Thursday July 12

19.00 hours: Opening of the Colloquium

Friday July 13

10.00 hours:
Introductory Words:
Dale Tomich (Binghamton University, USA)
Michael Zeuske (University of Cologne, Germany)

11.00-12.00:
Catherine Coquery-Vidrovitch (University Paris Diderot Paris7, France):
“African slaves and Atlantic metissage. A periodization 1400-1880”

12.00-13.00:
Robin Blackburn (University of Essex, UK)
“Profitable but Challenged: the Economics and Morality of the New World Slave Systems”

13.00-15.00: Break

15.00-16.00:
Dale Tomich (Binghamton University, USA):
“Commodity Frontiers and the Crisis of Colonial Slavery 1783-1866”.

16.00-17.00:
Enrico Dallago (National University of Ireland, Galway):
“The End of the 'Second Slavery' in the Confederate South and the 'Great Brigandage' in Southern Italy: Some Comparative Suggestions”.

17.30-18.30:
Presentation of the film: “Caribbean Journey: Conversations with Sidney Mintz” opening remarks by Dale Tomich

Saturday July 14

10.00-11.00:
Rafael de Bivar Marquese (Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil):
“Capitalism, Slavery, and the Brazilian Coffee Economy in the Long Nineteenth Century (“Capitalismo, escravidão e economia cafeeira do Brasil no longo século XIX”)”.

11.00-12.00:
Reinaldo Funes (Fundación Antonio Núñez Jiménez, Cuba):
“Cuba, 19th Century”.

12.00-13.00:
Luiza Franco Moreira (Binghamton University, USA):
“The aftermath of abolition: Distortions of the Historical Record in Machado de Assis: "Counselor Aires' Memorial””.

13.00-15.00 Break

15.00-16.00:
Wazir Mohamed (Indiana University East, USA):
“Peasant or Proletarian: Emancipation and the struggle for Freedom in British Guiana in the shadow of the Second Slavery”.

16.00-17.00:
Christian Cwik (University of Cologne, Germany):
“The end of the British Atlantic slave trade or the beginning of the big slave robbery, 1808-1850”.

17.00 hours:
Michael Zeuske (University of Cologne, Germany): “Conclusion: 2nd Slaveries and Atlantization”.

17.30 Closing