roman

Plantas, Personas y Florecimiento Mutuo en Oaxaca
12 December 2023
Corn Conference

Owen McNamara

The Politics and Political Possiblities of Alternative Food Movements
13 > 15 September 2023
Respecting Seeds Conference

Olivia Angé & Xan Chacko & Katie Dow

Respecting Seeds
28 > 30 June 2023
Tradition is the New Normal: Food and Farming Revivalism as Response to Crises Conference panel

Owen McNamara

Association of Social Anthropologists of the UK
11 April 2023
Agricultural Affect Workshop

Olivia Angé & Gabriel Roman

Agricultural Affect
30th June 2022
Conferences

Olivia Angé & David Nally

Tuberous Collectivities
14 & 15 March 2022

Guest Speakers

Logo Wal Public lecture

Cristobal Bonelli

ŒMISSIONS Unveiled: Rethinking Emissions Reduction Beyond the Lithium-Ion Battery Black Box
1 March 2024
Lively Citie Public lecture

Maan Barua

Lively Cities – Reconfiguring Urban Ecologies
7 July 2023
Cricket Farming amid the Cornfields Public lecture

Paolina Lu

Cricket Farming Amid the Cornfields: Agricultural Transitions in the American Midwest and the Future of Food
28 April 2023
The Fuel That Will Power the Worl Public lecture

Mark Goodale

The Fuel That Will Power the World: Lithium Industrialization and the Political Economies of the Green Energy Transition
20 April 2023
human vegetal childhoods: insights from a papuan plantationocene Public lecture

Sophie Chao

Human-Vegetal Childhoods: Insights from a Papuan Plantationocene
29 November 2022
Becoming Organic: Ecologies of Enrichment in the Indian Himalaya Public lecture

Shaila Galvin

Becoming Organic: Ecologies of Enrichment in the Indian Himalaya
7 February 2022

Community Outreach

Logo ERC European Workshop

Olivia Angé, Thierry de Crombrugghe, Paul-David Lutz, Gabriel Roman, Daniela Sclavo

ERC Visit to the Lab
16 October 2025
seeds for tomorrow 2025 invited workshop Workshop

Olivia Angé & Daniela Sclavo

Seeds for Tomorrow: 2025 Invited Workshop
8 & 9 September 2025
Release of the Written Repository on the life of Potatoes Public Forum

Olivia Angé

Creation of a Catalogue of Native Seeds Following a Quechua Taxonomy in the Potato Park
4 June 2025
Release of the Written Repository on the life of Potatoes Book Launch

Olivia Angé

Release of the Written Repository on the life of Potatoes
30 May 2025
Provincial Agriculture and Forestry Office - Preserving Rice Varieties Seminar

Paul-David Lutz & Olivia Angé

Provincial Agriculture and Forestry Office - Preserving Rice Varieties
13 December 2024
Revolutions of Rice: Assessing Agri-Cultural Change Among Khmu in Northern Laos Public lecture

Paul-David Lutz

Cultural Studies Series – Revolutions of Rice
11 December 2024
Logo Radio Campus Radio programme

Olivia Angé

Histoire de savoir - Repenser la pomme de terre
27 November 2024
Revolution, Rice and Ritual among Khmu in northern Laos Conference

Paul-David Lutz

TAEC Talk: Revolution, Rice and Ritual among Khmu in northern Laos
17 February 2024
Cuidado y respeto en las milpas mixes Seminar

Olivia Angé & Gabriel G. Roman

Cuidado y respeto en las milpas mixes: reflexiones etnográficas sobre el cultivo de maíz en Tamazulapam del Espíritu Santo, Oaxaca
14 December 2023

Native maize and mixe womens agricultural knowledges Seminar

Gabriel G. Roman

Auditorio Municipal – Tamazulápam del Espíritu Santo, Oaxaca, Mexico
3 December 2023
Tuberous Respect after Progress - Potato Poems Conferences

Olivia Angé

Soilmates
12 & 13 September 2021