Thursday 19 November
9.30-10.00
Welcome and opening address
The Mayor of Cape Town, Alderman Dan Plato, introduced by David Richardson, University of Hull
10.00-12.00
Session 1: Historical memory and performance
Chair: Archie Dick, University of Pretoria
Wilma Cruise, Independent artist and writer and Gavin Younge, Michaelis School of Fine Art, Cape Town: 'Satan's Seat: The Cape Town Slave Memorial in Post-colonial Context
David Wilkins, University of Hull: 'Repairing historical wrongs in Africa: Whose history?
Gabeba Baderoon, Pennsylvania State University: 'The Two African Oceans: Memories of Slavery in Yvette Christianse's Castaway, Unconfessed and Imprendahora
Tunde Awosanmi, University of Ibadan: 'Slaveprints on Sand and Sea: Rewriting the slave-self in African drama
1.00-2.30:
Sesssion 2: Capital and labour
Chair: Sophie White, University of Notre Dame, Indiana
Kwabena Adu-Boahen, University of Cape Coast: 'West African slavery under European mercantile presence: the case of 16th-18th century Gold Coast
Anil Persaud, International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam: 'John Rippon and the Circuits of Cane: Capital, Knowledge and Labour at the turn of the 18th Century in the Indian Ocean
Bonnie Martin, Southern Methodist University: 'Mortgaging Slaves in North America and South Africa: Parallels in Funding Slavery and Slave Societies
3.00-4.30
Session 3: In the shadow of slavery
Chair: Chris Saunders, University of Cape Town
Bronwen Everill, King's College London: "The first requisite to the prosperity of the colony is the suppression of the slave trade": Reassessing the Impact of Sierra Leone and Liberia's Antislavery Activity
Sandy Shell, University of Cape Town: 'Prosopographies and profiles: the Oromo slave children in South Africa, 1888-2008
Alaine Hutson, Huston-Tillotson University: "Common Failings of Our Common Humanity": A Preliminary Exploration of Issues Common to Slavery in the Middle East and the Atlantic World
Friday 20 November
9.00-10.30
Session 4: Anti-slavery encounters
Chair: Patrick Harries, University of Basel
Mary Wills, University of Hull: Anti-slavery and the Royal Navy: encounters, experiences and beliefs
Lindsay Doulton, University of Hull: "The Flag that sets us free?" Anti-Slavery, Africans and the Royal Navy in the Western Indian Ocean, c. 1860-1890
Isabelle Denis, Université Paris Sorbonne: The Amélie and The Pocha: Two slave vessels and the French Navy (Martinique 1822 - Mayotte 1840)
11.00-12.30
Session 5: Patterns of trading
Chair: Filipa Ribeiro da Silva, University of Hull
Stacey Sommerdyk, University of Hull: Examining the Merchant Communities of the Loango Coast: The Eighteenth Century West Central African Voyages of the Middelburg Commercial Company
Carlos Liberato, York University, Toronto: The Slave Trade between the Indian Ocean and the Amazonia, 1778-1846: Volume, Routes and Organisation
Steven Serels, McGill University: Salt for Slaves; The Slave Trade at Rowayeh, the Sudan, 1880-1913
1.30-2.30
Session 6: Slavery and education
Chair: Wayne Alexander, Iziko Museums of Cape Town
Yvette Fox and Sue Holmes, East Riding of Yorkshire Council: The Pedagogy of Learning and Teaching Slavery Studies in Schools
Albert Jauze, Université de la Réunion: Education about slavery and the slave trade in Réunion Island
Saturday 21 November
9.30-10.30
Keynote: Nigel Worden, University of Cape Town: Changing Networks of Slave Resistance at the Cape: Bridging the Indian Ocean and Atlantic Worlds
Chair: Nicholas J. Evans, University of Hull
11.00-12.30
Conceptual frameworks
Chair: David Richardson, University of Hull
Gwyn Campbell, McGill University: Towards an Understanding of Twin Ocean Slavery
Nigel Penn, University of Cape Town: Slavery in the Cape Province
Judith Spicksley, University of Hull: Debt as a Framework for the Study of Slavery
1.30-3.00
Political economies and social structures
Chair: Judith Spicksley, University of Hull
David Richardson, University of Hull: The Demography of Slavery in Africa
Andrea Major, University of Leeds: Slavery and the Raj
Edward Alpers, University of California, Los Angeles: Patterns of Slave Trafficking, 1665-1831
3.30-5.00
Movements across oceans
Chair: Jaco Boshoff, Iziko Museums of Cape Town
Filipa Ribeiro da Silva, University of Hull: Free and forced migration in the Portuguese Atlantic, 1580s-1670s: Western Africa as a case-study
Richard Allen, Aapravasi Ghat Trust Fund, Mauritius: From Saint Helena to Sumatra: The British East India Company and Slave Trading in the Atlantic and Indian Oceans, 1621-1804
David Eltis and Jane Hooper, Emory University: The Indian Ocean in Transatlantic Slavery
Sunday 22 November
9.00-10.00
Keynote: Robert Shell, University of the Western Cape: From Diaspora to Diorama: UNESCO and the preservation of the legacies of twin ocean slavery
Chair: Joel Quirk, University of Hull
10.30-12.00
The diasporic legacies of slavery
Chair: Kate Hodgson, University of Hull
Shihan de Silva, Institute of Commonwealth Studies, London: Asia's Africans: Forgotten Communities
James Sweet, University of Wisconsin-Madison: The African Diaspora in the Atlantic World
Ehud Toledano, Tel-Aviv University: The emergence of African communities in the Ottoman Empire
1.00-2.30
Abolitionism and its aftermath
Chair: Lalou Meltzer, Iziko Museums of Cape Town
Kate Hodgson, University of Hull: Twin ocean travellers and late eighteenth century European abolitionism
John Oldfield, University of Southampton: Transatlanticism and Abolition
Nicholas J. Evans, University of Hull: The legacies of abolitionist discourse in the campaigns to abolish the White Slave Trade
3.00-4.30
Contemporary slavery and historical problems
Chair: Fiona Clayton, Iziko Museums of Cape Town
Mark Johnson, University of Hull: Beyond the Veil: Situating Migrant Labour in the Middle East
Deborah Posel, University of Witwatersrand: Apartheid in South Africa
Joel Quirk, University of Hull: Modern Slavery in Africa: Historical Legacies and Contemporary Problems
4.30-5.00
Closing address:
The Most Reverend Desmond M. Tutu, Anglican Archbishop Emeritus of Cape Town: Repairing Historical Wrongs
Chair: David Richardson, University of Hull