Amsterdam’s cultural and historical institutions play a crucial role in addressing the Netherlands’ colonial past. They provide thoughtful insights into issues of slavery and dependency and their lasting effects on the Dutch and formerly colonized so...
The International Workshop on Dependency Theory and Intersectionality, which took place on October 24th and 25th, 2024, was a first-of-its-kind event at the BCDSS. The workshop was last year’s Research Area E (Gender and Intersectionality) thematic y...
“Whose prayers did God hear?” A fellow historian of Christianity posed this question to me on a hot but breezy day in Cape Coast, Ghana. We were leaning against the white-washed walls of Cape Coast Castle, a UNESCO World Heritage site, and looking ac...
In 2022, I spent three months in Ibadan, a city in southwestern Nigeria, as part of my research into the memorialization of slavery among people known today as the Yorùbá. When I left Germany in April of that year, I intended to research the dependen...
When I set out to Canada last summer to participate in a bioarchaeological excavation led by Dr. Amy Scott from the University of New Brunswick, I was prepared to learn about groundbreaking archaeological methods and innovative, ethical approaches. I...
The 2023 BCDSS Annual Conference on Households as Coercive Labour Regimes gathered scholars at various stages of their careers at the International Institute of Social History (IISH) in Amsterdam, Netherlands, on 2-3. November 2023. BCDSS Speaker Pro...
“As an Australian who has received most of my academic training in Germany, the Child Slaveries in the Early Modern World project has been a fortuitous opportunity to reconnect with and learn anew the Australian research landscape. I have appreciated...
“Through the quietness of these walls, the echoes of shared histories beckon us to remember, reflect, and rewrite a future free from the shadows of the past.” (Adiam Tadele Abadi) Cameron Rowland is an outstanding contemporary artist who actively wo...
