An International Conference: Enslavement, Identity and Cross-Cultural Exchange

24th - 26th January 2012

This conference concludes a four-year long EU-funded research project, which explores how historical patterns of enslavement have reshaped relationships between peoples in Africa, Europe and the Americas. Attendees will speak to one or more of the following themes:

 

*       Enslavement as a process of cross-cultural exchange.

 

*       Slavery, anti-slavery, and the boundaries of 'Self' and 'Other'.

 

*       Legal theories and practical realities.  

 

*       Moving beyond the Atlantic World.

 

*       The history and mythology of 'benign slavery'.

 

*       Anti-slavery, national 'honour' and the 'civilizing mission'.

 

*       Forgetting slavery, remembering abolition.

 

*       Museums, monuments and other national representations of slavery and abolition.

 

*       Teaching slavery and abolition in national curricula.

Further details about the Wilberforce Institute may be found at www.hull.ac.uk/wise and EURESCL at http://www.eurescl.eu/.