Concurrences at Linnaeus University
@lnuccon.bsky.social
Leading European Centre for #Concurrences in Colonial & #Postcolonial Studies at Linnaeus University 🇸🇪. Archaeology, Literature, History, Sociology & more. DMs open!
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Linnaeus University Centre for Concurrences in Colonial and Postcolonial Studies
The Linnaeus University Centre for Concurrences in Colonial and Postcolonial Studies is a leading centre for Colonial and Postcolonial studies in Europe and a major Swedish and international research ...
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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
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We analyze the consequences of colonialism & other forms of domination, particularly on those dispossessed, exploited & marginalized due to imperial expansion
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#Academicsky
Learn more about the Concurrences' Cluster for Borders of Justice below!
"a research cluster focused on reimagining societies through the lenses of migration, justice, and belonging, w/ a strong emphasis on decolonization & its impact on shaping our collective futures"
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"a research cluster focused on reimagining societies through the lenses of migration, justice, and belonging, w/ a strong emphasis on decolonization & its impact on shaping our collective futures"
lnu.se/en/research/...
The Cluster for Borders of Justice: Migration, Equity, and the Global Postcolonial Order
The Cluster for Borders of Justice: Migration, Equity, and the Global Postcolonial Order is a research cluster focused on reimagining societies through the lenses of migration, justice, and belonging,...
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February 6, 2026 at 12:45 PM
Learn more about the Concurrences' Cluster for Borders of Justice below!
"a research cluster focused on reimagining societies through the lenses of migration, justice, and belonging, w/ a strong emphasis on decolonization & its impact on shaping our collective futures"
lnu.se/en/research/...
"a research cluster focused on reimagining societies through the lenses of migration, justice, and belonging, w/ a strong emphasis on decolonization & its impact on shaping our collective futures"
lnu.se/en/research/...
Two exciting events are coming up in the next few weeks!
MONOLOG: A Conversation That Looks Like a Concert, on 13 Feb (19:00) & Diggin’ – a Beat-Making Master Class on 14 Feb (14-20:00), both at monovaxjo.se
Learn more about our artist in residence, Napolean Maddox:
www.napoleonmaddox.com
MONOLOG: A Conversation That Looks Like a Concert, on 13 Feb (19:00) & Diggin’ – a Beat-Making Master Class on 14 Feb (14-20:00), both at monovaxjo.se
Learn more about our artist in residence, Napolean Maddox:
www.napoleonmaddox.com
January 29, 2026 at 9:08 AM
Two exciting events are coming up in the next few weeks!
MONOLOG: A Conversation That Looks Like a Concert, on 13 Feb (19:00) & Diggin’ – a Beat-Making Master Class on 14 Feb (14-20:00), both at monovaxjo.se
Learn more about our artist in residence, Napolean Maddox:
www.napoleonmaddox.com
MONOLOG: A Conversation That Looks Like a Concert, on 13 Feb (19:00) & Diggin’ – a Beat-Making Master Class on 14 Feb (14-20:00), both at monovaxjo.se
Learn more about our artist in residence, Napolean Maddox:
www.napoleonmaddox.com
Diggin’ – a Beat-Making Master Class” with composer/producer (Sorg) and writer/Hip-hop artist (Napoleon Maddox)
Saturday, February 14
Workshop: 14:00–17:00
Concert: 18:00–20:00
Free to drop in at Mono, Sandgärdsgatan 1, Växjö
lnu.se/en/meet-linn...
Saturday, February 14
Workshop: 14:00–17:00
Concert: 18:00–20:00
Free to drop in at Mono, Sandgärdsgatan 1, Växjö
lnu.se/en/meet-linn...
