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Concurrences at Linnaeus University @lnuccon.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Welcome, Swagatalakshmi! Swagatalakshmi Saha from the U. of Manchester is visiting Concurrences as a guest researcher during the fall semester. A PhD student in history, her research focusses on a connected history of time, temporality & time-keeping practices between Britain, Switzerland & India.

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Concurrences at Linnaeus University @lnuccon.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Tonight! Sorg & Napoleon Maddox Present the Album ‘1968' 25 September 2026 When: doors open 18:30 for 19:00 Where: Mono (Växjö City) www.lnu.se/en/meet-linn...

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Concurrences at Linnaeus University @lnuccon.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Today! Källa/Source: Nature Resists — Exhibition Opening 12:15, Library, Växjö In a world where injustice is normalized, nature takes its revenge. Napoleon Maddox links stories of enslavement, revolt, & hope with issues of racism, marginalization, & nature’s power. www.lnu.se/en/meet-linn...

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Concurrences at Linnaeus University @lnuccon.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This week we are delighted to welcome back Napoleon Maddox, currently an Artist in Residence at the Cultural University at LNU. We have an exciting series of events planned, beginning this afternoon at Palladium in Växjö with a screening of The Black Power Mixtape. www.lnu.se/.../dku-cult...

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Concurrences at Linnaeus University @lnuccon.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Last week we travelled to Hamburg, for the fall 2026 study trip! We had the pleasure of networking at Hamburg University, exploring the city on a walking tour, a tour of the MARRK Museum, a colonial history gallery tour at the Hamburger Kunsthalle, & a boat trip tour of Hamburg harbour.

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Concurrences at Linnaeus University @lnuccon.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Introducing Dr. Prabhat Kumar, Assistant Prof. at Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (New Delhi), who is a visiting researcher at Concurrences for 5 weeks this fall! He is a member of the research project Emergency from Below: Climate Emergency from Colonial and Decolonial Perspectives.

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Concurrences at Linnaeus University @lnuccon.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Introducing one of our visitors this fall! Vighnesh Prakash, PhD student, Ashoka University His project focuses on the urban environmental history of Cochin in India. His main research interests lie in environmental & urban history along with history of science. www.lnu.se/en/meet-linn...

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Concurrences at Linnaeus University @lnuccon.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

This week! Film screening of Blood Berries, a documentary telling the story of workers trafficked to the berry forest of Finland & Sweden. 11 Sept, 2026 15.15-17.30 M1088 in Växjö, or on zoom - see below for details www.lnu.se/en/meet-linn... #Academicsky

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Concurrences at Linnaeus University @lnuccon.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Next week! Red’ & ‘Green’ Imaginations: Rethinking Technology, Identity and Ecology in Labour Narratives with Radhika Krishnan, Associate Professor at IIIT Hyderabad Thursday, 3 September 14.15-16.00 Dacke & zoom www.lnu.se/en/meet-linn... #Academicsky

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Concurrences at Linnaeus University @lnuccon.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Welcome to the Autumn 2026 Concurrences Seminar Series! Kicking things off with a series of in-person events at venues in Växjö from 23-25 September, we are delighted to share this semester's program. Please see lnu.se/concurrences for more information. #academicsky

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Concurrences at Linnaeus University @lnuccon.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Congratulations to Eleonora Poggio, whose co-authored article won the 'International Publications Award' offerred by the University of the Philippines! Tremml-Werner, B., Poggio, E and Lopez, A. “Revisiting the Treaty Between Spain and Sulu, 1836/37”, Diplomatica, Brill. doi.org/10.1163/2589...

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Revisiting the Treaty between Spain and Sulu of 1836/37

Abstract This essay focuses on the Sulu-Mindanao-Borneo region in the 1830s and zooms in on the Capitulaciones (Spanish) and the Kapiturasyun (Tausug) of a treaty concluded between the Spanish Crown a...

