Dr. Felicia Fricke

Unfortunately this is cancelled due to illness 😥 really sorry to those who signed up, hopefully I will present on this another time!

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!

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...

UNIVERSITY PRESS OF FLORIDA Ethics in Caribbean Archaeology: Past, Present, and Future. Edited by Felicia J. Fricke, Eduardo Herrera Malatesta, and Maaike S. de Waal. Original Paper Price: 35USD. Discount Price: 24USD. Use Code 31AU1125 at www.upf.com or www.mngbookshop.co.uk

Friends and family #discount code for the new edited volume "Ethics in Caribbean Archaeology" - valid until 30 Nov at @floridapress.bsky.social www.upf.com or from www.mngbookshop.co.uk ✨ #Caribbean #Archaeology #Ethics #Book

HUM:Global Talk! with Sue Peabody: Recentering the Subaltern: Microhistory as Method. Public Lecture with Professor Sue Peabody, Washington State University, Vancouver. Time: 20 Nov. 2025, 13:00-15:00 Place: University of Copenhagen, South Campus, room 12.3.39

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.

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!

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...

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!

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...

Support Jamaica – Official Disaster Relief & Recovery Portal Join hands with the Government of Jamaica. Support national disaster relief, locate shelters, and stay informed on Hurricane Melissa updates.

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Now published in the Peer Community Journal @peercomjournal.bsky.social - had a great experience with them: peer led, free, fast, and open-access. Would recommend! ✨️

Figure 2 from the recommended article: Topics generated in the OST session on 14th November 2023 and their assignment to six umbrella topics for further discussion by the workshop participants (Figure by Kathrin Nägele).

1/4 New recommendation: @ehmalatesta.bsky.social et al. (2025) Rethinking Caribbean Archaeology: Towards an ethical position for a truly decolonial practice. ver.3 recommended by @pciarchaeology.bsky.social osf.io/4ge5j

The ACH Executive Committee announces its 57th Annual Conference at the University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica, from May 24-28, 2026. (There will be an optional field trip on Friday, May 29.) #skystorians #histodons #caribbean

https://associationofcaribbeanhistorians.org/annual-meeting/

PhD position in History (100%, 4 years) - Vacancies - University of Lucerne Assistant or doctoral positions, employment or internship: Looking for a job at the University of Lucerne? Find our listed open positions and apprenticeships here.

Want to work on the history of hair? I am looking for a doc and postdoc to join my project team researching #earlymodern hair, race, trade and multispecies history at the University of Lucerne.

Do apply and spread the word!

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Figure 1 from the manuscript: location of the Fort Amsterdam site on St. Eustatius, ine the Northern Lesser Antilles.

1/3 New recommendation: @feliciafricke.bsky.social & Laffoon J. E.‬ (2025) Osteological and Isotopic Analysis of Skeletal Remains at Fort Amsterdam, St. Eustatius, Dutch Caribbean. ver. 3 recommended by @pciarchaeology.bsky.social researchprofiles.ku.dk/en/publicati... 🧪🏺

‘This is strength’: stories of enslaved Africans in Grenada made into searchable archive Depths of Paradise project backed by British family and created by Stephen Lewis, a descendant of survivors

‘This is strength’: stories of enslaved Africans in Grenada made into searchable archive

Depths of Paradise project backed by British family and created by Stephen Lewis, a descendant of survivors

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

The database itself:
www.depthsofparadise.co.uk

#History 🗃️

GLOBAL HISTORY SEMINAR SERIES. November 18, 10:15-12:00. Felicia J. Fricke, University of Copenhagen. "Fugitive Motherhood: Women Running from Slavery in the Insular Caribbean, 1770s-1870s". Contact Natacha Klein Kafer (natacha.klein_kafer@hist.lu.se) or Cecilia Lundstrom (cecilia.lundstrom@hist.lu.se) for Zoom link.

On 18 Nov I will be giving a guest lecture about my work on fugitive motherhood in the #Caribbean at @lund-university.bsky.social in the #GlobalHistory Seminar Series. Sign up here! www.sol.lu.se/en/the-depar...

Stability and survival: Creole widowhood in St. Eustatius, 1780s-1820s This article articulates the mortality gap between non-Caribbean (foreign) men and Caribbean (Creole) women on the Dutch island of St. Eustatius in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centurie...

