Introducing Dr. Prabhat Kumar, Assistant Prof. at Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (New Delhi), who is a visiting researcher at Concurrences for 5 weeks this fall! He is a member of the research project Emergency from Below: Climate Emergency from Colonial and Decolonial Perspectives.

Introducing one of our visitors this fall! Vighnesh Prakash, PhD student, Ashoka University His project focuses on the urban environmental history of Cochin in India. His main research interests lie in environmental & urban history along with history of science. www.lnu.se/en/meet-linn...

This week! Film screening of Blood Berries, a documentary telling the story of workers trafficked to the berry forest of Finland & Sweden. 11 Sept, 2026 15.15-17.30 M1088 in Växjö, or on zoom - see below for details www.lnu.se/en/meet-linn... #Academicsky

Next week! Red’ & ‘Green’ Imaginations: Rethinking Technology, Identity and Ecology in Labour Narratives with Radhika Krishnan, Associate Professor at IIIT Hyderabad Thursday, 3 September 14.15-16.00 Dacke & zoom www.lnu.se/en/meet-linn... #Academicsky

Welcome to the Autumn 2026 Concurrences Seminar Series! Kicking things off with a series of in-person events at venues in Växjö from 23-25 September, we are delighted to share this semester's program. Please see lnu.se/concurrences for more information. #academicsky

Congratulations to Eleonora Poggio, whose co-authored article won the 'International Publications Award' offerred by the University of the Philippines! Tremml-Werner, B., Poggio, E and Lopez, A. “Revisiting the Treaty Between Spain and Sulu, 1836/37”, Diplomatica, Brill. doi.org/10.1163/2589...

Revisiting the Treaty between Spain and Sulu of 1836/37

Abstract This essay focuses on the Sulu-Mindanao-Borneo region in the 1830s and zooms in on the Capitulaciones (Spanish) and the Kapiturasyun (Tausug) of a treaty concluded between the Spanish Crown a...

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Next week! Our final seminar of the spring with Professor Julia Borst from the University of Bremen - Black Europe Online: Digital Echoes of Afro-European Self-Narrations When: 4 June 2026, 14:15-16:00 Where: Dacke & Zoom More info & register to attend on zoom: lnu.se/en/meet-linn...

Black Europe Online: Digital Echoes of Afro-European Self-Narrations

Welcome to the LNUC Concurrences Seminar Series in Colonial and Postcolonial Studies!

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Next week! Armed & Bureaucratic Violence: Forms of British imperial conquest in Southeast Asian Contested Tracts, a seminar w/ Gunnel Cederlöf Thursday, 21 May 2026 14.15-16.00, Dacke & zoom If you wish to attend remotely, please register ahead of time at the link below - lnu.se/en/meet-linn...

Armed and Bureaucratic Violence: Forms of British imperial conquest in Southeast Asian Contested Tracts

Welcome to the LNUC Concurrences Seminar Series in Colonial and Postcolonial Studies and the Annual Lecture of the Cluster for Colonial Connections and Comparisons!

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We are a proud sponsor of @nordicarchtag.bsky.social 2026 which took place in Kalmar over the last week! Nearly 200 delegates came to the biennial meeting, organised around the theme of ‘Activate Archaeology for Just Futures’.

We had a lively seminar yesterday with Nina Gren from Lund University, sharing her research on borderization and its social effects on families in Palestine, Georgia and Western Sahara. Thank you, Nina!

Next week in the Concurrences Seminar Series! Occupied Intimacies: Borderization in Palestine, Georgia and Western Sahara with Dr Nina Gren (Lund University) Thursday, 16 Apr 2026 14.15-16.00 Campus Växjö, Building F, Dacke Register on zoom 👇 lnu.se/en/meet-linn... #AcademicSky

Occupied Intimacies: Borderization in Palestine, Georgia and Western Sahara

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Rebecca Duncan has published The Cambridge Companion to World-Gothic Literature, ✍️ Rebekah Cumpsty Monsters have always swarmed around the frontiers of colonialism & capitalism, from Europe's invasion & occupation of the Americas to the planetary emergency of the present... doi.org/10.1017/9781...

The Cambridge Companion to World-Gothic Literature

Cambridge Core - European and World Literature: General Interest - The Cambridge Companion to World-Gothic Literature

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New book alert! Concurrences member Janne Lahti has published a new monograph, Kolonialismin muokkaama maailma: Euroopan ekspansion globaalihistoriaa (World Shaped by Colonialism: Global History of European expansion) together w/ Johanna Skurnik. lnu.se/en/meet-linn...

A World Shaped by Colonialism: Global History of European Expansion

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Check out the seminar organized by the Cluster for Colonial Connections and Comparisons next week! Smoke in the Eye – Rupture in the Colonial Archive (2020) with artist Munish Wadhia + “From Imperial Markets to Postcolonial Networks” 19 March 13:15-15:00, Dacke & zoom lnu.se/en/meet-linn...

Smoke in the Eye – Rupture in the Colonial Archive (2020) with artist Munish Wadhia + Project presentation: “From Imperial Markets to Postcolonial Networks”

Welcome to a seminar organised by the Cluster for Colonial Connections and Comparisons!

