Events

Thursday Apr 24, 2025

Performing Existence: Politics of Heritage & Recognition in Peru³

Poststraße 26, 53111 Bonn

04:00 PM - 06:00 PM

Walther Maradiegue and Sophia Labadi will discuss the sonic afterlives of heritagization in an indigenous Peruvian community, analyzing a Cañaris protest ...

Monday Apr 28, 2025

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Joseph C. Miller Memorial Lecture by Joerg Rieger⁴

HYBRID event: On site ...

04:15 PM - 05:45 PM

How did racism come to be? Just as race is not a biological reality, racism is not inherent to human nature. It was invented and sustained through historical ...

Tuesday Apr 29, 2025

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Labour, Freedom, Slavery - Sociological and Historical Approaches⁵

Niebuhrstr. 5

04:30 PM - 06:00 PM

Join us on April 29th when Theresa Wobbe, BCDSS alumna, will discuss the recently published book “Sklaverei, Freiheit und Arbeit: Soziohistorische Beiträge zur ...

Tuesday Apr 29, 2025

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Trauma and Resilience in American Plantation Societies⁶

VHS, Mülheimer Platz 1, ...

06:15 PM - 07:45 PM

Resilience has been defined by the American Psychological Association as "the process and outcome of successfully adapting to difficult or challenging life ...

Monday May 05, 2025

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Intersecting Subjections in South Asian Pasts⁷

University Club Bonn e. ...

05:00 PM - 08:00 PM

We are pleased to invite you to a keynote lecture by Indrani Chatterjee from the University of Virginia as part of the conference Strong Asymmetrical ...

Tuesday May 06, 2025 until May 08, 2025

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Strong Asymmetrical Dependencies: Perspectives from Asia⁸

Heussallee 18-24 ...

10:00 AM

Organized by the Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies, this conference aims to address gaps in the study of slavery, bondage, coerced labor, and ...

Monday May 12, 2025

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Joseph C. Miller Memorial Lecture by Ying Zhang⁹

Hybrid event: ...

04:15 PM - 05:45 PM

How did jailing function in Ming China? This talk, based on Ying Zhan's book, rethinks the patrimonial bureaucratic system through the lens of vulnerability ...

Wednesday May 14, 2025

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Dies Academicus: Case Studies in Human Dependency¹⁰

University Main Building

11:15 AM - 12:15 PM

Join us at the University of Bonn's Dies Academicus on 14 May, where BCDSS Fellows Evelyn Hu-De Hart, Christine Whyte, and Aleksander Paradziński will provide ...

Monday May 19, 2025

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Joseph C. Miller Memorial Lecture by Yolanda Pierce¹¹

Online via Zoom

04:15 PM - 05:45 PM

What do we do with the wounds of a people and a nation? Like the doubting disciple who longed to touch Jesus's side, we must confront wounds, understanding ...

Wednesday May 21, 2025

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California, A Slave State: Reading&Discussion with Jean Pfaelzer¹²

Uni Bonn Festsaal, Am ...

05:00 PM - 09:00 PM

Join Jean Pfaelzer for the reading and discussion of her book "California, A Slave State" with Damian Pargas (Professor of the History and Culture of North ...

Wednesday May 28, 2025

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Guest Lecture with Toby Green¹³

Festsaal at the ...

04:00 PM - 06:30 PM

This talk explores the life of Crispina Peres, the most powerful trader in Cacheu, a key West African slave port, who was arrested by the Inquisition in 1665. ...

Friday Jun 06, 2025

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International Lunch Seminar¹⁴

Heussallee 18-24

12:00 PM - 01:30 PM

Join us for The International Lunch Seminar titled "Bondage, Resistance, and Violence in Angola, 1600s-1880s: Centering Women in Histories of Slavery," ...

Thursday Sep 18, 2025 until Sep 19, 2025

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Knowledge Dependencies and the Un/Making of Equitable Futures¹⁵

Tulpenfeld 6, 53113 Bonn

Whole Day

Amid escalating geopolitical instability, authoritarian retrenchments, and the deepening securitisation of knowledge-making, this conference critically ...

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