Diggin’ – a Beat-Making Master Class
How does a Hip-hop producer compose? What do they look for to produce the sonic textures and feelings they want to create? What do beat-makers do that generative AI is not capable of?
lnu.se
January 22, 2026 at 9:49 AM
Diggin’ – a Beat-Making Master Class” with composer/producer (Sorg) and writer/Hip-hop artist (Napoleon Maddox)
Saturday, February 14
Workshop: 14:00–17:00
Concert: 18:00–20:00
Free to drop in at Mono, Sandgärdsgatan 1, Växjö
lnu.se/en/meet-linn...
Saturday, February 14
Workshop: 14:00–17:00
Concert: 18:00–20:00
Free to drop in at Mono, Sandgärdsgatan 1, Växjö
lnu.se/en/meet-linn...
Get excited for Concurrences' first event of the year, 'MONOLOG: A Conversation That Looks Like a Concert'!
Organized in collaboration w/ Mono & the Cultural University, featuring writer/Hip-hop artist Napoleon Maddox & the composer/producer Sorg
🆓 Feb 13, 19:00 at Mono
lnu.se/en/meet-linn...
Organized in collaboration w/ Mono & the Cultural University, featuring writer/Hip-hop artist Napoleon Maddox & the composer/producer Sorg
🆓 Feb 13, 19:00 at Mono
lnu.se/en/meet-linn...
MONOLOG: A Conversation That Looks Like a Concert
MONOLOG – the popular scientific lecture series organized by the record store Mono and Linnaeus University. Delve into the humanities, art, literature, and music in a relaxed environment.
For the sec...
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January 19, 2026 at 10:39 AM
Get excited for Concurrences' first event of the year, 'MONOLOG: A Conversation That Looks Like a Concert'!
Organized in collaboration w/ Mono & the Cultural University, featuring writer/Hip-hop artist Napoleon Maddox & the composer/producer Sorg
🆓 Feb 13, 19:00 at Mono
lnu.se/en/meet-linn...
Organized in collaboration w/ Mono & the Cultural University, featuring writer/Hip-hop artist Napoleon Maddox & the composer/producer Sorg
🆓 Feb 13, 19:00 at Mono
lnu.se/en/meet-linn...
We are proud to share a new open-access volume co-edited by Hans Hägerdal, one of our members.
Colonial Encounters and Slavery in Early Modern Asia (Leiden University Press, 2025)
lup.nl/publications...
Open access link: library.oapen.org/handle/20.50...
Colonial Encounters and Slavery in Early Modern Asia (Leiden University Press, 2025)
lup.nl/publications...
Open access link: library.oapen.org/handle/20.50...
Colonial Encounters and Slavery in Early Modern Asia - Leiden University Press
This volume traces how colonial powers from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century built, adapted, and expanded systems of slave trading and coerced labour across different regions of the globe. Brin...
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January 16, 2026 at 1:47 PM
We are proud to share a new open-access volume co-edited by Hans Hägerdal, one of our members.
Colonial Encounters and Slavery in Early Modern Asia (Leiden University Press, 2025)
lup.nl/publications...
Open access link: library.oapen.org/handle/20.50...
Colonial Encounters and Slavery in Early Modern Asia (Leiden University Press, 2025)
lup.nl/publications...
Open access link: library.oapen.org/handle/20.50...
The 2026 spring semester for Concurrences has begun! It was great to see everyone back around the seminar table in Växjö, as we discussed future plans for the Centre.
Stay tuned for our upcoming seminar schedule!
Stay tuned for our upcoming seminar schedule!
January 16, 2026 at 10:28 AM
The 2026 spring semester for Concurrences has begun! It was great to see everyone back around the seminar table in Växjö, as we discussed future plans for the Centre.
Stay tuned for our upcoming seminar schedule!
Stay tuned for our upcoming seminar schedule!
In early December we met for our final research seminar of the year with visiting scholar Mitul Baruah from Ashoka University, and finished the evening with a cozy collegial dinner. We wish everyone a wonderful winter holiday and we look forward to an engaging 2026 with Concurrences!
