Preliminary Program
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8:30 – 8:45 registrations
8:45 - launch by Prof. Howard Morphy
Session 1: Connecting Histories
9: 00 – 11:30
Chair: Laurence Brown
Comparisons
in Slavery: Dynamics of Labor and Culture
keynote address by Patrick Manning, Northeastern University,
Boston
Historical
representation and recording of child slaves on the Sugar plantations
of the British West Indies
Jerome Teelucksingh, Univ. of West Indies, Trinidad
Slavery
on the Australian Frontier
Invited Speaker Peter Read, ANU
Like poor galley
slaves': convict transportation and the slavery question
Hamish Maxwell-Stewart, UTAS
Slave
Traders, Abolitionists, and Convict Transportation
Emma Christopher, Monash Univ.
11:30 – 11:45 morning tea
Session 2: Visual Legacies of Slavery
11:45 – 1:15
Chair: Betty Churcher
Images
of Slavery in Post-Emancipation Society: Martinique’s
Statue to the Empress Josephine
Lawrence Brown, ANU
Souls,
settlers and saints: the contested enterprise of plantation
landscape in the Spice Islands
Phillip Winn, ANU
Legacies of the Amistad
Maria Suzette Fernandes-Dias, ANU
1:10 – 2:10 lunch
Session 3: Slavery Discourses and Text
2:15 - 4:35
Chair: Maria Suzette Fernandes Dias
White and Deadly : Colonialism, Sugar
and Slavery
Keynote address, Prof. Bill Ashcroft, UNSW
Making
History during the Harlem Renaissance
Clare Corbould, Univ. of Sydney
Aphra
Behn: Slavery Abolitionist or Sympathist
Elizabeth Landford,
3:45 – 4:05 afternoon tea
Legacies
of subordination: wife capture in Sama tales of the past
Jennifer Gaynor, ANU
4:50 Closing Comments followed by drinks
