Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies

Call for Papers📣 We're looking forward to your contributions for the upcoming conference "Slavery and Dependency in Early Modern Scholastic Philosophy: Authors, Texts, and Themes." More: buff.ly/7hVUYuc @unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de

The BCDSS invites applications for a six-month Euthenia Fellowship with the Library of Ancient Slavery in 2027/2028. Deadline: 1 February 2027. @unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de buff.ly/VSOb332

Congratulations to Amalia S. Levi, Teresa B. Göltl and Raphael Dohardt on their new publication in our DSS series. You can read it via open access now. 👉 buff.ly/iZvxQct @unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de @degruyterbrill.bsky.social

Many thanks to all the attendees who joined us for this engaging two-day international workshop "From palaeocolonialism to postcolonialism: Narratives on Violence and Trauma” with a distinct focus on Africa through the ages. @unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de

🔊 CfP "Narrating Carceral Dependency" How and why is agency exercised by people living in coercive spaces? More: buff.ly/8H1qBnH @unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de @wilberforcehull.bsky.social @uniofhull.bsky.social

🎬 Film Screening & Discussion with film maker ...thabo thindi: "Black faces in white? space" (2021) 📅 12 November 2026 📍 Kino in der Brotfabrik, Kreuzstraße 16, 53225 Bonn ⏰ 19:30 For more info visit: buff.ly/dhNQWaK @unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de

Don't miss this upcoming event that brings together a diverse group of expert speakers representing different regions across the African continent, to share multifaceted perspectives, archaeological insights, and critical historical analyses. 🔗For more: buff.ly/ItxQWzs @unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de

The BCDSS invites applications for Heinz Heinen Fellowships 2027/2028, open to doctoral, postdoctoral and senior scholars and Alternative Knowledge Producers. Proposals on the period before 1900. Deadline: 10 January 2027. buff.ly/q7D1TvA @unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de

Following on from the Heinz Heinen call: the BCDSS and the Beniba Centre open a Joint Research Fellowship for 2027/2028, with priority for scholars based in the Caribbean. Deadline: 10 January 2027. buff.ly/DPZXScP @unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de

🎉 Congratulations to Prof. Dr. Martin Schermaier on his election as Dean of the Faculty of Law and Economics. Martin Schermaier is Principal Investigator at the BCDSS. buff.ly/e1m8xti @unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de

Children's Testimonies: Unlocking Historical and Art Historical Archives 28 to 30 October in Bonn. How do children bear witness, and what can archives tell us? Register by 20 October. @unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de buff.ly/DYawbtp @unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de

We are inviting applications for a Research Group Leader in cooperation with the Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory connecting Historically Informed Dependency Studies with historical regimes of normativity. Deadline: 20.10.2026 buff.ly/xC5e4wN @unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de

The second edition of the BCDSS Reader is now available! 📖 The Reader brings together key texts from BCDSS publications and beyond. Explore the reader and access the second edition: buff.ly/23MroX5 @unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de

🔔 Call for participation! Join scholars, researchers, and students in Bonn from February 10 to 12, 2027, for the Annual Workshop of the Working Group (AK) Labour Geography! For more details 👉️ buff.ly/avvDq9i @unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de

📽️ Do not miss this upcoming selection of films at the Kino in der Brotfabrik that dives deep into the realities of asymmetrical dependencies, exploring how local communities navigate power imbalances tied to infrastructure, labor, and ecological capitalism. 🎞️ For more visit 👉️ buff.ly/ErmPJqx

What did Black freedom mean for the development of citizenship and democracy in the early United States? Don't miss our upcoming #JCMM #Lecture with Damian Pargas! 🗓️ 28 Sept 2026 ⏱️16:15 CEST ❕Hybrid event: Niebuhrstr. 5 or via Zoom 🌐 buff.ly/6mafa5W @unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de

The Marriage of Freedom and Justice, 3000-300 BCE: A New History of Ideas / Jan Dietrich academic.oup.com/book/63387 #openaccess @dependencybonn.de

The Namelessness in History workshop wrapped up at BCDSS: two days of studying people left unnamed by history, from ancient epigraphy to LLMs. Part of "The Nameless in History," funded by @volkswagenstiftung.de. Thanks to all who took part. @unibonn.bsky.social

Tobacco Echoes is now open at GHL! Artists Ngozi Ajah Schommers & Etinosa Yvonne trace tobacco's colonial history through drawing, assemblage, photo & sound, honouring the women whose labour sustained its cultivation in Oyo State, Nigeria. Through 6 Dec, Wed-Sun 14-18h. P26, Poststraße 26, Bonn

Upcoming International Workshop! How do historical narratives of violence and trauma evolve into modern systemic structures and psychological realities? 📅 October 5-6. 2026 🕓️ 9:00 AM – 4:00 PM 📍 Egyptian Museum, Poststraße 26, 53111 Bonn For more 👉️ buff.ly/sYyhrpC @unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de

Thank you to our research group leader Ayesha Hussain for supporting this campaign!

