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Events Organized by the BCDSS
See below a list of all events organized by members of the BCDSS.
Upcoming
Conference on "Childrens' Testimonies"
IMPULSE Adenauerallee ...
05:00 PM
Can we only bear witness to what we can bear to witness? How do children act as witnesses in situations of violence and cruelty for which they yet lack the ...
Workshop "Abhängigkeiten im Alten Orient & Ägypten"
Universität Bonn ...
05:00 PM
This event will be mainly held in German.
Die schriftlichen Quellen des Alten Orients, der Levante und Ägyptens stammen fast ausschließlich von ...
Joseph C. Miller Memorial Lecture by Katharine Huemoeller
Hybrid event: On site in ...
04:15 PM - 05:45 PM
How did Roman matrons leverage slavery to gain independence? In this lecture, Katharine Huemoeller examines this overlooked dynamic through Terentia, Cicero’s ...
Reading and Discussion with Eva Gengler on "Feminist AI"
Haus der Bildung, ...
06:00 PM - 08:30 PM
Artificial intelligence is not neutral. The data it is based on, the systems in which it is developed, and the decisions it influences are shaped by social ...
Talk by Peter Müller, President of the Court of Arbitration
On site: Auditorium, ...
07:00 PM
Talk by Peter Müller, President of the Court of Arbitration for Nazi-Looted Cultural Property:
On December 1, 2025, the Court of Arbitration for Nazi-Looted ...
Annual Workshop of the Working Group (AK) Labour Geography
IMPULSE, Adenauerallee ...
Whole Day
Conceptualised as Global Commodity Chains or Global Value Chains (GVCs), transnational production within global capitalism has traditionally been analysed ...
Joseph C. Miller Memorial Lecture by Judith Vitale
Hybrid event: On site in ...
04:15 PM - 05:15 PM
How did the lives of women in interwar Japan intersect with the hidden world of opiates?
While the state manipulated women into serving as cheap labor, ...
Past Events
Exhibition Opening: Tobacco Echoes at GHL
Global Heritage Lab @ ...
06:00 PM
Join us for the upcoming exhibition opening of "Tobacco Echoes" at the Global Heritage Lab. It brings together works by artists Ngozi Ajah Schommers and ...
Namelessness in History Workshop
BCDSS, Conference Room, ...
09:00 AM
This workshop investigates analogue and digital methods for the analysis of namelessness in historical sources. It is part of the project “The Nameless in ...
Public Lecture with University of Hull's Wilberforce Institute
Hybrid: Online and in ...
04:00 PM - 05:30 PM
Join the Wilberforce Institute and the BCDSS as Professor William Pettigrew, Dr Nicholas Radburn, and Dr Lila Chambers discuss the Register of British Slave ...
Narratives on Violence and Trauma in Africa - Workshop
Egyptian Museum, ...
09:00 AM
"From palaeocolonialism to postcolonialism: Narratives on Violence and Trauma” with a distinct focus on Africa through the ages".
This trauma-informed, ...
Writing an Ethnographic Biography: Possibilities and Challenges?
Hybrid: online and at ...
04:00 PM - 06:00 PM
Prof. Dr. Christian Williams (Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of the Free State, South Africa) will share about his new book, CHRISTIAN FAITH ...
Joseph C. Miller Memorial Lecture by Damian Pargas
Niebuhrstr. 5 & Zoom
04:15 PM - 05:45 PM
What did Black freedom mean for the development of citizenship and democracy in the early United States?
In this lecture, Damian Pargas (Leiden University) ...
Joseph C. Miller Memorial Lecture by Ananya Jahanara Kabir
HYBRID event: On site in ...
04:15 PM - 05:45 PM
How can the historical and geographic location of Cape Town, perched at the literal hinge of the Atlantic and Indian Oceans, reframe our understanding of ...
Book Launch "Arbeitswelten"
Niebuhrstraße 5, 53113 ...
04:00 PM - 06:00 PM
How do workers form and shape places and spaces of re/production in today’s capitalism? This is the central question of the recently published book ...