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Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies @dependencybonn.de · 29/09/2026

Children's Testimonies: Unlocking Historical and Art Historical Archives 28 to 30 October in Bonn. How do children bear witness, and what can archives tell us? Register by 20 October. @unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de buff.ly/DYawbtp @unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de

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Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies @dependencybonn.de · 29/09/2026

We are inviting applications for a Research Group Leader in cooperation with the Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory connecting Historically Informed Dependency Studies with historical regimes of normativity. Deadline: 20.10.2026 buff.ly/xC5e4wN @unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de

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Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies @dependencybonn.de · 29/09/2026

The second edition of the BCDSS Reader is now available! 📖 The Reader brings together key texts from BCDSS publications and beyond. Explore the reader and access the second edition: buff.ly/23MroX5 @unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de

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Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies @dependencybonn.de · 29/09/2026

🔔 Call for participation! Join scholars, researchers, and students in Bonn from February 10 to 12, 2027, for the Annual Workshop of the Working Group (AK) Labour Geography! For more details 👉️ buff.ly/avvDq9i @unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de

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Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies @dependencybonn.de · 24/09/2026

📽️ Do not miss this upcoming selection of films at the Kino in der Brotfabrik that dives deep into the realities of asymmetrical dependencies, exploring how local communities navigate power imbalances tied to infrastructure, labor, and ecological capitalism. 🎞️ For more visit 👉️ buff.ly/ErmPJqx

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Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies @dependencybonn.de · 23/09/2026

What did Black freedom mean for the development of citizenship and democracy in the early United States? Don't miss our upcoming #JCMM #Lecture with Damian Pargas! 🗓️ 28 Sept 2026 ⏱️16:15 CEST ❕Hybrid event: Niebuhrstr. 5 or via Zoom 🌐 buff.ly/6mafa5W @unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de

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Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies @dependencybonn.de · 18/09/2026

The Namelessness in History workshop wrapped up at BCDSS: two days of studying people left unnamed by history, from ancient epigraphy to LLMs. Part of "The Nameless in History," funded by @volkswagenstiftung.de. Thanks to all who took part. @unibonn.bsky.social

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Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies @dependencybonn.de · 18/09/2026

Tobacco Echoes is now open at GHL! Artists Ngozi Ajah Schommers & Etinosa Yvonne trace tobacco's colonial history through drawing, assemblage, photo & sound, honouring the women whose labour sustained its cultivation in Oyo State, Nigeria. Through 6 Dec, Wed-Sun 14-18h. P26, Poststraße 26, Bonn

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Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies @dependencybonn.de · 14/09/2026

Upcoming International Workshop! How do historical narratives of violence and trauma evolve into modern systemic structures and psychological realities? 📅 October 5-6. 2026 🕓️ 9:00 AM – 4:00 PM 📍 Egyptian Museum, Poststraße 26, 53111 Bonn For more 👉️ buff.ly/sYyhrpC @unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de

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Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies @dependencybonn.de · 11/09/2026

Thank you to our research group leader Ayesha Hussain for supporting this campaign!

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Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies @dependencybonn.de · 11/09/2026

🎧 If you missed our last Joseph C. Miller Memorial Lecture by Nina Schneider, you can now find the recording on YouTube! buff.ly/H1AbJ88 @unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de

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Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies @dependencybonn.de · 10/09/2026

⏳ DEADLINE APPROACHING! There is less than a week left to apply! We are looking for 3 Research Group Leaders to join us at the BCDSS. 🗓️🚨 Application Deadline: 15 September 2026 🔗More info and application: buff.ly/Dl9MPS4 @unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de

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Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies @dependencybonn.de · 07/09/2026

Inspiring workshop last Thursday with Prof. Christian Williams discussing his book on Christian Faith and Namibian Liberation! Thank you to Prof. Williams and all who explored the notion of “the personal is political” in the context of ethnographic research. @unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de

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Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies @dependencybonn.de · 02/09/2026

Do not miss our upcoming #JCMM #Lecture with Nina Schneider 🗓️ 07 September 2026 ⏱️16:15 CEST ❕Hybrid event: Niebuhrstr. 5 or via Zoom 👉For more info visit buff.ly/xnLrW1t @unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de

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Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies @dependencybonn.de · 28/08/2026

Join the Wilberforce Institute and the BCDSS for a lecture on "The Register of British Slave Traders" and the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade and the Development of Europe (TASTADE) project. 📅 12 October 2026 🕑️ 4pm CEST 📍 Hybrid Event Registration 👉️ buff.ly/ImIEf3k @unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de

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Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies @dependencybonn.de · 27/08/2026

How (In)Dependent were Children in Graeco-Roman Antiquity? Dr. Christian Laes explores childhood in the Roman world and how it was shaped by strong asymmetrical dependencies. Read the full article in the latest DEPENDENT issue 👉 buff.ly/KfpThgB @unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de

