History and theory are often thought as detached dimensions, increasingly less, fortunately, by historians themselves. Especially when it comes to new historical topics or to thinking through new ways of dealing with them, such as dependency, it seems necessary to us to enrich and replenish this process of thinking and intellectual debate in theoretical regards. The founding members of this group (Joseph Biggerstaff, Claudia Jarzebowski, Eva Lehner, Julia Schmidt), are aware that dependency is certainly not a new topic in historical studies; it is rather a matter of outlining and establishing dependency as a distinct perspective and, if necessary, category in recent historical and cultural studies and determining its analytical add-on value against the backdrop of expanding postcolonial epistemologies and paradigm formation. We therefore read and discuss both older theoretical texts and approaches (e.g. Marxism, structural anthropology) and newer ones, e.g. resources, eco-socialism, human-animal studies. The aim is to present a range of theoretical concepts and to introduce them into the many discussions of our respective research in ways that are aware of their temporality and positionality. The workshops and discussion events aim at all BCDSS members and those interested from the University of Bonn.