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Past news

News

Publication: Slavery, memory and literature

Publication of vol. II of A Comparative Literary History of Modern Slavery

Publication: A Comparative Literary History of Modern Slavery – The Atlantic World and Beyond Volume I: Slavery, literature and the emotions

Vol. 1 of the Comparative Literary History of Modern Slavery, edited by Madeleine Dobie, Mads Anders Baggesgaard and Karen-Margrethe Simonsenhas just…

Publication of poetic dialogue

Publication of the poetic dialogue Hvor end havet skyller dig op - by postdoc Anne Green Munk and the Ghanaian author Gabriel Awuah Mainoo.

Hvor end…

Video montage from the Blind spots exhibition

Call for papers: Slavery, Authorship and Literary Culture

Call for papers for vol. 3 of Comparative Literary History of Modern Slavery

Call for Papers: Women, Enslavement, and Race

Special issue of Women's writing edited by Stephanie Montesinos Volder, deadline for abstracts Nov. 15, 2023

William Gmayi Nsuiban presenting the Blind Spots exhibition on Joy Prime

Erasmus+ intern - Katharina Wiesmayer

Katharina Wiesmayer will join the centre as an intern for the months of August and September. Katharina is a MA Student of Comparative Literature and…

Book release: Slavery and the Forensic Theatricality of Human Rights in the Spanish Empire

New book by Karen-Margrethe Simonsen just out with Palgrave Macmmillan.

Research trip to northern Ghana

The research team went on a weeklong collective research trip to northern Ghana

Visit at the Bisa Aberwa museum in Takoradi

The research team visited Bisa Aberwa museum in Takoradi where Prof. Kofi Anyidoho was interviewed by local media and The Mirror

Visiting professor

Sep. 2022 the centre will be welcoming prof. Biljana Oklopčić as a visiting scholar.

Research stay at Université Paris 8 - Saint-Denis

Anne Green Munk is participating in the work at the master in création littéraire at Université Paris 8 - Saint-Denis

CfP out for conference:

Authoring Human Rights in West Africa and beyond: Expressions of Slaveries in Literature (texts) and the Arts (visuals)

- University of Cape Coast,…

Research visit and seminar in Ghana

In Feb. 2022 the Danish researchers undertook their first joint research visit to Ghana and held a two day seminar in collaboration with the Ghanaian…

Book release: Emmanuel Saboro: Wounds of our Past: Remembering Captivity, Enslavement and Resistance in African Oral Narratives

New book out by project participant Emmanuel Saboro on Brill

Starting workshop of the research project Authoring Slavery

- Seminar

The centre were last week the proud hosts of three distinguished Ghanaian researchers: Prof. Emmanuel Saboro, University of Cape Coast, Prof. Helen…

Guest lecture by Mads Anders Baggesgaard at Wagner College

- Forelæsning / foredrag

Podcast w.Mads Anders Baggesgaard on legacies of slavery

- Presseklip

Bla bla podcast by Aarhus Studenterradio (in Danish)

Lire et narrer le post-esclavage

- Udgivelse

Special issue of the journal Esclavages & post~esclavages/Slaveries & Post~Slaveries edited by Mads Anders Baggesgaard and Lotte Pelckmans

Kolonialismens vedholdenhed/The persistence of colonialism

- Seminar

Lecture series in collaboration with Kunsthal Aarhus 2021-22

Comment by Mads Anders Baggesgaard in Berlingske on the lack of memorials of the Danish participation in the Transatlantic slave trade

- Presseklip

In Danish

Grant for new research project: Authoring slavery: Authorship and agency in narratives of slavery in Ghana

- Bevillinger

New collective research project in collaboration with colleagues from University of Ghana, Cape Coast University and National Museum of Ghana

First issue of new journal: Esclavages & Post-esclavages

- Udgivelse

The first issue of the new journal Esclavages & Post-esclavages/Slaveries & Post-slaveries with the title Citoyenneté & contre-citoyenneté/Citizenship…

Research grant for Mads Anders Baggesgaard

- Bevillinger

Mads Anders Baggesgaard has been granted a Carlsberg Foundation Monograph Fellowship for the book project The Freest Port? Slavery and Literature in…

Fellowships in Bonn - Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies (BCDSS)

- Navne

6 fellowships available at the Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies (BCDSS), deadline March 15.

Opening seminar: Images of present-day slavery

- Seminar

November 20, 2019, Aarhus University, Langelandsgade 141

CfP - The Virgin Islands in the Colonial Imaginary

- Konference

Call for papers for stream in conference - Deadline Dec. 1, 2019

Deadline for applications for Summerschool: April 1

- Kursus

The deadline for applying for our Summerschool: Reading Narratives of Slavery, Memory and Human Rights (August 1-10) is approaching.

Call for papers: Reading and Narrating Post-Slavery

- Udgivelse

Call for papers special issue journal Slavery & Post-slavery nr. 4, 2020. Deadline for proposals April 5, 2019.

Past events

Between dispossession and resistance

26 Feb
Thursday 26 February 2026, at 14:15 Kasernen, Langelandsgade 144, building 1586, room 114

Seminar on representations of slavery in 18th and 19th century texts

Representing slavery in Ghana

13 Oct
Sunday 13 October 2024, at 10:00 Godsbanen Vogn 1, Indgang 3H, Kjeld Tolstrups Gade 3, Aarhus.

The seminar deals with strategies and problems related to the contemporary representation of the Transatlantic slave trade in what is today Ghana. The…

Dialogue with Africa

12 Oct
744 days, Saturday 12 October 2024, at 10:00 -

Seminar in collaboration with Danish PEN

Ganbanaaxun Fedde - en filmvisning

20 Jun
Thursday 20 June 2024, at 18:00

Den tværnationale bevægelse Unification of Equality tager fat på slaveri baseret på afstamning i Mali, Senegal, Mauretanien og Gambia. Bevægelsens…

Cancelled: Literature and the slave trade - panel debate

19 Jun
Wednesday 19 June 2024, at 16:00

Panel debate with the participation of Peder Frederik Jensen, Helen Yitah, Kofi Anyidoho, Gabriel Awuah Mainoo.

Readings by Kofi Anyidoho and Gabriel…

Impacts of slavery in 19th century Europe

18 Jun
Tuesday 18 June 2024, at 13:00

Seminar

Dialog på tværs af kulturer — Gabriel Awuah Mainoo & Anne Green Munk

11 Jun
Tuesday 11 June 2024, at 18:30

Talk at Blixen Museet

Hør eksperterne — Karen Blixens og Ernest Hemingways Afrika med Anne Green Munk

6 Feb
Tuesday 6 February 2024, at 18:30

Talk by Anne Green Munk at Blixen Museet

Film premiere: 'Ganbanaaxun Fedde: a transnational anti-slavery movement’ (36min.)

8 Dec
Friday 8 December 2023, at 11:00 University of Copenhagen, South Campus, 21.0.54

By Lotte Pelckmans, discussant: Paolo Gaibazzi.

This movie links a transnational social movement that fights against legacies of internal African…

Dansk litteratur om Ghana og Afrika

26 Oct
Thursday 26 October 2023, at 11:15 Institut for Kultur og Kommunikation Langelandsgade 139 Bygning 1584, lokale 112, Indgang A

Åbent seminar

 

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