New #OpenAccess #publication! 🚨 Creole widows were the most long-lived free people in 1780s-1820s St. Eustatius, Dutch #Caribbean - their stability was therefore instrumental in upholding colonialism. @inthesamesea.bsky.social @rm-project.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

A white woman in black leaning against a plinth with a white urn. She holds the hand of a little white girl, also dressed in black, whose doll has fallen to the floor (Rudolph Ackermann’s Repository of Arts, 1809, Philadelphia Museum of Art, https://archive.org/details/repositoryofarts21809acke/page/n237/mode/2up).

Project postdoc @feliciafricke.bsky.social will be presenting in #Sweden at @lnuccon.bsky.social Linnaeus University on 6 November! 🥳 Come along to hear about how long-lived widows contributed to colonial stability in the #Caribbean 🌎

Well done @idalvos.bsky.social! Sounds like it was a really interesting and important event.

And I forgot to add that it will be open access!! 😅💕

Including 'Ethics in #Caribbean #Archaeology: Past, Present, and Future', which I co-edit with Eduardo Herrera Malatesta and Maaike de Waal 🎉 It will arrive in January 2026! ✨️

Interested in the #Indigenous #Caribbean and how is it represented in museums and (not) in education? Join our discussions and hands-on activities on 23-24 June in Liverpool!
Register here: shorturl.at/LXKED (23rd June) & shorturl.at/m1Qvi (24th)
‪@liverpooluni.bsky.social @livunihss.bsky.social

"Run away from the Subscriber about 20 days ago, A Small, slender made, negro woman named Juliana Sophia, has a mark on the left ancle, and is far advanced in pregnancy. If she returns in eight days she will be forgiven; if not, she will be given over to Justice; no person must harbour her, or they must abide by the consequences of the Law. A reward of one Joe will be given to any person who will take and deliver her to REBECCA STALLARD. 3d Feb. 1804." DANSK VESTINDISK REGIERINGS AVIS, 1804-02-07, available from Mediestream.

In March 1804, Juliana Sophia ran from her enslaver in St. Croix, Danish West Indies, seeking freedom for her unborn child. Hers is one of many instances where women sought freedom for the next generation in the #Caribbean - either alone, or with their children, parents, partners, and friends.

Yesterday project postdoc @feliciafricke.bsky.social was at the opening event for the new Centre for #Digital and Computational #Humanities here in #Copenhagen! Exciting to see the start of this new hub where scholars can come together and learn from each other 😊 cdch.ku.dk

I don’t know which academic needs to hear this but yes you should absolutely email other academics just to tell them you enjoyed their article/book/chapter. Just do it. Don’t overthink it.

Hello So-and-so, just wanted to let you know how much I enjoyed ‘Title’. Hope you’re well. Best, You.

Done.

Felicia begins her keynote speech at the Reuvensdagen in Hoorn, the Netherlands, November 2023. She is wearing a blue dress and standing at a white lectern. In front of the lectern is a bouquet of red, orange, and purple flowers and green leaves. Behind her is the first slide of her presentation. The title reads "Archaeology, Ethics, and Society: Exploring Slavery in the Dutch Colonial Context".

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 on JSTOR JSTOR is a digital library of academic journals, books, and primary sources.

'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...

This is some of the least offensive language referred to in my blog post. Prepare for your ears to burn 🫣😅

From Insurance to Chartered Companies: New developments in the history of business, slavery, and colonialism. Organization: Eva Seuntjens, IISH/Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam; Bart van Holsteijn, ISSH/University of Gothenburg. Workshop abstract: Recent years have seen the proliferation of projects dealing with topics that broadly fit the category of business history of slavery and colonialism. [...] We intend to organize a workshop for early-career researchers to explore new perspectives on business history in relation to the histories of slavery and colonialism. This workshop will provide extensive peer discussion and feedback from senior experts in the field field. The workshop aims to encourage and strengthen ties among early-career researchers in the field of business history. The event will be hosted by the International Institute for Social History in Amsterdam on Thursday and Friday 20-21 November, 2025.

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 😊

2 postdoctoral start-up fellowships in early modern maritime history for 8 months (2125 euros per month) that provide support to write a grant application, mentoring provided by the university's Grant Office and the chair holder, Prof. Dr. Damien Tricoire. Trier University has a major center of maritime history, TRANSMARE. We expect: a PhD in a relevant field, an innovative research project idea, a good command of English, willingness to learn German, willingness to integrate at TRANSMARE. Please send a letter of motivation, a CV, a list of publications, and a 2 page project description to tricoire@uni-trier.de by 1st April 2025.

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

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/