Guide

GIORNATE DI STUDIO E COLLOQUI A NOTTINGHAM, U.K.

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Slave, Forced and Free Labour in Comparative Historical Perspective

Rutland Hall, University of Nottingham
6th -9th September 2010

Monday 6th September

12.00-2.00pm Registration (Rutland Hall)
[N.B. The Bar will be open with a light Buffet, 12.45-1.55pm]

VENUE FOR ALL SESSIONS: The Library, Rutland Hall

Session 1 2.00pm Introductory Remarks
Prof Stephen Hodkinson (Director, ISOS, University of Nottingham)

2.15-3.15pm ISOS, Past and Future: Tribute to Dick Geary
Prof David Greenaway (Vice-Chancellor & Professor of Economics, University of Nottingham)

Prof Sir Ian Kershaw (Emeritus Professor of Modern History, University of Sheffield)

Prof Chris Wrigley (Professor of Modern British History, University of Nottingham)

Prof Joseph C Miller (T Cary Johnson, Jnr Professor of History, University of Virginia)

3.15-3.45pm Tea/Coffee

Session 2
3.45-5.45pm

Prof Joseph Miller, Slaving & World Labour History: Some Comparative Perspectives

Prof Olivier Pétré-Grenouilleau (Professeur d’Histoire Contemporaine, Sciences, Po, Paris), Slavery and Wage Labour in Comparative Perspective

Prof Dr Elisabeth Hermann-Otto (Professor für Alte Geschichte; Direktorin, Graduiertenkolleg Sklaverei, Universität Trier), Relations between Free and Unfree Labour in the Roman Empire

Dr Rudy Chaulet (Maître de Conférences en Civilisation Hispanique, Université de Franche-Comté), Travail libre et travail constraint dans l’Amérique colonial espagnole (XVIe-XVIIe siècles)

6.15pm Bar
7.00pm Dinner

Tuesday 7th September

Session 3

9.00-10.00am

Marcel Simonis (University of Trier), Economic Aspects of Roman ‘Slave Marriage’ in Comparative Perspective’

Dr Jane-Marie Collins (University of Nottingham), Domestic servitude and the difference a race makes: negotiating the politics of African motherhood in Salvador de Bahia, Brazil (1853)

Session 4 10.00-11.00 am

Prof Domingo Placido (Prof Catedrático, Universidad Complutense, Madrid), La concepción del trabajo libre en los socráticos y Aristóteles

Prof Andrew Bonnell (University of Queensland), Attitudes to Work in German Social Democracy before 1914

11.00-11.30am Coffee/Tea

Session 5

11.30-1.00pm

Prof Dr Marcel van der Linden (Research Director, Internationaal Institut voor Sociale Geschiedenis, Amsterdam), Post-Slavery Labour Relations

Dr Ulbe Bosma (IISG, Amsterdam), Why does unfree labour persist?

Dr Judith Spicksley (Honorary Research Fellow, Wilberforce Institute, University of Hull), Death, Debt and Labour: Slavery as a Form of Exchange

1.00-2.15pm Lunch

Session 6

2.15-3.15pm

Prof Bill Cavanagh (Prof of Aegean Archaeology, University of Nottingham), Agricultural Labour Regimes and Settlement Structures in Archaic Athens and Sparta

Prof Antonio Gonzales (Directeur, GIREA; Prof en Histoire Ancienne, Université de Franche-Comté), The Salaried Employee in the Earlier Empire from Pliny’s Letters

3.15-3.45 Tea/Coffee

Session 7

3.45-5.45

Prof Julia O’Connell-Davidson (Professor of Sociology, University of Nottingham), Sex Workers and Human Trafficking

Simon Steyne (International Labour Organisation, Geneva), Contemporary Child Labour

Speaker from Anti-Slavery International (to be announced), Slavery Today

To be followed by a general discussion of the relationship between servile labour in the world today and the historical study of slavery.

6.15pm Bar

7.00pm Dinner

Wednesday 8th September

Session 8

9.30-11.00 am

Prof Dr Lutz Raphael (Prof für Neue und Neueste Geschichte, Universität Trier), Forced Labour in the Twentieth Century: A Global Perspective

Dr Tanja Penter (Universität der Bundeswehr in Hamburg), Forced Labour under Stalinist and National Socialist Rule: a Comparison of Workers’ Experiences in the Donbass

Dr Hans-Christoph Seidel (Institut für Soziale Bewegungen, Ruhr Universität), German Miners and Russians: the Organisation of Forced Labour in the Ruhr Pits

11.00-11.30am Coffee/Tea

Session 9
11.30-1.00pm

Prof Gad Heuman (University of Warwick), Slavery, Apprenticeship and Unfree Labour in the Caribbean

Prof Sven Beckert (Prof of History, Harvard University), The Transition from Slave Labour in the American South

Julia Seibert (Universität Trier), Unfree Labour Relations in a Colonial Context: The Belgian Congo, 1908-1960

1.00pm Lunch

Session 10

2.15-3.15pm

Prof Douglas Cole Libby (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais), Artisans and Mechanical Trades in São Paulo and Minas Gerais in the First Half of the Nineteenth-Century

Prof Eduardo França Paiva (UFMG), Black Labour, Slave Labour and Social Mobility in Minas Gerais

3.15-3.45pm Tea/Coffee

3.45-4.45pm

Prof Marcus J M de Carvalho (Universidade Federal de Pernambuco),
The ‘Slave Trade in White People’: Immigration from the Azores and Portugal to Brazil

Prof Dick Geary (Professor of Modern History, University of Nottingham): Artisans and Revolt in Slave and Non-Slave Society: Brazil and Western Europe, 1780-1848

SOME FREE TIME

6.15pm Bar

7.00pm Dinner

Thursday 9th September

Session 11
9.45-11.15

Dr Ross Balzaretti (University of Nottingham), Forced Labour in Early Medieval Europe

Dr Richard Goddard (University of Nottingham), Servants and Indentured Apprentices in Medieval England

Dr Sarah Badcock (University of Nottingham), Forced and Free Labour in the Building of the Trans-Siberian Railway

11.15-11.45 Coffee/Tea

11.45-12.30 Discussion of Future Plans/Publication

1.00pm Lunch and CLOSE OF CONFERENCE

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Code postal: NG7 2RD
Localité/ville: Nottingham
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