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Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies @dependencybonn.de · 5h

We are thrilled to announce that BCDSS Researcher Sinah Kloß will be one of the three keynote speakers at the upcoming Socare Conference, taking place October 16–18, 2025 at the Ibero-American Institute PK in Berlin.

For more information visit: buff.ly/0HQD6x9

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Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies @dependencybonn.de · 1d

The October blog post is up!
Our PR team & PhD researcher Bahar Bayraktaroğlu come together to offer a peek into the BCDSS' installation at @unibonn.bsky.social 's #Wissenschaftsrallye, writing their own experiences during the event.
read here: dependency.blog/from-complex...
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Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies @dependencybonn.de · 5d

📢 Call for Applications!
The BCDSS is inviting applications for the Heinz Heinen Fellowship Program 2026/2027.

📅 Apply by Jan 10, 2026
📍 Start date: from Oct 1, 2026
👉 Full details here: buff.ly/8aH1Fy0

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A poster calling for application for Heinz Heinen Fellowships for the next academic year 2026/2027
-The deadline is on January 10, 2026

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Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies @dependencybonn.de · 6d

Join us for a film screening and public round table, celebrating the finissage of the BCDSS exhibition "Enmeshed and Entwined: Fabrics of Dependency"

👉 www.dependency.uni-bonn.de/en/outreach/...

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Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies @dependencybonn.de · 6d

Yes, thanks for letting us know! You can read more on the article here www.dependency.uni-bonn.de/en/outreach/...

or go directly to Spiegel here www.spiegel.de/geschichte/p...

Rome's battle for Germania

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Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies @dependencybonn.de · 6d

📢 Congratulations to Julia Hillner for her contribution to an article in SPIEGEL Geschichte on slavery & prostitution in the Roman Empire!

(Article in German, subscriber access only)

🔗To the Article: buff.ly/DGw3EZDin: Spiegel GESCHICHTE 5/25 'Roms Kampf um German

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Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies @dependencybonn.de · 7d

📣 #CfP: We're inviting paper proposals for the international workshop "Plantation Lives, Gender, and Material Culture: Queen Emma’s Networks and the (Post)Colonial Anglo-German Pacific"

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

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Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies @dependencybonn.de · 8d

🎉 We are happy to announce that BCDSS Senior Fellow Lotte Pelckmans has co-edited the new special issue “Resistance to Slavery in Africa: Past and Present” in Slavery & Abolition, together with Marie Rodet, Esteban Salas & Wayne Dooling.

For more info: buff.ly/ttbzOM4

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Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies @dependencybonn.de · 11d

📖Congratulations to Julia Winnebeck and Henriette von Harnier on their new publication in the Historisches Jahrbuch, representing the first edition and translation of an incomplete ninth-century penitential!

For more: buff.ly/hhvCMTn

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A poster withg a book cover "Historiches Jahrbuch" where Julia Winnebeck and Henriette von Harnier published a study that presents the first edition and translation of the incomplete Paenitentiale Dusseldorpiense, preserved in a ninth-century manuscript in Düsseldorf, offering fresh insights into the history of penance and early medieval history

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Dr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele @drdragases.bsky.social · 12d

"Elite Women and Systems of Dependency in Late Antiquity" workshop @dependencybonn.de. Welcome by @akjp89.bsky.social and Grace Stafford.

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Julia Hillner @writinghelena.bsky.social · 13d

Congratulations to Emma, my wonderful colleage @dependencybonn.de !
The full @genderandhistory.bsky.social SI on Gender & Segregation will be published later this year, with 13 terrific articles and a substantial introduction by Lisa Hellmann, @djrgrey.bsky.social, Rachel Jean-Baptiste and myself.

Daniel Grey @djrgrey.bsky.social · 13d

Very excited latest 📄 in special issue
@genderandhistory.bsky.social
ed. by @writinghelena.bsky.social l; Lisa Hellman, Rachel Jean-Baptiste and me is out, and #openaccess! 🌟 Emma Kalb investigates "A Harem in Disorder: Narrating Elite Female Seclusion in Late Mughal Delhi" doi.org/10.1111/1468...

A Harem in Disorder: Narrating Elite Female Seclusion in Late Mughal Delhi

This article examines the late Mughal period, a time of dramatic political reconfiguration, to trace the relevance of practices of elite female seclusion, and particularly of the complex space of the...

doi.org

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Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies @dependencybonn.de · 14d

📚 Congratulations to former BCDSS Senior Fellow Christian Laes on his new book "Aesopus. Op de slavenmarkt in de oudheid" ('Aesop at the Slave Market in Antiquity')!

