Congratulations to Eleonora Poggio, whose co-authored article won the 'International Publications Award' offerred by the University of the Philippines!
Tremml-Werner, B., Poggio, E and Lopez, A. “Revisiting the Treaty Between Spain and Sulu, 1836/37”, Diplomatica, Brill. doi.org/10.1163/2589...
We had a lively seminar yesterday with Nina Gren from Lund University, sharing her research on borderization and its social effects on families in Palestine, Georgia and Western Sahara. Thank you, Nina!
Abstract This essay focuses on the Sulu-Mindanao-Borneo region in the 1830s and zooms in on the Capitulaciones (Spanish) and the Kapiturasyun (Tausug) of a treaty concluded between the Spanish Crown a...
New book alert!
Concurrences member Janne Lahti has published a new monograph, Kolonialismin muokkaama maailma: Euroopan ekspansion globaalihistoriaa (World Shaped by Colonialism: Global History of European expansion) together w/ Johanna Skurnik.
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Next week!
Armed & Bureaucratic Violence: Forms of British imperial conquest in Southeast Asian Contested Tracts, a seminar w/ Gunnel Cederlöf
Thursday, 21 May 2026
14.15-16.00, Dacke & zoom
If you wish to attend remotely, please register ahead of time at the link below -
lnu.se/en/meet-linn...
Next week! Our final seminar of the spring with Professor Julia Borst from the University of Bremen -
Black Europe Online: Digital Echoes of Afro-European Self-Narrations
When: 4 June 2026, 14:15-16:00
Where: Dacke & Zoom
More info & register to attend on zoom:
lnu.se/en/meet-linn...
They also recently published an article in the Asia-Pacific Economic History Review:
Poggio E., Lopez, A., and Tremml-Werner, B. "Commercial Treaties and Political Transformations in Sulu and Southeast Asian Littorals, c. 1830-1840”:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1...
Check out the seminar organized by the Cluster for Colonial Connections and Comparisons next week!
Smoke in the Eye – Rupture in the Colonial Archive (2020) with artist Munish Wadhia + “From Imperial Markets to Postcolonial Networks”
19 March
13:15-15:00, Dacke & zoom
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Next week in the Concurrences Seminar Series!
Occupied Intimacies: Borderization in Palestine, Georgia and Western Sahara with Dr Nina Gren (Lund University)
Thursday, 16 Apr 2026
14.15-16.00
Campus Växjö, Building F, Dacke
Register on zoom 👇
lnu.se/en/meet-linn...
#AcademicSky
Rebecca Duncan has published The Cambridge Companion to World-Gothic Literature, ✍️ Rebekah Cumpsty
Monsters have always swarmed around the frontiers of colonialism & capitalism, from Europe's invasion & occupation of the Americas to the planetary emergency of the present...
doi.org/10.1017/9781...
We are a proud sponsor of @nordicarchtag.bsky.social
2026 which took place in Kalmar over the last week! Nearly 200 delegates came to the biennial meeting, organised around the theme of ‘Activate Archaeology for Just Futures’.
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Welcome to the LNUC Concurrences Seminar Series in Colonial and Postcolonial Studies and the Annual Lecture of the Cluster for Colonial Connections and Comparisons!
