Activities3 December 2025|ActivitiesPresentation at the Dies Academicus, University of BonnPhoto: Christian MaderChristian Mader and Philip Atta Mensah presented "Sensing the Materiality of the Transatlantic Slave Trade: An Interdisciplinary and Collaborative...25 November 2025|ActivitiesCompletion of Philip Atta Mensah's Master's ThesisPhoto: Uni BonnPhilip Atta Mensah completed his Master's thesis "How the Slave Dungeons at Fort William in Anomabu, Ghana, Served as Tools of Subjugation and...3 July 2025|ActivitiesPresentation at the Workshop "Affective Dissonance as an Epistemic Ressource"Photo: FU BerlinJonas Bens presented the paper "An Affective Ethnography of Fort William, Anomabu" at the workshop "Affective Dissonance as an Epistemic Resource,"...18 June 2025|ActivitiesArchival Research at the National Archives, Kew (London)Photo: Arjunraj Shakeela NatarajanThe team—Jonas Bens, Christian Mader, Philip Atta Mensah, Bille Sachers, and Arjunraj Shakeela Natarajan—examined sources that shed light on the...1 February 2025|ActivitiesFieldwork in GhanaFrom January 31 to February 18, 2025, our team conducted fieldwork in Ghana to document the material and sensory traces of the transatlantic slave...Show all news