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Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies @dependencybonn.de · 21/08/2026

Applications are now open for a W2 Professorship in Economic Anthropology with Tenure Track W3. Full job advertisement here: buff.ly/QNAxMgN @unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de

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Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies @dependencybonn.de · 21/08/2026

Applications are now open for a W2 Professorship in Cultural Heritage with a focus on German Colonialism with Tenure Track W3. Full job advertisement here: buff.ly/cCW52Ff @unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de

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Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies @dependencybonn.de · 21/08/2026

📚️ Volume 32 in the DSS series is out now! Congratulations to Stephan Conermann, Ulbe Bosma and Gijs Kessler on their new publication. buff.ly/mAXFnVX @unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de @iisg-amsterdam.bsky.social @degruyterbrill.bsky.social

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Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies @dependencybonn.de · 14/08/2026

📢 We're hiring! BCDSS seeks 3 Research Group Leaders to help anchor #HistoricallyInformedDependencyStudies — exploring #StrongAsymmetricalDependency across history and cultures. Join an interdisciplinary, international team. 📅 Deadline: 15 Sept 2026 👉 More information here: buff.ly/Dl9MPS4

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Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies @dependencybonn.de · 14/08/2026

🔊 Call for Papers! "South Asians Globally: Im/mobile Workers and Dependencies" Please submit your abstract by 20 September 2026! For more information, read the full open Call for Papers: buff.ly/QrY7qv8 @unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de

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Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies @dependencybonn.de · 13/08/2026

Join us for a book discussion with Prof. Dr. Christian Williams on Christian Faith and Namibian Liberation, hosted by the BCDSS Life Writing Group. 📅 Wednesday, September 2 ⏰️ 4:00 to 6:00 PM 📍 Hybrid Event, Niebuhrstraße 5 (BCDSS) For more info visit: buff.ly/AJr6Heb @unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de

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Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies @dependencybonn.de · 30/07/2026

Congratulations to Research Group Leader Benjamin Etzold and Marie Godin on their new edited volume! You can read it via Open Access now. 👉 buff.ly/FG3gwVo @unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de

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Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies @dependencybonn.de · 24/07/2026

We are very pleased to announce the release of the latest edition of our cluster magazine, dedicated to the theme of Child Dependency. 👉 Read the full issue here: buff.ly/kswbx6s @unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de

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Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies @dependencybonn.de · 22/07/2026

Do not miss our upcoming #JCMM Lecture with Ananya Jahanara Kabir! 🗓️ 27 July 2026 ⏱️16:15 CEST ❕Hybrid event: Niebuhrstr. 5 or via Zoom 👉For more info: buff.ly/vqAPKtA @universitaetbonn @dfg__public

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Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies @dependencybonn.de · 21/07/2026

🎧 If you missed our last Joseph C. Miller Memorial Lecture by Michael E. Sawyer, you can now find the recording on YouTube! Follow the link 👉https://buff.ly/TpxYKKP @unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de

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Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies @dependencybonn.de · 17/07/2026

A big thank you to the Roman Bonn Team, Giulia Cappucci, James Harland and Julia Hillner for that great tour yesterday, uncovering centuries of history right beneath Bonn! 👉 Discover more about hidden history here: buff.ly/m02KX8N @unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de

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Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies @dependencybonn.de · 14/07/2026

📚️ We're thrilled to share the new publication by Anka Steffen, Samuel Eleazar Wendt, and Jutta Wimmler as part of BCDSS' DSS series. 👉 buff.ly/Xs1yWp9 @unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de @degruyterbrill.bsky.social

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Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies @dependencybonn.de · 13/07/2026

Last Thursday the BCDSS hosted the book launch of "Arbeitswelten". Editors Anne Engelhardt and BCDSS Investigator Michaela Doutch, with Research Group Leader Benjamin Etzold, discussed Labour Geography as a critical lens for studying work. Organised with SEAS and bicc. @unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de

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Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies @dependencybonn.de · 06/07/2026

From 1 to 3 July, the workshop Lost Documents and Subaltern Groups in the Early Middle Ages took place at #BCDSS, exploring documentary loss, archival absence, and “evidence of absence” in relation to Strong Asymmetrical Dependencies. @unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de

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Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies @dependencybonn.de · 03/07/2026

How do workers form and shape places and spaces of re/production in today’s capitalism? Join us for the upcoming book launch and discussion of “Arbeitswelten” (Doutch/Engelhardt/López/Premchander/Wenner, 2026). More: buff.ly/W1jFfKY @unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de

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Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies @dependencybonn.de · 30/06/2026

Congratulations to #BCDSS Research Group Leader Sinah Kloß for her supervision of Martha Bingeler’s outstanding BA thesis! See more here: buff.ly/xNSW8XG @unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de

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Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies @dependencybonn.de · 29/06/2026

