In The Same Sea

Call for papers | Early modern Caribbean and Atlantic slavery and emancipation

* Call for papers * PhD Workshop at @kitlv.bsky.social organized by @fatahblack.bsky.social and I: Early modern Caribbean and Atlantic slavery and emancipation👇

We welcome PhDs working on early modern Caribbean and Atlantic slavery and emancipation to participate.

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Call for research papers | Reinterpreting the Caribbean age of revolutions

* Call for research papers * Conference at @kitlv.bsky.social organized by @fatahblack.bsky.social and I: Reinterpreting the Caribbean age of revolutions.

Why were so many of the leaders and participants in so-called slave revolts were not enslaved themselves?

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IN THE SAME SEA's PI Gunvor Simonsen contributed to a piece in New York Times about the links between the Danish Caribbean and Greenland. Read it here: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/w...

Exciting opportunity for young scholars interested in researching the Dutch Caribbean 🍀🌊

See this PhD vacancy at the University of Amsterdam: werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...

Former researcher at IN THE SAME SEA, Lucas Marin is co-convener of the seminar series “ÉCRIRE L’HISTOIRE DE LA CARAÏBE” for young scholars. Seminars are open, see the exciting program here:

Call for Papers - Privacy and Slavery, Past and Present: Academic and Artistic Perspectives on an Urgent Issue

Consider sending in an abstract to this important conference about slavery and privacy 🍀

teol.ku.dk/privacy/news...

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.

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In the face of disaster, consider this:

Take a look, perhaps it is relevant to you:
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ITSS 🌊 had a wonderful experience at the 56th Annual Conference of The Association of Caribbean Historians in Trinidad🍃

Natália da Silva Perez

Welcome to the Racialized Motherhood page! 🦋 You can read about our project goals in this interview with PI @silvaperez.bsky.social - dff.dk/en/our-funde...

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...

Early Global Caribbean: Conference 3: Materialities
Date/Time
Friday, April 11, 2025–Saturday, April 12, 2025
10:00 am PDT – 4:30 pm PDT
www.1718.ucla.edu/locations/wi...

Original painting; courtesy, Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection (B1981.25.76). Available from the Slavery Images website. The painting shows a busy Caribbean marketplace with wooden buildings and the sea in the background.

ITSS🌊 PhD Fellow Rasmus Christensen is organising a graduate seminar in early modern #Caribbean #history! 🥳 Send in your application by May 1, 2025 📨 More info can be found here: inthesamesea.ku.dk/news/graduat...

Do you teach courses in Caribbean studies? Contribute your teaching materials to dLOC's collection of open educational resources and receive a stipend of $2,000 or $5,000. We are accepting proposals until Monday, April 14!

The documents examined include a letter from Mary Sadler to her brother Christopher, whom she addresses as "Villinous Kitt at the whores Shop."

ITSS🌊 Postdoctoral Fellow @feliciafricke.bsky.social has written a short blog post about free women's bad language and the idea of the colonial gentleman in early nineteenth century St. Eustatius, Dutch #Caribbean! 🪶 Read more here: inthesamesea.ku.dk/blog/curse-w...

Cfp for a very interesting workshop Atlantic/Baltic #earlymodern #maritimehistory @profmurdoch.bsky.social @adamgeorgie.bsky.social @jorisvdt.bsky.social @inthesamesea.bsky.social royalhistsoc.org/calendar/mig...

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 😊

A projector screen shows the introductory slide for a PowerPoint presentation, which shows a picture of a pale stone building against a blue sky. The presentation is entitled "Workshop at School of Archaeology, March 25, Snekkersten". On the left hand side of the screen, the wall in partially obscured by the big green leaves of a potted tree.

ITSS🌊 Postdoc @feliciafricke.bsky.social was in Snekkersten this week for the University of Copenhagen (UCPH) School of #Archaeology retreat - a great place to learn and meet colleagues 🤗 Find out more here: inthesamesea.ku.dk/news/itss-po...

Fully funded PhD #Studentship on "Reimagining #Caribbean Collections: Unveiling Histories of Identity and Wellbeing through Material Culture" available at the University of #Cambridge - apply by 30th April 📨 www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/50737/

New PhD opportunity focusing on Caribbean Collections in Cambridge (at the MAA)! Fully funded!

More information: www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/50737/
Deadline: April 30th

I'm looking forward to welcoming a Caribbean colleague here! Please don't hesitate to reach out if you have any questions or doubts.

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/

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

Archaeological and Forensic Sciences Endowed Scholarship (2025/26) - Scholarship Apply for Archaeological and Forensic Sciences Endowed Scholarship (2025/26). Available to postgraduate taught students.

Great news for #Caribbean #students! ✨ @uniofbradford.bsky.social is offering a scholarship for MSc courses in #archaeology #osteology or #forensics for 2025/6. Students from #Anguilla
#BVI #CaymanIslands #Montserrat and #TurksandCaicos are eligible to apply! 📑 www.bradford.ac.uk/scholarships...

Map edited by the author using Gavin Smith, ‘Map of the Island of Grenada Divided into Parishes and Including a Plan of The Harbor of St. George. Taken from an Actual Survey Made by Gavin Smith in the Year 1801.’ Courtesy of the Map Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

ITSS🌊 Postdoc @heatherfreund.bsky.social has published an open access article in 'Slavery & Abolition' - she writes about Black Rangers and the routes enslaved people took to seek freedom in 19th century #Grenada. Read more here: inthesamesea.ku.dk/news/new-pub...

Postdoctoral Researcher: Colonial History of Botanic Gardens Interested in colonial history, botanical gardens and decolonisation? Join our international team of scholars!

*Job Claxon*: we're hiring a Postdoc to research the Colonial History of the Botanic Gardens at Universiteit Utrecht.

www.uu.nl/en/organisat...

#skystorians #jobs #histofscience #colonialhistory #botanicalgardens

Aerial view of St. Croix - the sun is low and casts golden light across green and brown hills.

A new #PhD thesis at @au.dk explores #Denmark 's colonial legacy on the #Caribbean island of St. Croix, USVI - read more about Dr. Pardis Zahedi's work here: inthesamesea.ku.dk/news/new-doc...

Small boats known as 'yoles' (or in Danish, 'joller') along the Martinican shoreline, 2025, photo: G. Simonsen.

ITSS🌊 PI @gunvorsimonsen.bsky.social recently returned from a research trip to archives and libraries in #Martinique and #Dominica - in this blog post, you can read about the working life of a #historian in the #Caribbean 📚🌎 inthesamesea.ku.dk/news/pi-gunv...

Asta Mønsted, a specialist in prehistoric archaeology, reveals Greenland through the Inuit oral tradition - Berkeley News The UC Berkeley assistant professor prioritizes Indigenous knowledge and narratives, seeking to integrate them with scholarly theories and methods.

If you are interested in #Caribbean – #Arctic connections, watch this video with Dr. Asta Mønsted! news.berkeley.edu/2025/02/13/a...