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Concurrences at Linnaeus University @lnuccon.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Next week! Our final seminar of the spring with Professor Julia Borst from the University of Bremen - Black Europe Online: Digital Echoes of Afro-European Self-Narrations When: 4 June 2026, 14:15-16:00 Where: Dacke & Zoom More info & register to attend on zoom: lnu.se/en/meet-linn...

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Black Europe Online: Digital Echoes of Afro-European Self-Narrations

Welcome to the LNUC Concurrences Seminar Series in Colonial and Postcolonial Studies!

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Concurrences at Linnaeus University @lnuccon.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Next week! Armed & Bureaucratic Violence: Forms of British imperial conquest in Southeast Asian Contested Tracts, a seminar w/ Gunnel Cederlöf Thursday, 21 May 2026 14.15-16.00, Dacke & zoom If you wish to attend remotely, please register ahead of time at the link below - lnu.se/en/meet-linn...

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Armed and Bureaucratic Violence: Forms of British imperial conquest in Southeast Asian Contested Tracts

Welcome to the LNUC Concurrences Seminar Series in Colonial and Postcolonial Studies and the Annual Lecture of the Cluster for Colonial Connections and Comparisons!

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Concurrences at Linnaeus University @lnuccon.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

We are a proud sponsor of @nordicarchtag.bsky.social 2026 which took place in Kalmar over the last week! Nearly 200 delegates came to the biennial meeting, organised around the theme of ‘Activate Archaeology for Just Futures’.

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Concurrences at Linnaeus University @lnuccon.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

We had a lively seminar yesterday with Nina Gren from Lund University, sharing her research on borderization and its social effects on families in Palestine, Georgia and Western Sahara. Thank you, Nina!

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Concurrences at Linnaeus University @lnuccon.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Next week in the Concurrences Seminar Series! Occupied Intimacies: Borderization in Palestine, Georgia and Western Sahara with Dr Nina Gren (Lund University) Thursday, 16 Apr 2026 14.15-16.00 Campus Växjö, Building F, Dacke Register on zoom 👇 lnu.se/en/meet-linn... #AcademicSky

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Occupied Intimacies: Borderization in Palestine, Georgia and Western Sahara

Welcome to the LNUC Concurrences Seminar Series in Colonial and Postcolonial Studies!

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Concurrences at Linnaeus University @lnuccon.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Rebecca Duncan has published The Cambridge Companion to World-Gothic Literature, ✍️ Rebekah Cumpsty Monsters have always swarmed around the frontiers of colonialism & capitalism, from Europe's invasion & occupation of the Americas to the planetary emergency of the present... doi.org/10.1017/9781...

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The Cambridge Companion to World-Gothic Literature

Cambridge Core - European and World Literature: General Interest - The Cambridge Companion to World-Gothic Literature

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Concurrences at Linnaeus University @lnuccon.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

New book alert! Concurrences member Janne Lahti has published a new monograph, Kolonialismin muokkaama maailma: Euroopan ekspansion globaalihistoriaa (World Shaped by Colonialism: Global History of European expansion) together w/ Johanna Skurnik. lnu.se/en/meet-linn...

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A World Shaped by Colonialism: Global History of European Expansion

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Concurrences at Linnaeus University @lnuccon.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

Check out the seminar organized by the Cluster for Colonial Connections and Comparisons next week! Smoke in the Eye – Rupture in the Colonial Archive (2020) with artist Munish Wadhia + “From Imperial Markets to Postcolonial Networks” 19 March 13:15-15:00, Dacke & zoom lnu.se/en/meet-linn...

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Smoke in the Eye – Rupture in the Colonial Archive (2020) with artist Munish Wadhia + Project presentation: “From Imperial Markets to Postcolonial Networks”

Welcome to a seminar organised by the Cluster for Colonial Connections and Comparisons!

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Concurrences at Linnaeus University @lnuccon.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

We had a thought-provoking afternoon learning about and discussing the outcomes of the Sámi Truth Commission, thank you to everyone who attended in-person and on zoom!

