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)

Activities:

Benjamin Etzold 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" (November 2024)

Exchange Workshop "Intersections between Dependency and Slavery Studies and Peace and Conflict Studies" © BCDSS

German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS), Bonn

Contact: Prof. Dr. Anna-Katharina Hornidge

Website: German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS), Bonn

Activities:

Rapti Siriwardane-de Zoysa is working as researcher at the BCDSS (2024)

Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory (MPI), Frankfurt (Main)

Contact: Prof. Dr. Thomas Duve

Website: Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory (MPI), Frankfurt (Main)

Activities:

Thomas Duve is a BCDSS Principal Investigator
BCDSS Research Group "Mutual Dependencies and Normative Production in Africa," led by Raquel R. Sirotti, 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 Moreira and Mauro Armando Adelino Manhanguele (June 2023) presented their projects in the BCDSS Fellows Seminar

Rautenstrauch-Joest Museum, Cologne

Contact: Nanette Snoep

Website: Rautenstrauch-Joest Museum, Cologne

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 Wiegmink (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" (December 2023)
Reading and discussion with Anne Haeming, author of Der gesammelte Joest: Biografie eines Ethnologen, as part of the BCDSS Reading and Discussion Series (February 2024)