📢 New Gender & History special issue on Gender & Segregation out now. Co-edited by Lisa Hellman & Julia Hillner, alongside Daniel J. R. Grey and Rachel Jean-Baptiste. The issue builds on last year's conference, with a contribution by Emma Kalb. 🔗 buff.ly/3U8hxSj @unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de

💫 We sincerely thank everyone who has helped shape the BCDSS. The Cluster has thrived through your dedication, expertise, and collaboration! You have strengthened the community of researchers and learners and inspired us to build on this momentum in the second funding phase. Your BCDSS Team

Congratulations to Prof. Dr. Stephan Conermann, PD Dr. Ulrike Schmieder and Prof. Dr. Michael Zeuske, whose book, "Cultural Heritage and Slavery: A Perspective from the Caribbean," has just been published! 👉 buff.ly/sUOpm23 @unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de @degruyterbrill.bsky.social

🎧 If you missed our last Joseph C. Miller Memorial #Lecture by Luis Rosenfield, you can now find the #recording on #Youtube! 👉https://buff.ly/U2iQf6o @unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de

It was a pleasure to host Behnaz Mirzai for an engaging and well-attended evening combining lecture and film screening. Many thanks to @behnazmirzai.bsky.social, Jun.-Prof. Dr. Julia Binter for hosting at the GHL, and everyone who joined the discussion. @unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de @brocku.ca

BCDSS Professors Julia Hillner and Pia Wiegmink, together with former BCDSS Guest Researcher Jamie Wood (University of Lincoln), have been granted funding by the VolkswagenStiftung for their collaborative project "The Nameless in History". @unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de @volkswagenstiftung.de

👏 Our warmest congratulations to Vitali Byl, Honey Hammer, Claire Conrad, and James Harland (@jmharland.bsky.social) on earning their BCDSS DEI Certificates. All members of @unibonn.bsky.social are eligible for the certificate! More info: buff.ly/ULgEnQI @dfg.de

Dont forget to join our next's week #JCMM #Lecture with Marçal de Menezes Paredes! 🗓️ 15 December 2025 ⏱️16:15 CET ❕Hybrid event: Niebuhrstr. 5 or via Zoom 👉For more info, visit: buff.ly/7zlCDq5 @unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de

📕 Congratulations to BCDSS postdoctoral researcher James M. Harland on his new publication in "Traditio: Studies in Ancient and Medieval History, Thought and Religion." 👉 More information: buff.ly/Dwlp4Lk @unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de @universitypress.cambridge.org @jmharland.bsky.social

My new article has now been published in the 2025 volume of Traditio. I use a little examined episode on the lower Rhine in the late 350s with the aid of agricultural archaeology to reveal fiscal dependency relations between the Empire & Barbaricum, & the consequences of their rupture. #medievalsky

🎧 If you missed our last Joseph C. Miller Memorial #Lecture by Alan Rice, you can now find the #recording on #Youtube! Follow the link 👉https://buff.ly/afOxREf @unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de

Join the upcoming talk and documentary film on African slavery in Iran by Behnaz Mirzai! 📅 Thursday, 11.12. 25 ⏰ 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM 📍 GHL, Poststraße 26, 53111 Bonn 👉 buff.ly/602OkbG @unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de @behnazmirzai.bsky.social

Sciences and the divine: A heartfelt thank you to Rev. David Smith as well as BCDSS Professor Pia Wiegmink and all involved in a highly engaging and enlightening exploration of the historical connection between Christianity and Slavery as part of Dies Academicus! @unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de

We were thrilled to welcome so many to our Dies Academicus lecture with Christian Mader and Philip Atta Mensah. Drawing on their research project on Fort William in Ghana, they explored the material signature for slavery and colonialism. @unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de

Do not miss our upcoming #JCMM #Lecture with Luis Rosenfield! 🗓️08 December 2025 ⏱️16:15 CET ❕Online event via Zoom 👉https://buff.ly/NFwfhbn @unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de

Our new blog post is out! Looking back with a sense of nostalgia and looking forward with excitement, we are bringing the first funding phase to a close. We asked our researchers: What will you take away from BCDSS? What were your highlights? Full post: buff.ly/7C4PfDx @unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de

📘Congratulations to Stephan Conermann and Roberto Hofmeister Pich, editors of the newly published Volume 21 of the DSS Series. 👉 More: buff.ly/hTUTIm8 @degruyterbrill.bsky.social @unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de

📣 New Special Issue Published! 📣 The special issue of Atlantic Studies: Global Currents, co-edited by BCDSS Professor and Co-speaker, Pia Wiegmink has just been published! For more info: buff.ly/bO0FZ7R @unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de

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 👉https://buff.ly/K9CsrNn @unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de

“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. @unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de #BCDSS #DiesAcademicus #Bonn

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! @unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de

Call for Applications! The Ottoman Slavery Working Group invites submissions for the conference “Ottoman Slaveries and Typologies of Unfreedom.” 📍 Bonn, 24–26 June 2026 More info: buff.ly/IvFb1wS @unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de

📘 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! 👉 More info: buff.ly/80R2y4q @unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de @degruyterbrill.bsky.social

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 @unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de

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...

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 For more Info👉 buff.ly/xKU279h @unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de

📚 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. 👉 Read more: buff.ly/O1Plhhl @unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de @unitrier.bsky.social

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 👉 buff.ly/lfcZ8jC pollenetwork.bsky.social unibonn.bsky.social dfg.de

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!

👏 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 @dfg.de @unibonn.bsky.social

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 👉 buff.ly/SIOR6wX @dfg.de @unibonn.bsky.social

✨ 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