Paper Abstracts
The Politics of Remembering and Representing Slavery in International Comparison
- James Oliver Horton, The George Washington University, Presenting America’s Most Un-American History
- James Walvin, University of York, British Parliament and the Remembrance of the Slave Trade
- Mari Hareide, Norwegian National Commission for UNESCO, Breaking the Silence: UNESCO’s Transatlantic Slave Trade Education Project
- Barbara Chase-Riboud, Author and Artist, Sally Hemings and the One Drop Rule of Public History
West Africa: Slave Trade Tourism and the Problem of Public History in Post-Colonial Societies
- Cheryl Finley, Cornell University, Of Golden Anniversaries and Bicentennials: The Convergence of Memory, Tourism, and Public History in Ghana in 2007
- Joseph Opala, James Madison University, Sierra Leone: Bunce Island and the Gullah Connection
- Charlie Haffner, Freetong Players International Theatre Group, Sengbe Pieh (Joseph Cinque) Comes Home
- Paulla Ebron, Stanford University, Competing Narratives of Memorialized History
Remembering the Slave Trade in Europe: Memorials and Museums
- Glen Willemsen, National Institute for the Study of Dutch Slavery and its Legacy (NiNsee), Commemoration and commemorators: The Dutch Case
- Elizabeth Kowaleski-Wallace, Boston College, The British Slave Trade: Forms of Memory and Memorializing
- Tony Tibbles, National Museums Liverpool, Developing the International Slavery Museum
Public Remembrance of Slavery and the Slave Trade in the Caribbean
- Gillian Forrester, Yale Center for British Art, The Visual Culture of Emancipation in Jamaica: Isaac Mended Belisario, Memory, and Forgetting in the Circum-Atlantic WorldMiche
- Michel Giraud, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Public Remembrance of Slavery and the Slave Trade in the French Caribbean
- Jane Clark Chermayeff, Jane Clark Chermayeff Associates, LLC, Hidden in the Cane: Interpreting Slavery at a Puerto Rican Hacienda
- Gert Oostindie, KITLV/Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies at Leiden, The Transnational Remembrance of Slavery: The Dutch Atlantic
Comparative Museums, Historic Sites, and Exhibitions in the US: Perils and Promises
- John E. Fleming, Cincinnati Museum Center, Museums and the Representation of Slavery: An Overview
- Richard Rabinowitz, American History Workshop, ‘Slavery in New York’ at the New-York Historical Society: Responses to the 2005-06 Exhibition
- John Michael Vlach, The George Washington University, Never Talk about Slavery at Christmas Time: Banned at the Library of Congress
- Jean Howson, The RBA Group, African Burial Ground Project, Interpreting the African Burial Ground:Science and Public History
Film, Artistic Representation, and the Public History of Slavery
- Kevin Willmott, University of Kansas, CSA: The Confederate States of America and the Image of Slavery in Hollywood Films
- Katrina Browne, Traces of the Trade, Movie Stories about Slavery: From Head to Heart to the Good Society
- Orlando Bagwell, The Ford Foundation, “Slavery and the Documentary: Bringing to Life the History of African Americans”