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Leading European Centre for #Concurrences in Colonial & #Postcolonial Studies at Linnaeus University 🇸🇪. Archaeology, Literature, History, Sociology & more. DMs open! https://lnu.se/en/research/research-groups/linnaeus-university-centre-for-concurrences

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Concurrences at Linnaeus University @lnuccon.bsky.social · Nov 20

Hello Bluesky! We are the Linnaeus Uni 🇸🇪 Centre for #Concurrences in Colonial & Postcolonial Studies.

We analyze the consequences of colonialism & other forms of domination, particularly on those dispossessed, exploited & marginalized due to imperial expansion

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Linnaeus University Centre for Concurrences in Colonial and Postcolonial Studies

The Linnaeus University Centre for Concurrences in Colonial and Postcolonial Studies is a leading centre for Colonial and Postcolonial studies in Europe and a major Swedish and international research ...

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Concurrences at Linnaeus University @lnuccon.bsky.social · 19h

We spent the morning at the Welt Museum in Vienna and proved that adults appreciate the same kinds of activities as teenagers!

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Concurrences at Linnaeus University @lnuccon.bsky.social · 1d

Concurrences is on the road! We are very happy to be on a study trip in Vienna, meeting colleagues at CEU’s EurAsian Transformation cluster.

This morning we had a decolonial tour at the Museum of Applied Arts & we are spending the afternoon at CEU.
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Concurrences at Linnaeus University @lnuccon.bsky.social · 8d

This Friday, Concurrences member Nadi Tofighian will be giving a guest lecture on Philippine film history for the Department of History at Stockholm University, ahead of a screening of Lino Brocka’s Bona (1980).

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Concurrences at Linnaeus University @lnuccon.bsky.social · 12d

Check out this update from Concurrences member Peter Skoglund, currently in the field in Kenya!

“Making rock art today – encounters with practicing Samburu rock art painters” is a collaboration with local stakeholders in northern Kenya to document the ongoing Samburu rock art tradition.

Concurrences at Linnaeus University @lnuccon.bsky.social · 13d

🆕 Open Access article! ‘Fiction from the Data Frontier’, by Rebecca Duncan from #concurrences has just been published in ‘World-Literature and Commodity Frontiers’, a special issue of Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies.

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Fiction from the data frontier

In this essay, I examine the relationship between fiction and the digital economy via the world-ecological concept of the commodity frontier. Acknowledging, but also departing from, criticism that ...

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Concurrences at Linnaeus University @lnuccon.bsky.social · 19d

On 8–9 Sept, we hosted the summer school 'Towards Inclusive Global Histories', w/ @eniugh-comparativ.bsky.social, the Global Diplomacy Ntwork, & the Asian Center at University of the Philippines

We gathered 22 PhD students & 11 scholars from 20 universities across 5 continents for 2 intensive days!

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Concurrences at Linnaeus University @lnuccon.bsky.social · 21d

NEW from Concurrences member, Nadi Tofighian

'From Bombay to Singapore: Parsi theatre companies and early film exhibitions' in Early Popular Visual Culture 23(1–2): 126–143.

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European Network in Universal and Global History @eniugh-comparativ.bsky.social · 28d

Doors open in #Växjö, Sweden: the ENIUGH Congress kicks off at Linnaeus University. Scholars of world & global history are here to rethink entanglements, methods, and thematic expansions at the Eighth European Congress.
#ENIUGH #GlobalHistory

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Concurrences at Linnaeus University @lnuccon.bsky.social · 28d

Welcome to PhD students and Erasmus+ ICM scholarship holders Ajayant Katoch and Khadiza Naufa Fatin from Ashoka University! They are joining us for 3 months this fall at Concurrences and are part of the Global Humanities graduate programme at @linneuni.bsky.social

Concurrences at Linnaeus University @lnuccon.bsky.social · 29d

We very happily welcomed @manuelaboatca.bsky.social to #Concurrences today, for a rousing seminar on Romani Europeans and the Challenge of Unthinkable Histories, underlining the necessity to understand the persistence of coloniality within Europe.

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Manuela Boatcă @manuelaboatca.bsky.social · 29d

Today at Concurrences in Colonial and Postcolonial Studies in Växjö and on zoom! 👇
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Concurrences at Linnaeus University @lnuccon.bsky.social · Sep 4

It is always great to see new publications from our members!
Check out this new #OpenAccess article -

Eleonora Poggio, Favor, setback, & resilience: French merchants’ penetration into the Spanish Atlantic monopoly and the New Spain market, 1620-1640

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Favor, setback, and resilience: French merchants’ penetration into the Spanish Atlantic monopoly and the New Spain market, 1620-1640 | Revista de Historia Economica - Journal of Iberian and Latin Amer...

Favor, setback, and resilience: French merchants’ penetration into the Spanish Atlantic monopoly and the New Spain market, 1620-1640

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Concurrences at Linnaeus University @lnuccon.bsky.social · Sep 2

Our 2nd guest researcher this term is Prof Ajewumi Bli Raji from Obafemi Awolowo Uni. in Nigeria!