December 15, 2025 at 8:52 AM
In early December we met for our final research seminar of the year with visiting scholar Mitul Baruah from Ashoka University, and finished the evening with a cozy collegial dinner. We wish everyone a wonderful winter holiday and we look forward to an engaging 2026 with Concurrences!
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So pleased to be presenting at a few Scandinavian universities next week, including Copenhagen, Linnaeus and U of Southern Denmark. Thanks to @mikkelkfrantzen.bsky.social & @lnuccon.bsky.social for hosting!
artsandculturalstudies.ku.dk/calendar/202...
artsandculturalstudies.ku.dk/calendar/202...
December 11, 2025 at 1:56 PM
So pleased to be presenting at a few Scandinavian universities next week, including Copenhagen, Linnaeus and U of Southern Denmark. Thanks to @mikkelkfrantzen.bsky.social & @lnuccon.bsky.social for hosting!
artsandculturalstudies.ku.dk/calendar/202...
artsandculturalstudies.ku.dk/calendar/202...
Major congratulations to Eleonor Marcussen, Niladri Chatterjee & John Hennessey who received funding from the Swedish VR!
Read more about: 'From Imperial Markets to Postcolonial Networks: The Swedish Match Industry & the Reconfiguration of Global Trade in South Asia'
lnu.se/en/meet-linn...
Read more about: 'From Imperial Markets to Postcolonial Networks: The Swedish Match Industry & the Reconfiguration of Global Trade in South Asia'
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From Imperial Markets to Postcolonial Networks: The Swedish Match Industry and the Reconfiguration of Global Trade in South Asia, c. 1920–1970
Eleonor Marcussen, Niladri Chatterjee and John Hennessey have received funding from The Swedish Research Council to conduct a three-year research project titled From Imperial Markets to Postcolonial N...
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December 9, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Major congratulations to Eleonor Marcussen, Niladri Chatterjee & John Hennessey who received funding from the Swedish VR!
Read more about: 'From Imperial Markets to Postcolonial Networks: The Swedish Match Industry & the Reconfiguration of Global Trade in South Asia'
lnu.se/en/meet-linn...
Read more about: 'From Imperial Markets to Postcolonial Networks: The Swedish Match Industry & the Reconfiguration of Global Trade in South Asia'
lnu.se/en/meet-linn...
Changing Tides, a conference on one of Asia's key regions took place in late November in Stockholm.
The conference brought together researchers who focus on the recent past in a region spanning northeast India, to Yunnan in the east, & the Eastern Himalayas in the north, to Thailand in the south.
The conference brought together researchers who focus on the recent past in a region spanning northeast India, to Yunnan in the east, & the Eastern Himalayas in the north, to Thailand in the south.
December 8, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Changing Tides, a conference on one of Asia's key regions took place in late November in Stockholm.
The conference brought together researchers who focus on the recent past in a region spanning northeast India, to Yunnan in the east, & the Eastern Himalayas in the north, to Thailand in the south.
The conference brought together researchers who focus on the recent past in a region spanning northeast India, to Yunnan in the east, & the Eastern Himalayas in the north, to Thailand in the south.
Liv Nilsson Stutz recently gave a keynote “Caring for the Sublime: The Ethics of Care of & for Mummies" at the U of Copenhagen.
She was also a co-organizer of “Collecting the Holocaust” in the VR funded network, an event held at the Holocaust Museum and the Swedish History Museum in Stockholm.
She was also a co-organizer of “Collecting the Holocaust” in the VR funded network, an event held at the Holocaust Museum and the Swedish History Museum in Stockholm.
December 5, 2025 at 8:57 AM
Liv Nilsson Stutz recently gave a keynote “Caring for the Sublime: The Ethics of Care of & for Mummies" at the U of Copenhagen.
She was also a co-organizer of “Collecting the Holocaust” in the VR funded network, an event held at the Holocaust Museum and the Swedish History Museum in Stockholm.
She was also a co-organizer of “Collecting the Holocaust” in the VR funded network, an event held at the Holocaust Museum and the Swedish History Museum in Stockholm.