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We had a thought-provoking afternoon learning about and discussing the outcomes of the Sámi Truth Commission, thank you to everyone who attended in-person and on zoom!

This week! Nordic Colonialism in 2026: The Truth Commissions and their Outcomes with Gunlög Fur, Professor of History at Linnaeus University and founder of Concurrences. 12 March, 13:15-17:00 Dacke (Fe3016) & zoom (register at link below) #academicsky lnu.se/.../2026/lnu...

Welcome to Dr Evy Mehzabeen who is visiting LNUC Concurrences from the TREADS research cluster at Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi, as a guest researcher during the spring semester for two months. Evy's work analyses India's policy approaches to managing river systems 🌊 Welcome, Evy!

This week! We welcome Salad Hilowle & Christian Rossipal from Yale University, who are giving the next LNUCC Seminar:"The Black Beach: Moving Images between Swedish and Caribbean Shores" 14:15-16:00 Lammhult, or register for zoom at the link below- lnu.se/en/meet-linn... #AcademicSky

The Black Beach: Moving Images between Swedish and Caribbean Shores

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Last week we kicked off the first official collaboration between The Cultural University at Linnaeus and Concurrences with "A Conversation that looks like a concert" featuring artist in residence Napoleon Maddox and his collaborator Sorg at Mono Växjö 🎵

🎉 Dr Lobke Minter has been awarded a STINT International Postdoc. She will pursue Forest Imaginaries, Colonial History and the Timber Commodity Frontier, the first project to examine representations of forests in South African literature through the region’s ongoing history of timber plantations.

New guest researcher! In February, we are visited by Dr Gavin Herbertson, who is a scholar of global modernisms, Caribbean life & literature, and postcolonial theory at SWPS University in Poland and the Institute of English Studies (IES) at the School of Advanced Studies, University of London.

An exciting workshop takes place next week! The first 'Cultures of the Polycrisis' wkshop will be organized by the Concurrences cluster for Ecology, Culture & Coloniality (ECCo), w/ @au.dk. It brings together 25 scholars of literature to investigate the impact of polycrisis on cultural production.

Check out our full 2026 spring seminar series! Starting this week with Napoleon Maddox, "A Conversation that Looks like a Concert", in collaboration with Mono, Växjö. lnu.se/en/meet-linn...

Learn more about the Concurrences' Cluster for Borders of Justice below! "a research cluster focused on reimagining societies through the lenses of migration, justice, and belonging, w/ a strong emphasis on decolonization & its impact on shaping our collective futures" lnu.se/en/research/...

The Cluster for Borders of Justice: Migration, Equity, and the Global Postcolonial Order

The Cluster for Borders of Justice: Migration, Equity, and the Global Postcolonial Order is a research cluster focused on reimagining societies through the lenses of migration, justice, and belonging,...

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Two exciting events are coming up in the next few weeks! MONOLOG: A Conversation That Looks Like a Concert, on 13 Feb (19:00) & Diggin’ – a Beat-Making Master Class on 14 Feb (14-20:00), both at monovaxjo.se Learn more about our artist in residence, Napolean Maddox: www.napoleonmaddox.com

Diggin’ – a Beat-Making Master Class” with composer/producer (Sorg) and writer/Hip-hop artist (Napoleon Maddox) Saturday, February 14 Workshop: 14:00–17:00 Concert: 18:00–20:00 Free to drop in at Mono, Sandgärdsgatan 1, Växjö lnu.se/en/meet-linn...

Diggin’ – a Beat-Making Master Class

How does a Hip-hop producer compose? What do they look for to produce the sonic textures and feelings they want to create? What do beat-makers do that generative AI is not capable of?

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Get excited for Concurrences' first event of the year, 'MONOLOG: A Conversation That Looks Like a Concert'! Organized in collaboration w/ Mono & the Cultural University, featuring writer/Hip-hop artist Napoleon Maddox & the composer/producer Sorg 🆓 Feb 13, 19:00 at Mono lnu.se/en/meet-linn...

MONOLOG: A Conversation That Looks Like a Concert

MONOLOG – the popular scientific lecture series organized by the record store Mono and Linnaeus University. Delve into the humanities, art, literature, and music in a relaxed environment. For the sec...

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We are proud to share a new open-access volume co-edited by Hans Hägerdal, one of our members. Colonial Encounters and Slavery in Early Modern Asia (Leiden University Press, 2025) lup.nl/publications... Open access link: library.oapen.org/handle/20.50...

Colonial Encounters and Slavery in Early Modern Asia - Leiden University Press

This volume traces how colonial powers from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century built, adapted, and expanded systems of slave trading and coerced labour across different regions of the globe. Brin...

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The 2026 spring semester for Concurrences has begun! It was great to see everyone back around the seminar table in Växjö, as we discussed future plans for the Centre. Stay tuned for our upcoming seminar schedule!

In early December we met for our final research seminar of the year with visiting scholar Mitul Baruah from Ashoka University, and finished the evening with a cozy collegial dinner. We wish everyone a wonderful winter holiday and we look forward to an engaging 2026 with Concurrences!