2015-16 Events Archive

See below details of events during the academic year 2015-16 that CSIS organised, supported or hosted.

Frank Cirillo, University of Virginia - "Anglo-American Abolitionism and the Union War, 1861-1862”

Thursday 8th October 2015 (5pm)
University of Liverpool


Amanda Berlan, Coventry University, - Ethics and Fair Trade

Thursday 22nd October 2015 (5pm)
University of Liverpool 


Book launch: Vulnerability, Exploitation and Migrants

Monday 9th November 2015 (5pm)
International Slavery Museum 

Speakers: Hannah Lewis, Louise Waite (Leeds University) Gary Craig, Klara Skrivankova (ASI)


FLMG (Forced Labour Monitoring Group) Workshop

Thursday 19th November 2015 (12-5pm) 
International Slavery Museum


Andrea Livesey, University of Liverpool - “A Southern ‘Culture of Abuse’: Sex Trafficking and Sexual Slavery in the Nineteenth-Century US South”

Thursday 26th November 2015 (5pm)
University of Liverpool 


Maria Helena P T Machado, University of São Paulo - ‘Louis Agassiz and William James: Perspectives on the Formation of a Racial Photographic Collection in late nineteenth-century Brazil'

Thursday 28th January 2016
International Slavery Museum 


David Olusoga - ‘Britain’s Forgotten Slave Owners’. Event co-hosted with Liverpool John Moores University (LJMU)

Monday 1st February 2016 (4-6pm)
LJMU 


Raphael Hoermann, University of Central Lancashire - 'The Haitian Gothic: Between Demonisation and Celebration of the Haitian Revolution'

Thursday 11th February 2016 (5-6pm) 
University of Liverpool 


Michael Morris, Liverpool John Moores University - 'Scotland and the Caribbean: Atlantic Archipelagos'

Thursday 18th February 2016 (5-6pm)
University of Liverpool 


Fair Trade and Supply Chains: History, Policy and Action

Tuesday 1st March 2016 (4-6pm)
International Slavery Museum 


Holly Pinheiro, University of Iowa - 'Redefining citizenship and manhood: Black Civil War Soldiers and Pensions'

Thursday 10th March 2016 (5-6pm)
University of Liverpool 


CSIS Annual Lecture - Kevin Hyland OBE, UK AntiSlavery Commissioner

Monday 14th March 2016 (5:30-7:30pm)
International Slavery Museum 


'Subscriptions, Schooling, and Slavery', Sophie Jones (University of Liverpool), plus Lawrence Westgaph and Alex Robinson

Saturday 19th March 2016 (2-3pm) 
Bluecoat Chambers 


Contemporary Slavery & Exploitation Workshop: Participants – Alex Balch (Liverpool), Nicola Phillips (Sheffield), Gary Craig (Durham), Claire Falconer (FLEX), Louise Waite (Leeds)

Friday 22nd April 2016 
University of Liverpool 


David Wyatt, Cardiff University - ‘Melkorka: a story of an enslaved Irish princess and the traffic in women in the northern world c.950-1250’. Event co-organised with Liverpool Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (LCMRS)

Monday 25th April 2016 (5pm - 6pm) 
University of Liverpool


Carolyn Jones Medine, University of Georgia - 'Sojourner Truth and Formation of African American Woman’s Voice'

Tuesday 26th April 2016 (5-6pm) 
University of Liverpool Campus 


Lucienne Loh, University of Liverpool - Contemporary Legacies & Literatures of Slavery Workshop

Friday 29th April 2016 
University of Liverpool 


International Festival of Business (IFB) Pre-Event - Federation of Small Businesses (branch meeting) – Guidance on Ethical Supply Chains

Wednesday 8th June 2016 (5:30pm) 
University of Liverpool


International Festival of Business (IFB) ‘Edge’ Event - Andrew Wallis OBE - ‘Business and Modern Slavery: Transparency and Supply Chains’

Tuesday 14th June 2016 (2-3pm)
Bluecoat Chambers 


FLMG Forced Labour Monitoring Group Event

Thursday 30th June 2016
London

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