Friday, April 13
Stephen Robert '62 Campus Center (75 Waterman Street), Petteruti Lounge
5:00 p.m. Keynote Address:
Orlando Patterson (Harvard University):
“The Inventions and Moral Uses of Slavery: From Antiquity to Modern Trafficking”
Reception to follow
Saturday, April 14
Rhode Island Hall (60 George Street), Room 108
8:45 a.m. Coffee
Session One:
Kurt Raaflaub (Brown University), Session Chair
9:00 a.m. Heather Baker (University of Vienna): “Slavery and Personhood in the Neo-Assyrian Empire”
9:45 a.m. John Bodel (Brown University): “Death and Social Death in Ancient Rome”
10:30 a.m. Coffee
Session Two:
Kecia Ali (Boston University), Session Chair
10:45 a.m. Anthony Barbieri-Low (University of California, Santa Barbara): “Becoming Almost Somebody: Manumission and its Complications in the Early Han Empire”
11:30 a.m. Eve Troutt Powell (University of Pennsylvania): “Narrating the Self into Liberty in the Ottoman Middle East?”
12:30 p.m. Lunch
Session Three:
Seth Rockman (Brown University), Session Chair
2:00 p.m. Indrani Chatterjee and Sanjog Rupakheti (Rutgers University): “Lost Beyond Translation: Asian Structures of Adherence and Colonial Slave-Liberations”
2:45 p.m. Sandra Greene (Cornell University): “Defying Social Death/Negotiating Identity: Child Slaves in 19th Century West Africa”
3:30 p.m. Coffee
Session Four:
Walter Scheidel (Stanford University), Session Chair
3:45 p.m. Kyle Harper (University of Oklahoma): “Slavery, Sexual Honor, and Social Death in Classical Antiquity”
4:30 p.m. Junia Furtado (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais): “Slaves and Freedwomen in 18th Century Brazil: Conflicts and Paradoxes”
Sunday, April 15
Rhode Island Hall (60 George Street), Room 108
9:00 a.m. Coffee
Session Five:
Susan E. Alcock (Brown University), Session Chair
9:30 a.m. Joseph Miller (University of Virginia): “The Sociology of Slavery”
10:15 a.m. Michael McCormick (Harvard University): “Slavery from Rome to Medieval Europe and Beyond”
11:00 a.m. Coffee
Session Six:
John Bodel (Brown University) and Walter Scheidel (Stanford University), Session Chairs
11:15 a.m. Stanley Engerman (University of Rochester)
11:45 a.m. Round table discussion