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...

Tomorrow! Welcome to ‘Arctic Futures’, a seminar with Prof. Maria Lindgren Leavenworth (Umeå University). 13:15-15:00 (CET) on 2 April. To register for zoom, email [email protected]

Welcome to Joseph Manock, a PhD student from the Uni. of Manchester who will be visiting #Concurrences as a guest researcher during the spring. His research explores the history of famine & disease in South Asia through the lens of emotional history, stay tuned for a seminar about his work in May!

So grateful for the opportunity to discuss my research on ethics and human remains in museums and research with museum professionals from a range of institutions, and thinkers from across the Netherlands this week. We are never done with ethics, but we are doing the work. #EthicalEntanglements

Liv Nilsson Stutz @livnstutz.bsky.social gave a lecture about her research project Ethical Entanglements at a workshop for museum professionals at the University Medical Center in Amsterdam on March 27. The project explores the ethics of care for human remains in museums and research.

Seminar this week! Prof @kalwantbhopal.bsky.social from the University of Birmingham with 'How has Black Lives Matter affected racism in education?' Thursday, 20 March, 13:00-15:00 Weber, Campus Växjö lnu.se/en/meet-linn... #concurrences #academicsky

The call for sessions (including regular sessions, workshops, & panel discussions) for #NordicTAG2026 is now open 🎉 The theme of the Conference is Activate Archaeology for Just Futures! More details here: lnu.se/en/meet-linn... Sessions deadline 31 May. Call for papers to follow. #AcademicSky

Welcome to Dr. Huemac Escalona Lüttig (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México) who will be a #Concurrences guest researcher this spring. He is researching the organization of the production of cochineal red & indigo, from the perspective of producers located in different territories of New Spain.

Congratulations to Eóin Ó Cuinneagáin, a #Concurrences PhD student who nailed his thesis,‘Songing Dúchas: Amhránaíocht as Decolonial, Epistemic Disobedience’, today! His public disputation will take place on 6 March, all welcome - lnu.se/mot-linneuni...

We are very happy to welcome PhD candidate Nicole Crescenzi back to #Concurrences, visiting from the IMT School of Advanced Studies in Lucca & hosted by @livnstutz.bsky.social Nicole’s research investigates the ethical implications of exhibiting human remains in museums from different backgrounds.

It was a pleasure to host Bindu Bhadana as guest researcher LNUC Concurrences for a month, working on gender, far-right politics and performance. Looking forward to the forthcoming publication! @lnuccon.bsky.social

Visiting #Concurrences researcher Seira Duncan organised a Japanese language & culture workshop, including a mini lecture & quiz which was attended by 30 students currently on an exchange at LNU. They learned about the 47 Japanese prefectures, manzai, indigeneity & onomatopoeia, among other topics.

Join our #postcolonial seminar series! We are very happy to share the schedule for our upcoming 2025 Spring Seminars, please follow the link below if you would like to register to attend on zoom. #Concurrences #AcademicSky

Seminar next week! #Concurrences eCCo cluster is looking forward to hosting Caitlin Vandertop (U. of Warwick) for a research talk titled ‘Blood & Dirt: Island Gothic and the Guano Trade’. 27 January, 10:15-12:00 CET Register for zoom by emailing the address on the flier. #AcademicSky

In 2025 we welcome a new research project to #Concurrences! Peter Skoglund, Professor in Archaeology, has received funding from Riksbankens Jubileumsfond for 'Making rock art today - encounters with practicing Samburu rock art painters' lnu.se/en/meet-linn... #AcademicSky

#Concurrences welcomes a new researcher, Dr Josh Jewell, who is developing a new research project analysing representations of women’s labour precarity under climate crisis across world-literature. lnu.se/en/meet-linn...

Some good news! The Swedish Research Council has awarded 4.7 million SEK to 3 members of LNUC #Concurrences & a guest researcher for a multi-year project, “Emergency from Below: Climate Emergency from Colonial and Decolonial Perspectives" lnu.se/en/meet-linn... #AcademicSky #ClimateEmergency

Learn more about the research clusters within #Concurrences, like the cluster for Ecology, Culture & Coloniality - Projects include South African resource & energy cultures; speculative fiction; ecotopian postcolonial comics; the politics of border narratives & more - lnu.se/en/meet-linn...

Join us next week for a lecture with Gaurav C. Garg (Ashoka University): "Claiming Mt. Everest: How early postcolonial Indians saw themselves, the empire, and the world." Register for online attendance (Zoom): lnu.se/mot-linneuni... @lnuccon.bsky.social

Interesting workshop coming up next year on postcolonial ecocriticism and Indigenous environmental justice. See here for details enscan.net/postcolonial...

Call for Abstracts - ‘Epistemic Frontiers’? Geoscientific Knowledge, Authority, and Politics of Participation in Arctic and African Exploration - Oslo, 22–24th April 2025: www.hf.uio.no/iakh/english... #histsci

Thank you for sharing @drtermagant.bsky.social! For anyone interested here is a very nice recent review in Environment and History by Vipul Singh as well as the link to the book in open access: www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/full/10.... Acts of Aid: doi.org/10.1017/9781...

Need a good book to read? Check out some of the recent titles read by our #concurrences book circle, All guaranteed to inspire lively debate! #bookclub

The #CFP for our #SummerSchool in #globalhistory is out! In association with @lnuccon.bsky.social and European Network in Universal and Global History. Join us in #Växjö in September 2025! Link 👇🏼 networks.h-net.org/group/discus...

Thanks to @lnuccon.bsky.social for the generosity that made this short visit to the #SwedishNationalArchives at #Vadstena and #Jönköping possible. Working with the #Swedish documents on #SouthAsia within a #global scope was a wonderful experience indeed! @eleonormarcus.bsky.social @gnnl.bsky.social

Hello Bluesky! We are the Linnaeus Uni 🇸🇪 Centre for #Concurrences in Colonial & Postcolonial Studies. We analyze the consequences of colonialism & other forms of domination, particularly on those dispossessed, exploited & marginalized due to imperial expansion lnu.se/en/research/... #Academicsky

Check out the starter pack on #GlobalSouth, #Decolonial, #Postcolonial and #MajorityWorld perspectives and voices on international development, climate change, environmental justice & degrowth/postgrowth. Please shout out if you’d like to be added, or know someone who should be. go.bsky.app/ArNFz1C

That time of the year when I advertise for my #University - or rather the #Master's programme in #Colonial and #Postcolonial Studies that I'm coordinating: lnu.se/en/programme... Please do forward to students and professionals! (also #distance alternative) /1

Two days of insightful programs by ‘Historical Treaties of Southeast Asia’ Project by Linnaeus University team at Leiden University, last week. Hans Hägerdal, Stefan Eklof Amirell, Birgit Tremml-Werner & Ariel Lopez gave interesting presentations about the project.