Collaborations with External Institutions in Germany
National partnerships are just as important for our research as international cooperations. Therefore, we are currently establishing a network of regional and national non-university partners with the goal of fostering strong and active collaborations.
External Partner Institutions in Germany
Bonn International Center for Conflict Studies (BICC)
Contact: Prof. Dr. Conrad Schetter
Website: Bonn International Center for Conflict Studies (BICC)1
Activities:
- Benjamin Etzold2 is working as researcher at the BCDSS (2024)
- Collaborative project "Mobility, Translocality and Gendered Violence: Everyday Lives of Rohingya Refugee Women in the Bangladesh–Myanmar Borderlands," supported by the Cross-Border Conflict Evidence / Policy / Trends (XCEPT) research programme, funded by UK International Development (2024)
- Exchange Workshop "Intersections between Dependency and Slavery Studies and Peace and Conflict Studies" for Researchers at the BCDSS and BICC (April 2024)
- Joint Roundtable Discussion on "Resource Extractivism and Environmental (In)justice"3 (November 2024)

Exchange Workshop "Intersections between Dependency and Slavery Studies and Peace and Conflict Studies"
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German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS), Bonn
Contact: Prof. Dr. Anna-Katharina Hornidge
Website: German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS), Bonn4
Activities:
- Rapti Siriwardane-de Zoysa5 is working as researcher at the BCDSS (2024)
Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory (MPI), Frankfurt (Main)
Contact: Prof. Dr. Thomas Duve6
Website: Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory (MPI), Frankfurt (Main)7
Activities:
- Thomas Duve is a BCDSS Principal Investigator
- BCDSS Research Group "Mutual Dependencies and Normative Production in Africa,"8 led by Raquel R. Sirotti9, is working at the MPI
- BCDSS Research Group "Law and the Creation of Dependency in the Ibero-Atlantic," led by Mariana Armond Dias Paes, was working at the MPI
- Raquel R. Sirotti (April 2023) and Karolyne Mendes Mendonça Moreira10 and Mauro Armando Adelino Manhanguele11 (June 2023) presented their projects in the BCDSS Fellows Seminar
Rautenstrauch-Joest Museum, Cologne
Contact: Nanette Snoep
Website: Rautenstrauch-Joest Museum, Cologne12
Activities:
- Visit of Oceania Collection and guided tour by Oliver Lueb as part of the BCDSS workshop "Global Voyages, Local Sites: The Long Shadow of Atlantic Slavery in the Anglo-American and German Pacific," organized by Pia Wiegmink13 (June 2023)
- Workshop "Neither Slave Nor Free Labour? Understanding Labour Relations between Monarchy and the Bronze Guild in Ancient Benin Empire" with John Agbonifo at the Rautenstrauch-Joest Museum, organized by the Research Group "The Concept of Slavery in African History"14 (December 2023)
- Reading and discussion with Anne Haeming, author of Der gesammelte Joest: Biografie eines Ethnologen, as part of the BCDSS Reading and Discussion Series15 (February 2024)

Oliver Lueb with workshop participants, Rautenstrauch-Joest Museum Cologne
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Links
- https://www.bicc.de/
- https://www.dependency.uni-bonn.de/en/about-us/people/postdoctoral-researchers/dr-benjamin-etzold
- https://www.dependency.uni-bonn.de/en/outreach/reading-and-discussion-series#re
- https://www.idos-research.de/en/
- https://www.dependency.uni-bonn.de/en/about-us/people/postdoctoral-researchers/dr-rapti-siriwardane-de-zoysa
- https://www.dependency.uni-bonn.de/en/about-us/people/principal-investigators/thomas-duve
- https://www.lhlt.mpg.de/en
- https://www.dependency.uni-bonn.de/en/research/research-groups/mutual-dependencies-and-normative-production-in-africa
- https://www.dependency.uni-bonn.de/en/about-us/people/research-group-leaders/raquel-razente-sirotti
- https://www.dependency.uni-bonn.de/en/about-us/people/phd-researchers/karolyne-mendes-mendonca-moreira
- https://www.dependency.uni-bonn.de/en/about-us/people/phd-researchers/mauro-armando-adelino-manhanguele
- https://rautenstrauch-joest-museum.de/visit
- https://www.dependency.uni-bonn.de/en/about-us/people/professors-1/pia-wiegmink
- https://www.dependency.uni-bonn.de/en/research/research-groups/the-concept-of-slavery-in-african-history
- https://www.dependency.uni-bonn.de/en/outreach/reading-and-discussion-series