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2010 Schedule

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 29

8:30 - 9:00 a.m. Coffee and Registration
9:00 - 9:15 a.m. Welcome Remarks
  • David W. Blight, Yale University
  • Stuart B. Schwartz, Yale University
9:15 - 10:30 a.m. Introduction and Keynote Address
  • Rebecca J. Scott, University of Michigan, “Illegal Enslavement: A Moral, Juridical, and Historical Puzzle”
10:30 - 11:00 a.m. Coffee Break
11:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. Panel 1: Brazil and the Slave Trade
1:00 - 2:30 p.m. Lunch
2:30 - 5:00 p.m. Panel 2: Identities: Continuities and Creolizations

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 30

9:00 - 9:30 a.m. Coffee and Registration
9:30 - 11:30 a.m. Panel 3: Forms of Resistance/Slavery and the Law
11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. Lunch
1:00 - 3:00 p.m. Panel 4: Abolition and Memory
3:00 - 3:15 p.m. Coffee break
3:15 - 4:30 p.m. Concluding Roundtable
  • Rebecca J. Scott, University of Michigan
  • Richard Price, William and Mary University
  • Paul E. Lovejoy, York University