Conferences

Tuesday May 06, 2025 until May 08, 2025

Strong Asymmetrical Dependencies: Perspectives from Asia¹

University of Bonn

Whole Day

Strong Asymmetrical Dependencies: Perspectives from Asia, Past & Present This event addresses the underrepresentation of Asia in labor and slavery studies ...

Tuesday May 06, 2025 until May 08, 2025

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Strong Asymmetrical Dependencies: Perspectives from Asia²

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 ...

Tuesday Apr 29, 2025

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Labour, Freedom, Slavery - Sociological and Historical Approaches³

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 ...

Friday Apr 04, 2025

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Interwoven Dependencies: Keynote Performance by Tuli Mekondjo⁴

Global Heritage Lab, ...

04:30 PM - 06:30 PM

Tuli Mekondjo’s performance "Saara Omulaule/Black Saara" (2023) was improvised & inspired by Kari Miettinen’s book "On the Way to Whiteness – Christianization, ...

Thursday Apr 03, 2025

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Interwoven Dependencies: Roundtable Discussion⁵

Global Heritage Lab, ...

04:30 PM - 06:30 PM

Christian missionaries pressured women in colonial contact zones to dress more ‘appropriately’ according to European understandings of Christian modesty. At ...

Wednesday Apr 02, 2025

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Interwoven Dependencies: Public keynote by Dr. Gabrielle Hosein⁶

Global Heritage Lab, ...

04:30 PM - 06:30 PM

"Nachorious: The Nach Gyal as Post Indenture Caribbean Feminist Jouvay Mas" This mas commemorates 180 years of the Indian ‘nautch girl’ – dancer, courtesan, ...

Thursday Mar 06, 2025 until Mar 07, 2025

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Fourth Annual Meeting of the Premodern East Slavic Europe Network⁷

Niebuhrstraße 5 and ...

09:00 AM

Hybrid Workshop: Recent cataclysms prove glaringly the importance of continuously discussing and analyzing asymmetrical dependencies in premodern inner ...

Monday Feb 03, 2025 until Feb 05, 2025

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Conference "Connecting Late Antiquities"⁸

Heussallee 18-24, 53113 ...

10:00 AM

Limited seats available. Therefore, we operate a first come, first serve policy. This is an in person event. For more information please see the programme ...

Wednesday Jan 29, 2025 until Jan 31, 2025

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Slave Labor, Strong Asymmetric Dependency and Social Mobility⁹

Niebuhrstraße 5, D-53113 ...

05:00 PM

Workshop "Slave Labor, Strong Asymmetric Dependency and Social Mobility in the Transition from Slavery to Freedom in Latin America, the Caribbean, and Cuba ...

Wednesday Jan 22, 2025 until Jan 24, 2025

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Current Trends in Slavery Studies in Brazil II¹⁰

Universitätsforum, ...

02:00 PM

Brazilian histories of indigenous and black slaveries provide a particularly rich source for understanding dependency categories. From the 16th century ...

Thursday Nov 07, 2024 until Nov 08, 2024

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Conference "Bridging Worlds"¹¹

Römerstraße 164, Bonn

08:00 AM

Bridging Worlds: Exploring the Intersection of Heritage Studies and ArchaeoSciences For two days, more than 15 contributions from 30 researchers worldwide ...

Monday Sep 23, 2024 until Sep 24, 2024

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Mars or Pax? 'Rhenish' Transitions between War and Peace¹²

Bonner Universitätsforum,...

09:30 AM

In recent times, research has increasingly focused on the previously often neglected phenomena of transition from violence and war to peacemaking and peace ...

Thursday Sep 12, 2024 until Sep 14, 2024

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Children, Dependency, and Emotions in the Early Modern World¹³

Rabinstraße 8, 53111 Bonn

11:00 AM

Conference: "Children, Dependency, and Emotions in the Early Modern World, 1500-1800: Archival and Visual Narratives" Throughout history children have been ...

Thursday May 23, 2024 until May 24, 2024

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Humans as Gifts: Historical and Anthropological Approaches¹⁴

Bonner Universitätsforum,...

09:00 AM

Why would someone give a human being as a gift? Who are the giver and the taker? How does the gift-giving affect the life and status of the gifted human? The ...

Thursday Apr 25, 2024 until Apr 27, 2024

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Gendered Segregation and Gendering Segregation¹⁵

Bonner Universitätsforum,...

12:00 PM

In-person event. Please note that all talks are based on papers that have been pre-circulated to speakers. Please register by 15 April via Email to: ...

