✨ 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. Photo: @abi-freiburg.bsky.social

🎬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. @unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de

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. @unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de

Don't miss our upcoming #JCMM #Lecture with Christian Cwik! 🗓️ 10 November 2025 ⏱️16:15 CET ❕Hybrid event: Niebuhrstr. 5 or via Zoom 👉For more info, visit: buff.ly/0BjLLcF @unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de

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.

📬 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 @unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de

📚 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. 👉More information: buff.ly/M51M8j3 @unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de

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! 👉 buff.ly/0CW1hAq @unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de

🎧 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 @universitaetbonn @dfg__public

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! For more info check: buff.ly/texX4Ry @unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de

🎬 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 @unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de

#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/... @unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de

In collaboration with Unis Radboud and Ghent, and funded by the Gerda Henkel Foundation, BCDSS members Eva Lehner & Julia Schmidt will participate in a research project examining support networks in highly asymmetrical societies in colonial Cape Town: buff.ly/3rMH8vd @unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de

I am very much looking forward to this workshop at which I am speaking in Bonn in November, organised among others by @akjp89.bsky.social, and funded partly by @dependencybonn.de

Congratulations to our Guest Researcher (DAAD Grant) Bernardo Bonifácio Ferreira on his future position as Postgraduate Visiting Student at the LCFI Cambridge! 🔗For more info: buff.ly/bDQPMvQ @unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de

🌴 Join #BCDSS investigator Kristina Großmann as she explores whether sustainability certifications and the idea of a “Just Transition” can help solve this dilemma. 🗓 Tuesday, 4 November 2025 · 18:00–19:30 📍 Altes Rathaus, Gobelinsaal, Bonn 🔗 More info: buff.ly/XGaDsFw @unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de

Do not miss our upcoming #JCMM #Lecture with Ann R. David! 🗓️20 October 2025 ⏱️ 16:15 CET ❕Hybrid event: Niebuhrstr. 5 or via Zoom 👉https://ow.ly/noi650W8Tah @unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de

🎉 Congratulations to BCDSS Research Group Leader Dr. Christian Mader! His new article has just been published in the Journal of Archaeological Science. For more info: buff.ly/axyfbza @unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de

💬 23 Oct 2025, 7 pm, VHS Forum Cologne: Panel discussion “Ans Licht gebracht – Herausforderungen und Chancen von Missionssammlungen” (in German). 👉 More info: www.dependency.uni-bonn.de/en/outreach/... @unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de

A warm welcome to all MA students, especially our newcomers, and to all teaching staff at the BCDSS! We've been busy preparing for the new semester and can't wait to get started! If you have any questions, we are here to help: www.dependency.uni-bonn.de/en/academic-... @unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de

Thanks to the Global Heritage Lab for hosting Wednesday’s film screening and talk, closing the BCDSS exhibition Enmeshed and Entwined: Fabrics of Dependency. Panelists explored how film can challenge “fabrics of dependency” Special thanks to curator Dr. Beatrix Hoffmann-Ihde!

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 @unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de

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... @dfg.de

📢 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 @unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de

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/... @unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de

📢 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 @unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de

📣 #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/... @unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de @flindersuniversity.bsky.social

🎉 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

📖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 @unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de

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

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.

📚 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 @unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de

🎉 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.... @unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de

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 @unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de

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

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

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... @unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de @vhdonline.bsky.social

🎉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 @unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de

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 @unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de

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 @unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de

📗🎉Congratulations to PhD Researcher Ayesha Hussain on her new publication! 👉More Information: ow.ly/tQX950WLUOW @unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de

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 @unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de

👇 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

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 @unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de #UniversityBonn #newsemester #studyinbonn

💡#DependentInsights 📑Read the full article in the latest DEPENDENT issue, 👉https://ow.ly/uRbh50WEMPY @unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de

🎓Our warmest congratulations to #PhDResearcher Anas Ansar on the publication of his dissertation! 'Rohingyas and the Geographies of Precarity in Exile' has just been published and can be downloaded via open access here: ow.ly/rP3050WLcAB @unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de @degruyterbrill.bsky.social

📗Congratulations to Postdoctoral Researcher Dr. Rapti Siriwardane-de Zoysa, whose article together with Muhammed S.C. Gemilang, As-Syahidah A.H., Muthmainnah Rama and Annisa A. Sari has just been published! 👉More information: ow.ly/P2i750WJrzP @unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de

🆕Congratulations to #BCDSS Principal Investigator Michael Zeuske on his most recent article about how terms like 'Afro' and 'Afro-Latinidad' emerged to name descendants of enslaved peoples in the Americas. 👉More information and access to PDF: ow.ly/HaKp50WI6fq @unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de

💡#DependentInsights 📑Read the full article by #BCDSS Researcher Sinah Kloß in the latest DEPENDENT issue. 👉https://ow.ly/rqCu50WEMrp @unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de

🗯️🎥Fantastic turnout at Saturday's talk and discussion at the BCDSS about Anna May Wong, the first Chinese Hollywood star, and her pioneering role in the transnational film industry of the 1920s and 30s. Thanks to all who joined and contributed to the lively discussion. @unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de