Euthenia Fellowship 2024/2025
Call for Applications
Bonn-Yale-Anton-Wilhelm-Amo-Fellowship 2024/2025
Call for Applications
Thematic focus of 2023/24
On Gender and Intersectionality
BCDSS Heinz Heinen Fellowships 2024/2025
Euthenia Fellowship 2024/2025
Bonn-Yale-Anton-Wilhelm-Amo-Fellowship 2024/2025
Thematic focus of 2023/24
BCDSS Heinz Heinen Fellowships 2024/2025

Welcome to the Cluster of Excellence at the 
Bonn Center for Dependency & Slavery Studies 

"Beyond Slavery and Freedom:
Asymmetrical Dependencies in Pre-Modern Societies" 

We are a research cluster within the framework of the Excellence Strategy of the German federal and state governments.

We investigate profound social dependencies such as slavery, serfdom, debt bondage, and other forms of permanent dependency across epochs, regions and cultures. 

Our focus lies "beyond slavery and freedom", i.e. we aim to overcome the binary opposition of "free" and "unfree".

Instead, we propose the new key concept of "asymmetrical dependency" to explore all forms of bondages across time and space.  


Reading & Discussion with Anne Haeming

Video out now! 
The Life of Wilhelm Joest

Watch our short clip about the reading and discussion with Anne Haeming as part of our (UN)ABHÄNGIGE ANSICHTEN series from 15 February 2024.

Anne Haeming was queried on the challenges of writing about an imperial actor like Wilhelm Joest from today's perspective.


News
Stellenangebot / Job Offer: SHK/WHF

Für die Zusammenarbeit mit dem Internationaal Instituut voor Sociale Geschiedenis (IISG) suchen wir zum nächstmöglichen Zeitpunkt und für ca. 19 Stunden die Woche eine studentische (SHK, im BA Studium) oder wissenschaftliche Hilfskraft (WHF, im MA Studium) (m/w/d).

For our cooperation with the Internationaal Instituut voor Sociale Geschiedenis (IISG) we are looking for a student assistant (SHK, in the BA programme) or research assistant (WHF, in the MA programme) (m/f/d) for approx. 19 hours per week as soon as possible.

International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade

25 March marks the International Slavery and Transatlantic Slave Trade Remembrance Day.

Talking History: Ethnographic Interviews, Intersectional Identities, and Power Negotiations in Research Encounters

Sinah Kloß's latest contribution to "Un-Mapping the Global South" is out.

Joseph C. Miller Memorial Lectures - Spring 2024

We regularly invite renowned international scholars from across the world to present their ongoing research related to asymmetrical dependency and slavery. In return we offer the possibility to publish a revised version of their lectures as part of our Joseph C. Miller Memorial Lecture Publications.

See what's coming up between April and June 2024!

Call for Papers

The BCDSS is accepting papers for the two international conferences that will take place at the Departamento de Historia de la Universidad de La Habana on September 12–13 and Universidad de Cienfuegos on September 20-21, 2024.

SOCARE Keynote Steeve O. Buckridge

We're delighted that Professor Steeve Buckridge (Grand Valley State University, MI) will give the keynote lecture as part of the SOCARE EARLY-CAREER SYMPOSIUM 2024: (Im)materiality, new archives and the Caribbean 

Call for Applications

The Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies calls for applications for the Euthenia Fellowship Program.

Exhibition 'Counter Thoughts, Counter Images' by Cheryl McIntosh

Don't miss the upcoming exhibition Counter Thoughts, Counter Images by Cheryl McIntosh, a Jamaican-born artist living in Bonn! The exhibition is the result of the 'Active Remembrance Culture' project, which aims to highlight themes of colonialism, racism, resistance, and recognition, particularly in Bonn's history.


Events
Joseph C. Miller Memorial Lecture by Stephanie Jones-Rogers
Online via Zoom
06:15 PM - 07:45 PM
What was the crucial and yet overlooked role that British women played in the Atlantic slave trade? While much focus has been on English men involved in the ...
Joseph C. Miller Memorial Lecture by Nazan Maksudyan
Hybrid Event: On-site in ...
04:15 PM - 06:00 PM
How did the life and work of Johannes Manissadjian, a successful scientist during the Armenian genocide, contribute to understanding the disappearance and ...
Joseph C. Miller Memorial Lecture by Pernilla Myrne
Hybrid Event: On-site in ...
04:15 PM - 05:45 PM
How did Islamic law change the status of slave mothers and their children? While granting certain protections, such as freedom upon the owner's death and ...
Joseph C. Miller Memorial Lecture by Julia A.B. Hegewald
Hybrid Event: On-site in ...
04:15 PM - 05:45 PM
How did Jainism rise and decline in Karnataka? Originating in East India in the sixth century BCE, Jainism reached Karnataka by the second century CE. By the ...
Joseph C. Miller Memorial Lecture by Margaret R. Hunt
Hybrid Event: On-site in ...
04:15 PM - 06:00 PM
How did an alleged sodomy case in 1648 on an English East India Company ship shape social dynamics and attitudes towards homosexuality? Examining the events ...
Joseph C. Miller Memorial Lecture by Eva Seemann
Hybrid Event: On-site in ...
04:15 PM - 06:00 PM
How did court dwarfs navigate their unique social status in early modern German courts? Despite being perceived as privileged dependents, they served various ...
Conference: Autorität und Soft Power im Judentum und Christentum
Arbeitnehmer-Zentrum ...
06:00 PM
Machtausübung geschieht in Judentum und Christentum auf vielfältige Weise, ohne dass dabei auf rohe Gewalt zurückgegriffen wird. Über Jahrhunderte hinweg haben ...
Joseph C. Miller Memorial Lecture by Sophie White
Hybrid Event: On-site in ...
04:15 PM - 06:00 PM
How does a new digital humanities project, born from research on the voices of the enslaved in the French Atlantic world, offer insight? Set to launch in ...

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