Statement of Solidarity with Wageningen Student Encampment
We support the student-led movement on campus to pressure WUR to divest, boycott, and disclose ties with Israeli institutions and companies complicit in apartheid, occupation, genocide, and ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian people. From May until end of November, students were camping on the bridge between Orion and Forum, while months of negotiation with the Board to end complicity in human rights violations seemed to be ignored, downplayed, or defended in the name of ''academic freedom''! We stand behind the students demands and urge the Boards to reorient from fantasy, hypocrisy, and denial towards accountability and justice.
Upcoming Events
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REST,EMBODY,RESIST: 3-part workshop w/ Zahira Mous
Update: First session starts on the 20th!
Update: First session starts on the 20th!
Join us for our three-part workshop series: REST EMBODY RESIST with Zahira Mous
Workshop dates: 20, 26 February 2025, from 5-8 pm. As we build up the content and the trust in the group, we generally expect attendance in all three sessions unless communicated with us for certain circumstances.
Location: Clockhouse building Old library (Generaal Foulkesweg 37, Wageningen)
Questions to: otherwise@wur.nl
Sign up: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1HaczU_P5ne2y48ikmF6uudZU9QmsPGHyZBx7CoSWSJ4/edit
This three-part workshop is focused on movement and mind-body connection, for people who want to heal and learn in a group setting. Zahira uses decolonized healing methods to help the community cope with the demanding reality of being human. Modalities utilized: sharing and listening, EFT, moving from the wisdom of the body, and creativity. It is a three-part workshop series during which we deepen the work each session, diving into layers of our being, making an inner inquiry and creating space within (sometimes questions, sometimes answers). With this work, you'll gain tools to help regulate your nervous system, increasing self-awareness through recognizing your worth, as well as connecting to (building) community. Welcome to REST | EMBODY | RESIST.
For whom?
Rest And Resist emerged as a platform for needing a supportive and safe space for fellow activists and artists fighting for a free Palestine, and beyond. Their work focuses on fighting exhaustion, separation, burnout, harm, and disillusionment in activist movements. If you are longing for a collective space where you can rest with intent to co-regulate, build resilience, supportive networks, mutual care, and trust, this space is for you. As we will use our bodies to move and heal what needs healing, we aim to accommodate bodies of different abilities. If you have any questions or concerns weather this space is for you, please don't hesitate to reach out to us at otherwise@wur.nl .
Feminist Radical Quiltmaking with Dyke March Amsterdam!
Time to reclaim traditionally 'feminine' 'crafts' for the radical act that they are!
In honor of Women's March, OtherWise and Amsterdam Dyke March are coming together to bring you a Radical Quiltmaking Workshop 💜
Date : March 6th, 2025
Time : 17:00-20:00
Location : Clockhouse (General Foulkesweg 37, 6703BL)
Each participant will embroider or paint words and doodles of resistance on themes surrounding feminism, or have the opportunity to learn some simple patchworing techniques!
Together, these patches will form a feminsit radical quilt that we will parade during the Women's March in Wageningen!✊
Materials and snacks will be provided. Just sign up and bring yourself! Sign up here !
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Freedom Tours Wageningen
We'd like to share with you a special capita selecta that we've put together for WUR students wishing to contribute to the Freedom Tours Wageningen initiative. In this capita selecta, which runs from early March to early July, a small group of students, together with Wageningen residents of various backgrounds, will go through a process of co-creating a guided walking tour on freedom s that will be made available to local residents, staff and students by late June. For this pilot tour route, we will be using a gender and queer lens to engage with freedom s, past, present and future. Should this preliminary tour work well, we will develop further tour routes using other lenses over the next years.
We will be able to offer university credit to students that participate (hence the capita selecta); non-students involved will receive some volunteer compensation. Because of the length and unique nature of this project, WUR students wishing to participate in this capita selecta are requested to submit a letter of motivation to meghann.ormond@wur.nl by mid-February (see all details in the attached course brochure).
The initiative is supported by the Vrijheidskwartier, the Wageningen municipal government's 80 Years of Freedom fund, Wageningen 45, WUR's D&I unit, Society-Based Education/Learning Ecosystem Wageningen, and Tourism@WUR.
MSc Thesis Topics - Cultural Geography
Are you looking for supervisors for your Master's thesis? Brainstorming topics but not sure which one to pick? Then maybe this list will help you decide! The Cultural Geography group (GEO) has put together a nice list of possible theses options for students, and we thought we'd share them here to help you make this difficult decision. Many of these topics align with what we're doing at OtherWise, think 'Art in Climate Change', 'What does Freedom mean to you?', 'Human-nature interactions' and more.
Does one of these topics call out to you?
Curious and want more information? Contact cheryl.vanadrichem@wur.nl for more info :)
And if you're still looking, consider the possibility of doing a combined thesis-internship with OtherWise!
Are you still looking for a course to take in period 6? We think this will float your boat :)
This course is for MSc and PhD students in
social and environmental sciences who want
to learn and engage more with gender and
other intersecting socio-ecological differences in their study/professional domain by applying those perspectives to concrete cases.
Topics:
- feminist approaches (eg: history, epistemology, political ecology, more-than-human)
- care
- masculinity
- decolonization
- food
- issues in feminist research
Contact chizu.sato@wur.nl for more info!
Past Events
Poisoning the well: toxic behaviours in Academia
When: Wednesday February 12 @17:30
Where: Dance room, WUR Clockhouse (Generaal Foulkesweg 37, 6703 BL Wageningen)
There are several reasons why we enroll at a university and there are several ways in which a university education contributes to our personal and professional development. A degree can open doors to many different career paths, classes can be a great opportunity to meet new people, and some university professors are great mentors. However, the same classrooms can impact us in less constructive ways: since we are compelled to prove we are better, smarter, and more special than those around us.
Tonight, we will explore how universities shape us through discussing public intellectuals, people who make a living by being visibly smarter and more special than others. (Self-reflection can only be truly effective, if we ask ourselves the toughest questions, like, do we have something in common with Jordan Peterson?;))
Vegan snacks and tea will be provided :)
Towards Decolonial Futures (workshop)
Time: 5th Dec 2024, 17.00 - 19.30 h
Location: Clockhouse (Generaal Foulkesweg 37, Wageningen), room: Old Library
Join this dynamic and reflective workshop with Niki & Katha, where we will explore the themes of decoloniality, accountability, and responsibility. Using the "7 steps forward, 7 steps backward or aside" framework, we will open up a space for awareness, self-reflection, and meaningful conversation.
This workshop will invite participants to examine the inner work required to confront and unlearn colonial mindsets, especially for those of us living in the Global North. Through dialogue, movement, and community-building, we will raise essential questions of accountability:
What does it mean to take accountability for historical and ongoing inequities? How do we navigate our roles in systems of power and privilege? What does this inner work of deconstruction look like?
Together, we reflect on power, privilege, complexity, and positionality, creating an inclusive and brave space for everyone to share their perspectives. The aim is to foster a sense of connection and community that will inspire participants to carry this work forward.
This is an invitation to move together—whether we take steps forward, backward, or aside—as we engage in this collective journey.