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EXC 2036 Beyond Slavery and Freedom Asymmetrical Dependencies in Pre-Modern Societies
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How have African Atlantic artists transformed our understanding of slavery’s legacy?
Do not miss out upcoming #JCMM #Lecture with Alan Rice!

🗓️01 December 2025
⏱️ 16:15 CET
❕Hybrid event: Niebuhrstr. 5 or via Zoom
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November 26, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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“Whose Prayers did God hear?”
Join us on 3 Dec, 7 PM @ Schlosskirche for talks, interviews, and interactive reflections on Christianity’s historical entanglements with slavery.
More info: buff.ly/GjjVq3A

No registration required.

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November 25, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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We enjoyed the inspiring talks at last week’s workshop, “Longue Durée Approaches to the Global Plantation Complex.” Many thanks to the organizer and PhD researcher Joe Biggerstaff, as well as to all participants for their valuable contributions!

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November 24, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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Call for Applications!
The Ottoman Slavery Working Group invites submissions for the conference “Ottoman Slaveries and Typologies of Unfreedom.”
📍 Bonn, 24–26 June 2026

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November 21, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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📘 Out now: 'Slavery and Servile Societies in Korean History: The Hidden Background of Modern Korea' by BCDSS PI Reinhard Zöllner. All volumes in this series are available open access!
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November 20, 2025 at 11:26 AM
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Join today's IMPULSE Café on "Displacement, ‘fugitivity’ and agency" through the lens of Slavery Studies!

🗓️ Tuesday, November 18, 2025
⏰ Time: 4:00 - 5:30 pm CET
📍 House of Imagination and Intellectual Creativity, Adenauerallee 131, Bonn

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November 18, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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Very happy to see this out in the world! A deeply collaborative attempt at thinking ecological dependencies from/across a variety of disciplines. Thank you @dependencybonn.de for providing us with the space + resources to develop this. Check the book out here: www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
November 14, 2025 at 9:22 AM
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Beyond chattel slavery, who really built the global plantation complex? Our upcoming #JCMM Lecture with Randy M. Browne shows that plantations did not rely solely on enslaved labor.

🗓️ 20 November 2025
⏱️17:30 CET
❕ONLINE event via Zoom

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Joseph C. Miller Memorial Lecture by Randy M. Browne
Beyond chattel slavery, who really built the global plantation complex? This lecture takes a global, longue durée approach, challenging the assumption that plantations relied solely on chattel…
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November 14, 2025 at 11:23 AM
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📚 Congratulations to BCDSS PhD Researcher Zeynep Y. Gökçe and Junior Professor and BCDSS Alumna Jennifer Leetsch, editors of Vol. 24 in our DSS Series with De Gruyter.
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November 13, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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Call for Papers!
The POLLEN conference and the panel 'Time is of the Essence: Temporal (In)Justice, Extractivisms and Dispossessions in the "Green Transition"' is now accepting paper proposals.
📝Deadline: 5 December 2025
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November 13, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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Following Thursday’s film discussion, we invite you to the Chilean film “Oro Amargo” (Bitter Gold) by Juan Francisco Olea, screened as part of the CineEscuela Film Festival Bonn.
The film will be introduced by Colectiva Borregas Moradas, a Latinx migrant feminist collective!
November 12, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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👏 Congratulations to BCDSS research group coordinator Sinah Kloß on her new article published in the Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute!
👉 For more info: buff.ly/wDLmIgC
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November 12, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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What is the material signature of slavery and colonialism, and where can we still feel it today? Join BCDSS Research Group Leader Christian Mader at the Dies Academicus Lecture at Uni Bonn.
📍Hörsaal IV, main building
📅 3 December 2025, 2.15pm - 3pm
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November 11, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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✨ Author spotlight! Meet Anas Ansar, author of "Rohingyas and the Geographies of Precarity in Exile." Available in open access, it analyzes the precarious situation of #Rohingya #refugees displaced from Myanmar to Bangladesh and Malaysia.

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Photograph of Anas Ansar holding his book
November 10, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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🎬Thanks to Drs. Kieslinger (FAU) & Mashingaidze (BCDSS) for insights on SUGAR ISLAND (2024). We explored colonial legacies, discrimination, human rights struggles, and resilience expressed through youth and motherhood.

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November 7, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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Great turnout at yesterday's event "Uni im Rathaus - Dilemma Palmöl" with BCDSS Investigator Prof. Dr. Kristina Großmann.

A huge thank you to Prof. Dr. Großmann, Volkshochschule Bonn, and everyone who joined us for such a lively exchange.

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November 5, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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Don't miss our upcoming #JCMM #Lecture with Christian Cwik!

🗓️ 10 November 2025
⏱️16:15 CET
❕Hybrid event: Niebuhrstr. 5 or via Zoom

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November 5, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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A taster of our special issue on gender and segregation, due out in a few weeks.

Thank you also to @dependencybonn.de for funding the conference during which many of these ideas were first discussed.
October 29, 2025 at 9:21 AM
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📬 In our November blog post, Jamie Wood, former BCDSS Guest Researcher and Prof. of History and Education at Lincoln University (UK), shares insights into the research he conducted during his stay in Bonn: buff.ly/XBlQiLo
#Intermediaries #Christianity #Visigoths
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November 3, 2025 at 8:50 AM
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📚 New publication: Congratulations to Dr. Nina Schneider, whose book has just been published in the BCDSS' Dependency and Slavery Studies series; it explores the origins of activism against child labour.

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October 30, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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For this year's Wissenschaftsrally, we explored the lives of children in entertainment 150 years ago, considering what this might reveal about the vulnerability of children then and now. See the slides to read the reflections of our young visitors!
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October 30, 2025 at 9:02 AM
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🎧 If you missed our last Joseph C. Miller Memorial #Lecture by Ann R. David, you can now find the #recording on #Youtube!

Follow the link 👉https://youtu.be/OrtwwymvI38

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October 29, 2025 at 9:02 AM
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We’re thrilled to share that Dr. Sinah Kloß, BCDSS Researcher has joined the editorial board of Material Religion: The Journal of Objects, Art and Belief (Taylor & Francis) as Associate Editor.
👏 Congratulations!
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October 29, 2025 at 9:02 AM
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🎬 WHO’S GOT THE POWER film series continues this November!
Join us for the next film and discussion evening in collaboration with Förderverein Filmkultur.

📅 6 November 2025
🕖 19:00
📌 Kino in der Brotfabrik, Bonn.

To find out more and register check: buff.ly/g7wbTih

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October 28, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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#CallforPapers 👉 The ReCAP network, co-founded by BCDSS researchers Sinah Kloß and Luvena Kopp, is now inviting submissions for its first workshop, to be held on May 8, 2026, at the University of Bonn.

More info: www.dependency.uni-bonn.de/en/outreach/...

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