Prof. Rebekka v. Mallinckrodt
Thursday, 7th November 2013
14:00-14:30
Welcome and Introduction (Sabine Broeck and Rebekka v. Mallinckrodt)
14:30-17:40
Section I: Boarders, Travellers, and Traders
Respondents: Wolfgang Kaiser (Paris) and Rinaldo Walcott (Toronto)
14:30-14:55
Klaus Weber (Frankfurt/O.): „Central European Merchants, Commodities and Capital in the Atlantic Slave Trade, 1680s-1830s”
14:55-15:20
Dienke Hondius (Amsterdam): „Mapping and redefining slave-ownership: a new historical approach“
15:20-15:50
Questions, Feedback, and Discussions I
15:50-16:20
coffee break
16:20-16:45
Gunvor Simonsen (Copenhagen): „Making Visions of Africa: Frederic Svane and Christian Protten (two Africans) in Denmark and on the Gold Coast”
16:45-17:10
Louise Sebro (Copenhagen): „Trusted Servant or Slave. Different African Carribean Experiences in Copenhagen in the 1730s and 1740s”
17:10-17:40
Questions, Feedback, and Discussions II
19:00
dinner
Friday, 8th November 2013
9:30-16:20
Section II: Practices of Enslavement: Social Spaces and Relations, Respondents: Myriam Cottias (Paris) and Karen E. Fields (Independent Scholar)
09:30-09:55
Manja Quakatz (Bremen): „Are there even European types of slavery? Muslim-ottoman captives in the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation (in the 17th & 18th century)“
09:55-10:20
Maria Diederich (Münster): „Cassel’s „Mohren“: Slavery, Self-Emancipation and Voice“
10:20-10:50
Questions, Feedback, and Discussions I
10:50-11:20
coffee break
11:20-11:55
Walter Sauer (Vienna): „Beyond Angelo Soliman. Black Presence, Slavery and Emancipation in 18th Century Austria“
11:55-12:20
Joachim Östlund (Lund): „Black Slaves in Sweden during the 18th Century”
12:20-12:50
Questions, Feedback, and Discussions II
12:50-15:00
lunch
15:00-16:30
roundtable discussion: „Research on Slavery in 18th Century Europe – Institutions, Agendas, State of the Art and Future Research“ with Myriam Cottias (Paris), Klaus Weber (Frankfurt/O.), Kwame Nimako (Amsterdam), Sabine Broeck (Bremen) and Gunvor Simonsen (Copenhagen)
19:00
dinner
Saturday, 9th November 2013
9:30-15:50
Section III: Discourses on Slavery and Abolition
Respondents: Eve Rosenhaft (Liverpool) and Alan Rice (Central Lancashire)
09:30-09:55
Heike Raphael-Hernandez (Maryland): „Countess Dorothea v. Zinzendorf and Her Legal Perception of Afro-Moravians“
09:55-10:20
Rebekka v. Mallinckrodt (Bremen): „’That he has a right to freedom’ – 18th Century Prussian Slaves”
10:20-10:50
Questions, Feedback, and Discussions I
10:50-11:20
coffee break
11:20-11:55
Fredrik Thomasson (Uppsala): „Slavery in Sweden and its Caribbean colony: Debates, practices and silences around the year 1800“
11:55-12:20
Sabine Broeck (Bremen): „Slavery As Meta-Discourse for Emerging Bourgeois Entitlements”
12:20-12:50
Questions, Feedback, and Discussions II
12:50-14:30
lunch
14:30-14:55
Sarah Lentz (Bremen): „Laßt und alle (...) freundlich denen die Hand reichen, die es unternehmen, unsere leidenden afrikanischen Mitbürger von dem Elend zu erlösen“. German Abolitionists and the Abolitionist Movement in Europe and the U.S.A. 1770-1807
14:55-15:20
Kwame Nimako (Amsterdam): „The Politics and Economics of Dutch Legal Abolition”
15:20-15:50
Questions, Feedback, and Discussions III
15:50-16:30
Final discussion, plans, and publication
departure