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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#Academicsky
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
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!
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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.
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Tea evening for artists and cultural creators
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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...
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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...
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Recently at the conference on #Polycrisis, #Risks & #Resilience, organized by @lunduniversity.bsky.social, I presented a paper on #MaanKiBaat to examine the subtle technologies of affective governance & therapeutic populism that it enacts. @eleonormarcus.bsky.social.
@lnuccon.bsky.social; @uio.no
@lnuccon.bsky.social; @uio.no
October 14, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Recently at the conference on #Polycrisis, #Risks & #Resilience, organized by @lunduniversity.bsky.social, I presented a paper on #MaanKiBaat to examine the subtle technologies of affective governance & therapeutic populism that it enacts. @eleonormarcus.bsky.social.
@lnuccon.bsky.social; @uio.no
@lnuccon.bsky.social; @uio.no
Prof. Johan Höglund from #concurrences has contributed a text to the exhibition The Unloved at Praksis in Oslo. The Unloved "invites us to look again at the multitudes in the margins—those deemed not to belong—& asks what it might mean to love the unloved”.
www.praksisoslo.org/events-calen...
www.praksisoslo.org/events-calen...
The Unloved – An exhibition by Felicia Honkasalo and Sam Williams — PRAKSIS
The Unloved is an exhibition by artists Felicia Honkasalo and Sam Williams in which the starring role is played by a plant largely deemed undesirable by humans: a “weed”.
www.praksisoslo.org
October 13, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Prof. Johan Höglund from #concurrences has contributed a text to the exhibition The Unloved at Praksis in Oslo. The Unloved "invites us to look again at the multitudes in the margins—those deemed not to belong—& asks what it might mean to love the unloved”.
www.praksisoslo.org/events-calen...
www.praksisoslo.org/events-calen...
We are looking forward to supporting Nordic TAG (Theoretical Archaeology Group) in May 2026, check out the call for papers which is closing soon!
Conference theme: 'Activate Archaeology for Just Futures!'
Conference theme: 'Activate Archaeology for Just Futures!'
Deadline approaching!
22 sessions
4 workshops
1 castle
Get your abstracts in for #NordicTAG by Oct 15, and come visit us on the shores of the Baltic in Kalmar!
lnu.se/en/meet-linn...
22 sessions
4 workshops
1 castle
Get your abstracts in for #NordicTAG by Oct 15, and come visit us on the shores of the Baltic in Kalmar!
lnu.se/en/meet-linn...
October 10, 2025 at 2:19 PM
We are looking forward to supporting Nordic TAG (Theoretical Archaeology Group) in May 2026, check out the call for papers which is closing soon!
Conference theme: 'Activate Archaeology for Just Futures!'
Conference theme: 'Activate Archaeology for Just Futures!'
We are extremely excited to welcome Prof. Jack Halberstam from Columbia University to Concurrences next week!
Don’t miss Halberstam’s seminar, Anarchitecture After Everything -
Thursday, 16 October
14:15-16:00
Växjö
More info & register to attend on zoom lnu.se/en/meet-linn...
Don’t miss Halberstam’s seminar, Anarchitecture After Everything -
Thursday, 16 October
14:15-16:00
Växjö
More info & register to attend on zoom lnu.se/en/meet-linn...
Anarchitecture After Everything
Welcome to the LNUC Concurrences Seminar Series in Colonial and Postcolonial Studies! This is the Cluster for Ecology, Culture and Coloniality's Annual Lecture in collaboration with the Centre for Int...
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October 9, 2025 at 2:32 PM
We are extremely excited to welcome Prof. Jack Halberstam from Columbia University to Concurrences next week!
Don’t miss Halberstam’s seminar, Anarchitecture After Everything -
Thursday, 16 October
14:15-16:00
Växjö
More info & register to attend on zoom lnu.se/en/meet-linn...
Don’t miss Halberstam’s seminar, Anarchitecture After Everything -
Thursday, 16 October
14:15-16:00
Växjö
More info & register to attend on zoom lnu.se/en/meet-linn...
We spent the morning at the Welt Museum in Vienna and proved that adults appreciate the same kinds of activities as teenagers!
October 8, 2025 at 10:42 AM
We spent the morning at the Welt Museum in Vienna and proved that adults appreciate the same kinds of activities as teenagers!
Concurrences is on the road! We are very happy to be on a study trip in Vienna, meeting colleagues at CEU’s EurAsian Transformation cluster.
This morning we had a decolonial tour at the Museum of Applied Arts & we are spending the afternoon at CEU.
@historicalstudies.bsky.social
This morning we had a decolonial tour at the Museum of Applied Arts & we are spending the afternoon at CEU.
@historicalstudies.bsky.social
October 7, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Concurrences is on the road! We are very happy to be on a study trip in Vienna, meeting colleagues at CEU’s EurAsian Transformation cluster.
This morning we had a decolonial tour at the Museum of Applied Arts & we are spending the afternoon at CEU.
@historicalstudies.bsky.social
This morning we had a decolonial tour at the Museum of Applied Arts & we are spending the afternoon at CEU.
@historicalstudies.bsky.social
This Friday, Concurrences member Nadi Tofighian will be giving a guest lecture on Philippine film history for the Department of History at Stockholm University, ahead of a screening of Lino Brocka’s Bona (1980).
www.su.se/department-o...