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Concurrences at Linnaeus University @lnuccon.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

This week! Nordic Colonialism in 2026: The Truth Commissions and their Outcomes with Gunlög Fur, Professor of History at Linnaeus University and founder of Concurrences. 12 March, 13:15-17:00 Dacke (Fe3016) & zoom (register at link below) #academicsky lnu.se/.../2026/lnu...

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Concurrences at Linnaeus University @lnuccon.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

Welcome to Dr Evy Mehzabeen who is visiting LNUC Concurrences from the TREADS research cluster at Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi, as a guest researcher during the spring semester for two months. Evy's work analyses India's policy approaches to managing river systems 🌊 Welcome, Evy!

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Concurrences at Linnaeus University @lnuccon.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

This week! We welcome Salad Hilowle & Christian Rossipal from Yale University, who are giving the next LNUCC Seminar:"The Black Beach: Moving Images between Swedish and Caribbean Shores" 14:15-16:00 Lammhult, or register for zoom at the link below- lnu.se/en/meet-linn... #AcademicSky

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The Black Beach: Moving Images between Swedish and Caribbean Shores

Welcome to the LNUC Concurrences Seminar Series in Colonial and Postcolonial Studies!

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Concurrences at Linnaeus University @lnuccon.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Last week we kicked off the first official collaboration between The Cultural University at Linnaeus and Concurrences with "A Conversation that looks like a concert" featuring artist in residence Napoleon Maddox and his collaborator Sorg at Mono Växjö 🎵

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Concurrences at Linnaeus University @lnuccon.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

🎉 Dr Lobke Minter has been awarded a STINT International Postdoc. She will pursue Forest Imaginaries, Colonial History and the Timber Commodity Frontier, the first project to examine representations of forests in South African literature through the region’s ongoing history of timber plantations.

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Concurrences at Linnaeus University @lnuccon.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

New guest researcher! In February, we are visited by Dr Gavin Herbertson, who is a scholar of global modernisms, Caribbean life & literature, and postcolonial theory at SWPS University in Poland and the Institute of English Studies (IES) at the School of Advanced Studies, University of London.

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Concurrences at Linnaeus University @lnuccon.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

An exciting workshop takes place next week! The first 'Cultures of the Polycrisis' wkshop will be organized by the Concurrences cluster for Ecology, Culture & Coloniality (ECCo), w/ @au.dk. It brings together 25 scholars of literature to investigate the impact of polycrisis on cultural production.

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Concurrences at Linnaeus University @lnuccon.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Check out our full 2026 spring seminar series! Starting this week with Napoleon Maddox, "A Conversation that Looks like a Concert", in collaboration with Mono, Växjö. lnu.se/en/meet-linn...

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Concurrences at Linnaeus University @lnuccon.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

Learn more about the Concurrences' Cluster for Borders of Justice below! "a research cluster focused on reimagining societies through the lenses of migration, justice, and belonging, w/ a strong emphasis on decolonization & its impact on shaping our collective futures" lnu.se/en/research/...

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The Cluster for Borders of Justice: Migration, Equity, and the Global Postcolonial Order

The Cluster for Borders of Justice: Migration, Equity, and the Global Postcolonial Order is a research cluster focused on reimagining societies through the lenses of migration, justice, and belonging,...

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Concurrences at Linnaeus University @lnuccon.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Two exciting events are coming up in the next few weeks! MONOLOG: A Conversation That Looks Like a Concert, on 13 Feb (19:00) & Diggin’ – a Beat-Making Master Class on 14 Feb (14-20:00), both at monovaxjo.se Learn more about our artist in residence, Napolean Maddox: www.napoleonmaddox.com

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Concurrences at Linnaeus University @lnuccon.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Diggin’ – a Beat-Making Master Class” with composer/producer (Sorg) and writer/Hip-hop artist (Napoleon Maddox) Saturday, February 14 Workshop: 14:00–17:00 Concert: 18:00–20:00 Free to drop in at Mono, Sandgärdsgatan 1, Växjö lnu.se/en/meet-linn...