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Delighted to have my latest co-authored #OpenAccess article titled "The Renouncer-King: Narendra Modi’s Poetry and the Hindu Leadership Style", published by South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies. Have a read, link below! 👇
@lnuccon.bsky.social, @uio.no
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
@lnuccon.bsky.social, @uio.no
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
The Renouncer-King: Narendra Modi’s Poetry and the Hindu Leadership Style
In three poetic publications, Narendra Modi presents himself as a renouncer-king and lays out what we refer to in this article as a ‘Hindu leadership style’. The image that emerges from the poems i...
www.tandfonline.com
December 4, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Delighted to have my latest co-authored #OpenAccess article titled "The Renouncer-King: Narendra Modi’s Poetry and the Hindu Leadership Style", published by South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies. Have a read, link below! 👇
@lnuccon.bsky.social, @uio.no
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
@lnuccon.bsky.social, @uio.no
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
This week!
Slow Disaster: Political Ecology of Hazards and Everyday Life in the Brahmaputra Valley, Assam
Dec 4, 15:15-17:00
Dacke & on zoom
Mitul Baruah, Ashoka University is a visiting lecturer in Concurrences through the Erasmus+ ICM collaboration between Ashoka & LNU
lnu.se/en/meet-linn...
Slow Disaster: Political Ecology of Hazards and Everyday Life in the Brahmaputra Valley, Assam
Dec 4, 15:15-17:00
Dacke & on zoom
Mitul Baruah, Ashoka University is a visiting lecturer in Concurrences through the Erasmus+ ICM collaboration between Ashoka & LNU
lnu.se/en/meet-linn...
Slow Disaster: Political Ecology of Hazards and Everyday Life in the Brahmaputra Valley, Assam
Welcome to the LNUC Concurrences Seminar Series in Colonial and Postcolonial Studies!
lnu.se
December 2, 2025 at 1:17 PM
This week!
Slow Disaster: Political Ecology of Hazards and Everyday Life in the Brahmaputra Valley, Assam
Dec 4, 15:15-17:00
Dacke & on zoom
Mitul Baruah, Ashoka University is a visiting lecturer in Concurrences through the Erasmus+ ICM collaboration between Ashoka & LNU
lnu.se/en/meet-linn...
Slow Disaster: Political Ecology of Hazards and Everyday Life in the Brahmaputra Valley, Assam
Dec 4, 15:15-17:00
Dacke & on zoom
Mitul Baruah, Ashoka University is a visiting lecturer in Concurrences through the Erasmus+ ICM collaboration between Ashoka & LNU
lnu.se/en/meet-linn...
The Cluster for Ecology, Culture and Coloniality (ECCo) held a lively workshop in Höör last week, launching a focus on the polycrisis over two days full of discussion and reflection. ECCo looks forward to continuing this work in the new year!
December 2, 2025 at 1:07 PM
The Cluster for Ecology, Culture and Coloniality (ECCo) held a lively workshop in Höör last week, launching a focus on the polycrisis over two days full of discussion and reflection. ECCo looks forward to continuing this work in the new year!
🎉Hot off the press! @niladri4u.bsky.social recently published 'The Illusion of Change? Crisis, Counterrevolution and Elite Capture in Postcolonial Democracies', in The Daily Star, the largest English newspaper in Bangladesh.
www.thedailystar.net/slow-reads/b...
www.thedailystar.net/slow-reads/b...
Why uprisings fail: Lessons from Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, and Nepal
Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Nepal reveal the same pattern in different sequences.
www.thedailystar.net
November 25, 2025 at 10:04 AM
🎉Hot off the press! @niladri4u.bsky.social recently published 'The Illusion of Change? Crisis, Counterrevolution and Elite Capture in Postcolonial Democracies', in The Daily Star, the largest English newspaper in Bangladesh.
www.thedailystar.net/slow-reads/b...
www.thedailystar.net/slow-reads/b...