Monday Feb 26, 2024 until Feb 28, 2024

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Conference: Autorität und Soft Power im Judentum und Christentum¹⁶

Arbeitnehmer-Zentrum ...

06:00 PM

Machtausübung geschieht in Judentum und Christentum auf vielfältige Weise, ohne dass dabei auf rohe Gewalt zurückgegriffen wird. Über Jahrhunderte hinweg haben ...

Wednesday Nov 08, 2023 until Nov 09, 2023

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Monumentality in Southern Central America Conference¹⁷

Department of Ancient ...

09:30 AM

Monumentality in Southern Central America: Complexity, Inequality, Dependency? Perspectives on Human and other-than-human Relationships A Hybrid ...

Thursday Nov 02, 2023 until Nov 03, 2023

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Annual Conference: Households as Coercive Labour Regimes¹⁸

International Institute ...

10:00 AM

The conference will focus in the larger household organizations, including the private households of the military, political and economic elites, but also, for ...

Thursday Sep 07, 2023 until Sep 08, 2023

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Archaeologies of Dependency in Latin America¹⁹

Hybrid Event, Bonner ...

Whole Day

This international conference will explore asymmetrical dependencies and related phenomena in Latin America from an archaeological point of view. A recent ...

Tuesday Aug 29, 2023

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Children at Work, in a Period of Transition, 400-1000 AD²⁰

HYBRID event: On site ...

09:30 AM - 07:00 PM

A comparative conference, organized by Heinz Heinen Fellow Christian Laes, that will enable the audience to pay attention to voices often unheard, in language ...

Monday May 22, 2023 until May 24, 2023

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Public narratives of history: Indigenous & Afro-Brazilian slavery²¹

HYBRID event

01:00 PM

The institution of slavery lasted more than three centuries in Brazil, the last country to abolish black slavery in the Americas in 1888. This event aims to ...

Wednesday Mar 29, 2023 until Mar 31, 2023

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International Conference²²

Bonner Universitätsforum ...

02:30 PM

Competing Memories: The Politics of Remembering Enslavement, Emancipation and Indentureship in the Caribbean

Thursday Oct 20, 2022 until Oct 22, 2022

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Socare Junior Conference 2022²³

Online via Zoom

03:00 PM

Whose knowledge is recognized, and what voices are heard within Caribbean studies? This conference focuses on how knowledge is produced, shared, and received, ...

Monday Oct 10, 2022 until Oct 12, 2022

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International Conference: Social History of Capitalism²⁴

Online via Zoom

03:00 PM

The International Social History Association (ISHA), the Bonn Centre for Dependency and Slavery Studies (BCDSS), and the Cluster of Excellence “Contestations ...

Wednesday Oct 05, 2022 until Oct 08, 2022

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Conference on "Freedom and Liberation in Mediterranean Antiquity“²⁵

Wissenschaftszentrum ...

Whole Day

We invite you to join our international conference on "Freedom and Liberation in Mediterranean Antiquity", which aims to contribute to a closer analysis and ...

Thursday Sep 29, 2022 until Sep 30, 2022

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Conference: Transforming Spirit Bodies²⁶

Bonner Universitätsforum,...

02:00 PM

This conference focuses on the bodies and embodiments of spirits, their (im-)materialities, and the bodily transformations, which they may be ...

Wednesday Sep 21, 2022 until Sep 22, 2022

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Annual Conference “Norms, Institutions & Practices of Dependency"²⁷

Hybrid event: online via ...

09:00 AM

Since 2018, the Bonn Center of Dependency and Slavery Studies (BCDSS) unites internationally renowned scholars researching historic forms of strong ...

Wednesday Jul 06, 2022 until Jul 08, 2022

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New Perspectives on Cultural Heritage and German Global History²⁸

Bonn Center for ...

03:55 PM

Conference on July 6–8, 2022 at the Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies organized by Claudia Jarzebowski, BCDSS, and Pia Wiegmink, BCDSS, Susanne ...

Tuesday Apr 19, 2022 until Apr 21, 2022

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Slavery in Africa: Past, Legacies and Present (SLAFCO)²⁹

University of Yaoundé ...

08:30 AM

The conference is intended to contribute to this assessment of knowledge about slavery in Africa and to take stock of the most recent significant scientific ...

Tuesday Nov 16, 2021 until Nov 19, 2021

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Humboldt-Kolleg: Slavery, Freedom, Sustainability, and Pandemic³⁰

Hybrid event

09:00 AM

The conference "Humboldt-Kolleg: Slavery, Freedom, Sustainability, and Pandemicis" is organized by Roberto Hofmeister Pich and supported by the Alexander von ...

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