Reposted by Gunvor SimonsenIn The Same Sea @inthesamesea.bsky.social · 12/05/2026The team of IN THE SAME SEA is happy to share a dataset about nearly 7,000 enslaved fugitives in Lesser Antilles. Read more at: scholarlypublishingcollective.org/msup/jsdp/ar... Download at: dataverse.harvard.edu/citation?per... Watch at: experience.arcgis.com/experience/2... 🍀🌊🌞 01510
Reposted by Gunvor SimonsenRacialized Motherhood @rm-project.bsky.social · 13/04/2026Team member @feliciafricke.bsky.social will present on her recent article "Stability and survival: #Creole widowhood in St. Eustatius, 1780s-1820s" at a webinar for the European Society of Historical #Demography next week, Tuesday 21st April at 3pm CEST. More info here: www.eshd.eu/eshd-webinar...eshd.euESHD Webinar series | ESHD 051
Reposted by Gunvor SimonsenIn The Same Sea @inthesamesea.bsky.social · 27/02/2026IN THE SAME SEA's team and Dr. Joy Lewis have guest-edited the special issue “Small Islands, Proximity and Connection in the Eastern Caribbean” of the Journal of Caribbean History. See: www.uwipress.com/journals/the... Thanks to all contributors and the journal’s main editor Kathleen Monteith.uwipress.comJournal of Caribbean History | University of the West Indies PressThe Journal of Caribbean History (JCH) is a peer reviewed journal produced by the Departments of History, The University of the West Indies, and published by the University of the West Indies Press. T... 12214
Reposted by Gunvor SimonsenCaribbean Digital Scholarship Collective @caribbeandsc.bsky.social · 16/02/2026Archipelagic thinking invites us to see the Caribbean not as scattered islands, but as a network shaped by movement — of people, culture, and history. The region exists in its connections as much as its geography. #cdsc #academicconcept 011
Reposted by Gunvor SimonsenIn The Same Sea @inthesamesea.bsky.social · 26/01/2026Former researcher at IN THE SAME SEA, Lucas Marin is co-convener of the seminar series “ÉCRIRE L’HISTOIRE DE LA CARAÏBE” for young scholars. Seminars are open, see the exciting program here: 022
Reposted by Gunvor SimonsenRacialized Motherhood @rm-project.bsky.social · 19/01/2026Racialized Motherhood intern Danas Kuzminas has uploaded his 2nd blog post 📰 After hours spent in the (digital) archive, he reflects on how enslaved women and girls were portrayed by their enslavers in #Barbadian fugitive advertisements. Read the post here: racializedmotherhood.blog/2026/01/19/k...racializedmotherhood.blogKitty Pender and Sukey Frances: Enslaved Women in Barbadian NewspapersBy Danas Kuzminas As I worked through hundreds of fugitive advertisements printed in Barbados during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the research process proved increasingly challenging. A… 001
Reposted by Gunvor SimonsenRacialized Motherhood @rm-project.bsky.social · 19/12/2025Racialized Motherhood intern Danas Kuzminas has been looking at #newspapers from colonial #Barbados. In this blog post, you can read what he has noticed about how these sources conveyed colonial viewpoints on the #abolition of slavery: racializedmotherhood.blog/2025/12/18/a...racializedmotherhood.blogAbolition Without Equality: Colonial Morality and the Illusion of FreedomBy Danas Kuzminas. As an intern, joining the research team for the Racialized Motherhood project, my main task is to examine two newspapers (the Barbados Mercury and The Barbadian) printed in Barba… 042
Reposted by Gunvor SimonsenCaribbean Digital Scholarship Collective @caribbeandsc.bsky.social · 08/12/2025Desliza para conocer el artículo Archipiélagos de Jeanmary Lugo González, “Humanidades digitales y las colecciones especiales de la Biblioteca y Hermeroteca Puertorriqueña: el caso de la Colección Juan Mari Brás”. #cdsc #diarioarchipelagos 001
Reposted by Gunvor SimonsenCaribbean Digital Scholarship Collective @caribbeandsc.bsky.social · 24/11/2025How do libraries and archives protect cultural memory in hot, humid, and disaster-prone environments? This week’s post highlights key insights from Libraries & Archives Preservation in Tropical Environments — a practical guide for caring for collections across the Caribbean and beyond. 012
Reposted by Gunvor SimonsenDr. Felicia Fricke @feliciafricke.bsky.social · 17/11/2025Really pleased that this article, a collaboration between many of the members of CoCAH (www.cocah.net) is now available from @peercomjournal.bsky.social 🎉 We propose practical ways to improve #Caribbean #archaeology in the 21st century: peercommunityjournal.org/articles/10....peercommunityjournal.org Rethinking Caribbean Archaeology: Towards an ethical position for a truly decolonial practice 152
Reposted by Gunvor SimonsenCaribbean Digital Scholarship Collective @caribbeandsc.bsky.social · 12/11/2025The Caribbean Digital XII Conference Schedule is live! Swipe to see the lineup, and click the link in bio to see the full conference details, as well as the registration link. We hope to see you in Boston soon! #cdsc #tcdxii 124
Reposted by Gunvor SimonsenRacialized Motherhood @rm-project.bsky.social · 31/10/2025Project team member @feliciafricke.bsky.social has just published a new blog post about widows in St. Eustatius around 1800 #Caribbean #history #colonialism You can read it here: racializedmotherhood.blog/2025/10/31/c...racializedmotherhood.blogCreole Widows as the Most Stable Portion of Colonial SocietyBy Felicia J. Fricke. Between 1789 and 1830, the population structure of the Dutch Caribbean island of St. Eustatius changed markedly. At the beginning of this period, the island was populated by 4… 051