This week!
Hope and Asylum, an LNUC (Con)current event with Torun Elsrud and Philip Lalander.
Thursday, 20 November
13:15-17:00
Växjö, Building F, Lammhult & zoom (register at link below)
lnu.se/en/meet-linn...
#Concurrences #Seminar
Hope and Asylum, an LNUC (Con)current event with Torun Elsrud and Philip Lalander.
Thursday, 20 November
13:15-17:00
Växjö, Building F, Lammhult & zoom (register at link below)
lnu.se/en/meet-linn...
#Concurrences #Seminar
Hope and Asylum
Welcome to LNUC (Con)Current Event!
lnu.se
November 17, 2025 at 9:51 AM
This week!
Hope and Asylum, an LNUC (Con)current event with Torun Elsrud and Philip Lalander.
Thursday, 20 November
13:15-17:00
Växjö, Building F, Lammhult & zoom (register at link below)
lnu.se/en/meet-linn...
#Concurrences #Seminar
Hope and Asylum, an LNUC (Con)current event with Torun Elsrud and Philip Lalander.
Thursday, 20 November
13:15-17:00
Växjö, Building F, Lammhult & zoom (register at link below)
lnu.se/en/meet-linn...
#Concurrences #Seminar
This past weekend, Concurrences brought the Nordic Palestinian Film Festival to Växjö. 10 films, inc. To My Father (Salam Shehada 2008), Maria (Abdelhakim Majed Abudaquen 2025), & An Orange from Jaffa (Mohammed Almughanni 2023), & a fantastic seminar with Wafá Jamil & Bisan Edwan.
November 10, 2025 at 3:04 PM
This past weekend, Concurrences brought the Nordic Palestinian Film Festival to Växjö. 10 films, inc. To My Father (Salam Shehada 2008), Maria (Abdelhakim Majed Abudaquen 2025), & An Orange from Jaffa (Mohammed Almughanni 2023), & a fantastic seminar with Wafá Jamil & Bisan Edwan.
A recent workshop, Imperial Circuits: Production, Trade, & Regulation between the Atlantic & Pacific Worlds, 1530–1620, organized by GATPAC, brought together scholars from Latin America, Europe, and Asia in Seville to explore the roles of the Americas and Southeast Asia in the first globalization.
November 7, 2025 at 12:46 PM
A recent workshop, Imperial Circuits: Production, Trade, & Regulation between the Atlantic & Pacific Worlds, 1530–1620, organized by GATPAC, brought together scholars from Latin America, Europe, and Asia in Seville to explore the roles of the Americas and Southeast Asia in the first globalization.
Huge congratulations to Eleonor and Niladri on their recent funding success!
Delighted to announce the success of our research application, a multi years' project funded by #SwedishResearchCouncil @vetenskapsradet.bsky.social on The Swedish Match Industry and the Reconfiguration of Global Trade in South Asia, c. 1920–1970". @eleonormarcus.bsky.social @lnuccon.bsky.social
November 5, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Huge congratulations to Eleonor and Niladri on their recent funding success!
This week!
@feliciafricke.bsky.social is giving our next Concurrences seminar -
'The Widows of St. Eustatius: Stability and Survival in Colonial Society around 1800'
6 Nov 2025
14:15- 16:00
Dacke, or register at the link below to attend on zoom
lnu.se/en/meet-linn...
@feliciafricke.bsky.social is giving our next Concurrences seminar -
'The Widows of St. Eustatius: Stability and Survival in Colonial Society around 1800'
6 Nov 2025
14:15- 16:00
Dacke, or register at the link below to attend on zoom
lnu.se/en/meet-linn...
The Widows of St. Eustatius: Stability and Survival in Colonial Society around 1800
Welcome to the LNUC Concurrences Seminar Series in Colonial and Postcolonial Studies!
lnu.se
November 3, 2025 at 8:08 AM
This week!
