📚 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

💡#DependentInsights 📑Read the full article by former #BCDSS Postdoctoral Guest Researcher Klara Boyer-Rossol in the latest DEPENDENT issue. 👉https://ow.ly/7x7P50WEtk8 @unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de

📮In this month's blog post, Raquel Sirotti explains why writing legal histories of Mozambique requires moving beyond the written colonial archive & reconsidering what stories legal historians are able (and willing) to tell: ow.ly/f8sg50WCBla @unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de @mpilhlt.bsky.social

Enjoyed a trip up the road to Cologne this week, for a great conference organised by their provincial Roman archaeologists on brick production in the Roman imperial period. It was especially nice of them to let me speak more about our pedagogy @dependencybonn.de than experimental archaeology proper!

📣The new DEPENDENT on "Archives" is out now! This edition explores archives not as neutral repositories, but as active, contested spaces where power, resistance, and memory intersect. 👉More info: ow.ly/I4W450WzRGz @unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de

Join us for a lecture by Yumin Li on "Anna May Wong - Crossover Artist of Transnational Cinema"! Li shares her research on the international film career of "Show Life" actress Anna May Wong as the first Hollywood star of Chinese descent. ow.ly/B21R50WypF9 @unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de

Congrats to Diego Schibelinski on being awarded the prestigious Slicher van Bath de Jong Grant by the Centre for Latin American Research and Documentation (CEDLA) in Amsterdam for his project "Sailing a Hidden Atlantic: Slave Ship Crews during the Age of Abolition." @unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de

Mercy Mashingaidze is one of our lecturers here at BCDSS. Besides teaching methodological and theoretical approaches in social sciences, she also gives courses on modern slavery. More: www.dependency.uni-bonn.de/en/academic-... ✍️ Apply until 15 September 2025 @unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de

Congrats to Diego Schibelinski, whose chapter on "Freedom and Slavery among Seafarers in Coastal Navigation" has just been published in "Gentes do mar: problemas, personagens e ambientes em estudo da historiografia brasileira", ed. by J. Rodrigues. 👉 ow.ly/cUby50Wv5cZ @unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de

Looking for insights into our #MAprograms? Meet our lecturer Eva Lehner 👇 www.dependency.uni-bonn.de/en/academic-... ✍️ Apply until 15 September 2025 @unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de #MAprogram #Bonn #BCDSS #university #DependencyStudies #History #Archaeology #SocialSciences #BonnUniversity

🎧 If you missed our last Joseph C. Miller Memorial #Lecture by Phil Withington, you can now find the #recording on #Youtube! Follow the link 👉https://youtu.be/clxMJRv4GDM @unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de @sheffielduni.bsky.social

Congratulations to David Brandon Smith, who is the first one to complete the DEI Certificate offered by the BCDSS! You can read his personal reflection here 👇 www.dependency.uni-bonn.de/en/outreach/...

📚Congratulations to #BCDSS Postdoctoral Researcher, James M. Harland on his new co-authored Article "Archaeology and language dynamics in the medieval and early modern eras". part of the Oxford Handbook Series. For more info: ow.ly/YLfp50WrLV5 @unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de

What stories do plants tell, if we truly listen? What colonial entanglements and sensuous dimensions linger in botanical gardens? The Global Heritage Lab invites to the exhibition opening "Botanic Futures" 👇👇 globalheritagelab.org/event/exhibi... @unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de

How do our understandings of the past, present, and future shape today’s issues—climate change, migration, technological innovation, economic uncertainty, and democracy? The Global Heritage Lab invites to an international round table 👇 globalheritagelab.org/event/public... @unibonn.bsky.social

📣 Call for Papers Join us at the Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies for a workshop on the Global History of the Plantation (Nov 2025)! 🌍 Open to PhD & early-career researchers 🗓️ Submit abstract by August 15, 2025 More info:https://ow.ly/iU2u50WpR1n @unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de

Big congratulations to #BCDSS investigator Carla Jaimes Betancourt for receiving the Peter Ucko Memorial Award 2025 by the World Archaeological Congress!! 🏆 This award honors her great work towards building a more ethical, and community-centered archaeology. @universitaetbonn @dfg__public

