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EXC 2036 Beyond Slavery and Freedom Asymmetrical Dependencies in Pre-Modern Societies
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📢 New Gender & History special issue on Gender & Segregation out now.
Co-edited by Lisa Hellman & Julia Hillner, alongside Daniel J. R. Grey and Rachel Jean-Baptiste.
The issue builds on last year's conference, with a contribution by Emma Kalb.

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December 22, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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💫 We sincerely thank everyone who has helped shape the BCDSS. The Cluster has thrived through your dedication, expertise, and collaboration! You have strengthened the community of researchers and learners and inspired us to build on this momentum in the second funding phase.

Your BCDSS Team
December 19, 2025 at 10:44 AM
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Congratulations to Prof. Dr. Stephan Conermann, PD Dr. Ulrike Schmieder and Prof. Dr. Michael Zeuske, whose book, "Cultural Heritage and Slavery: A Perspective from the Caribbean," has just been published! 👉 buff.ly/sUOpm23

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December 18, 2025 at 6:29 AM
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🎧 If you missed our last Joseph C. Miller Memorial #Lecture by Luis Rosenfield, you can now find the #recording on #Youtube!

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December 16, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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It was a pleasure to host Behnaz Mirzai for an engaging and well-attended evening combining lecture and film screening. Many thanks to @behnazmirzai.bsky.social, Jun.-Prof. Dr. Julia Binter for hosting at the GHL, and everyone who joined the discussion.
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December 15, 2025 at 11:12 AM
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BCDSS Professors Julia Hillner and Pia Wiegmink, together with former BCDSS Guest Researcher Jamie Wood (University of Lincoln), have been granted funding by the VolkswagenStiftung for their collaborative project "The Nameless in History".
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December 15, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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👏 Our warmest congratulations to Vitali Byl, Honey Hammer, Claire Conrad, and James Harland (@jmharland.bsky.social) on earning their BCDSS DEI Certificates.
All members of @unibonn.bsky.social are eligible for the certificate! More info: buff.ly/ULgEnQI

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December 12, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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Dont forget to join our next's week #JCMM #Lecture with Marçal de Menezes Paredes!

🗓️ 15 December 2025
⏱️16:15 CET
❕Hybrid event: Niebuhrstr. 5 or via Zoom

👉For more info, visit: buff.ly/7zlCDq5 @unibonn.bsky.social
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December 10, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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📕 Congratulations to BCDSS postdoctoral researcher James M. Harland on his new publication in "Traditio: Studies in Ancient and Medieval History, Thought and Religion."
👉 More information: buff.ly/Dwlp4Lk

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December 9, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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My new article has now been published in the 2025 volume of Traditio. I use a little examined episode on the lower Rhine in the late 350s with the aid of agricultural archaeology to reveal fiscal dependency relations between the Empire & Barbaricum, & the consequences of their rupture. #medievalsky
JULIAN’S BATAVIAN CAMPAIGN, AN EMBEZZLEMENT TRIAL IN BRITAIN, AND BARBARIAN ACCESS TO THE ANNONA MILITARIS | Traditio | Cambridge Core
JULIAN’S BATAVIAN CAMPAIGN, AN EMBEZZLEMENT TRIAL IN BRITAIN, AND BARBARIAN ACCESS TO THE ANNONA MILITARIS - Volume 80
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December 5, 2025 at 10:21 AM
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🎧 If you missed our last Joseph C. Miller Memorial #Lecture by Alan Rice, you can now find the #recording on #Youtube!

Follow the link 👉https://buff.ly/afOxREf @unibonn.bsky.social
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December 8, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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Join the upcoming talk and documentary film on African slavery in Iran by Behnaz Mirzai!

📅 Thursday, 11.12. 25
⏰ 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM
📍 GHL, Poststraße 26, 53111 Bonn
👉 buff.ly/602OkbG
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December 5, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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Sciences and the divine: A heartfelt thank you to Rev. David Smith as well as BCDSS Professor Pia Wiegmink and all involved in a highly engaging and enlightening exploration of the historical connection between Christianity and Slavery as part of Dies Academicus!
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December 5, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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We were thrilled to welcome so many to our Dies Academicus lecture with Christian Mader and Philip Atta Mensah. Drawing on their research project on Fort William in Ghana, they explored the material signature for slavery and colonialism.

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December 5, 2025 at 8:30 AM
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Do not miss our upcoming #JCMM #Lecture with Luis Rosenfield!

🗓️08 December 2025
⏱️16:15 CET
❕Online event via Zoom
👉https://buff.ly/NFwfhbn

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December 3, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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Our new blog post is out! Looking back with a sense of nostalgia and looking forward with excitement, we are bringing the first funding phase to a close. We asked our researchers: What will you take away from BCDSS? What were your highlights?
Full post: buff.ly/7C4PfDx
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December 1, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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📘Congratulations to Stephan Conermann and Roberto Hofmeister Pich, editors of the newly published Volume 21 of the DSS Series.
👉 More: buff.ly/hTUTIm8
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November 28, 2025 at 10:12 AM
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📣 New Special Issue Published! 📣

The special issue of Atlantic Studies: Global Currents, co-edited by BCDSS Professor and Co-speaker, Pia Wiegmink has just been published!

For more info: buff.ly/bO0FZ7R

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November 27, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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How have African Atlantic artists transformed our understanding of slavery’s legacy?
Do not miss out upcoming #JCMM #Lecture with Alan Rice!

🗓️01 December 2025
⏱️ 16:15 CET
❕Hybrid event: Niebuhrstr. 5 or via Zoom
👉https://buff.ly/K9CsrNn

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November 26, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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“Whose Prayers did God hear?”
Join us on 3 Dec, 7 PM @ Schlosskirche for talks, interviews, and interactive reflections on Christianity’s historical entanglements with slavery.
More info: buff.ly/GjjVq3A

No registration required.

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November 25, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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We enjoyed the inspiring talks at last week’s workshop, “Longue Durée Approaches to the Global Plantation Complex.” Many thanks to the organizer and PhD researcher Joe Biggerstaff, as well as to all participants for their valuable contributions!

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November 24, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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Call for Applications!
The Ottoman Slavery Working Group invites submissions for the conference “Ottoman Slaveries and Typologies of Unfreedom.”
📍 Bonn, 24–26 June 2026

More info: buff.ly/IvFb1wS
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November 21, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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📘 Out now: 'Slavery and Servile Societies in Korean History: The Hidden Background of Modern Korea' by BCDSS PI Reinhard Zöllner. All volumes in this series are available open access!
👉 More info: buff.ly/80R2y4q
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November 20, 2025 at 11:26 AM
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Join today's IMPULSE Café on "Displacement, ‘fugitivity’ and agency" through the lens of Slavery Studies!

🗓️ Tuesday, November 18, 2025
⏰ Time: 4:00 - 5:30 pm CET
📍 House of Imagination and Intellectual Creativity, Adenauerallee 131, Bonn

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November 18, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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Very happy to see this out in the world! A deeply collaborative attempt at thinking ecological dependencies from/across a variety of disciplines. Thank you @dependencybonn.de for providing us with the space + resources to develop this. Check the book out here: www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
November 14, 2025 at 9:22 AM