Concurrences in Colonial and Postcolonial Studies

Congratulations to Concurrences researcher 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. https://doi.org/10.1163/25891774-bja10127

The same authors 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”, Asia-Pacific Economic History Review, Wiley, 2026.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/aehr.70030

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:

Black Europe Online: Digital Echoes of Afro-European Self-Narrations Welcome to the LNUC Concurrences Seminar Series in Colonial and Postcolonial Studies!

Next week!

Armed and Bureaucratic Violence: Forms of British imperial conquest in Southeast Asian Contested Tracts, a seminar with Gunnel Cederlöf, Professor of History at Linnéuniversitetet

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 -

https://lnu.se/en/meet-linnaeus-university/current/events/2026/lnuc-concurrences-event-13222/

We are a proud sponsor of Nordic Theoretical Archaeology Group (Nordic TAG) 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’.

With contributions by the Cultural University, an excursion to the Glass Factory in the heart of Småland, a rousing keynote by Yannis Hamilakis, and a keynote roundtable with archaeologists Eva Mol, Anna Wessman, Aris Politopoulos and Artur Ribeiro, it was an inspiring and memorable week.

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!

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

In this presentation, Dr Gren explores and compares three different cases of military occupation, the Israeli occupation of Palestine, the Moroccan occupation of Western Sahara, and the Russian Occupation of Georgian South Ossetia. Building on ethnographic fieldworks carried out in 2022 and 2023, they show that these contemporary military occupations manifest themselves as evolving processes of dominance which extend beyond direct military force and violence and into the intimate social relationships of their subjects. Control is exercised through multiple acts of “borderization”, which causes separation and rupture by placing people on different sides of physical and bureaucratic borders. This, they demonstrate, effectively disrupts occupied people’s ability to do family.

Please visit the link below for more information and how to attend via zoom

Occupied Intimacies: Borderization in Palestine, Georgia and Western Sahara Welcome to the LNUC Concurrences Seminar Series in Colonial and Postcolonial Studies!