The BCDSS conference “Ottoman Slaveries and Typologies of Unfreedom” explored labour, gendered dependencies, spatial settings, and post-manumission dependencies in the Ottoman world. Many thanks to all speakers, participants, and organizers. @unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de

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Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies @dependencybonn.de · 29/06/2026

Dr. James M. Harland, Postdoctoral Researcher at the BCDSS, contributes to the July 2026 "Head to Head" in History Today: "How did the English Arrive in Britain?" buff.ly/ryhKjG8 @unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de

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Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies @dependencybonn.de · 26/06/2026

Thank you to Emma Christopher, Sergio Leyva Seiglie and Dován for an inspiring discussion after 'Viva Yurumanguí'. Their testimony showed how music, community, and cultural traditions remain vital forms of resistance against violence and dispossession. @unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de

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Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies @dependencybonn.de · 24/06/2026

📚️ Congratulations to BCDSS Investigator Martin Bentz (University of Bonn) and former BCDSS PhD Researcher Patrick Zeidler (Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Munich, Germany) on their new publication! buff.ly/xedJv1m (Open access) @unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de @degruyterbrill.bsky.social

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Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies @dependencybonn.de · 23/06/2026

Congratulations to BCDSS investigator Jun.-Prof. Dr. Alice Toso on the publication of Human Identities in the Archaeological Record (Bloomsbury Academic, 2026), co-edited with Annamaria Diana and Daniela Marcu-Istrate. @unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de

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Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies @dependencybonn.de · 22/06/2026

Three inspiring days at the workshop “Plantation Lives, Gender and Material Culture” have come to an end. We are deeply grateful to all speakers and participants for enabling such a vibrant exchange. @unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de @flindersuniversity.bsky.social

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Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies @dependencybonn.de · 22/06/2026

🎧 If you missed our last Joseph C. Miller Memorial Lecture by Indranil Acharya, you can now find the recording on YouTube! You can now find the recording on YouTube! 👉 buff.ly/QUumamk @unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de

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Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies @dependencybonn.de · 19/06/2026

Thanks to Tsitsi Jaji, speaker at this year's #Juneteenth Lecture! Combining the perspectives of an acclaimed academic and artist, she created a truly engaging and unifying space that combined scholarship, poetry, music, and collective reflection. @unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de @nas-bonn.bsky.social

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Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies @dependencybonn.de · 18/06/2026

Today, Plantation Lives, Gender, and Material Culture continued with a film screening and panels on Pacific missionary work, communities, and collecting, tracing plantation economies, colonial networks, object circulation, and coerced labour histories. @dependencybonn.de @unibonn.bsky.social

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Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies @dependencybonn.de · 18/06/2026

📕 Congrats to former BCDSS Guest Researcher Tâmis Parron on the publication of 'Slavery in Capitalism: A Deep History of Elements in Ancient and Pre-Modern Economies." ‼️ Available as free download for a couple of days: buff.ly/HTn6HBH @unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de @universitypress.cambridge.org

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Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies @dependencybonn.de · 17/06/2026

We are absolutely thrilled to welcome colleagues from Australia, PNG, Fiji, the Philippines, the US, Austria, France, Switzerland, and Germany for the three day workshop „Plantation Lives, Gender and Material Culture". @unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de @flindersuniversity.bsky.social

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Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies @dependencybonn.de · 17/06/2026

Do not miss our next #JCMM Lecture with Michael E. Sawyer! 🗓️ 22 June 2026 ⏱️16:15 CET ❕Hybrid event: Niebuhrstr. 5 or via Zoom 👉For more info buff.ly/C9BYjj2 @unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de

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Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies @dependencybonn.de · 16/06/2026

Today at GHL: a book talk on indenture, blackbirding, and resistance in the Western Pacific, followed by the opening of Jasmine Togo-Brisby's Liquid Archive. Thanks to everyone who joined us for a day of conversation on memory, colonialism, and survival. @unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de

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Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies @dependencybonn.de · 16/06/2026

🎧 If you missed our last Joseph C. Miller Memorial Lecture by Benjamin Selwyn, you can now find the recording on YouTube! You can now find the recording on YouTube! 👉 buff.ly/gyQRzln @unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de

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Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies @dependencybonn.de · 12/06/2026

In this second reel from our first Dependency Talkshop, Nadine Segadlo, Benjamin Etzold, and Marie Blaschtschak reflect on violence faced by refugee women, constrained agency, and the importance of empowerment and solutions built on lived experience. buff.ly/5TLRWt0 @unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de

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Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies @dependencybonn.de · 12/06/2026

📚 New publications by BCDSS postdoctoral researcher and research group leader Sinah Kloß, "Filming Mother: Performing Respectability through Ethnographic Documentaries on Guyanese Kali-Mai Puja" 👉 For more info, visit buff.ly/WBD0V5G @unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de

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