News

Dependency Talkshop: Gewalt gegenüber Geflüchteten Frauen

"Gendered violence and conflict in the Bangladesh–Myanmar borderlands: (trans)local experiences and responses"

Welcoming our New Postdoctoral Researchers to the BCDSS!

Hermeneutics of Restitution, Reparation, and Redress: The Case of Cultural Property

Film Screening: "Aisha Can't Fly Away" & Panel Discussion

Apr 23, 2026 from 07:30 PM — Kino in der Brotfabrik Kreuzstraße 16, 53225 Bonn —

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 and intersectional dependency. The film follows Aisha, a Sudanese care worker in Cairo, as she navigates racism, extortion, and precarious work conditions after fleeing war in Somalia. The panel will feature BCDSS Research Group Leader Benjamin Etzold and Postdoctoral Researcher Ayesha Hussain.

Film Screening and Discussion of "Aisha Can't Fly Away" by Morad Mostafa (2025)

UC Berkeley South Asia Art & Architecture Dissertation Prize 2026 for Jahfar Shareef Pokkanali

New Publication by Dr. Benjamin Etzold on Precarious Work and Displacement

BACLS Edited Collection Prize 2025 for Jun.-Prof. Dr. Magdalena Pfalzgraf and Co-Editors

Call for Proposals: International Winter School "Current Perspectives on Forms of Strong Asymmetric Dependencies in Charcas, Bolivia"

Celebrating International Women’s Day

Welcome to our new cluster members!

Call for Papers: Households as Coercive Labour Regimes II

New Publication in DSS Series

Call for Papers: "Children’s Testimonies. Unveiling historical and art-historical archives."

Juneteenth Lecture with Tsitsi Jaji: I, Too, Sing America

Language & Inclusion

Workshop: Collaborative & Intercultural Methodological Approaches

International Day of Education: Making Learning Accessible & Inclusive

New Publication in DSS Series

New Publication by Diego Schibelinski

Roman Bonn Self-Guided Heritage Trail is online!

New Article by Sinah Kloß

Out now: DEPENDENT, Issue 12

New Issue on Andean Ethnohistory Published in Notas de Antropología de las Américas

New Special Issue on Gender & Segregation Published in Gender & History

End of Phase 1 - Thank You!

New Publication on Cultural Heritage and Slavery from a Caribbean Perspective

Third-Party-Funding by VolkswagenStiftung for "The Nameless in History"

New Article by James M. Harland

New Publication in DSS Series

New Publication: Special Issue of Atlantic Studies

Sciences and the Divine

Call for Applications

New Publication in DSS Series by Reinhard Zöllner

"Sensing the Materiality of the Transatlantic Slave Trade: An Interdisciplinary and Collaborative Approach"

Call for Papers

New Publication by Zeynep Y. Gökçe and Jennifer Leetsch

New Article by Sinah Kloss

Film Screening and Discussion

New DSS Publication

Sinah Kloß Appointed Associate Editor of 'Material Religion'

CfP: Pregnancy, Birth, and (Non)Parenthood: Critical Approaches to Reproduction

Social Networks in the Colonial Era

Congratulations to Bernardo Bonifácio Ferreira

Podiumsdiskussion "Ans Licht gebracht – Herausforderungen und Chancen von Missionssammlungen"

New Article by Christian Mader

Uni im Rathaus: Dilemma Palmöl!

BCDSS Research Group Leader Sinah Kloß among Keynote Speakers at Socare Conference

Film screening & public talk celebrating "Enmeshed and Entwined: Fabrics of Dependency" exhibition

Call for Applications

Rome's battle for Germania

New Articles by BCDSS Senior Fellow Lotte Pelckmans

New publication by Julia Winnebeck & Henriette von Harnier

Call for Papers “Plantation Lives, Gender, and Material Culture: Queen Emma’s Networks and the (Post)Colonial Anglo-German Pacific”

New Article by Christian Mader

New Book by Christian Laes

Call For Papers

DYNARCHIVING

Call for Applications

New Publication by Ayesha Hussain

Congratulations to Anas Ansar

New Article by Rapti Siriwardane-de Zoysa

New Article by Michael Zeuske

Out Now: DEPENDENT, Issue 11

Lecture: Anna May Wong - Crossover Artist of Transnational Cinema

Congratulations to BCDSS PhD Researcher Diego Schibelinski

"Freedom and Slavery among Seafarers in Coastal Navigation (Santa Catarina, 19th Century)"

First DEI Certificate Awarded to David Brandon Smith

New co-authored Article by BCDSS Postdoctoral Researcher James M. Harland

Call For Papers

New Publication: Special Issue of 'Body and Society' edited by BCDSS Research Group Leader Sinah Kloß and Antonia Villinger

New Article by BCDSS Researcher Sinah Kloß

New Publication by Ulrich Berges

New Publication by Jutta Wimmler

New Publication: Special Issue of 'Journal of Ancient Near Eastern History', edited by Vitali Bartash and Andrew Pottorf

New Article by Christian Mader

New Podcast with Christian Mader

New Publication by Martin Schermaier, Julia Winnebeck, and Matthias Becher

Film Screening & Discussion: Human Rights Activism in Western Africa

BCDSS Secures Additional Seven Years of Funding as Cluster of Excellence

New Publication: Special Issue of Journal 'Life Writing', edited by Jennifer Leetsch and Pia Wiegmink

Exhibitions at the Global Heritage Lab

New article by Michael Zeuske

New Article by Alice Toso