Congratulations to Research Group Leader Benjamin Etzold and Marie Godin on their new edited volume! You can read it via Open Access now. 👉 buff.ly/FG3gwVo @unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de

We are very pleased to announce the release of the latest edition of our cluster magazine, dedicated to the theme of Child Dependency. 👉 Read the full issue here: buff.ly/kswbx6s @unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de

Do not miss our upcoming #JCMM Lecture with Ananya Jahanara Kabir! 🗓️ 27 July 2026 ⏱️16:15 CEST ❕Hybrid event: Niebuhrstr. 5 or via Zoom 👉For more info: buff.ly/vqAPKtA @universitaetbonn @dfg__public

🎧 If you missed our last Joseph C. Miller Memorial Lecture by Michael E. Sawyer, you can now find the recording on YouTube! Follow the link 👉https://buff.ly/TpxYKKP @unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de

A big thank you to the Roman Bonn Team, Giulia Cappucci, James Harland and Julia Hillner for that great tour yesterday, uncovering centuries of history right beneath Bonn! 👉 Discover more about hidden history here: buff.ly/m02KX8N @unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de

📚️ We're thrilled to share the new publication by Anka Steffen, Samuel Eleazar Wendt, and Jutta Wimmler as part of BCDSS' DSS series. 👉 buff.ly/Xs1yWp9 @unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de @degruyterbrill.bsky.social

Last Thursday the BCDSS hosted the book launch of "Arbeitswelten". Editors Anne Engelhardt and BCDSS Investigator Michaela Doutch, with Research Group Leader Benjamin Etzold, discussed Labour Geography as a critical lens for studying work. Organised with SEAS and bicc. @unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de

From 1 to 3 July, the workshop Lost Documents and Subaltern Groups in the Early Middle Ages took place at #BCDSS, exploring documentary loss, archival absence, and “evidence of absence” in relation to Strong Asymmetrical Dependencies. @unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de

How do workers form and shape places and spaces of re/production in today’s capitalism? Join us for the upcoming book launch and discussion of “Arbeitswelten” (Doutch/Engelhardt/López/Premchander/Wenner, 2026). More: buff.ly/W1jFfKY @unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de

Congratulations to #BCDSS Research Group Leader Sinah Kloß for her supervision of Martha Bingeler’s outstanding BA thesis! See more here: buff.ly/xNSW8XG @unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de

The BCDSS conference “Ottoman Slaveries and Typologies of Unfreedom” explored labour, gendered dependencies, spatial settings, and post-manumission dependencies in the Ottoman world. Many thanks to all speakers, participants, and organizers. @unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de

Dr. James M. Harland, Postdoctoral Researcher at the BCDSS, contributes to the July 2026 "Head to Head" in History Today: "How did the English Arrive in Britain?" buff.ly/ryhKjG8 @unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de

Thank you to Emma Christopher, Sergio Leyva Seiglie and Dován for an inspiring discussion after 'Viva Yurumanguí'. Their testimony showed how music, community, and cultural traditions remain vital forms of resistance against violence and dispossession. @unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de

📚️ Congratulations to BCDSS Investigator Martin Bentz (University of Bonn) and former BCDSS PhD Researcher Patrick Zeidler (Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Munich, Germany) on their new publication! buff.ly/xedJv1m (Open access) @unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de @degruyterbrill.bsky.social

Congratulations to BCDSS investigator Jun.-Prof. Dr. Alice Toso on the publication of Human Identities in the Archaeological Record (Bloomsbury Academic, 2026), co-edited with Annamaria Diana and Daniela Marcu-Istrate. @unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de

Three inspiring days at the workshop “Plantation Lives, Gender and Material Culture” have come to an end. We are deeply grateful to all speakers and participants for enabling such a vibrant exchange. @unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de @flindersuniversity.bsky.social

🎧 If you missed our last Joseph C. Miller Memorial Lecture by Indranil Acharya, you can now find the recording on YouTube! You can now find the recording on YouTube! 👉 buff.ly/QUumamk @unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de

Thanks to Tsitsi Jaji, speaker at this year's #Juneteenth Lecture! Combining the perspectives of an acclaimed academic and artist, she created a truly engaging and unifying space that combined scholarship, poetry, music, and collective reflection. @unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de @nas-bonn.bsky.social

Today, Plantation Lives, Gender, and Material Culture continued with a film screening and panels on Pacific missionary work, communities, and collecting, tracing plantation economies, colonial networks, object circulation, and coerced labour histories. @dependencybonn.de @unibonn.bsky.social

📕 Congrats to former BCDSS Guest Researcher Tâmis Parron on the publication of 'Slavery in Capitalism: A Deep History of Elements in Ancient and Pre-Modern Economies." ‼️ Available as free download for a couple of days: buff.ly/HTn6HBH @unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de @universitypress.cambridge.org

We are absolutely thrilled to welcome colleagues from Australia, PNG, Fiji, the Philippines, the US, Austria, France, Switzerland, and Germany for the three day workshop „Plantation Lives, Gender and Material Culture". @unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de @flindersuniversity.bsky.social

Do not miss our next #JCMM Lecture with Michael E. Sawyer! 🗓️ 22 June 2026 ⏱️16:15 CET ❕Hybrid event: Niebuhrstr. 5 or via Zoom 👉For more info buff.ly/C9BYjj2 @unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de

Today at GHL: a book talk on indenture, blackbirding, and resistance in the Western Pacific, followed by the opening of Jasmine Togo-Brisby's Liquid Archive. Thanks to everyone who joined us for a day of conversation on memory, colonialism, and survival. @unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de

🎧 If you missed our last Joseph C. Miller Memorial Lecture by Benjamin Selwyn, you can now find the recording on YouTube! You can now find the recording on YouTube! 👉 buff.ly/gyQRzln @unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de

In this second reel from our first Dependency Talkshop, Nadine Segadlo, Benjamin Etzold, and Marie Blaschtschak reflect on violence faced by refugee women, constrained agency, and the importance of empowerment and solutions built on lived experience. buff.ly/5TLRWt0 @unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de

📚 New publications by BCDSS postdoctoral researcher and research group leader Sinah Kloß, "Filming Mother: Performing Respectability through Ethnographic Documentaries on Guyanese Kali-Mai Puja" 👉 For more info, visit buff.ly/WBD0V5G @unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de

Interested in applying for our MA program "Dependency and Slavery Studies"? Check out what our (former) MA students have to say. For more information and all video clips on our MA program, check our website: buff.ly/SBtMXdB ✍️ Apply until 15 September 2026 @unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de

Highlights from our first Dependency Talkshop with BICC & VHS Bonn! They all share key reflections on supporting refugee women, overcoming structural barriers, community accountability and Interdisciplinary research. Watch the interviews here: buff.ly/5TLRWt0 @unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de

New Special Issue & Book: Her co-edited work, "Resistance to Slavery in Africa: Past and Present," is officially out in the Slavery & Abolition journal and available as a Routledge book! 👉 Journal: buff.ly/OgfZEMT 👉 Book: buff.ly/Ut5nTwG ✍️ New Article: buff.ly/XImVuM3 @unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de

Don't miss our #JCMLL lecture with Indranil Acharya this week! 🗓️ 08 June 2026 ⏱️16:15 CET ❕Hybrid event: Niebuhrstr. 5 or via Zoom 👉https://buff.ly/DnHgveF @unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de