23 August
Arrival of participants
6pm: Keynote by Willem Klooster (Clark University)
7:30pm Reception
24 August
9am
Bengin Eser Öztürk (Bilkent University): The Ancient Seat of Liberty: Ottoman Travel Records of Samuel Howe and the Nineteenth-Century American Abolitionism as a Reaction to Western Philhellenism
Tutor: Trevor Burnard (Hull)
10:30am
Adrià Enriquez Alvaro (EUI, Florence): The Land of Gallinas and Sierra Leone. Freedom, Unfreedom and Abolitionism
Tutor: Suzanne Schwartz (Worcester)
12:30pm
Lunch
2pm
Felipe Souza (EUI, Florence): The Brazilian Raw Cotton Trade: Merchants and Mercantile Strategies During the Industrial Revolution
Tutor: Pedro Cardim (Lisbon)
3:30pm
Eva Brooks Landsberg (Yale): An Essential Ingredient in Revolution: The Politics of Molasses in the 18th-Century British Atlantic
Tutor: Willem Klooster (Clark University)
5pm
Jose Maria Alvarez Hernandez (King’s College, London): Black African Political Thought and its Impact on British and Spanish Imperial Foreign Policy (1725-1743)
Tutor: Trevor Burnard (Hull)
Free roaming
25 August
10am
Keith Richards (Tulane): “Provean de Ropa y Saquean sus Frutos": Illicit Commerce in Eastern Cuba
Tutor: Lauric Henneton (Versailles-Saint Quentin)
11:30am
Gabriëlle La Croix (Copenhagen): The Heyliger Family on the Leeward Islands and the Maintenance of the System of Slavery (1660–1830)
Tutor: Susanne Lachenicht (Bayreuth)
1pm
Lunch
Excursion: Hull
26 August
9am
Teresa Göltl (Heidelberg): Slavery and the Law -Trials of Enslavers in the Former French Colonies of Martinique and Guadeloupe (1828–1848)
Tutor: Sophie White (Notre Dame)
10:30am
Morgane Honoré (EHESS): Urban Confrontations in 19th Century Colonial and Slave Societies (Martinique, Guadeloupe)
Tutor: Leslie Choquette (Assumption College)
12:30pm Lunch
Departure