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Events Organized by the BCDSS
See below a list of all events organized by members of the BCDSS.
Upcoming
Joseph C. Miller Memorial Lecture by Benjamin Selwyn
HYBRID event: On site ...
04:15 PM - 05:45 PM
Is it true that Global Value Chains (GVCs) 'boost incomes, create better jobs, and reduce
poverty', as commonly claimed? In this upcoming lecture Benjamin ...
Dies Academicus Uni Bonn
University Main Building
10:15 AM - 11:00 AM
We invite you to join our five BCDSS pre-doctoral fellows for their joint presentation at Dies Academicus:
"Understanding Dependency and Slavery Studies: A ...
Joseph C. Miller Memorial Lecture by Sue Peabody
HYBRID event: On site ...
04:15 PM - 05:45 PM
What can microhistory reveal that Big History cannot? Drawing on studies of enslaved and free people in revolutionary and abolitionist France, Sue Peabody ...
Book Talk Indenture, Blackbirding, Women’s Cultures of Resistance
Global Heritage Lab ...
06:00 PM - 07:30 PM
The book talk, organized by the ARC discovery grant project “Unfreedom, Voices, Redress: Plantation Cultures of the Western Pacific” (in cooperation with the ...
Exhibition Opening with Jasmine Togo-Brisby: "Liquid Archive"
Global Heritage Lab ...
08:00 PM - 09:00 PM
What memories does water hold? Drawing on her own family history, Jasmine Togo-Brisby’s exhibition Liquid Archive explores memory, colonial histories, and ...
Int. Workshop "Plantation Lives, Gender, and Material Culture"
WED & THU: Senatssaal, ...
09:30 AM
During her lifetime, Emma Kolbe/Forsayth/Farrell (née Coe, 1850–1913), known as ‘Queen Emma of New Guinea’, was one of the most powerful private individuals ...
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
Dependency Talkshop: Gewalt gegenüber Geflüchteten Frauen
VHS, Mülheimer Platz 1, ...
06:00 PM - 07:30 PM
Join us for the first event in our new DEPENDENCY TALKSHOP series, taking place on Wednesday, 6 May, 18:00-19:30, in cooperation with the Bonn International ...
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 ...
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 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 ...
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 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 ...
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 ...