In The Same Sea

Welcome to the IN THE SAME SEA Bluesky account! 🤗 Follow us for project updates and random historical findings from the eastern #Caribbean ✒️🌎

Last minute, look at this exciting possibility! Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Sede Caribe, invites applications for the Summer School A Biocultural Caribbean: Seascapes, Territories, and Other Socio-Ecological Systems 🌎🐚 July 21 - 31, 2026 in San Andrés, Providencia and Santa Catalina 🇨🇴🌺

The team of IN THE SAME SEA is happy to share a dataset about nearly 7,000 enslaved fugitives in Lesser Antilles. Read more at: scholarlypublishingcollective.org/msup/jsdp/ar... Download at: dataverse.harvard.edu/citation?per... Watch at: experience.arcgis.com/experience/2... 🍀🌊🌞

IN THE SAME SEA’s @feliciafricke.bsky.social and @heatherfreund.bsky.social together with @silvaperez.bsky.social have published “'Printed for the Proprietress': Women and Printing Families in the Caribbean, 1720s–1860s”, in Early American Studies 🗞️🌊🍀. Open access: doi.org/10.1353/eam.... 🗞️🌊🍀.

IN THE SAME SEA's team and Dr. Joy Lewis have guest-edited the special issue “Small Islands, Proximity and Connection in the Eastern Caribbean” of the Journal of Caribbean History. See: www.uwipress.com/journals/the... Thanks to all contributors and the journal’s main editor Kathleen Monteith.

* Call for papers * PhD Workshop at @kitlv.bsky.social organized by @fatahblack.bsky.social and I: Early modern Caribbean and Atlantic slavery and emancipation👇 We welcome PhDs working on early modern Caribbean and Atlantic slavery and emancipation to participate. www.kitlv.nl/cfp/early-mo...

* Call for research papers * Conference at @kitlv.bsky.social organized by @fatahblack.bsky.social and I: Reinterpreting the Caribbean age of revolutions. Why were so many of the leaders and participants in so-called slave revolts were not enslaved themselves? www.kitlv.nl/cfrp/reinter...

IN THE SAME SEA's PI Gunvor Simonsen contributed to a piece in New York Times about the links between the Danish Caribbean and Greenland. Read it here: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/w...

Exciting opportunity for young scholars interested in researching the Dutch Caribbean 🍀🌊 See this PhD vacancy at the University of Amsterdam: werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...

Former researcher at IN THE SAME SEA, Lucas Marin is co-convener of the seminar series “ÉCRIRE L’HISTOIRE DE LA CARAÏBE” for young scholars. Seminars are open, see the exciting program here:

Consider sending in an abstract to this important conference about slavery and privacy 🍀 teol.ku.dk/privacy/news...

We are excited to have Professor Sue Peabody @profpeabs.bsky.social join us for a talk about methods and microhistory. Join us on 20 November 2025, 1-3 PM at UCPH @ucph.bsky.social , South Campus, room 12.3.39.

In the face of disaster, consider this:

Take a look, perhaps it is relevant to you: caribbeanresearch.net/en/early-car...

ITSS 🌊 had a wonderful experience at the 56th Annual Conference of The Association of Caribbean Historians in Trinidad🍃

Welcome to the Racialized Motherhood page! 🦋 You can read about our project goals in this interview with PI @silvaperez.bsky.social - dff.dk/en/our-funde...

Next week @feliciafricke.bsky.social will leave the ITSS🌊 team! 😥 She has been an important part of the project, making key contributions to #history in the #Caribbean. Luckily it's not goodbye though 😊 You can read a message from her here: inthesamesea.ku.dk/news/a-messa...

'Slavery and The Dutch State: Dutch Colonial Slavery and Its Afterlives', the English translation of "Staat en slavernij: het Nederlandse koloniale slavernijverleden en zijn doorwerkingen' is now available. #openaccess www.jstor.org/stable/jj.27...

Early Global Caribbean: Conference 3: Materialities Date/Time Friday, April 11, 2025–Saturday, April 12, 2025 10:00 am PDT – 4:30 pm PDT www.1718.ucla.edu/locations/wi...

ITSS🌊 PhD Fellow Rasmus Christensen is organising a graduate seminar in early modern #Caribbean #history! 🥳 Send in your application by May 1, 2025 📨 More info can be found here: inthesamesea.ku.dk/news/graduat...

Do you teach courses in Caribbean studies? Contribute your teaching materials to dLOC's collection of open educational resources and receive a stipend of $2,000 or $5,000. We are accepting proposals until Monday, April 14!

ITSS🌊 Postdoctoral Fellow @feliciafricke.bsky.social has written a short blog post about free women's bad language and the idea of the colonial gentleman in early nineteenth century St. Eustatius, Dutch #Caribbean! 🪶 Read more here: inthesamesea.ku.dk/blog/curse-w...

