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International Conference
- Venue: Newcastle University, Boiler House
- Start: Thu, 22 Mar 2018 14:00:00 GMT
- End: Sat, 24 Mar 2018 12:30:00 GMT
Being Everybody’s Slaves. Public Slavery in Ancient and Modern World
The conference aims to provide a methodologically up-to-date discussion of the nature of public slavery, introducing for the first time a theoretical and comparative approach to public slavery, both in Classical Antiquity and in the early modern and modern periods.
Programme:
22nd March
2.00 p.m. – Federico Santangelo, Franco Luciani (Newcastle University): Greetings and Introduction
Panel 1: Defining Public Slavery
Chair: Orlando Patterson (Harvard University, USA)
2.30 p.m. – Paulin Ismard (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France)
Between Morphology and History: Public Slavery in a Comparatist Perspective
3.00 p.m. – M’hamed Oualdi (Princeton University, USA)
The Mamluk Enigma in the Muslim States: the Tunisian Case
3.30 p.m. – Discussion
4.00 p.m. – Coffee Break
4.30 p.m. – Franco Luciani (Newcastle University, UK)
Public Slaves in the Roman World. Notes on the Concept of Publicness
5.00 p.m. – Rebecca Shumway (College of Charleston, USA)
Public Slavery in the Precolonial Gold Coast (Ghana)
5.30 p.m. – Discussion
23rd March
Panel 2: Law and Society
Chair: Nicholas Purcell (University of Oxford, UK)
9.15 a.m. – Jean-Jacques Aubert (Université de Neuchâtel, Switzerland)
The Legal Capacity of Roman Public Slaves
9.45 a.m. – Vijaya Teelock (University of Mauritius, Mauritius)
‘In Defence of the Empire’: Mauritius’ Government Slaves in the 18th Century
10.15 – Coffee Break
10.45 a.m. – Alexander Weiss (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, Germany)
Check Your Privileges. Reconsidering the Social Position of Public Slaves in the Roman Empire
11.15 a.m. – Discussion
12 a.m. Lunch
Panel 3: From Captivity to Slavery?
Chair: Benedetta Rossi (University of Birmingham, UK)
2.30 p.m. – Anne Brogini (Université de Nice, France)
Effective Management of Public Slavery in the The Hospitallers’ Malta (16th-18th Centuries)
3.00 p.m. – Ulrike Roth (University of Edinburgh, UK)
The King’s Treasurer, the Dey’s Secretary – Gaius Rabirius Postumus and James Leander Cathcart: Accidental Captivity, Voluntary Service, or Public Slavery?
3.30 p.m. – Coffee Break
4.00 p.m. – Nida Nebahat Nalçacı (Bilkent University, Turkey)
Inherited Institution: Ottoman State Slavery and War Captives
4.30 p.m. – Discussion
8.00 p.m. – Conference dinner
24th March
Panel 4: Public Slavery in Transition
Chair: Jane Webster (Newcastle University, UK)
9.15 a.m. – Andrea Binsfeld (Université du Luxembourg, Luxembourg)
Public Slaves in Late Antiquity
9.45 a.m. – Ahmadou Séhou (Université de Maroua, Cameroun)
‘Matchoube laamiibe’ : les esclaves du palais dans les lamidats de l’Adamaoua (Nord-Cameroun), XIXe-XXe siècles
10.15 a.m. – Discussion
10.45 a.m. – Coffee Break
11.15 a.m. – Round Table
Final Discussion