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Diggin’ – a Beat-Making Master Class

How does a Hip-hop producer compose? What do they look for to produce the sonic textures and feelings they want to create? What do beat-makers do that generative AI is not capable of?

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Concurrences at Linnaeus University @lnuccon.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

Get excited for Concurrences' first event of the year, 'MONOLOG: A Conversation That Looks Like a Concert'! Organized in collaboration w/ Mono & the Cultural University, featuring writer/Hip-hop artist Napoleon Maddox & the composer/producer Sorg 🆓 Feb 13, 19:00 at Mono lnu.se/en/meet-linn...

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MONOLOG: A Conversation That Looks Like a Concert

MONOLOG – the popular scientific lecture series organized by the record store Mono and Linnaeus University. Delve into the humanities, art, literature, and music in a relaxed environment. For the sec...

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Concurrences at Linnaeus University @lnuccon.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

We are proud to share a new open-access volume co-edited by Hans Hägerdal, one of our members. Colonial Encounters and Slavery in Early Modern Asia (Leiden University Press, 2025) lup.nl/publications... Open access link: library.oapen.org/handle/20.50...

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Colonial Encounters and Slavery in Early Modern Asia - Leiden University Press

This volume traces how colonial powers from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century built, adapted, and expanded systems of slave trading and coerced labour across different regions of the globe. Brin...

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Concurrences at Linnaeus University @lnuccon.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

The 2026 spring semester for Concurrences has begun! It was great to see everyone back around the seminar table in Växjö, as we discussed future plans for the Centre. Stay tuned for our upcoming seminar schedule!

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Concurrences at Linnaeus University @lnuccon.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

In early December we met for our final research seminar of the year with visiting scholar Mitul Baruah from Ashoka University, and finished the evening with a cozy collegial dinner. We wish everyone a wonderful winter holiday and we look forward to an engaging 2026 with Concurrences!

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Jap-Nanak Kaur Makkar @jmakr.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

So pleased to be presenting at a few Scandinavian universities next week, including Copenhagen, Linnaeus and U of Southern Denmark. Thanks to @mikkelkfrantzen.bsky.social & @lnuccon.bsky.social for hosting! artsandculturalstudies.ku.dk/calendar/202...

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Concurrences at Linnaeus University @lnuccon.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

Major congratulations to Eleonor Marcussen, Niladri Chatterjee & John Hennessey who received funding from the Swedish VR! Read more about: 'From Imperial Markets to Postcolonial Networks: The Swedish Match Industry & the Reconfiguration of Global Trade in South Asia' lnu.se/en/meet-linn...

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From Imperial Markets to Postcolonial Networks: The Swedish Match Industry and the Reconfiguration of Global Trade in South Asia, c. 1920–1970

Eleonor Marcussen, Niladri Chatterjee and John Hennessey have received funding from The Swedish Research Council to conduct a three-year research project titled From Imperial Markets to Postcolonial N...

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Concurrences at Linnaeus University @lnuccon.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

Changing Tides, a conference on one of Asia's key regions took place in late November in Stockholm. The conference brought together researchers who focus on the recent past in a region spanning northeast India, to Yunnan in the east, & the Eastern Himalayas in the north, to Thailand in the south.

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Concurrences at Linnaeus University @lnuccon.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

Liv Nilsson Stutz recently gave a keynote “Caring for the Sublime: The Ethics of Care of & for Mummies" at the U of Copenhagen. She was also a co-organizer of “Collecting the Holocaust” in the VR funded network, an event held at the Holocaust Museum and the Swedish History Museum in Stockholm.

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Niladri Chatterjee @niladri4u.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Delighted to have my latest co-authored #OpenAccess article titled "The Renouncer-King: Narendra Modi’s Poetry and the Hindu Leadership Style", published by South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies. Have a read, link below! 👇 @lnuccon.bsky.social, @uio.no www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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The Renouncer-King: Narendra Modi’s Poetry and the Hindu Leadership Style

In three poetic publications, Narendra Modi presents himself as a renouncer-king and lays out what we refer to in this article as a ‘Hindu leadership style’. The image that emerges from the poems i...

