We are proud to share a new open-access volume co-edited by Hans Hägerdal, one of our members. Colonial Encounters and Slavery in Early Modern Asia (Leiden University Press, 2025) lup.nl/publications... Open access link: library.oapen.org/handle/20.50...

The 2026 spring semester for Concurrences has begun! It was great to see everyone back around the seminar table in Växjö, as we discussed future plans for the Centre. Stay tuned for our upcoming seminar schedule!

In early December we met for our final research seminar of the year with visiting scholar Mitul Baruah from Ashoka University, and finished the evening with a cozy collegial dinner. We wish everyone a wonderful winter holiday and we look forward to an engaging 2026 with Concurrences!

So pleased to be presenting at a few Scandinavian universities next week, including Copenhagen, Linnaeus and U of Southern Denmark. Thanks to @mikkelkfrantzen.bsky.social & @lnuccon.bsky.social for hosting! artsandculturalstudies.ku.dk/calendar/202...

Major congratulations to Eleonor Marcussen, Niladri Chatterjee & John Hennessey who received funding from the Swedish VR! Read more about: 'From Imperial Markets to Postcolonial Networks: The Swedish Match Industry & the Reconfiguration of Global Trade in South Asia' lnu.se/en/meet-linn...

Changing Tides, a conference on one of Asia's key regions took place in late November in Stockholm. The conference brought together researchers who focus on the recent past in a region spanning northeast India, to Yunnan in the east, & the Eastern Himalayas in the north, to Thailand in the south.

Liv Nilsson Stutz recently gave a keynote “Caring for the Sublime: The Ethics of Care of & for Mummies" at the U of Copenhagen. She was also a co-organizer of “Collecting the Holocaust” in the VR funded network, an event held at the Holocaust Museum and the Swedish History Museum in Stockholm.

Delighted to have my latest co-authored #OpenAccess article titled "The Renouncer-King: Narendra Modi’s Poetry and the Hindu Leadership Style", published by South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies. Have a read, link below! 👇 @lnuccon.bsky.social, @uio.no www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

This week! Slow Disaster: Political Ecology of Hazards and Everyday Life in the Brahmaputra Valley, Assam Dec 4, 15:15-17:00 Dacke & on zoom Mitul Baruah, Ashoka University is a visiting lecturer in Concurrences through the Erasmus+ ICM collaboration between Ashoka & LNU lnu.se/en/meet-linn...

The Cluster for Ecology, Culture and Coloniality (ECCo) held a lively workshop in Höör last week, launching a focus on the polycrisis over two days full of discussion and reflection. ECCo looks forward to continuing this work in the new year!

🎉Hot off the press! @niladri4u.bsky.social recently published 'The Illusion of Change? Crisis, Counterrevolution and Elite Capture in Postcolonial Democracies', in The Daily Star, the largest English newspaper in Bangladesh. www.thedailystar.net/slow-reads/b...

This week! Hope and Asylum, an LNUC (Con)current event with Torun Elsrud and Philip Lalander. Thursday, 20 November 13:15-17:00 Växjö, Building F, Lammhult & zoom (register at link below) lnu.se/en/meet-linn... #Concurrences #Seminar

This past weekend, Concurrences brought the Nordic Palestinian Film Festival to Växjö. 10 films, inc. To My Father (Salam Shehada 2008), Maria (Abdelhakim Majed Abudaquen 2025), & An Orange from Jaffa (Mohammed Almughanni 2023), & a fantastic seminar with Wafá Jamil & Bisan Edwan.

A recent workshop, Imperial Circuits: Production, Trade, & Regulation between the Atlantic & Pacific Worlds, 1530–1620, organized by GATPAC, brought together scholars from Latin America, Europe, and Asia in Seville to explore the roles of the Americas and Southeast Asia in the first globalization.

Huge congratulations to Eleonor and Niladri on their recent funding success!

This week! @feliciafricke.bsky.social is giving our next Concurrences seminar - 'The Widows of St. Eustatius: Stability and Survival in Colonial Society around 1800' 6 Nov 2025 14:15- 16:00 Dacke, or register at the link below to attend on zoom lnu.se/en/meet-linn...

Excited to present my research about widows and #Caribbean colonialism on Thurs 6 Nov at @lnuccon.bsky.social - you can attend in person or online. Hope to see you there! 🤗 lnu.se/en/meet-linn...

Concurrences is a proud sponsor of the upcoming Växjö edition of the Nordic Palestinian Film Festival, we hope to see you on November 8! @npff.bsky.social

Save the date! Visit the Växjö Art Gallery on Nov 12, and meet artist in residence Napoleon Maddox, organized in collaboration with Concurrences. lnu.se/en/meet-linn...

NEW open-access publication from Concurrences' affiliated member @niladri4u.bsky.social, 'Relocating Hindutva in Bengal’s Political Landscape', co-authored with Zaad Mahmood from Presidency University in India. Read more, below! doi.org/10.1080/0803...

Fresh from the press! I am delighted to share with you my latest article on the recent #NobelPeacePrize controversy from a historical and decolonial perspective. Thanks to Ahmedur Tutul Chowdhury for inviting me to write this for Shuddhashar FreeVoice. Have a read! 🤩 shuddhashar.com/canon-contes...

Recently at the conference on #Polycrisis, #Risks & #Resilience, organized by @lunduniversity.bsky.social, I presented a paper on #MaanKiBaat to examine the subtle technologies of affective governance & therapeutic populism that it enacts. @eleonormarcus.bsky.social. @lnuccon.bsky.social; @uio.no

Prof. Johan Höglund from #concurrences has contributed a text to the exhibition The Unloved at Praksis in Oslo. The Unloved "invites us to look again at the multitudes in the margins—those deemed not to belong—& asks what it might mean to love the unloved”. www.praksisoslo.org/events-calen...

We are looking forward to supporting Nordic TAG (Theoretical Archaeology Group) in May 2026, check out the call for papers which is closing soon! Conference theme: 'Activate Archaeology for Just Futures!'

We are extremely excited to welcome Prof. Jack Halberstam from Columbia University to Concurrences next week! Don’t miss Halberstam’s seminar, Anarchitecture After Everything - Thursday, 16 October 14:15-16:00 Växjö More info & register to attend on zoom lnu.se/en/meet-linn...

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

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. @historicalstudies.bsky.social

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). www.su.se/department-o...

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.

🆕 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. doi.org/10.1080/1369...

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!

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. doi.org/10.1080/1746...

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

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

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.

Today at Concurrences in Colonial and Postcolonial Studies in Växjö and on zoom! 👇 lnu.se/.../events/2...

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 doi.org/10.1017/S021...

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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...

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! lnu.se/en/meet-linn...

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!

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.

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 🇸🇪 #Academicsky #concurrences

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.

#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! lnu.se/en/meet-linn...

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