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In November 2024, members of the ITSS team joined the Saxo Institute's Global Cluster for a writing retreat in Smidstrup.

IN THE SAME SEA Postdoc Heather Freund announces publication of an article in the Journal of British Studies.

On Thursday 7th November 2024, the ITSS team had an Open House, with music, snacks, rum punch, and a sneak peek at the development of our geodatabase.

Patrik Karlsson Nyed provides an insight into the development of a geodata platform for IN THE SAME SEA's database of over 7000 fugitives from slavery in the Lesser Antilles.

IN THE SAME SEA PI Gunvor Simonsen writes about the localization of Atlantic racism in Copenhagen in the eighteenth century and how racism shaped the lives of the Africans living in the city.

The team invites you to our office on Thursday 7th November 2024 for snacks, drinks, and a introduction to our database.

Felicia Fricke will present on a new network for ethically engaged archaeologists and other heritage professionals working in the Caribbean region.

Felicia Fricke will present her recent research on an early nineteenth century trading family. The lecture will take place at 5.30pm on Wednesday 21st August in Gustavia, St. Barths.

Rasmus Christensen will host a graduate seminar on trans-national histories of the Caribbean in spring 2025.

ITSS Postdoctoral Fellow Felicia Fricke will lecture on her research about a maritime family on St. Barths, Saturday 6th July at 8pm CEST.

ITSS PhD Fellow Rasmus Christensen co-authors an article in the Journal of Interdisciplinary History.

Gunvor Simonsen, Felicia Fricke, and Heather Freund attended the Association of Caribbean Historians (ACH) Conference in Santa Marta.

Rasmus Christensen is collaborating with PhD students from Charles University (Prague) and Ruprecht-Karls-University (Heidelberg) to organize a graduate workshop on AI in history.

ITSS team members have contributed to a new volume about the life of this West African missionary.

From 24th April to 6th May 2024, IN THE SAME SEA will be hosting historian Dr. Dexnell Peters (University of the West Indies) as a visiting professor in Copenhagen. Read more here!

Find out what attendees achieved at 'The Future of Ethics in Caribbean Archaeology' workshop between 11th and 14th March 2024.

ITSS has a new student assistant who brings us expertise in the Spanish language! Read about his role in the project here.

ITSS Postdoc and colleagues from Aarhus and Leiden are this week hosting an international hybrid workshop with 30 attendees.

A PhD student from the University of Heidelberg joins ITSS this month as a guest. We're excited to welcome her to the team!

Meet our new team member! She is interested in social movements and political history.

The Steering Committee invites abstracts of not more than 250 words by Friday 1st March 2024.

Felicia Fricke gave the keynote speech at this year's Reuvensdagen, the national archaeology conference of the Netherlands. Click to watch the recording.

We invite proposals for a special issue on the history of the eastern Caribbean as shaped by the dynamics of small islands, proximity, and resource scarcity.

IN THE SAME SEA invites paper proposals for a workshop to be held at the University of Copenhagen, 25th-26th April 2024.

ITSS PI Gunvor Simonsen has just published a chapter in the edited volume 'Cultural Heritage and Slavery: Perspectives from Europe' (DeGruyter, 2023).

ITSS PI Gunvor Simonsen and PhD Fellow Rasmus Christensen have published an article in the William and Mary Quarterly! Read more about it here.

The IN THE SAME SEA team has finished data entry for our runaway slave database! We started with an unnamed man jailed as runaway advertised in the Antigua Gazette from 1776, and ended with Sophie in the Journal…

Felicia Fricke will be giving this year's keynote speech at the national archaeology conference in the Netherlands on Thursday 16th November.

ITSS Phd Fellow Rasmus Christensen has co-authored an article about newly discovered Dutch Creole texts from the former Danish West Indies.

ITSS Phd Fellow Rasmus Christensen has published a Danish-language article in the journal Danske Magazin.

ITSS Postdoctoral Fellow Felicia Fricke has published an article in the New West Indian Guide. Click to access the article and the associated press release in NOW Grenada!

Gabriëlle La Croix and Rasmus Christensen will spend the autumn semester abroad as part of their PhD training.

On Thursday 11th May, ITSS will welcome Dr. Sharika Crawford (United States Naval Academy) for a guest lecture on the trade in turtle and fruit in the western Caribbean.

At the beginning of March 2023, ITSS Postdoctoral Fellow Felicia Fricke helped the GNM with the curation and analysis of human remains.

ITSS Postdoc Felicia Fricke has just published an opinion piece with colleague Rachel Hoerman (University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa).

This conference, co-organised by ITSS and the Caribbean Genealogy Library, was attended by over 100 people and facilitated discussions and connections between family historians and academics.

Register for an exciting conference on family, friends and institutions across the sea, to take place 23rd-25th February 2023 on St. Thomas (USVI) and online.

This month IN THE SAME SEA has a new intern! Tilde Olsen joins us until June to collect data on demography and trade routes in the Lesser Antilles.

Lucas Marin is a student assistant at IN THE SAME SEA. His research within the project will focus on marronage in the French archives.

On Sunday 4th December 2022, the GGHS hosted an online event where ITSS Postdoctoral Fellow Dr. Felicia Fricke discussed rumour, religion, and resistance on Grenada, 1829-1830.

IN THE SAME SEA and the Caribbean Genealogy Library are organising a conference, to take place on St. Thomas (USVI), 23rd-25th February 2023.

Dr. Rogers (Université des Antilles, Martinique) will be a visiting professor in Copenhagen during October 2022.

The lecture on 18th June 2022 is discussed in an article for The St. Thomas Source, entitled 'How the Enslaved Used Canoes to Escape'.

The Code was ratified in July by the Membership of the International Association for Caribbean Archaeology.

Rasmus Christensen is a PhD fellow at the IN THE SAME SEA project. His research centres on the managing of natural resources in the Lesser Antillean colonies that were characterized by overexploitation and limited…

Hannah Hjorth is an intern at In The Same Sea from February 2022 to June 2022. Hannah is a MA student in History at the University of Copenhagen, from where she also holds a BA in History. She has a special interest in…

Gabriëlle La Croix is a PhD fellow within the IN THE SAME SEA project. Her research within the project focuses on how slavery was maintained by the island elite across the various islands. She is particularly intereste…

Christian K. Hansen is a research assistant within the In The Same Sea project. He holds a bachelor and master degree in history from the University of Copenhagen. He is particularly interested in modern history,…

Felicia Fricke is a postdoctoral researcher within the IN THE SAME SEA project. Her research in the project focuses on trade between islands in the Lesser Antilles, particularly the exchange of resources such as wood,…

Heather Freund is a postdoctoral researcher with the In the Same Sea project. In the project, she focuses on Enslaved Movement. She is in charge of the maroon database, which tracks runaway events using colonial…

At the beginning of this academic year, IN THE SAME SEA welcomed Marie Keulen as an intern on the project. Marie is a research master's student from Leiden University enrolled in the Colonial and Global History…

Karina Turmann from Philipps-Universität Marburg is a new affiliated scholar in the IN THE SAME SEA project.

This month IN THE SAME SEA welcomed Ping Chang as new research assistant.

Today we have welcomed Johanne Buus Mosegaard as an intern on the research project IN THE SAME SEA.

Dr. Pernille Røge from University of Pittsburgh is new affiliated scholar in the IN THE SAME SEA project.