A big thank you to the Roman Bonn Team, Giulia Cappucci, James Harland and Julia Hillner for that great tour yesterday, uncovering centuries of history right beneath Bonn! 👉 Discover more about hidden history here: buff.ly/m02KX8N @unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de

📚️ We're thrilled to share the new publication by Anka Steffen, Samuel Eleazar Wendt, and Jutta Wimmler as part of BCDSS' DSS series. 👉 buff.ly/Xs1yWp9 @unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de @degruyterbrill.bsky.social

Last Thursday the BCDSS hosted the book launch of "Arbeitswelten". Editors Anne Engelhardt and BCDSS Investigator Michaela Doutch, with Research Group Leader Benjamin Etzold, discussed Labour Geography as a critical lens for studying work. Organised with SEAS and bicc. @unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de

From 1 to 3 July, the workshop Lost Documents and Subaltern Groups in the Early Middle Ages took place at #BCDSS, exploring documentary loss, archival absence, and “evidence of absence” in relation to Strong Asymmetrical Dependencies. @unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de

How do workers form and shape places and spaces of re/production in today’s capitalism? Join us for the upcoming book launch and discussion of “Arbeitswelten” (Doutch/Engelhardt/López/Premchander/Wenner, 2026). More: buff.ly/W1jFfKY @unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de

Congratulations to #BCDSS Research Group Leader Sinah Kloß for her supervision of Martha Bingeler’s outstanding BA thesis! See more here: buff.ly/xNSW8XG @unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de

The BCDSS conference “Ottoman Slaveries and Typologies of Unfreedom” explored labour, gendered dependencies, spatial settings, and post-manumission dependencies in the Ottoman world. Many thanks to all speakers, participants, and organizers. @unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de

Dr. James M. Harland, Postdoctoral Researcher at the BCDSS, contributes to the July 2026 "Head to Head" in History Today: "How did the English Arrive in Britain?" buff.ly/ryhKjG8 @unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de

Thank you to Emma Christopher, Sergio Leyva Seiglie and Dován for an inspiring discussion after 'Viva Yurumanguí'. Their testimony showed how music, community, and cultural traditions remain vital forms of resistance against violence and dispossession. @unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de

📚️ Congratulations to BCDSS Investigator Martin Bentz (University of Bonn) and former BCDSS PhD Researcher Patrick Zeidler (Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Munich, Germany) on their new publication! buff.ly/xedJv1m (Open access) @unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de @degruyterbrill.bsky.social

Congratulations to BCDSS investigator Jun.-Prof. Dr. Alice Toso on the publication of Human Identities in the Archaeological Record (Bloomsbury Academic, 2026), co-edited with Annamaria Diana and Daniela Marcu-Istrate. @unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de

Three inspiring days at the workshop “Plantation Lives, Gender and Material Culture” have come to an end. We are deeply grateful to all speakers and participants for enabling such a vibrant exchange. @unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de @flindersuniversity.bsky.social

🎧 If you missed our last Joseph C. Miller Memorial Lecture by Indranil Acharya, you can now find the recording on YouTube! You can now find the recording on YouTube! 👉 buff.ly/QUumamk @unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de

Thanks to Tsitsi Jaji, speaker at this year's #Juneteenth Lecture! Combining the perspectives of an acclaimed academic and artist, she created a truly engaging and unifying space that combined scholarship, poetry, music, and collective reflection. @unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de @nas-bonn.bsky.social

Today, Plantation Lives, Gender, and Material Culture continued with a film screening and panels on Pacific missionary work, communities, and collecting, tracing plantation economies, colonial networks, object circulation, and coerced labour histories. @dependencybonn.de @unibonn.bsky.social

📕 Congrats to former BCDSS Guest Researcher Tâmis Parron on the publication of 'Slavery in Capitalism: A Deep History of Elements in Ancient and Pre-Modern Economies." ‼️ Available as free download for a couple of days: buff.ly/HTn6HBH @unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de @universitypress.cambridge.org

We are absolutely thrilled to welcome colleagues from Australia, PNG, Fiji, the Philippines, the US, Austria, France, Switzerland, and Germany for the three day workshop „Plantation Lives, Gender and Material Culture". @unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de @flindersuniversity.bsky.social

