Concurrences at Linnaeus University

The Black Beach: Moving Images between Swedish and Caribbean Shores Welcome to the LNUC Concurrences Seminar Series in Colonial and Postcolonial Studies!

This week!

We welcome Salad Hilowle & Christian Rossipal from Yale University, who are giving the next LNUCC Seminar:"The Black Beach: Moving Images between Swedish and Caribbean Shores"

14:15-16:00
Lammhult, or register for zoom at the link below-

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#AcademicSky

Last week we kicked off the first official collaboration between The Cultural University at Linnaeus and Concurrences with "A Conversation that looks like a concert" featuring artist in residence Napoleon Maddox and his collaborator Sorg at Mono Växjö 🎵

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🎉 Dr Lobke Minter has been awarded a STINT International Postdoc. She will pursue Forest Imaginaries, Colonial History and the Timber Commodity Frontier, the first project to examine representations of forests in South African literature through the region’s ongoing history of timber plantations.

New guest researcher!

In February, we are visited by Dr Gavin Herbertson, who is a scholar of global modernisms, Caribbean life & literature, and postcolonial theory at SWPS University in Poland and the Institute of English Studies (IES) at the School of Advanced Studies, University of London.

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An exciting workshop takes place next week!

The first 'Cultures of the Polycrisis' wkshop will be organized by the Concurrences cluster for Ecology, Culture & Coloniality (ECCo), w/ @au.dk. It brings together 25 scholars of literature to investigate the impact of polycrisis on cultural production.

A post for the LNUC Concurrences spring seminar series.

Check out our full 2026 spring seminar series!

Starting this week with Napoleon Maddox, "A Conversation that Looks like a Concert", in collaboration with Mono, Växjö.

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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,...

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/...

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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

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?

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

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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...

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

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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...

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)

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Open access link: library.oapen.org/handle/20.50...

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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!

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!

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...

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...

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'

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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.

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.

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...

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....

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!

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

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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!

Why uprisings fail: Lessons from Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, and Nepal Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Nepal reveal the same pattern in different sequences.

🎉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...

Hope and Asylum Welcome to LNUC (Con)Current Event!

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)

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#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.

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!

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...

Poster for the Nordic Palestinian Film Festival

Schedule for the festival

Schedule for the festival

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

Tea evening for artists and cultural creators

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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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...

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...