@feliciafricke.bsky.social is giving our next Concurrences seminar -
'The Widows of St. Eustatius: Stability and Survival in Colonial Society around 1800'
6 Nov 2025
14:15- 16:00
Dacke, or register at the link below to attend on zoom
lnu.se/en/meet-linn...
@feliciafricke.bsky.social is giving our next Concurrences seminar -
'The Widows of St. Eustatius: Stability and Survival in Colonial Society around 1800'
6 Nov 2025
14:15- 16:00
Dacke, or register at the link below to attend on zoom
lnu.se/en/meet-linn...
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Excited to present my research about widows and #Caribbean colonialism on Thurs 6 Nov at @lnuccon.bsky.social - you can attend in person or online. Hope to see you there! 🤗 lnu.se/en/meet-linn...
The Widows of St. Eustatius: Stability and Survival in Colonial Society around 1800
Welcome to the LNUC Concurrences Seminar Series in Colonial and Postcolonial Studies!
lnu.se
October 31, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Excited to present my research about widows and #Caribbean colonialism on Thurs 6 Nov at @lnuccon.bsky.social - you can attend in person or online. Hope to see you there! 🤗 lnu.se/en/meet-linn...
Concurrences is a proud sponsor of the upcoming Växjö edition of the Nordic Palestinian Film Festival, we hope to see you on November 8! @npff.bsky.social
October 28, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Concurrences is a proud sponsor of the upcoming Växjö edition of the Nordic Palestinian Film Festival, we hope to see you on November 8! @npff.bsky.social
Save the date! Visit the Växjö Art Gallery on Nov 12, and meet artist in residence Napoleon Maddox, organized in collaboration with Concurrences.
lnu.se/en/meet-linn...
lnu.se/en/meet-linn...
Tea evening for artists and cultural creators
lnu.se
October 24, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Save the date! Visit the Växjö Art Gallery on Nov 12, and meet artist in residence Napoleon Maddox, organized in collaboration with Concurrences.
lnu.se/en/meet-linn...
lnu.se/en/meet-linn...
NEW open-access publication from Concurrences' affiliated member @niladri4u.bsky.social, 'Relocating Hindutva in Bengal’s Political Landscape', co-authored with Zaad Mahmood from Presidency University in India.
Read more, below!
doi.org/10.1080/0803...
Read more, below!
doi.org/10.1080/0803...
Relocating Hindutva in Bengal’s Political Landscape
This article examines the trajectory of Hindutva politics in West Bengal through the national and state elections between 2014 and 2024, a state that has remained unusually resistant to the Bharati...
doi.org
October 22, 2025 at 8:41 AM
NEW open-access publication from Concurrences' affiliated member @niladri4u.bsky.social, 'Relocating Hindutva in Bengal’s Political Landscape', co-authored with Zaad Mahmood from Presidency University in India.
Read more, below!
doi.org/10.1080/0803...
Read more, below!
doi.org/10.1080/0803...
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Fresh from the press! I am delighted to share with you my latest article on the recent #NobelPeacePrize controversy from a historical and decolonial perspective. Thanks to Ahmedur Tutul Chowdhury for inviting me to write this for Shuddhashar FreeVoice. Have a read! 🤩
shuddhashar.com/canon-contes...
shuddhashar.com/canon-contes...
Canon, Contestation, Consequence: The Nobel Peace Prize and the Limits of Recognition - শুদ্ধস্বর
The ‘optics of absence’ of deserving recipients from the global south is not a ledger of past mistakes; they are a map of risks the Nobel Peace Prize still runs when it tells the world what peace look...
shuddhashar.com
October 16, 2025 at 4:40 AM
Fresh from the press! I am delighted to share with you my latest article on the recent #NobelPeacePrize controversy from a historical and decolonial perspective. Thanks to Ahmedur Tutul Chowdhury for inviting me to write this for Shuddhashar FreeVoice. Have a read! 🤩
shuddhashar.com/canon-contes...
shuddhashar.com/canon-contes...