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Events Organized by the BCDSS
See below a list of all events organized by members of the BCDSS.
Upcoming
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 ...
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 ...
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) ...
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 ...
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 ...
Past Events
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 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 ...
Film Screening and Discussion of "Viva Yurumanguí" (2026)
Kino in der Brotfabrik ...
06:30 PM - 09:00 PM
On the remote Pacific Coast of Colombia, the people of Yurumanguí palenque in Colombia have a 300-year chain of struggle stretching back to Africa. With their ...
WS "Lost Documents and Subaltern Groups in the Early Middle Ages"
Niebuhrstraße 5, 53113 ...
02:00 PM
The purpose of this workshop is to explore the relationship between lost documents and archives and Strong Asymmetrical Dependencies (SADs) in post-Roman ...
Talk "Restitution of Nazi-Looted Art"
Hybrid Event: Lecture ...
06:30 PM - 08:00 PM
On 1 December 2025, the new German Court of Arbitration for Nazi-Looted Cultural Property replaced the former German "Advisory Commission". This new Court is a ...
Workshop "Ottoman Slaveries and Typologies of Unfreedom"
Niebuhrstr. 5 ...
01:00 PM
For centuries, slavery constituted a fundamental component of Ottoman society, shaping households, labor regimes, political structures, and social hierarchies ...
Joseph C. Miller Memorial Lecture by Nina Schneider
HYBRID event: On site ...
04:15 PM - 05:45 PM
How did child labor opposition become a global movement between the 1880s and 1930s, and how do we write its history without a Western bias?
Based on Nina ...