Events - Other
Marion Gymnich is professor for English Literature and Culture at the University of Bonn as well as BCDSS Co-Speaker and principal investigator. In her research project on representations of domestic service, she explores changes and continuities in a wide range of literary and non-fictional depictions and negotiations of asymmetrical dependencies. In her lecture she explores "References to Religion and their Functions in US-American Slave Narratives and Neo-Slave Narratives". Her lecture is part of the public ZERG lecture series, organized by the Centre for Religion and Society (ZERG) and the BCDSS, Research Area C: "Control, Coercion, and Constraint II. The Role of Religion in Overcoming and Creating Structures of Dependency". The lecture series tackles the role of religion in both overcoming existing and creating new forms and types of dependencies. This is a hybrid event. The lecture will also be streamed via youtube.
Béla Bodó is associate professor for Eastern European History at the University of Bonn as well as investigator at the BCDSS. His current research revolves around the issue of the dependency of Jews on the state and the political and social elites in Hungary and East-Central Europe after 1848 to achieve full emancipation and defeat antisemitism. In his lecture he explores "The Numerus Clausus Law of 1920, Asymmetrical Dependenc(ies) and the Twisted Road of Hungarian Jews to Auschwitz". His lecture is part of the ZERG public lecture series, organized by the Centre for Religion and Society (ZERG) and the BCDSS, Research Area C: "Control, Coercion, and Constraint II. The Role of Religion in Overcoming and Creating Structures of Dependency". The lecture series tackles the role of religion in both overcoming existing and creating new forms and types of dependencies. This is a hybrid event. The lectures will also be streamed via youtube.
Sinah Kloß is research group leader of the BCDSS research group "Marking Power: Embodied Dependencies, Haptic Regimes and Body Modification". Her research project discusses the sensory history of body modification and the interrelation of permanence, tactility, religion and servitude in Hindu Indian communities of colonial Suriname, Trinidad and Guyana. In her lecture she explores "Marks of Dependency: Religious Tattooing among Caribbean Hindu Women". Her lecture is part of the ZERG public lecture series, organized by the Centre for Religion and Society (ZERG) and the BCDSS, Research Area C: "Control, Coercion, and Constraint II. The Role of Religion in Overcoming and Creating Structures of Dependency". The lecture series tackles the role of religion in both overcoming existing and creating new forms and types of dependencies. This is a hybrid event. The lecture will also be streamed via youtube.
Unfortunately the public lecture by BCDSS investigator Jochen Sautermeister lecture had to be cancelled !!!
Christoph Antweiler will address questions of "Human Norms in the Anthropocene" as part of the DIES ACADEMICUS on 18 May 2022.
Das BCDSS nimmt am 7. Mai 2022 von 10h-15h wieder an der Wissenschaftsrallye der Universität Bonn teil! Dieses Jahr geht es um den Zusammenhang von Zucker und Sklaverei.
During the winter semester 2021/2022 and the summer semester 2022, a lectures series organized by the Centre for Religion and Society (ZERG) and the Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies (BCDSS; Research Area C) will explore the question of the role of religion in both overcoming existing and creating new forms and types of dependencies. The lectures series will take place on Tuesdays at 18:15 hrs (Hörsaal X in the Hauptgebäude). It is planned as a hybrid event which is to be delivered in Bonn before an audience and simultaneously streamed via youtube (links to the livestreams coming soon).
Interested in "Structures of Dependency in the Comprehensive Treatise on Universal Peace"? Then join us at our new lectures series on. During the winter semester 2021/2022 and the summer semester 2022, a lectures series organized by the Centre for Religion and Society (ZERG) and the Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies (BCDSS; Research Area C) will explore the question of the role of religion in both overcoming existing and creating new forms and types of dependencies. The lectures series will take place on Tuesdays at 18:15 hrs (Hörsaal X in the Hauptgebäude). It is planned as a hybrid event which is to be delivered in Bonn before an audience and simultaneously streamed via youtube (links to the livestreams coming soon).
Interested in "Creating Dependency by Means of its Overcoming: A Case Study from the Rise of Tibetan Buddhism"? Then join us at our new lectures series. During the winter semester 2021/2022 and the summer semester 2022, a lectures series organized by the Centre for Religion and Society (ZERG) and the Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies (BCDSS; Research Area C) will explore the question of the role of religion in both overcoming existing and creating new forms and types of dependencies. The lectures series will take place on Tuesdays at 18:15 hrs (Hörsaal X in the Hauptgebäude). It is planned as a hybrid event which is to be delivered in Bonn before an audience and simultaneously streamed via youtube (links to the livestreams coming soon).
Interested in "Simple but Sacral: Tracing the Sinaitic He-tribe and the Origin of ‘our’ Alphabet 4000 Years ago"? Then join us at our new lectures series. During the winter semester 2021/2022 and the summer semester 2022, a lectures series organized by the Centre for Religion and Society (ZERG) and the Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies (BCDSS; Research Area C) will explore the question of the role of religion in both overcoming existing and creating new forms and types of dependencies. The lectures series will take place on Tuesdays at 18:15 hrs (Hörsaal X in the Hauptgebäude). It is planned as a hybrid event which is to be delivered in Bonn before an audience and simultaneously streamed via youtube (links to the livestreams coming soon).
