2008 Schedule
Friday, November 7
8:30 - 9:00 a.m. Continental Breakfast and Registration
9:00 - 9:15 a.m. Welcome Remarks
9:15 - 10:30 a.m. Keynote Address
- Sugata Bose, Harvard University, “Blackbirders Refitted: Towards a Connective Oceanic History of Slavery and Resistance”
10:30 - 11:00 a.m. Coffee Break
11:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. Panel 1: Indian Ocean Slavery and the 19th Century World Economy
- Gwyn Campbell, McGill University, “Servitude and the Changing Face of Demand for Labor in the Indian Ocean World, c.1800-1900”
- Janet Ewald, Duke University, “ ‘No Objection to a Wandering Unsettled Life’: Slaves and Freedmen in the Ports and on the Sea of the Indian Ocean World, c. 1500-1900”
- Matthew Hopper, Cal Poly-San. Luis Obispo, “ ‘Slaves of One Master’: Globalization and the African Diaspora in Arabia in the Age of Empire”
- Moderator: Thomas McDow, George Mason University
1:00 - 2:30 p.m. Lunch
2:30 - 4:30 p.m. Panel 2: Abolition and the Law: Islamic and Colonial Law in the Indian Ocean and Arab Worlds
- William Gervase Clarence-Smith, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, “Islam and the Abolition of Slavery in the Indian Ocean”
- Sue Peabody, Washington State University, Vancouver, “Free Soil in the Indian Ocean: Slave Law on the Eve of Emancipation”
- Bernard K. Freamon, Seton Hall University School of Law, “Straight, No Chaser: Slavery, Abolition and the Modern Muslim Mind”
- Moderator: David Blight, Yale University
Saturday, November 8
9:00 - 9:30 a.m. Continental Breakfast and Registration
9:30 - 11:30 a.m. Panel 3: Economic and Social Mobility of Slaves in the Indian Ocean
- Abdul Sheriff, Zanzibar Indian Ocean Research Institute, “Social Mobility in Indian Ocean Slavery: The Career of Sultan b Aman”
- Thomas McDow, George Mason University, “Deeds of Slaves: Business and Debt among Khadim in Zanzibar”
- Mandana E. Limbert, Queens College, New York, “Genealogy, Status, and the Politics of Marriage in Oman”
- Moderator: Robert Harms, Yale University
11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. Lunch
1:00 - 3:00 p.m. Panel 4: Slavery in the Indian Ocean: Abolition or Transformation?
- Mohamed Y. Mattar, Johns Hopkins, School of Advanced International Studies “Combating Contemporary Forms of Slavery in Islamic Law”
- Richard B. Allen, Framingham State College, “Abolitionism and ‘New Systems of Slavery’ in the Indian Ocean during the Late Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries”
- Pier M. Larson, Johns Hopkins University, “Ocean of Letters: Abolition and Literacy in an Indian Ocean Diaspora”
- Moderator: Bernard K. Freamon, Seton Hall University School of Law
3:00 - 3:15 p.m. Short break
3:15 - 4:00 p.m. Concluding Roundtable
- Sugata Bose, Harvard University
- Edward A. Alpers, University of California, Los Angeles
- Robert Harms, Yale University
- Moderator: David Blight