Rebekka v. Mallinckrodt
Thursday, June 15th 2017
09:30-10:00 Welcome and Introduction (Rebekka v. Mallinckrodt)
Section 1: Netherlands
Chair & Comment: Josef Köstlbauer (University of Bremen)
10:00-10:45 Mark Ponte (Amsterdam City Archives): Negotiating Freedom. Free and Enslaved Africans in Seventeenth Century Amsterdam
10:45-11:15 coffee break
11:15-12:00 Julia Holzmann (University of Bremen): Conflicts and Relations Between Slavery, Dependency, Poverty and Coerced Labor in 18th Century Amsterdam – The Case “Christina from India”
12:00-12:45 Michel R. Doortmont (University Groningen & Leiden University)/ Annemieke van der Vegt (independent researcher): Understanding African Identity in the Eighteenth-Century Netherlands: Between a Boy Servant at the Court of Orange-Nassau and a Lord of the Manor in the Province of Groningen
13:00-14:30 lunch break
Section 2: Italy & Sweden
Chair & Comment: Juliane Schiel (University of Zurich)
14:30-15:15 Giulia Bonazza (European University Institute Florence): Different Forms of Bondage in the Mediterranean: the Italian Case (1750-1850)
15:15-16:00 Joachim Östlund (Lund University): The Legal and Social Status of Persons of African Descent in Eighteenth Century Sweden
16:00-16:30 coffee break
16:30-17:30 keynote lecture: Wolfgang Kaiser (Paris 1/ EHESS): Fragile Lives. Risk and Uncertainty in the Early Modern Mediterranean
Friday, June 16th 2017
Section 3: Denmark/ Norway
Chair & Comment: Juliane Schiel (University of Zurich)
09:30-10:15 Gunvor Simonsen (University of Copenhagen): Slavery and Race in Copenhagen in the Eighteenth Century
10:15-11:00 Hanne Østhus (independent researcher): Slaves and Servants. Domestics Transported from the Colonies to Denmark-Norway in the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries
11:00-11:30 coffee break
11:30-12:15 Johan Heinsen (Aalborg University): The Meaning of Slavery in Early Modern Denmark-Norway [interrelations Between Penal Work and Slavery]
12:30-14:00 lunch break
Section 4: Spain
Chair & Comment: Christian De Vito (University of Leicester/ University of Utrecht)
14:00-14:45 Aurelia Martín-Casares (University of Granada): Juan Latino: The First Afro-European Humanist from Slave Origin
14:45-15:30 Rocío Periañez (University of Extremadura)/ Marie-Christine Delaigue (University of Granada): Slaves Before the Courts in Early Modern Spain: the Case of Extremadura
15:30-16:00 coffee break
16:00-16:45 Arturo Morgado (University of Cadiz): Freedmen at Early Modern Spain: Ways of Liberation and Social Integration?
Saturday, June 17th 2017
Section 5: Holy Roman Empire & Great Britain
Chair & Comment: Eve Rosenhaft (University of Liverpool)
09:30-10:15 Arne Spohr (Bowling Green State University): Free Through Membership in the Imperial Trumpeters’ Guild? On the Legal and Social Position of Black Court Trumpeters in the Holy Roman Empire
10:15-11:00 Rebekka v. Mallinckrodt (University of Bremen): Interrelations Between Slavery and Serfdom – German Legal Case Studies
11:00-11:30 coffee break
11:30-12:15 Kathleen Chater (independent researcher): Conditions of Service in Britain in the Long Eighteenth Century
12:30-14:00 lunch break
Section 6: France
Chair & Comment: Josef Köstlbauer (University of Bremen)
14:00-14:45 Sue Peabody (Washington State University Vancouver): Barriers to Accessing France’s Sol Libre in Early Modern France
15:00-16:00 keynote lecture: Myriam Cottias (Directrice de recherche au CNRS/ Senior Researcher, National Center for Scientific Research): Agency and Subjectivity of the Enslaved in the Atlantic
16:00-16:15 coffee break
16:15-16:45 final discussion, publication plans, deadlines etc.
If you want to attend the conference, please contact Dr. Stefanie Walther (swalther@uni-bremen.de) until June 10th, 2017 at the latest. Conference fee: 30,- € (including coffee, tea, cold beverages etc.) or 90,- € (including 3 x lunch).