He will work on Dimensions of Gender in Recent African Fiction, which investigates how gender is represented in African literature, aiming to bring gender studies more centrally into the humanities.

Concurrences at Linnaeus University @lnuccon.bsky.social · Sep 1

Welcome to Dr. Pasoot Lasuka! He is visiting #Concurrences from Chiang Mai U. during the autumn term.

His project explores representations of the coast in Thai media arts & cinema, highlighting natural resource management & the politics embedded w/in the ontological relations of nature & culture.

Concurrences at Linnaeus University @lnuccon.bsky.social · Jul 11

As part of the #Concurrences project ‘Living traditions & future heritages: Engaging with cultures & colonial legacies at the source of the White Nile, Uganda’, Terje Oestigaard recently travelled from Kampala & visited the Source of the Nile and the Kalagala waterfalls.

A boat is tied up next to the dock in Uganda

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Routledge Books @routledgebooks.bsky.social · Jul 9

Happy publication day! 🎉🎉 (even if we are a few days late) be sure to check out their book. 📚

Concurrences at Linnaeus University @lnuccon.bsky.social · Jun 30

Congratulations to Torun Elsrud for the publication of her latest book, 'Hope and Asylum: Everyday Life, Precarity and Social Change', part of the Routledge series Studies in Migration & Diaspora.

Read more: lnu.se/en/meet-linn...

Open Access link: www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-mon...

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Concurrences at Linnaeus University @lnuccon.bsky.social · Jul 1

From June 25-27, Liv Nilsson Stutz collaborated with Audrey Horning & Sarah Tarlow on a workshop on Ethics in Archaeology for "Dialogues with the Past". The workshop was organized in Derry/Londonderry where students engaged with the local colonial history & disputed post conflict cultural heritage.

A series of photos showing Derry/Londonderry

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Concurrences at Linnaeus University @lnuccon.bsky.social · Jun 30

Concurrences at Linnaeus University @lnuccon.bsky.social · Jun 24

Congratulations to Prof. Stefan Amirell who has won 2 million SEK from the Crafoord Foundation for the project Gender, Diplomacy & Imperialism: How Gendered Practices Shaped the Diplomatic Negotiations in the Colonial World of the Malay Peninsula During the Long 19th Century!

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Research Grant awarded for PhD project on Gender and Diplomacy in Colonial Southeast Asia

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Concurrences at Linnaeus University @lnuccon.bsky.social · Jun 13

We had a great end-of-semester gathering in sunny Växjö yesterday, with a presentation of PhD student projects, pub quiz, and kubb on the lawn. Thank you to all members for an invigorating semester, and we look forward to launching the fall programme!

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Concurrences at Linnaeus University @lnuccon.bsky.social · Jun 12

On June 11, Nicole Crescenzi defended her PhD thesis at IMT Lucca: Exhibiting Human Remains: an issue at the intersection of ethics, museology and law. Nicole has been a guest researcher at Concurrences working closely with her co-supervisor Liv Nilsson Stutz & her project Ethical Entanglements.

Concurrences at Linnaeus University @lnuccon.bsky.social · May 20

We are very happy to be sponsoring #NordicTAG2026!

A sibling conference to the popular annual 'Theoretical Archaeology Group (TAG)' conference held in the UK, Nordic TAG is held every few years in a Scandinavian country - and in 2026 it will come to Kalmar 🇸🇪

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Nordic Theoretical Archaeology Group @nordicarchtag.bsky.social · May 20

Hey 🏺 archaeologists on bluesky!

Bookmark your calendars for 6-9 May at Linnaeus University in Kalmar 🇸🇪 & submit your session proposal for #NordicTAG2026 - deadline 31 May

Don't miss our keynote speakers, inc. @yannisham.bsky.social & @evamol.bsky.social!

More info: lnu.se/en/meet-linn...

A conference poster showing a white dove spray painted on a brick wall.

Concurrences at Linnaeus University @lnuccon.bsky.social · May 9

Yesterday we held a panel discussion after the screening of No Other Land. With Rebecca Duncan (chairing), Anders Persson (LNU), Nina Gren (Lund), & Wafá Jamil, (founder of the Nordic Palestinian Film Festival), we had a rich discussion about this powerful film & the occupation of the West Bank.

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Concurrences at Linnaeus University @lnuccon.bsky.social · Apr 4

#Concurrences Seminar on 10 April, 15:15-17:00 (CET). ‘Cultural Heritage & Local Empowerment: The Importance of Community Conversations Among the Samburu in Northern Kenya’ by Steven Labarakwe (Samburu Elder), Peter Skoglund and Ebbe Westergren (LNU)

Sign up here!
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Concurrences at Linnaeus University @lnuccon.bsky.social · Apr 3

Upcoming event on gender equality in Academia!

Attend a screening of 'Picture a Scientist' and following discussion panel, featuring members of Concurrences.

Kalmar, May 6, 3-6pm

Register to attend here, open to all members of the Linnaeus University community:

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Gender Equality in Academia: Picture a Scientist Film Screening and Panel

Join us for a special evening of film and discussion on the issues of Gender Equality and Equal Rights in Academia

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