BCDSS Conferences
Workshop: Child Slaveries in the Early Modern World, 1500-1800
Niebuhrstr. 5 or via Zoom
12:00 PM - 05:00 PM
The workshop is organized by the German-Australian DAAD-UA collaborative project "Child Slaveries in the Early Modern World: Gender, Trauma, and Trafficking in ...
Workshop: Labour that Heals the Soul
Adenauerallee 4-6
10:00 AM
In the early modern period, forced labour went hand in hand with imprisonment and had an inherent punitive logic: the publicly performed labour of prisoners ...
Archaeologies of Dependency in Latin America
Hybrid Event, Bonner ...
Whole Day
This international conference will explore asymmetrical dependencies and related phenomena in Latin America from an archaeological point of view. A recent ...
Children at Work, in a Period of Transition, 400-1000 AD
HYBRID event: On site ...
09:30 AM - 07:00 PM
A comparative conference, organized by Heinz Heinen Fellow Christian Laes, that will enable the audience to pay attention to voices often unheard, in language ...
Workshop: Global Voyages, Local Sites
HYBRID event: On site ...
09:00 AM
"Global Voyages, Local Sites: The Long Shadow of Atlantic Slavery in the Anglo-American and German Pacific" workshop brings together renowned scholars working ...
Joseph C. Miller Memorial Lecture by Claudia Jarzebowski
Festsaal, University ...
04:15 PM - 06:00 PM
What did a life under the circumstances of enslavement and strong asymmetrical dependency do to children? What were the effects and how are they to be traced ...
Public narratives of history: Indigenous & Afro-Brazilian slavery
HYBRID event
01:00 PM
The institution of slavery lasted more than three centuries in Brazil, the last country to abolish black slavery in the Americas in 1888. This event aims to ...
International Conference
Bonner Universitätsforum ...
02:30 PM
Competing Memories: The Politics of Remembering Enslavement, Emancipation and Indentureship in the Caribbean
Socare Junior Conference 2022
Online via Zoom
03:00 PM
Whose knowledge is recognized, and what voices are heard within Caribbean studies? This conference focuses on how knowledge is produced, shared, and received, ...
International Conference: Social History of Capitalism
Online via Zoom
03:00 PM
The International Social History Association (ISHA), the Bonn Centre for Dependency
and Slavery Studies (BCDSS), and the Cluster of Excellence “Contestations ...
Conference on "Freedom and Liberation in Mediterranean Antiquity“
Wissenschaftszentrum ...
Whole Day
We invite you to join our international conference on "Freedom and Liberation in Mediterranean Antiquity", which aims to contribute to a closer analysis and ...
Conference: Transforming Spirit Bodies
Bonner Universitätsforum,...
02:00 PM
This conference focuses on the bodies and embodiments of spirits, their (im-)materialities, and the bodily transformations, which they may be ...
Annual Conference “Norms, Institutions & Practices of Dependency"
Hybrid event: online via ...
09:00 AM
Since 2018, the Bonn Center of Dependency and Slavery Studies (BCDSS) unites internationally renowned scholars researching historic forms of strong ...
New Perspectives on Cultural Heritage and German Global History
Bonn Center for ...
03:55 PM
Conference on July 6–8, 2022 at the Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies organized by Claudia Jarzebowski, BCDSS, and Pia Wiegmink, BCDSS, Susanne ...
Slavery in Africa: Past, Legacies and Present (SLAFCO)
University of Yaoundé ...
08:30 AM
The conference is intended to contribute to this assessment of knowledge about slavery in Africa and to take stock of the most recent significant scientific ...
Humboldt-Kolleg: Slavery, Freedom, Sustainability, and Pandemic
Hybrid event
09:00 AM
The conference "Humboldt-Kolleg: Slavery, Freedom, Sustainability, and Pandemicis" is organized by Roberto Hofmeister Pich and supported by the Alexander von ...
Artistic Communities and Patronage in Asia
Online via Zoom
11:30 AM
This international conference brings together specialist from different disciplines, focusing on a number of regions of Asia, such as India, Nepal, Tibet, the ...
In the Grip of the Supernatural
Online via Zoom
03:30 PM
The Conference is looking to explore the connection between the phenomenon of dependency and the realm of the supernatural (God, angels, demons) in late ...
Annual Conference "Embodied Dependencies"
Online via Zoom
Whole Day
The conference “Embodied Dependencies” of Research Area B intends to approach the material evidence of asymmetrical dependencies by examining “embodied ...