Thursday 12th September 2024

11:00-11:30: Welcome from Susan Broomhall (Australian Catholic University) and Claudia Jarzebowski (BCDSS)

11:30-13:00: Panel 1: Children, Labour, and Mobility
“Circulation of Children and Dependency(ies) in Early Modern Madrid: Household Strategies, Labour and Poor Relief (1600-1800)” – Jesús Agua de la Roza (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid)
“Chinese Manila’s Beautiful Catamites: Spanish Officials, Sexual Slavery, and the Tóng 童 / Desbarbados of Manila, 1571-1766” – Adrian Masters (Universität Trier)
“Child Acrobats in Late Ottoman Istanbul: A Study of English Boys” – Bahar Bayraktaroğlu (BCDSS)

13:00-14:00: Lunch break

14:00-15:30: Panel 2: Circulations and Imaginations
“Race, Infantilisation and Gender: An Intersectional Re-Assessment of 18th-Century Porcelain”– Amber Burbidge (European University Institute Firenze)
“Children of the Manila Galleon: Exploring their Roles and Experiences in the Transpacific Trade” – Bulkhia Panalondong (Central Mindanao University)
“Britain’s First Embassy to China through the Eyes of an Enslaved Youth Called Benjamin” – Jessica Hanser (Copenhagen University)

15:30-15:45: Coffee break

15:45-17:30: Panel 3: The Trade and Trafficking of Enslaved Children
“Coerced Mobilities of Children in the South-West Indian Ocean During the 17th and 18th Centuries” – Michael Reidy (Australian Catholic University)
“Childhood under Slavery: Undergoing and Contesting the Operationalization of Childhood as a Factor for Enslaveability in the Dutch Colonial Empire throughout the 18th Century” – Britt van Duijvenvoorde (International Institute of Social History)
“Enslaved Children in the Arab-Muslim Slave Trade: An Undefined Genocide” – Sylvain Mbohou & Antonio Evaldo Almeida Barros (Universidade Estadual do Maranhão)

18:00: Keynote Address 1: Ann Laura Stoler (New School for Social Research): “Childhood Senses of Resentment, Humiliation, Indignation: On the Making of Political Rage”.

Friday 13th September 2024

9:30-11:00: Panel 4: Child-Authored Narratives
“Leaving a Trace: The Poor Child’s Experience in 18th-Century Malta” – Rakele Fiott (University of Malta)
“Violence in Early Modern English Apprenticeships: Some Causes and Consequences of Coercion” – Hillary Taylor (University of Padua)
“‘Humbly Prays Your Worship to Discharge Him from the Indentures’: Children’s Frustration and Complaint under Apprenticeship in 18th-Century Baltimore” – Young In Jang (Binghamton University SUNY)

11:15-13:00: Panel 5: Apprenticeships and Education
“Children and Learning a Craft in the Region of Zacatecas and Aguascalientes during the 17th and 18th Centuries” – Luis Benedicto Juárez Luévano (Universität Hamburg)
“Negotiating Discipline in Schooling and Education, 1670-1830” – Michael Rocher (Universität Siegen)
“From Conversion to Education: The State of Filipino Children during the Advent of Spanish Colonialism” – Roland Abinal Macawili (De La Salle University) & Reginald Reginaldo (University of the Philippines)

13:00-13:45: Lunch break

13:45-14:45: Keynote Address 2: Bianca Premo (Florida International University): “The Ethics of Writing Latin American Children’s History from Spanish Colonialism to the Internet”.

14:45-15:00: Coffee break

15:00-16:30: Panel 6: Disease and Crisis
“George and Patience: The Value of Sick Enslaved Children in Early Modern Bridgetown” – Amalia S. Levi (BCDSS)
“Children in Crisis: Responses to Epidemics in Early 18th-Century Massachusetts” – Diana Wagner (Universität Stuttgart)
“Care or Collateral? Famine, Desperation, and Sale of Aztec Children in Postclassic Tenochtitlan” – Rosamund E Fitzmaurice (University College London)

17:00-18:30: Panel 7: Creolization and Household Formations
“New Family Formations: Enslaved Children’s Experiences in a Comparative Framework” – Eva Marie Lehner (BCDSS) and Fırat Yaşa (Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University)
“The Desired Offspring! Children of Slave Mothers in the 15th-Century Western Mediterranean” – Corinna Peres (Universität Wien)

18:30-19:00: Coffee break

19:00-20:00: Keynote Address 3: Johanna S. Ransmeier (University of Chicago): “Reliable Narrators: Tracing the Perspective of Children in History”.

Saturday 14th September 2024

10:30-12:00: Panel 8: Relationships and Separation
“‘From Today Onwards There Will Be No More Sharing of Gypsy Children’: A Legislative Attempt to Alter the Condition of Children of Slaves with Different Owners in Moldavia, 1766-1785” – Cristina Mocanu (University of Iasi)
“‘The Woman’s Seed’: Family Separation as Abolitionist Trope and the Feminist Reaction to Social Contract Theory” – Ariane Fichtl (University of St. Andrews)
“Like Mother, Like Daughter: Visualizing Mother-Daughter Mirroring at the Toilette, 18th-century France” – Danielle Sensabaugh (University of Florida)

12:15-13:45: Panel 9: Orphans, Guardianship, and Legal Processes
“Why did Russians Buy Children? Child Trafficking in 17th-century Eastern Siberia” –Angelina Kalashnikova (Christian-Albrechts-Universität Kiel)
“Entgen Lennartz – A Slave to the Devil? The Witchcraft Process Against an Orphan in 17th-Century Cologne” – Claudia Opitz-Belakhal (Universität Basel)

13:45-14:45: Lunch break

14:45-16:15: Early Career Researcher Roundtable – Joseph Biggerstaff, Lisa Phongsavath (BCDSS), Jessica O'Leary (Monash University), and Kristie Flannery (Australian Catholic University)