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EXC 2036 Beyond Slavery and Freedom Asymmetrical Dependencies in Pre-Modern Societies
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What is the material signature of slavery and colonialism, and where can we still feel it today? Join BCDSS Research Group Leader Christian Mader at the Dies Academicus Lecture at Uni Bonn.
📍Hörsaal IV, main building
📅 3 December 2025, 2.15pm - 3pm
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November 11, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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✨ Author spotlight! Meet Anas Ansar, author of "Rohingyas and the Geographies of Precarity in Exile." Available in open access, it analyzes the precarious situation of #Rohingya #refugees displaced from Myanmar to Bangladesh and Malaysia.

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Photograph of Anas Ansar holding his book
November 10, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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🎬Thanks to Drs. Kieslinger (FAU) & Mashingaidze (BCDSS) for insights on SUGAR ISLAND (2024). We explored colonial legacies, discrimination, human rights struggles, and resilience expressed through youth and motherhood.

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November 7, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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Great turnout at yesterday's event "Uni im Rathaus - Dilemma Palmöl" with BCDSS Investigator Prof. Dr. Kristina Großmann.

A huge thank you to Prof. Dr. Großmann, Volkshochschule Bonn, and everyone who joined us for such a lively exchange.

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November 5, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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Don't miss our upcoming #JCMM #Lecture with Christian Cwik!

🗓️ 10 November 2025
⏱️16:15 CET
❕Hybrid event: Niebuhrstr. 5 or via Zoom

👉For more info, visit: buff.ly/0BjLLcF

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November 5, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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A taster of our special issue on gender and segregation, due out in a few weeks.

Thank you also to @dependencybonn.de for funding the conference during which many of these ideas were first discussed.
October 29, 2025 at 9:21 AM
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📬 In our November blog post, Jamie Wood, former BCDSS Guest Researcher and Prof. of History and Education at Lincoln University (UK), shares insights into the research he conducted during his stay in Bonn: buff.ly/XBlQiLo
#Intermediaries #Christianity #Visigoths
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November 3, 2025 at 8:50 AM
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📚 New publication: Congratulations to Dr. Nina Schneider, whose book has just been published in the BCDSS' Dependency and Slavery Studies series; it explores the origins of activism against child labour.

👉More information: buff.ly/M51M8j3

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October 30, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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For this year's Wissenschaftsrally, we explored the lives of children in entertainment 150 years ago, considering what this might reveal about the vulnerability of children then and now. See the slides to read the reflections of our young visitors!
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October 30, 2025 at 9:02 AM
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🎧 If you missed our last Joseph C. Miller Memorial #Lecture by Ann R. David, you can now find the #recording on #Youtube!

Follow the link 👉https://youtu.be/OrtwwymvI38

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October 29, 2025 at 9:02 AM
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We’re thrilled to share that Dr. Sinah Kloß, BCDSS Researcher has joined the editorial board of Material Religion: The Journal of Objects, Art and Belief (Taylor & Francis) as Associate Editor.
👏 Congratulations!
For more info check: buff.ly/texX4Ry
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October 29, 2025 at 9:02 AM
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🎬 WHO’S GOT THE POWER film series continues this November!
Join us for the next film and discussion evening in collaboration with Förderverein Filmkultur.

📅 6 November 2025
🕖 19:00
📌 Kino in der Brotfabrik, Bonn.

To find out more and register check: buff.ly/g7wbTih

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October 28, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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#CallforPapers 👉 The ReCAP network, co-founded by BCDSS researchers Sinah Kloß and Luvena Kopp, is now inviting submissions for its first workshop, to be held on May 8, 2026, at the University of Bonn.

More info: www.dependency.uni-bonn.de/en/outreach/...

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October 28, 2025 at 11:25 AM
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In collaboration with Unis Radboud and Ghent, and funded by the Gerda Henkel Foundation, BCDSS members Eva Lehner & Julia Schmidt will participate in a research project examining support networks in highly asymmetrical societies in colonial Cape Town: buff.ly/3rMH8vd
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October 21, 2025 at 10:22 AM
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I am very much looking forward to this workshop at which I am speaking in Bonn in November, organised among others by @akjp89.bsky.social, and funded partly by @dependencybonn.de
October 15, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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Congratulations to our Guest Researcher (DAAD Grant) Bernardo Bonifácio Ferreira on his future position as Postgraduate Visiting Student at the LCFI Cambridge!

🔗For more info: buff.ly/bDQPMvQ

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October 17, 2025 at 8:39 AM
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🌴 Join #BCDSS investigator Kristina Großmann as she explores whether sustainability certifications and the idea of a “Just Transition” can help solve this dilemma.
🗓 Tuesday, 4 November 2025 · 18:00–19:30
📍 Altes Rathaus, Gobelinsaal, Bonn
🔗 More info: buff.ly/XGaDsFw
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October 16, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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Do not miss our upcoming #JCMM #Lecture with Ann R. David!

🗓️20 October 2025
⏱️ 16:15 CET
❕Hybrid event: Niebuhrstr. 5 or via Zoom
👉https://ow.ly/noi650W8Tah

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October 15, 2025 at 7:01 AM
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🎉 Congratulations to BCDSS Research Group Leader Dr. Christian Mader! His new article has just been published in the Journal of Archaeological Science.

For more info: buff.ly/axyfbza

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October 14, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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💬 23 Oct 2025, 7 pm, VHS Forum Cologne: Panel discussion “Ans Licht gebracht – Herausforderungen und Chancen von Missionssammlungen” (in German).
👉 More info: www.dependency.uni-bonn.de/en/outreach/...
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October 14, 2025 at 7:58 AM
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A warm welcome to all MA students, especially our newcomers, and to all teaching staff at the BCDSS! We've been busy preparing for the new semester and can't wait to get started! If you have any questions, we are here to help: www.dependency.uni-bonn.de/en/academic-...
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October 13, 2025 at 11:36 AM
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Thanks to the Global Heritage Lab for hosting Wednesday’s film screening and talk, closing the BCDSS exhibition Enmeshed and Entwined: Fabrics of Dependency. Panelists explored how film can challenge “fabrics of dependency”
Special thanks to curator Dr. Beatrix Hoffmann-Ihde!
October 10, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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We are thrilled to announce that BCDSS Researcher Sinah Kloß will be one of the three keynote speakers at the upcoming Socare Conference, taking place October 16–18, 2025 at the Ibero-American Institute PK in Berlin.

For more information visit: buff.ly/0HQD6x9

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October 8, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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The October blog post is up!
Our PR team & PhD researcher Bahar Bayraktaroğlu come together to offer a peek into the BCDSS' installation at @unibonn.bsky.social 's #Wissenschaftsrallye, writing their own experiences during the event.
read here: dependency.blog/from-complex...
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October 6, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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📢 Call for Applications!
The BCDSS is inviting applications for the Heinz Heinen Fellowship Program 2026/2027.

📅 Apply by Jan 10, 2026
📍 Start date: from Oct 1, 2026
👉 Full details here: buff.ly/8aH1Fy0

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A poster calling for application for Heinz Heinen Fellowships for the next academic year 2026/2027 -The deadline is on January 10, 2026
October 3, 2025 at 10:02 AM