Friday, April 20
5.00pm Welcome address
5.30pm Keynote address
Catherine Hall (London): British stakeholders in slavery and post-abolition compensation
Saturday, April 21
9.00am
Felix Brahm (Bielefeld) & Eve Rosenhaft (Liverpool): Introductory comments
9.30am – 11.15am Material hinterlands of the slave trade in continental Europe - Part I
Chair: TBC
Klaus Weber (Frankfurt a.d.O.): ‘All the Negroes cloathed with German Linen’: Central European Implications with the Atlantic Slave Trade, 15th-19th Centuries
Allan Potofsky (Paris-Diderot): Paris as Atlantic Hinterland, from the Ancien Régime to the French Revolution
Alexandra Robinson (Liverpool): A Case Study of the Earle Family’s Leghorn Business 1751 -1808
11.30am – 1.15pm Material hinterlands of the slave trade in continental Europe – Part II
Chair TBC
Craig Koslofsky (Urbana): A German Diary of a Slaving Journey in the 1690s
Peter Haenger (Basel): Basel and the slave trade: from profiteers to missionaries
Anne-Sophie Overkamp (Frankfurt a.d.O): The German backcountry and the Atlantic exchange: The participation of textile merchants from the Wupper valley in the Atlantic trade, 1760-1810
2.15pm – 4.00pm Moral hinterlands of the slave trade in continental Europe
Chair: TBC
Dan Hopkins (Kansas City): Julius von Rohr, an Enlightenment scientist of the plantation Atlantic
Jochen Meissner (Berlin): Southern European and Latin American Responses to British Abolitionism
Kwame Nimako (Amsterdam): The Peace of Westphalia, Slavery and the Berlin Conference: A Continuum
Sunday, April 22
10.00am – 11.30am European hinterlands of the slave business and contemporary memory cultures
Chair: Alan Rice (Preston)
Sabine Broeck (Bremen): Bremen and the slave business: Notes on a Hermeneutics of Absence, and a Pedagogy of the Trace
Barbara Richiger - Cooperaxion (Bern): A Swiss database of slave-trade stakeholders
Jokinen (Hamburg): The Slave Trader Heinrich Carl Schimmelmann and Cultures of Remembrance in Wandsbek: Vestiges, Myths and Protests
projection posthum: Heaven above Wandsbek – Guinea – St. Croix (installation)
11.45am – 12.30pm Closing discussion