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• Asymmetrical Dependencies and Intersectionality: Kristina Großmann, Marion Gymnich, James Harland, Julia Hillner, Caroline Laske, Eva Lehner, Royce Mahawatte, Danitza Márquez, Lisa Phongsavath, Laurie Venters
• Segregation and Dependency: Lisa Hellman & Julia Hillner
• Gender and Otherness: Birgit Ulrike Münch
• Gender and Intersectionality Blurbs: Turkana Allahverdiyeva, Anas Ansar, Lewis Doney, Benjamin Etzold, Eva Marie Lehner, David B. Smith

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• Field Research by Ayesha Hussain and Lucas Santos Souza (Italy, Ireland); David B. Smith (Malaysia)
• Conferences: Monumentality in Southern Central America (Dita Auziņa); International Women’s Day (Dima Al-Munajed, David B. Smith)
• Workshops: Intersections between Dependency and Slavery Studies and Peace and Conflict Studies (Benjamin Etzold); Why Words Matter in Academia (Dima Al-Munajed, Imogen Herrad)
• News: Our First PhD Graduates; New at the Cluster; New Web Pages (World of Roman Bonn and Mental Health & Wellbeing); Bonn – Melbourne Collaborative Project (Child Slaveries in the Early Modern World)
• Publications
• Upcoming Events

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• Special Focus: International Partnerships by Stephan Conermann, Mission to Cuba by Michael Zeuske
• From our International Partners: Paulo Terra, Daisy Onyige, Trevor Burnard
• Collaboration with the IISH: Cécile Jeblawei, Ulbe Bosma, Hanna te Velde, Eva Seuntjens
• Field Research by Taynã Tagliati (Brazil), Sinah Kloß (Suriname), David B. Smith (Fiji)
• News: New at the Cluster, Exhibition Curator Beatrix Hoffmann-Ihde, BCDSS new Language Policy (Imogen Heard), Thematic Focus 2023/24: Gender and Intersectionality (Research Area E), Reading and Discussion Series, New DFG-Funded Project by Dr. Vitali Byl
• Conferences and Workshops
• Publications
• Upcoming Events and Previews

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• Rudolf Stichweh: Values, Norms and Institutions in the Study of Slavery and other Forms of  Asymmetrical Dependency.
• Julia Hillner, Claudia Jarzebowski, Pia Wiegmink and Christoph Witzenrath: Get to know our Cluster Professors through their Objects
• New Cluster Members
• Julia Hegewald and Karina Linke: Student exhibition Asian Art as Mirror of Dependencies
• Field research reports by Michael Zeuske (Cuba), Ayesha Hussain (Italy) Paul Graf (Guatemala), Martin Bentz, Philippe Kluge, and Matthias Lang (Italy), Katja Girr, Ayesha Hussain (Turkey), Dita Auziņa (Belize)
• Annual Conference “Embodied Dependencies” 
• Workshop on “Embodied Dependencies and Freedoms: Artistic Communities and Patronage in Asia”
• Conference “In the Grip of the Supernatural”
• Workshop on “Narratives of Dependency”

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• Nikolai Grube and Karoline Noack: A “GROWING EXHIBITION” ABOUT RESOURCES AND DEPENDENCIES
• Martin Bentz and Patrick Zeidler: REPRESENTATIONS OF SLAVES IN ANCIENT MEDITERRANEAN VISUAL ART
• Interview with Johannes Deißler, Mainz Academy of Science and Literature.

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• Adrian Hermann: Documenting Exploitation in the German Meat Industry: What Does Asymmetrical Dependency Have to Do with Us?
• Christian Mader et. al.: Material Experience Makes Dependencies Real: A Resource Perspective
• Interview with the BCDSS Research Group Leaders:  A Window on Our Research Perspectives
• Anas Ansar: Fieldwork at Home and Other Dilemmas: Visiting Refugee Camps in Bangladesh amid the COVID-19 Pandemic
• Jahfar Shareef Pokkanali: Dependency in Caste System
• Katja Girr, Ayesha Hussain, Sinah Kloß: BCDSS Researchers' Challenges and Coping Strategies in Times of Unprecedented Uncertainty

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• Martin J. Schermaier: Slavery Without Slaves? Law and the Legitimacy of Asymmetrical Dependencies
• Lisa Hellman: On the Political Dimension of Quarantine: A Look Back
• Lotte Pelckmans: Breaking the Silence? The Ongoing Legacies of Internal African Slavery in Mali
• Interview with the International Heinz Heinen Fellows: Our Motives for a Research Stay in Germany
• Michael Zeuske: The Long, Unfinished Search for the Humboldt House in Havana and the History of Slavery Research
• Mariana Armond Dias Paes, Juelma Matos Ñgala and Maysa Espíndola Souza: The Cluster Goes to Africa
• Dita Auziņa: Digital Methods for Safeguarding World Heritage
• Dita Auziņa: Preliminary Archaeological Fieldwork in the Miskito Coast, Nicaragua
• Prof. Dr. Winfried Schmitz: In Memoriam Heinz Heinen
• Prof. Dr. Richard B. Allen: In Memoriam Joseph C. Miller

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• Konrad Vössing: Why Does Our Cluster of Excellence Need Academic Communications?
• Stephan Conermann: "Strong Asymmetrical Dependencies" Are a Humna Phenomenon
• Interview with Matthias Lang, BCDH: The Digital Transformation Process Is an Opportunity for the Humanities
• Julia A. B. Hegewald: Extreme Forms of Dependency Mirrored in the Art and Architecture of Karnataka, South India
• Malik Ade: Masquerade Festival in a Nigerian Town

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