🎧 If you missed our last Joseph C. Miller Memorial Lecture by Nina Schneider, you can now find the recording on YouTube! buff.ly/H1AbJ88 @unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de

⏳ DEADLINE APPROACHING! There is less than a week left to apply! We are looking for 3 Research Group Leaders to join us at the BCDSS. 🗓️🚨 Application Deadline: 15 September 2026 🔗More info and application: buff.ly/Dl9MPS4 @unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de

Inspiring workshop last Thursday with Prof. Christian Williams discussing his book on Christian Faith and Namibian Liberation! Thank you to Prof. Williams and all who explored the notion of “the personal is political” in the context of ethnographic research. @unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de

'She is curious and clear-sighted. Her strong nous impels her to look beyond the surface and the kitsch.' nation.cymru/culture/book...

Do not miss our upcoming #JCMM #Lecture with Nina Schneider 🗓️ 07 September 2026 ⏱️16:15 CEST ❕Hybrid event: Niebuhrstr. 5 or via Zoom 👉For more info visit buff.ly/xnLrW1t @unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de

Join the Wilberforce Institute and the BCDSS for a lecture on "The Register of British Slave Traders" and the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade and the Development of Europe (TASTADE) project. 📅 12 October 2026 🕑️ 4pm CEST 📍 Hybrid Event Registration 👉️ buff.ly/ImIEf3k @unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de

How (In)Dependent were Children in Graeco-Roman Antiquity? Dr. Christian Laes explores childhood in the Roman world and how it was shaped by strong asymmetrical dependencies. Read the full article in the latest DEPENDENT issue 👉 buff.ly/KfpThgB @unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de

Applications are now open for a W2 Professorship in Economic Anthropology with Tenure Track W3. Full job advertisement here: buff.ly/QNAxMgN @unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de

Applications are now open for a W2 Professorship in Cultural Heritage with a focus on German Colonialism with Tenure Track W3. Full job advertisement here: buff.ly/cCW52Ff @unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de

📚️ Volume 32 in the DSS series is out now! Congratulations to Stephan Conermann, Ulbe Bosma and Gijs Kessler on their new publication. buff.ly/mAXFnVX @unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de @iisg-amsterdam.bsky.social @degruyterbrill.bsky.social

📢 We're hiring! BCDSS seeks 3 Research Group Leaders to help anchor #HistoricallyInformedDependencyStudies — exploring #StrongAsymmetricalDependency across history and cultures. Join an interdisciplinary, international team. 📅 Deadline: 15 Sept 2026 👉 More information here: buff.ly/Dl9MPS4

🔊 Call for Papers! "South Asians Globally: Im/mobile Workers and Dependencies" Please submit your abstract by 20 September 2026! For more information, read the full open Call for Papers: buff.ly/QrY7qv8 @unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de

Join us for a book discussion with Prof. Dr. Christian Williams on Christian Faith and Namibian Liberation, hosted by the BCDSS Life Writing Group. 📅 Wednesday, September 2 ⏰️ 4:00 to 6:00 PM 📍 Hybrid Event, Niebuhrstraße 5 (BCDSS) For more info visit: buff.ly/AJr6Heb @unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de

Congratulations to Research Group Leader Benjamin Etzold and Marie Godin on their new edited volume! You can read it via Open Access now. 👉 buff.ly/FG3gwVo @unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de

We are very pleased to announce the release of the latest edition of our cluster magazine, dedicated to the theme of Child Dependency. 👉 Read the full issue here: buff.ly/kswbx6s @unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de

Do not miss our upcoming #JCMM Lecture with Ananya Jahanara Kabir! 🗓️ 27 July 2026 ⏱️16:15 CEST ❕Hybrid event: Niebuhrstr. 5 or via Zoom 👉For more info: buff.ly/vqAPKtA @universitaetbonn @dfg__public

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

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