Calling #ECRs in #History! 🥳 You can apply to attend the workshop 'From Insurance to Chartered Companies: New developments in the history of business, slavery, and colonialism' at IISH in #Amsterdam! Deadline is April 29, 2025 📨 Email IISH for more information 😊

ITSS🌊 Postdoc @feliciafricke.bsky.social was in Snekkersten this week for the University of Copenhagen (UCPH) School of #Archaeology retreat - a great place to learn and meet colleagues 🤗 Find out more here: inthesamesea.ku.dk/news/itss-po...

Fully funded PhD #Studentship on "Reimagining #Caribbean Collections: Unveiling Histories of Identity and Wellbeing through Material Culture" available at the University of #Cambridge - apply by 30th April 📨 www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/50737/

New PhD opportunity focusing on Caribbean Collections in Cambridge (at the MAA)! Fully funded! More information: www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/50737/ Deadline: April 30th I'm looking forward to welcoming a Caribbean colleague here! Please don't hesitate to reach out if you have any questions or doubts.

Calling all postdocs & scholars in the Caribbean! The Yesu Persaud Centre for Caribbean Studies (YPCCS), University of Warwick is offering a Visiting Fellowship 2025/26. The Fellowship covers return travel & accommodation up to £4,000. warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/ccs/

Apply for a #postdoc fellowship in #maritime #history at Trier University! Deadline 1st April 📨See: transmare.uni-trier.de

Great news for #Caribbean #students! ✨ @uniofbradford.bsky.social is offering a scholarship for MSc courses in #archaeology #osteology or #forensics for 2025/6. Students from #Anguilla #BVI #CaymanIslands #Montserrat and #TurksandCaicos are eligible to apply! 📑 www.bradford.ac.uk/scholarships...

ITSS🌊 Postdoc @heatherfreund.bsky.social has published an open access article in 'Slavery & Abolition' - she writes about Black Rangers and the routes enslaved people took to seek freedom in 19th century #Grenada. Read more here: inthesamesea.ku.dk/news/new-pub...

*Job Claxon*: we're hiring a Postdoc to research the Colonial History of the Botanic Gardens at Universiteit Utrecht. www.uu.nl/en/organisat... #skystorians #jobs #histofscience #colonialhistory #botanicalgardens

A new #PhD thesis at @au.dk explores #Denmark 's colonial legacy on the #Caribbean island of St. Croix, USVI - read more about Dr. Pardis Zahedi's work here: inthesamesea.ku.dk/news/new-doc...

ITSS🌊 PI @gunvorsimonsen.bsky.social recently returned from a research trip to archives and libraries in #Martinique and #Dominica - in this blog post, you can read about the working life of a #historian in the #Caribbean 📚🌎 inthesamesea.ku.dk/news/pi-gunv...

If you are interested in #Caribbean – #Arctic connections, watch this video with Dr. Asta Mønsted! news.berkeley.edu/2025/02/13/a...

The Coalition for Caribbean Archaeological Heritage (CoCAH) now has a website! 🥳 Developed during workshops in 2023 and 2024, this network supports #Caribbean and #ECR scholars and practitioners. You can read about it here: inthesamesea.ku.dk/news/new-web...

Brilliant ITSS🌊 student assistant Kamma Strøm has interviewed #historian @dexnell.bsky.social! You can read his thoughtful reflections on his career and on the interconnected Greater Southern #Caribbean here: 🌎 inthesamesea.ku.dk/blog/intervi...

HUM:Global at the University of Copenhagen introduces our very own @gunvorsimonsen.bsky.social! ✨ Read her reflections about #Caribbean #history here: www.linkedin.com/pulse/introd...

We are excited to announce that ITSS🌊 PI @gunvorsimonsen.bsky.social has received funding from @carlsbergfondet.dk for the 'Mapping Freedom' project setting up essential research infrastructure in the former Danish West Indies 🌎 - read more here: inthesamesea.ku.dk/news/itss-pi...

Check out Graham Moore's Book Review of Cultural Representations of Piracy in England, Spain and the Caribbean: Travelers, Traders, and Traitors, 1570 to 1604 by Mariana-Cecilia Velázquez via the following link - doi.org/10.1177/0843...

Interested in a career in history and librarianship? We have a fantastic opportunity to come and work as a Trainee Library Assistant in the IHR Wohl Library @ihrlibrary.bsky.social . 2 posts available starting in September 2025 for 1 year. Apply by 31st January 2025.

The ITSS🌊 team is sad to say goodbye to Heather Freund 😢 She has been a key part of the project, making amazing contributions to the study of #history in the #Caribbean, and we look forward to future collaborations! You can read a message from her here: inthesamesea.ku.dk/news/a-messa...

ITSS🌊 affiliate Lucas Marin has written a great French-language blog post about long-distance #sailors in #Martinique at the end of the Ancien Régime! Read it here 👀⛵️ inthesamesea.ku.dk/blog/lexprie...