Reposted by Gunvor SimonsenCaribbean Digital Scholarship Collective @caribbeandsc.bsky.social · 07/10/2025The Introduction to Digital Publishing Handbook from the Digital Library of the Caribbean offers a guide to creating and sharing text-based digital publications. Read the handbook at dloc.com/AA00114845/0... #DigitalPublishing #OpenAccess #dLOC #CaribbeanArchives 022
Gunvor Simonsen @gunvorsimonsen.bsky.social · 03/10/2025Tak til Carlsbergfondet for at sætte fokus på Caribiens historie. Den kan vi ikke få for meget af 🍀 Thanks to the Carlsberg Foundation for support Caribbean history. We need it. 🍀 063
Reposted by Gunvor SimonsenCaribbean Digital Scholarship Collective @caribbeandsc.bsky.social · 29/09/2025 001
Reposted by Gunvor SimonsenRacialized Motherhood @rm-project.bsky.social · 03/09/2025Project postdoc @feliciafricke.bsky.social will be presenting in #Sweden at @lnuccon.bsky.social Linnaeus University on 6 November! 🥳 Come along to hear about how long-lived widows contributed to colonial stability in the #Caribbean 🌎 042
Reposted by Gunvor SimonsenCaribbean Philosophical Association @caribphil.bsky.social · 19/08/2025New (May 2025): Afterlives of the Plantation: Plotting Agrarian Futures in the Global Black South – Jarvis C. McInnis | Columbia University Press | More information can be found here: cup.columbia.edu/book/afterli... 001
Reposted by Gunvor SimonsenCaribbean Digital Scholarship Collective @caribbeandsc.bsky.social · 08/08/2025This Historical Figure Friday we honor Harry Belafonte — the legendary singer, actor, and activist who brought Caribbean music to the world stage and used his voice to fight for justice🇯🇲 #HFF #HarryBelafonte #JamaicanPride #CDSC #CaribbeanHistory #HistoricalFridays 021
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Reposted by Gunvor SimonsenIn The Same Sea @inthesamesea.bsky.social · 12/06/2025ITSS 🌊 had a wonderful experience at the 56th Annual Conference of The Association of Caribbean Historians in Trinidad🍃 053
Reposted by Gunvor SimonsenCaribbean Digital Scholarship Collective @caribbeandsc.bsky.social · 21/05/2025We are calling for proposals for The Caribbean Digital XII! Held in memory of Dr. Ángel David Nieves, this year's gathering invites critical work on how media tech reshapes the Caribbean and its diasporas. 🗓 Dec 4–5, 2025 | 📍Northeastern U, Boston 📝 Apply by June 30: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... 014
Reposted by Gunvor SimonsenStephen Legg @stephenlegg11.bsky.social · 19/05/202525 grad students will have accommodation provided (deadline June 9) for this fee-free Summer School, University of Bologna, Italy, Sept 8-12, "Dissonant memories: geographies of migration, colonialism and trauma". centri.unibo.it/memorylab/it... #unibo 01611
Reposted by Gunvor SimonsenRacialized Motherhood @rm-project.bsky.social · 05/05/2025Welcome to the Racialized Motherhood page! 🦋 You can read about our project goals in this interview with PI @silvaperez.bsky.social - dff.dk/en/our-funde...dff.dkNatália da Silva Perez 0152
Reposted by Gunvor SimonsenFondation pour la Mémoire de l'Esclavage @fondationme.bsky.social · 02/05/2025Le 30/04/2025, l’historienne Dominique Rogers a remis à Philippe Baptiste, Ministre de l'ESR, et Antoine Petit, PDG du @cnrs.fr, en présence de Jean-Marc Ayrault, pdt de la FME, le Livre Blanc de la recherche française sur les esclavages qu’elle a coordonné au nom de la FME. 1/4 1178
Reposted by Gunvor SimonsenIn The Same Sea @inthesamesea.bsky.social · 10/04/2025ITSS🌊 PhD Fellow Rasmus Christensen is organising a graduate seminar in early modern #Caribbean #history! 🥳 Send in your application by May 1, 2025 📨 More info can be found here: inthesamesea.ku.dk/news/graduat... 01512
Reposted by Gunvor SimonsenIn The Same Sea @inthesamesea.bsky.social · 31/03/2025Calling #ECRs in #History! 🥳 You can apply to attend the workshop 'From Insurance to Chartered Companies: New developments in the history of business, slavery, and colonialism' at IISH in #Amsterdam! Deadline is April 29, 2025 📨 Email IISH for more information 😊 0108
Reposted by Gunvor SimonsenIn The Same Sea @inthesamesea.bsky.social · 09/04/2025ITSS🌊 Postdoctoral Fellow @feliciafricke.bsky.social has written a short blog post about free women's bad language and the idea of the colonial gentleman in early nineteenth century St. Eustatius, Dutch #Caribbean! 🪶 Read more here: inthesamesea.ku.dk/blog/curse-w... 081
Gunvor Simonsen @gunvorsimonsen.bsky.social · 16/03/2025Read this great article about freedom, fugitivity, and control in Grenada by IN THE SAME SEA’s very own Dr Freund 🌄🇬🇩🍀 000
Gunvor Simonsen @gunvorsimonsen.bsky.social · 06/02/2025Read this insightful interview with Dexnell Peters about Caribbean history! 000
Reposted by Gunvor SimonsenIn The Same Sea @inthesamesea.bsky.social · 06/01/2025The ITSS🌊 team is sad to say goodbye to Heather Freund 😢 She has been a key part of the project, making amazing contributions to the study of #history in the #Caribbean, and we look forward to future collaborations! You can read a message from her here: inthesamesea.ku.dk/news/a-messa... 161