Do not miss our next #JCMM Lecture with Michael E. Sawyer! 🗓️ 22 June 2026 ⏱️16:15 CET ❕Hybrid event: Niebuhrstr. 5 or via Zoom 👉For more info buff.ly/C9BYjj2 @unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de

Today at GHL: a book talk on indenture, blackbirding, and resistance in the Western Pacific, followed by the opening of Jasmine Togo-Brisby's Liquid Archive. Thanks to everyone who joined us for a day of conversation on memory, colonialism, and survival. @unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de

🎧 If you missed our last Joseph C. Miller Memorial Lecture by Benjamin Selwyn, you can now find the recording on YouTube! You can now find the recording on YouTube! 👉 buff.ly/gyQRzln @unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de

In this second reel from our first Dependency Talkshop, Nadine Segadlo, Benjamin Etzold, and Marie Blaschtschak reflect on violence faced by refugee women, constrained agency, and the importance of empowerment and solutions built on lived experience. buff.ly/5TLRWt0 @unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de

📚 New publications by BCDSS postdoctoral researcher and research group leader Sinah Kloß, "Filming Mother: Performing Respectability through Ethnographic Documentaries on Guyanese Kali-Mai Puja" 👉 For more info, visit buff.ly/WBD0V5G @unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de

Interested in applying for our MA program "Dependency and Slavery Studies"? Check out what our (former) MA students have to say. For more information and all video clips on our MA program, check our website: buff.ly/SBtMXdB ✍️ Apply until 15 September 2026 @unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de

Highlights from our first Dependency Talkshop with BICC & VHS Bonn! They all share key reflections on supporting refugee women, overcoming structural barriers, community accountability and Interdisciplinary research. Watch the interviews here: buff.ly/5TLRWt0 @unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de

New Special Issue & Book: Her co-edited work, "Resistance to Slavery in Africa: Past and Present," is officially out in the Slavery & Abolition journal and available as a Routledge book! 👉 Journal: buff.ly/OgfZEMT 👉 Book: buff.ly/Ut5nTwG ✍️ New Article: buff.ly/XImVuM3 @unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de

Don't miss our #JCMLL lecture with Indranil Acharya this week! 🗓️ 08 June 2026 ⏱️16:15 CET ❕Hybrid event: Niebuhrstr. 5 or via Zoom 👉https://buff.ly/DnHgveF @unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de

How did indenture, blackbirding and other forms of dependency re-order the Western Pacific after slavery was abolished in the British Atlantic and in the US? Join us for the upcoming book talk 💬📚️ 👉 buff.ly/UVP0gNl @unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de

🎉 Congratulations to former BCDSS Research Group Leader Dr. Jutta Wimmler! She has been awarded a prestigious short-term fellowship at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin (sponsored by the Stiftung Preußische Seehandlung), starting September 2026. @unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de

🎬 Join us for the next WHO’S GOT THE POWER film screening and discussion! We will be showing "Viva Yurumanguí" (2025), a documentary by former BCDSS fellow Emma Christopher and fellow director Sergio Leyva Seiglie. buff.ly/iqlGuLZ @unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de

🔔 Save the date and register now for our Juneteenth Lecture 2026! 🗓June 18, 2026 🕕18:00–19:30 📍Festsaal, Universität Bonn, Am Hof 1, 53113 Bonn For more info: buff.ly/jjbnMEH @unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de @nas-bonn.bsky.social

Join us for the upcoming international workshop "Plantation Lives, Gender, and Material Culture: Queen Emma’s Networks and the (Post)Colonial Anglo-German Pacific." 👉 Info & registration: buff.ly/fiCfuiV @flindersuniversity.bsky.social @unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de

BCDSS PI Julia Hillner and former Guest Researcher Jamie Wood are among the co-authors of a new open-access article on namelessness in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages, published in Medieval People (2026). 🔗 buff.ly/wdB3cD9 @unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de

Do not miss our next #JCMM Lecture with Sue Peabody! 🗓️ 01 June 2026 ⏱️16:15 CET ❕Hybrid event: Niebuhrstr. 5 or via Zoom 👉 buff.ly/7Wj6tKG @unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de

Huge thank you to our predoctoral fellows Ankit Chowdhury, Jakob Jung, Muhammad Reza Halomoan, Neema C. Munisi and Anita K. Pobi for presenting their research during Dies Academicus! @unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de

