Book Launch and Discussion

We extend an invitation to Prof. Dr. Christoph Witzenrath# cluster professor at the Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies, to deliver a presentation on his latest publication and engage in a discussion with Prof. Dr. Martin Aust regarding the book's content.

The De Gruyter book series of the Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies holds publications that examine different phenomena of slavery and other forms of strong asymmetrical dependencies in societies. The series follows the BCDSS research agenda in going beyond the dichotomy of slavery versus freedom. It proposes a new key concept, strong asymmetrical dependency, which covers all forms of bondage across time and space. This includes debt bondage, convict labor, tributary labor, servitude, serfdom, and domestic work, as well as forms of wage labor and various types of patronage.