Interested in "The Servant and the Servants of God in the Old Testament"? Then join us at our new lectures series. During the winter semester 2021/2022 and the summer semester 2022, a lectures series organized by the Centre for Religion and Society (ZERG) and the Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies (BCDSS; Research Area C) will explore the question of the role of religion in both overcoming existing and creating new forms and types of dependencies. The lectures series will take place on Tuesdays at 18:15 hrs (Hörsaal X in the Hauptgebäude). It is planned as a hybrid event which is to be delivered in Bonn before an audience and simultaneously streamed via youtube (links to the livestreams coming soon).
On Tuesday 30. November Holger Droessler, who is Assistant Professor of History at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, will present his new book "Coconut Colonialism Workers and the Globalization of Samoa". This event is a cooperation between the BCDSS, the Cluster Initiative “ConTrust: Trust in Conflict – Political Life under Conditions of Uncertainty” and the American Studies Department at Goethe University Frankfurt.
On December 1st, 2021 the Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies will introduce the MA programs “Dependency and Slavery Studies” and “Slavery Studies” at the online Dies Academicus of the University of Bonn.
The Ulrich Haarmann Memorial Lecture is a historical-science-based investigation of food preparation, health, and hygiene practices in the Syrian countryside. It presents for the first time the surprising results of fresh excavations in Jordan, raising questions about rural kitchen culture, mass migration, and the nature of the Ayyubid-Mamluk transition.
The talk refers to the ongoing experimental exhibition "Resources of Power: How Things Speak about Slavery and Dependency", currently on display at four locations within the university. The exhibition tells a long story of slavery and strong asymmetrical dependencies through objects and texts that relate to the materiality of different resource groups. The lecture will present the objects, elaborating on the ways in which these objects from 5000 years of human history and different cultures bear witness to extreme forms of dependency. The focus will be on three resource groups that are particularly closely linked to the history of dependence and slavery: Grains, luxury foods, and textiles.
On Monday, 4 July 2022, cultural studies and philosophy scholar IRIS DÄRMANN, Professor of Cultural Theory & Cultural Aesthetics at Humboldt University Berlin, will present passages from her book "Undienlichkeit, Gewaltgeschichte und Politische Philosophie" (Matthes und Seitz Berlin 2020). Following the reading, two representatives of Bonn University, BIRGIT MÜNCH (BCDSS Investigator, Professor of Art History and Vice Rector for International Affairs) and CHRISTOPH ANTWEILER (Professor of Southeast Asian Studies and BCDSS Principal Investigator) will question Iris Därmann on her view of the history of violence. KONRAD VÖSSING, Professor of Ancient History and BCDSS Co-Speaker, will lead through the discussion. The audience is very welcome to participate. Knowledge of the book is not a prerequisite! The reading will be followed by a reception from 7:30pm.To secure a place please register by email (with your name and email address) to LESUNG@DEPENDENCY.UNI-BONN.DE
Join the screening of the documentary WE THE CIMARRONS on Thursday, 30 June 2022, at 20:00 CET by award winning director and BCDSS fellow Emma Christopher. This is the second film in our dependency-related film series cooperation "Who's Got the Power" with Förderverein Filmkultur Bonn. At the post-screening talk, we will get a chance to listen to Emma, the director/producer, as well as Garciano and Efrén, two Yurumanguireño leaders featured in the film. They will provide us with an insight into the making of the film and give us a very personal account of the threats that the Yurumangui community, descendents of enslaved people from West Africa, is facing today. Everyone is welcome to join the subsequent reception at the cinema foyer for some further talks and networking. Please see below for more details.
The movie engages with varying forms of asymmetrical relationships that are forced primarily upon children and women. They are pushed to megacity by various factors but mainly by poverty. Here, the city is not just a place of arrival, it becomes a dreamscape. People initially conceive it as a place of hope; hence the allure of (push towards) the city. However, soon after their arrival, they end up bound in extreme forms of asymmetrical relationships such as in brothels or slums where their lives further unravel. As a social formation, like villages, the city has its underlying logic of patriarchy and casteism which deeply structure people’s lives. The movie clearly portrays how people are forced into extreme forms of asymmetrical dependencies. Money, men, and power are inextricably connected to the lives of the socially destitute and deprivations flourish, while those on the streets become interchangeable. by Jahfar Shareef Pokkanali (PhD researcher at the BCDSS)
Join us on Monday, November 7, 2022, at 18:15 CET for a reading and discussion evening with playwright NATASSA SIDERI. Her award-winning play GEFESSELT ('BOUND') addresses the problem of debt bondage in our present-day society.
The event will include speeches by Prof. Dr. Marion Gymnich, Co-Speaker and Principal Investigator at the Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies (BCDSS), and Prof. Dr. Béla Bodó, BCDSS Investigator and Associate Professor for Eastern European History, Bonn University. Visitors will get a tour of the exhibition by Prof. Dr. Judith Szapor, curator of the exhibition; Associate Professor of the Department of History and Classical Studies at McGill University, Montreal; as well as talks with Kata Steinberger-Herskó, daughter of Anna Herskó, the first female camera person in Hungary, presented in the exhibition.