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September 30, 2025 at 11:48 AM
This Friday, Concurrences member Nadi Tofighian will be giving a guest lecture on Philippine film history for the Department of History at Stockholm University, ahead of a screening of Lino Brocka’s Bona (1980).
www.su.se/department-o...
www.su.se/department-o...
Check out this update from Concurrences member Peter Skoglund, currently in the field in Kenya!
“Making rock art today – encounters with practicing Samburu rock art painters” is a collaboration with local stakeholders in northern Kenya to document the ongoing Samburu rock art tradition.
“Making rock art today – encounters with practicing Samburu rock art painters” is a collaboration with local stakeholders in northern Kenya to document the ongoing Samburu rock art tradition.
September 26, 2025 at 8:51 AM
Check out this update from Concurrences member Peter Skoglund, currently in the field in Kenya!
“Making rock art today – encounters with practicing Samburu rock art painters” is a collaboration with local stakeholders in northern Kenya to document the ongoing Samburu rock art tradition.
“Making rock art today – encounters with practicing Samburu rock art painters” is a collaboration with local stakeholders in northern Kenya to document the ongoing Samburu rock art tradition.
🆕 Open Access article! ‘Fiction from the Data Frontier’, by Rebecca Duncan from #concurrences has just been published in ‘World-Literature and Commodity Frontiers’, a special issue of Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies.
doi.org/10.1080/1369...
doi.org/10.1080/1369...
Fiction from the data frontier
In this essay, I examine the relationship between fiction and the digital economy via the world-ecological concept of the commodity frontier. Acknowledging, but also departing from, criticism that ...
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September 25, 2025 at 10:28 AM
🆕 Open Access article! ‘Fiction from the Data Frontier’, by Rebecca Duncan from #concurrences has just been published in ‘World-Literature and Commodity Frontiers’, a special issue of Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies.
doi.org/10.1080/1369...
doi.org/10.1080/1369...
On 8–9 Sept, we hosted the summer school 'Towards Inclusive Global Histories', w/ @eniugh-comparativ.bsky.social, the Global Diplomacy Ntwork, & the Asian Center at University of the Philippines
We gathered 22 PhD students & 11 scholars from 20 universities across 5 continents for 2 intensive days!
We gathered 22 PhD students & 11 scholars from 20 universities across 5 continents for 2 intensive days!
September 19, 2025 at 10:45 AM
On 8–9 Sept, we hosted the summer school 'Towards Inclusive Global Histories', w/ @eniugh-comparativ.bsky.social, the Global Diplomacy Ntwork, & the Asian Center at University of the Philippines
We gathered 22 PhD students & 11 scholars from 20 universities across 5 continents for 2 intensive days!
We gathered 22 PhD students & 11 scholars from 20 universities across 5 continents for 2 intensive days!
NEW from Concurrences member, Nadi Tofighian
'From Bombay to Singapore: Parsi theatre companies and early film exhibitions' in Early Popular Visual Culture 23(1–2): 126–143.
doi.org/10.1080/1746...
'From Bombay to Singapore: Parsi theatre companies and early film exhibitions' in Early Popular Visual Culture 23(1–2): 126–143.
doi.org/10.1080/1746...
September 17, 2025 at 9:32 AM
NEW from Concurrences member, Nadi Tofighian
'From Bombay to Singapore: Parsi theatre companies and early film exhibitions' in Early Popular Visual Culture 23(1–2): 126–143.
doi.org/10.1080/1746...
'From Bombay to Singapore: Parsi theatre companies and early film exhibitions' in Early Popular Visual Culture 23(1–2): 126–143.
doi.org/10.1080/1746...
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Doors open in #Växjö, Sweden: the ENIUGH Congress kicks off at Linnaeus University. Scholars of world & global history are here to rethink entanglements, methods, and thematic expansions at the Eighth European Congress.
#ENIUGH #GlobalHistory
#ENIUGH #GlobalHistory
September 10, 2025 at 8:15 AM
Doors open in #Växjö, Sweden: the ENIUGH Congress kicks off at Linnaeus University. Scholars of world & global history are here to rethink entanglements, methods, and thematic expansions at the Eighth European Congress.
#ENIUGH #GlobalHistory
#ENIUGH #GlobalHistory
Welcome to PhD students and Erasmus+ ICM scholarship holders Ajayant Katoch and Khadiza Naufa Fatin from Ashoka University! They are joining us for 3 months this fall at Concurrences and are part of the Global Humanities graduate programme at @linneuni.bsky.social
September 10, 2025 at 8:03 AM
Welcome to PhD students and Erasmus+ ICM scholarship holders Ajayant Katoch and Khadiza Naufa Fatin from Ashoka University! They are joining us for 3 months this fall at Concurrences and are part of the Global Humanities graduate programme at @linneuni.bsky.social
We very happily welcomed @manuelaboatca.bsky.social to #Concurrences today, for a rousing seminar on Romani Europeans and the Challenge of Unthinkable Histories, underlining the necessity to understand the persistence of coloniality within Europe.
September 9, 2025 at 1:06 PM
We very happily welcomed @manuelaboatca.bsky.social to #Concurrences today, for a rousing seminar on Romani Europeans and the Challenge of Unthinkable Histories, underlining the necessity to understand the persistence of coloniality within Europe.
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Today at Concurrences in Colonial and Postcolonial Studies in Växjö and on zoom! 👇
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September 9, 2025 at 7:49 AM
Today at Concurrences in Colonial and Postcolonial Studies in Växjö and on zoom! 👇
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