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Events Organized by the BCDSS
See below a list of all events organized by members of the BCDSS.
Upcoming
Hermeneutics of Restitution, Reparation, and Redress
Impulse – House for ...
09:00 AM
"Hermeneutics of Restitution, Reparation, and Redress: The Case of Cultural Property"
This conference aims to explore the – seminal – question of how to ...
Joseph C. Miller Memorial Lecture by Temitope Fagunwa
HYBRID event: On site in ...
04:00 PM - 06:00 PM
How did Black symbolism become central to European apothecary culture?
This lecture with Temitope Fagunwa, argues that this imagery resulted from three ...
Film Screening: "Aisha Can't Fly Away" & Panel Discussion
Kino in der Brotfabrik ...
07:30 PM
The BCDSS invites to a screening of Aisha Can't Fly Away (dir. Morad Mostafa, 2025), followed by a panel discussion on migration-related labour exploitation ...
Joseph C. Miller Memorial Lecture by Jake Subryan Richards
HYBRID event: On site in ...
04:15 PM
What happens when the end of the slave trade doesn't lead to freedom, but to a new form of bondage?
In our next lecture with Jake Subryan Richards, he will ...
Joseph C. Miller Memorial Lecture by Rachel Zelnick-Abramovitz
HYBRID event: On site ...
04:15 PM - 05:45 PM
Is manumission truly a transition to complete independence?
While we usually view "slave" and "free" as absolute states, historical evidence of partial ...
Juneteenth Lecture with Tsitsi Jaji: I, Too, Sing America
Universität Bonn, Am Hof ...
06:00 PM - 07:30 PM
This lecture commemorates Juneteenth as a living tradition of freedom and memory. Professor Tsitsi Jaji traces collaborations between Black poets and concert ...
Past Events
Joseph C. Miller Memorial Lecture by Noel Lenski
HYBRID event: On site in ...
04:15 PM - 05:45 PM
How did ancient slavery function outside the shadow of the Atlantic trade?
While modern scholarship often uses recent history as a universal template, ...
Panel Discussion: German Colonialism and its First Genocide
Rheinallee 24, 53173 Bonn
06:00 PM - 07:30 PM
The event is being held in cooperation with the Academy for International Affairs NRW and the Bonn Center for Reconciliation Studies.
As Europe rethinks its ...
Workshop: Collaborative & Intercultural Methodological Approaches
Niebuhrstraße 5, 53113 ...
09:00 AM - 05:00 PM
Throughout the day, participants will be invited to share their reflections on their own research practices, whether based on collaborative projects, ...
Joseph C. Miller Memorial Lecture by Nasir Uddin
HYBRID event: On site ...
04:15 PM - 05:45 PM
How does statelessness turn people into ‘bare’ or even ‘subhuman’ life?
This upcoming lecture with Nasir Uddin, argues that the shift from statelessness to ...
Lecture and film by Behnaz Mirzai on African Slavery in Iran
Poststraße 26, 53111 Bonn
04:00 PM - 06:00 PM
How did the Iranian Constitutional Revolution and the Ottoman Tanzimat reforms reshape slavery across the Indian Ocean, Mediterranean, and Middle East?
This ...
Joseph C. Miller Memorial Lecture by Luis Rosenfield
Online via Zoom
04:15 PM
How did late-nineteenth-century Brazilian thinkers, working within a “Naturalistic Scientism” shaped by positivist and evolutionist theories, represent race ...
Dies Academicus Event on 'Sciences and the Divine'
Schlosskirche, 3, ...
07:00 PM
“Whose Prayers did God hear?” / “Wessen Gebete hat Gott erhört?” This question, raised by a pastor reflecting on churches built for Europeans inside the very ...
We are the Anthropocene —The Horror and Beauty of Global Change
Universitätsmuseum Bonn, ...
05:00 PM
New photo exhibition by ethnologist and geologist Christoph Antweiler
Today, there is no place on earth that has not been touched by humans. Man-made ...