Call for Papers!
The POLLEN conference and the panel 'Time is of the Essence: Temporal (In)Justice, Extractivisms and Dispossessions in the "Green Transition"' is now accepting paper proposals.
📝Deadline: 5 December 2025
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📚 Congratulations to BCDSS PhD Researcher Zeynep Y. Gökçe and Junior Professor and BCDSS Alumna Jennifer Leetsch, editors of Vol. 24 in our DSS Series with De Gruyter.
👉 Read more: buff.ly/O1Plhhl
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how sweet - but I will pass🤢

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!
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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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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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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

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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🌴 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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AOC: The problem is that the Trump administration, they think that destroying our health care, making sure that housing is too expensive to live in, that jacking up the cost of our groceries—they think all of this is about hurting Democrats. What they are doing is hurting Americans

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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🎉 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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welcome back… is ethan talking to you 😉

At the Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies we are offering 10 fellowships for scholars at any stage in their careers to stay with us for up to 6 months (PhD candidates and senior academics) or 12 months (postdocs) to complete a research project:

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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

📢 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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Join us for a film screening and public round table, celebrating the finissage of the BCDSS exhibition "Enmeshed and Entwined: Fabrics of Dependency"

👉 www.dependency.uni-bonn.de/en/outreach/...

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📢 Congratulations to Julia Hillner for her contribution to an article in SPIEGEL Geschichte on slavery & prostitution in the Roman Empire!

(Article in German, subscriber access only)

🔗To the Article: buff.ly/DGw3EZDin: Spiegel GESCHICHTE 5/25 'Roms Kampf um German

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Easily, his most elaborate and destructive distraction from #TheEPSEIN_Files... yet.

📣 #CfP: We're inviting paper proposals for the international workshop "Plantation Lives, Gender, and Material Culture: Queen Emma’s Networks and the (Post)Colonial Anglo-German Pacific"

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

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More opportunities @dependencybonn.de !

We are also looking for research fellows to join us in 2026-7, with projects that develop and critically reflect on specific methodological approaches to the study of strong asymmetrical dependencies, to help us develop our newly minted Method Lab.

A poster withg a book cover "Historiches Jahrbuch" where Julia Winnebeck and Henriette von Harnier published a study that presents the first edition and translation of the incomplete Paenitentiale Dusseldorpiense, preserved in a ninth-century manuscript in Düsseldorf, offering fresh insights into the history of penance and early medieval history

📖Congratulations to Julia Winnebeck and Henriette von Harnier on their new publication in the Historisches Jahrbuch, representing the first edition and translation of an incomplete ninth-century penitential!

For more: buff.ly/hhvCMTn

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A poster with the information of the new published book by former BCDSS fellow Christian Laes. The book is called "Aesopus Op de slavenmarkt in de oudheid (Aesop At the slave market in antiquity)"

📚 Congratulations to former BCDSS Senior Fellow Christian Laes on his new book "Aesopus. Op de slavenmarkt in de oudheid" ('Aesop at the Slave Market in Antiquity')!

For more info: buff.ly/CS8FWY9

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We invite scholars to contribute to the conference “Enslaved Muslims and Muslim Enslavers: Islam, Politics and Slavery”, taking place at Brock University, Canada, in collaboration with the BCDSS.

More info: buff.ly/lPj8S4f

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Two inspiring days in Bonn! At “Knowledge Dependencies and the Un/Making of Equitable Futures,” researchers worldwide explored how knowledge shapes our world. Huge thanks to our joint organizers @IDOS, to our partners @GHL & all who joined!
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💬Our 2-day conference with IDOS is the first major event that we have organised together, and it marks the start of our collaboration in the second funding phase, which begins in 2026. We look forward to a vibrant exchange of thoughts.
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We would like to highlight the upcoming panels at the 55th Deutscher Historikertag in Bonn
featuring members of our Cluster.

More info:
🔹 www.historikertag.de/Bonn2025/en/...

🔹 www.historikertag.de/Bonn2025/pro...

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From ancient civilizations to human trafficking, slavery has shaped societies in complex ways. Our Master's programmes provide an interdisciplinary approach to understand this global issue.

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✍️ Apply until 15 September 2025

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We are pleased to announce that the #BCDSS is inviting applications for five fellowships designed to support recent MA graduates in developing a PhD project proposal. We warmly encourage all of our former MA students to apply.

For more info: ow.ly/cWIL50WPuCX

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