Towards a Ruined Theater (2024)
Beneath our feet lies a hidden world, a marvel of nature woven from microscopic threads that collectively form mycelium. This intricate network serve…
Free your Inner Llama (2022-2024)
Every three years the Chair Casterman-Hamers: History and Philosophy of Sciences appoints a new chairholder. For the period 2022-2024 this is Profess…
A Series of More-Than-Human Encounters (2020-2024)
A Series of More-Than-Human Encounters was a collaboration between Crosstalks and Kaaitheater that explored human–more-than-human relations and the c…
Lost Stories. A Female Gaze on Migration Histories (2023)
For decades, North-African and South-Western Asian female directors have been trying to put an end to gender stereotypes and cultural taboos. By tell…
Tidal Zone Experiences (2023)
Tidal Zone Experiences is an exhibition of the Platform for Algae Diplomacy, created by the Brussels-based artists Filip Van Dingenen and Hélène Meye…
Critical Thinking within Islam (2021-2024)
VUB Crosstalks and Moussem set up a lecture series on critical thinking within Islam. In their ideas about Islamic civilisation both Muslim extremist…
AflamNa (2020 - 2023)
De Fatima Mernissi Leerstoel biedt met het project AflamNa (‘Onze films’) een forum om thema's zoals genderstereotypen, seksualiteit en macht bespree…
Reason and Engage (2020-2021): Why do we put up with poverty?
Redelijk Eigenzinnig / Reason and Engage (VUB) is an interdisciplinary course for students and a series of lectures and activities open to all. The s…
A mapping of Black womxn and feminist networks in Brussels (2021)
In 2021, Black History Month Belgium will be all about archiving and documenting the past and present of Black people in Belgium. The goal is to work…
Shake the disease (2019-2023)
Since 2005 Crosstalks has been organizing open and constructive dialogues on health and future-oriented health care. With the fifth project, 'Shake t…
Reason and Engage (2019-2020): Climate rage (for just transition)
Redelijk Eigenzinnig / Reason and Engage (VUB) is an interdisciplinary course for students and a series of lectures and activities open to all. The f…
Equal access to health and medical care (2015-2018)
Affordability, accessibility and quality are the three core objectives of our current healthcare model. Our society is changing rapidly: diversity is…
Reason and Engage (2018-2019): Just Peace
‘Reason and Engage. Critical Reflections on Humanity and Society’ is an interdisciplinary course and a series of public lectures and activities organ…
Vergeten koninginnen: vrouwen aan de macht (2019)
Vergeten koninginnen is geïnspireerd op een van de boeken van de vooraanstaande Marokkaanse sociologe en moslimfeministe, Fatima Mernissi, namelijk S…
Bozar Occupied: 50 years of cultural protest (2018)
Fifty years ago, the Centre for Fine Arts was the hotbed of artistic activism in Brussels. From 28 May until 8 June of that year, artists and student…
Reason and Engage (2017-2018): Technocalyps or Technotopia?
Reason and Engage is an interdisciplinary course and a series of public lectures and activities organized by the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB). Ed…
De Fatima Mernissi boekenkaravaan (2018)
De Fatima Mernissi boekenkaravaan maakt deel uit van de Fatima Mernissi Leerstoel. Het project vindt haar inspiratie in de burgerkaravaan (caravane c…
Slam The City (2017)
Op 30 november 2015 overleed Fatima Mernissi. Zij was een vooraanstaande Marokkaanse sociologe die van groot belang was in de ontwikkeling van het fe…
Duurzame dinsdagen (2016)
De VUB streeft ernaar om in al haar activiteiten rekening te houden met de duurzame ontwikkeling van de instelling. Na het bindend klimaatakkoord van…
Selfcity Ateliers - Exploring the commons in Brussels (2015)
Globalization and urbanization have lead the world into a profound transition. Society and politics adapted themselves to that transition, but mainly…
AHA - Active and Healthy Aging (2013-2014)
Active & Healthy Aging - AHA - is about the strategies, conditions and criteria to enable older people to enjoy a good quality of life - health a…
Optimal partnerships through transparancy (2009-2012)
After the successful launch of the third Crosstalks book 'In Sickness and in Health' and in continuation of the Future of Medication project we are h…
Campustalks (2009-2015)
Campustalks is an initiative by the rectorate of Vrije Universiteit Brussel, developed and organized by Crosstalks since 2009. The idea is to enhance…
The Future of Medication (2005-2009)
From 2005 until 2009, Crosstalks ran a bottom-up and interdisciplinary project “The Future of Medication in a Patient-centered Health Care”, a series…