2016-17 Events Archive

See below details of events during the academic year 2016-17 that CSIS organised, supported or hosted.

Mads Anders Baggesgaard, Aarrhus University: Literatures of Slavery Workshop

Wednesday 10th August 2016
University of Liverpool


Mark Christian, City University of New York - ‘Frederick Douglass and his Trip to Britain, 1845-1847: with special reference to Liverpool’

Thursday 22nd September 2016
University of Liverpool 


Jesús Sanjurjo, University of Leeds - ‘The wolf by the ears’: defining anti-slave trade discourses in early 19th Spanish Empire’

Thursday 13th October 2016
University of Liverpool 


Laura Sandy, University of Liverpool - Slave Stealing: An Investigation into Human Property Theft in the American South. Event co-hosted with the History Department at the University of Liverpool

Wednesday 26th October 2016
University of Liverpool 


John Belchem, University of Liverpool - ‘Before the Windrush: race relations in 20th century Liverpool’

Thursday 24th November 2016 
University of Liverpool 


Sarah Lentz, University of Bremen - Of Armchair Activists and "Good Germans". The Spread of Anti-Slavery Sentiment in the German Territories, 1770-1815

Wednesday 30th November 2016
University of Liverpool 


FLMG (Forced Labour Monitoring Group) Event

Thursday 1st - Friday 2nd December 2016
University of Hull


Rebekka von Mallinckrodt, University of Bremen - Book Launch: ‘Slavery Hinterland’ (ISM)

Wednesday 7th December 2016
International Slavery Museum


Antislavery Usable Past Seminar - Speakers: Mary Wills (University of Hull), Rebecca Nelson (University of Hull) & Katie Donington (University of Nottingham)

Tuesday 7th February 2017 
University of Liverpool


SOLD – Film Screening, followed by panel discussion featuring Alex Balch (University of Liverpool) and the Merseyside Police and Crime Commissioner

Tuesday 21st February 2017
International Slavery Museum 


Fresh Start: Integrating Survivors of Modern Slavery

Wednesday 1st March 2017
International Slavery Museum 


James Heartfield (University of Westminster) & Richard Huzzey (Durham University) - From Anti-Slavery to Empire

Wednesday 22nd March 2017 
The Athenaeum 


Rebekka von Mallinckrodt, University of Bremen - Trafficked Children in the Holy Roman Empire – Forgotten Victims of the Transatlantic Slave Trade

Wednesday 29th March 2017
International Slavery Museum 


Caroline M. Kisiel, DePaul University School for New Learning Chicago - Early 19th Century British Travellers in the Ohio Valley

Thursday 18th May 2017
University of Liverpool 


Lisa Merrill, Hofstra University - Spectacularising Black Bodies on 19th Century Stages

Tuesday 27th June 2017
International Slavery Museum 

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