Do not miss our upcoming #JCMM #Lecture with Phil Withington! 🗓️ 14 July 2025 ⏱️16:15 CET ❕Hybrid event: Niebuhrstr. 5 or via Zoom 👉For more info, visit: www.dependency.uni-bonn.de/en/events/jo... @unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de

Interested in Dependency and Roman History? Our Cluster Professor Julia Hillner gives insights into her research & teaching here at BCDSS. For all statements, see: shorturl.at/xABzo ✍️ Apply until 15 September 2025 @unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de #MAprogram #BCDSS #DependencyStudies #BonnUniversity

New blog post 📑 The July entry features our MA student Halide Kahraman and PhD Researcher Zeynep Yeşim Gökçe sharing their thoughts on and experiences in the recent Bilgi-Bonn History Graduate Conference. @unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de 🔗 dependency.blog/bilgi-bonn-h...

We were honoured to welcome the Nigerian delegation from the Uni of Port Harcourt to our cluster as part of their visit at @unibonn.bsky.social. We are truly grateful for the cordial exchange & meaningful conversations. It was inspiring to share ideas & strengthen our partnership further. @dfg.de

🎧 If you missed our last Joseph C. Miller Memorial #Lecture by Crystal Eddins, you can now find the #recording on #Youtube! Follow the link 👉 youtu.be/W1NrZYApCbg

💬 On 1 July 2025, #BCDSS postdoctoral researcher, member and representative of Research Area E: Gender (and Intersectionality), James Harland, was invited to give a public lecture at the Institute of History at the University of Koblenz. @unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de

We would like to draw your attention to the newly published special issue, 'Pregnant Bodies – Embodied Pregnancy,' which is part of the Body & Society journal edited by Sinah Kloß and Antonia Villinger. For more info: ow.ly/o2QM50WiZ5J @unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de @fau.de

Do you want to learn more about our Cluster Professors? Meet Pia Wiegmink and learn more about her research interests and teaching at BCDSS. www.dependency.uni-bonn.de/en/academic-... ✍️ Apply until 15 September 2025 #MAprogram #Study #Studies #Dependency #Slavery #Bonn #BCDSS #university

In our next #JCMML, Crystal Eddins will discuss how intimacy, sexuality, pregnancy, coercion, and family, shaped #enslaved women’s #resistance during rebellions in the Caribbean and US South. 🗓️30 June 2025 ⏱️ 16:15 CET ❕Hybrid event: Niebuhrstr. 5 or via Zoom @unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de

We would like to draw your attention to the new article "Tattoos and Sonic Imitation: Mantras, Body Tuning and Tattooing as Sounding" by #BCDSS Research Group Leader Sinah Kloß. For more info: ow.ly/rEGb50WfgEJ @universitaetbonn @dfg__public

Impressions from the stimulating two-day workshop "Entangled Lives". Many thanks to BCDSS PhD Researcher Taynã Tagliati and those who helped with the organization, as well as to all who attended, and joined the conversation! @unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de

You can already read 4 articles of our @genderandhistory.bsky.social issue on Gender & Segregation on early view - ed. @djrgrey.bsky.social, Lisa Hellman & Rachel Jean-Baptiste & myself & sponsored by @dependencybonn.de onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14680424... More to come, congrats to our authors.

Thank you to Professor Kinohi Nishikawa for delivering this year's Juneteenth Lecture! His powerful exploration of the "afterlife of slavery" in Toni Morrison’s 'A Mercy' (2008) shed new light on the richness and complexity of the novel. @unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de @nas-bonn.bsky.social

Interested in our MA program "Dependency and Slavery Studies"? MA student Klaudia tells you why she chose our program. ✍️ Apply by 15 September 2025 #MAprogram #Study #Dependency #Slavery #Bonn #BCDSS #university @unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de www.dependency.uni-bonn.de/en/academic-...

We are happy to share that the new publication "Justice and Righteousness in the Old Testament: Reflecting on Slavery in the Hebrew Bible" by Ulrich Berges is now available through open access. For more info: ow.ly/6Psq50W3c3P @unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de @degruyterbrill.bsky.social