We congratulate BCDSS researcher Prof. Dr. Julia Hillner as features as an on-screen historian in the ARTE documentary Konstantin der Große, broadcasting Saturday, 30 May at 20:15. Trailer: buff.ly/CFqT4kE @unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de

📢 The BCDSS invites applications for 3 Doctoral Positions/PhD (65%, TV-L E-13, for 4 years) from 1 October 2026 to 30 September 2030. Application deadline: 5 June 2026 ℹ️ For all details regarding the application documents and process, please see here: buff.ly/t0fVXcb @unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de

Do not miss the upcoming #JCMM Lecture, Benjamin Selwyn! 🗓️ 18 May 2026 ⏱️16:15 CEST ❕Hybrid event: Niebuhrstr. 5 or via Zoom More info here 👉 buff.ly/tkwBskv @unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de

🎧 If you missed our last Joseph C. Miller Memorial Lecture by Rachel Zelnick-Abramovitz, you can now find the recording on YouTube! Follow the link 👉 buff.ly/BefSt1i @unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de

📢 Call for Papers "Beyond Chains and Choices: Legacies of Strong Asymmetrical Dependencies in Africa" 📅 Dec 2–4, 2026 ⏰ Deadline: 31 May 2026 @unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de 👉 For more info: buff.ly/MlspX5K

Join us at Dies Academicus for a series of mini-talks as our five BCDSS pre-doctoral fellows share the personal "sparks" behind their research. Don't miss this multidisciplinary journey! 📅 20 May 2026 🕒 10.15 - 11.00 📍 Lecture Hall V, main University building For more: buff.ly/I7RdghY

A big thank you to our five panelists for sharing insights from their practical and academic work! The discussion highlighted the need to rethink attitudes toward refugee women — recognizing them for their expertise, resilience, and contributions to society. @unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de

How did dependent groups in Pre-modern Korea and Japan exercise agency and resistance? Read up on Reinhard Zöllner's project here 👉 buff.ly/Lg0YqMd For an overview of all research projects, see the latest Dependent: buff.ly/gi1LMwh @unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de

📢 Reminder: Event Today at 18:00 Don’t forget to attend our first "DEPENDENCY TALKSHOP SERIES" today! Make sure to arrive on time and feel free to invite others who might be interested! 📍 Location: VHS Bonn, Mühlheimer Platz 1, Room 1.11 (Saal)

To what extent do the “soul tax” rolls reveal details of extensive internal slave trade in the Russian Empire? Read up on Christoph Witzenrath's project here 👉 buff.ly/3kRGBNF For an overview of all research projects, see the latest Dependent: buff.ly/gi1LMwh @unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de

How is US-American slavery related to other forms of strong asymmetrical dependencies? Read up on Pia Wiegmink's project 👉 buff.ly/l4KFtRw For an overview of all research projects, see the latest Dependent: buff.ly/gi1LMwh

Do not miss our upcoming #JCMM Lecture by Rachel Zelnick-Abramovitz! 🗓️ 04 May 2026 ⏱️16:15 CET ❕Hybrid event: Niebuhrstr. 5 or via Zoom 👉For more info vist: buff.ly/LXhMWJ9 @unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de

🎧 If you missed our last Joseph C. Miller Memorial Lecture by Temitope Fagunwa, you can now find the recording on YouTube! Follow the link 👉https://buff.ly/4I7jnLa @unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de

📚️ Congrats to E. Gardei, M. Gymnich, C. Schwall, and H.-G. Soeffner, whose edited volume "Images of War Captivity from 1870 to the Present", has just been published as part of our DSS Series with De Gruyter Brill. More info: buff.ly/EeqdsJW @unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de @degruyterbrill.bsky.social

📽️ Following on from our film discussion of "Aisha Can’t Fly Away", we would like to draw attention to "Cotton Queen", a film about a young Sudanese woman’s life choices in a traditional cotton village in Sudan. 📆 April 29 at 6:30 pm, May 4 at 4:00 pm, May 5 at 6:00 pm at Brotfabrik Bonn

Recap of this year’s Wissenschaftsrallye, where we explored questions of injustice within the context of German colonial history in Namibia. Thanks to all pupils for sharing their perspectives and a special thank you to our PhD researcher Viviann Wilmot! @unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de