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Concurrences at Linnaeus University @lnuccon.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

This week! Slow Disaster: Political Ecology of Hazards and Everyday Life in the Brahmaputra Valley, Assam Dec 4, 15:15-17:00 Dacke & on zoom Mitul Baruah, Ashoka University is a visiting lecturer in Concurrences through the Erasmus+ ICM collaboration between Ashoka & LNU lnu.se/en/meet-linn...

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Slow Disaster: Political Ecology of Hazards and Everyday Life in the Brahmaputra Valley, Assam

Welcome to the LNUC Concurrences Seminar Series in Colonial and Postcolonial Studies!

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Concurrences at Linnaeus University @lnuccon.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

The Cluster for Ecology, Culture and Coloniality (ECCo) held a lively workshop in Höör last week, launching a focus on the polycrisis over two days full of discussion and reflection. ECCo looks forward to continuing this work in the new year!

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Concurrences at Linnaeus University @lnuccon.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

🎉Hot off the press! @niladri4u.bsky.social recently published 'The Illusion of Change? Crisis, Counterrevolution and Elite Capture in Postcolonial Democracies', in The Daily Star, the largest English newspaper in Bangladesh. www.thedailystar.net/slow-reads/b...

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Why uprisings fail: Lessons from Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, and Nepal

Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Nepal reveal the same pattern in different sequences.

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Concurrences at Linnaeus University @lnuccon.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

This week! Hope and Asylum, an LNUC (Con)current event with Torun Elsrud and Philip Lalander. Thursday, 20 November 13:15-17:00 Växjö, Building F, Lammhult & zoom (register at link below) lnu.se/en/meet-linn... #Concurrences #Seminar

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Hope and Asylum

Welcome to LNUC (Con)Current Event!

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Concurrences at Linnaeus University @lnuccon.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

This past weekend, Concurrences brought the Nordic Palestinian Film Festival to Växjö. 10 films, inc. To My Father (Salam Shehada 2008), Maria (Abdelhakim Majed Abudaquen 2025), & An Orange from Jaffa (Mohammed Almughanni 2023), & a fantastic seminar with Wafá Jamil & Bisan Edwan.

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Concurrences at Linnaeus University @lnuccon.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

A recent workshop, Imperial Circuits: Production, Trade, & Regulation between the Atlantic & Pacific Worlds, 1530–1620, organized by GATPAC, brought together scholars from Latin America, Europe, and Asia in Seville to explore the roles of the Americas and Southeast Asia in the first globalization.

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Concurrences at Linnaeus University @lnuccon.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Huge congratulations to Eleonor and Niladri on their recent funding success!

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Concurrences at Linnaeus University @lnuccon.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

This week! @feliciafricke.bsky.social is giving our next Concurrences seminar - 'The Widows of St. Eustatius: Stability and Survival in Colonial Society around 1800' 6 Nov 2025 14:15- 16:00 Dacke, or register at the link below to attend on zoom lnu.se/en/meet-linn...

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The Widows of St. Eustatius: Stability and Survival in Colonial Society around 1800

Welcome to the LNUC Concurrences Seminar Series in Colonial and Postcolonial Studies!

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Dr. Felicia Fricke @feliciafricke.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

Excited to present my research about widows and #Caribbean colonialism on Thurs 6 Nov at @lnuccon.bsky.social - you can attend in person or online. Hope to see you there! 🤗 lnu.se/en/meet-linn...

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The Widows of St. Eustatius: Stability and Survival in Colonial Society around 1800

Welcome to the LNUC Concurrences Seminar Series in Colonial and Postcolonial Studies!

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Concurrences at Linnaeus University @lnuccon.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

Concurrences is a proud sponsor of the upcoming Växjö edition of the Nordic Palestinian Film Festival, we hope to see you on November 8! @npff.bsky.social

Poster for the Nordic Palestinian Film Festival

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