For more info: buff.ly/CS8FWY9

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A poster with the information of the new published book by former BCDSS fellow Christian Laes.
The book is called "Aesopus Op de slavenmarkt in de oudheid (Aesop At the slave market in antiquity)"

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Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies @dependencybonn.de · 14d

🎉 Congratulations to BCDSS researcher Christian Mader, who, together with Katerina Ragkou, has published an article in Frontiers in Human Dynamics!

📖 Read the full article here: www.frontiersin.org/articles/10....

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A poster with the picture of Christian Mader, one of the authors of the new Article "What makes a market in preindustrial societies? A comparative, spectrum-based analysis of Byzantium and the prehispanic Andes", published in Frontiers in Human Dynamics

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Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies @dependencybonn.de · 15d

We invite scholars to contribute to the conference “Enslaved Muslims and Muslim Enslavers: Islam, Politics and Slavery”, taking place at Brock University, Canada, in collaboration with the BCDSS.

More info: buff.ly/lPj8S4f

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Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies @dependencybonn.de · 16d

Two inspiring days in Bonn! At “Knowledge Dependencies and the Un/Making of Equitable Futures,” researchers worldwide explored how knowledge shapes our world. Huge thanks to our joint organizers @IDOS, to our partners @GHL & all who joined!
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Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies @dependencybonn.de · 20d

💬Our 2-day conference with IDOS is the first major event that we have organised together, and it marks the start of our collaboration in the second funding phase, which begins in 2026. We look forward to a vibrant exchange of thoughts.
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Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies @dependencybonn.de · 28d

We would like to highlight the upcoming panels at the 55th Deutscher Historikertag in Bonn
featuring members of our Cluster.

More info:
🔹 www.historikertag.de/Bonn2025/en/...

🔹 www.historikertag.de/Bonn2025/pro...

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Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies @dependencybonn.de · Sep 5

🎉Congratulations to our former Fellow, Anne Haeming, on completing the project she worked on during her Heinz Heinen Fellowship at the BCDSS!

👉Find more about the project here: ow.ly/jyyu50WPAGu

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A poster titled DYNARCHIVING features a project by former BCDSS fellow Anne Heaming, whose portrait is also included on the poster.

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Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies @dependencybonn.de · Sep 4

From ancient civilizations to human trafficking, slavery has shaped societies in complex ways. Our Master's programmes provide an interdisciplinary approach to understand this global issue.

ow.ly/bsq850WR4KQ

✍️ Apply until 15 September 2025

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Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies @dependencybonn.de · Sep 3

We are pleased to announce that the #BCDSS is inviting applications for five fellowships designed to support recent MA graduates in developing a PhD project proposal. We warmly encourage all of our former MA students to apply.

For more info: ow.ly/cWIL50WPuCX

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Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies @dependencybonn.de · Sep 2

📗🎉Congratulations to PhD Researcher Ayesha Hussain on her new publication!

👉More Information: ow.ly/tQX950WLUOW

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A poster with the image of a book cover, a portrait of PhD researcher Ayesha Hussain, that wrote a chapter called "Networks of Dependencies: Undocumented Pakistani Migrants in the Publicito Firms of Their Co-Ethnics in Italy"

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Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies @dependencybonn.de · Sep 1

In this month's post, Prateeti Mukhopadhyay shares her experiences as an intern at the Rautenstrauch Joest Museum, highlighting how her time there has opened doors for her to explore potential avenues of decolonial practice within ethnological museums: ow.ly/OWfS50WOUMY
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Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies @dependencybonn.de · Aug 28

👇 Join us for the international conference on "Knowledge Dependencies and the Un/Making of Equitable Futures"

Info & registration: ow.ly/t2es50WMGqX

@unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de @idos-research.bsky.social

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Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies @dependencybonn.de · Aug 28

Interested in Dependency and Slavery Studies or just want to learn about our MA programs at the BCDSS?

See our lecturer James M. Harland's statement: ow.ly/z3Ny50WNov0

✍️ Apply until 15 Sept. 2025

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#UniversityBonn #newsemester #studyinbonn

Statements by our students & staff

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Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies @dependencybonn.de · Aug 27

💡#DependentInsights

📑Read the full article in the latest DEPENDENT issue,

👉https://ow.ly/uRbh50WEMPY

@unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de

An image of a 3D model made by the researchers and a quote from the article that says: "These architectural relics not only facilitated the slave trade but also played a key role in shaping the historical trajectories of Africa, Europe, and the Americas"

A quote from the article that says: " Our fieldwork at Fort William aimed to investigate the role of the slave dungeons not merely as holding spaces for captives awaiting the middle passage, but as tools of subjugation"
Under the text are the names of the authors and the title of the article

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