For additional details and to RSVP, please contact Professor Indrani Chatterjee [email protected]
March 28th
8.45 am: WELCOME by Indrani Chatterjee
9am -10 am: Engseng Ho, ‘Plural Slave Societies: Key Differences between Indian Ocean and Anglo-American Formations’. Discussant: Fahad Bishara.
10.15-11.15: Jennifer Gaynor, ‘Slaves in early modern Southeast Asian maritime legal codes. Discussant: Debjani Ganguly
11.30- 12.30 pm: Titas Chakraborty, ‘On the Margins of Indigeneity: European slave trading in the Indian Ocean world and the formation of the Portuguese community in eighteenth-century Bengal’. Discussant: Indrani Chatterjee
LUNCH 12.45 - 2 pm
2.15-3.15 pm: Pedro Machado, ‘Archipelagic Seas: Mozambique Island, the Cape, Salvador and the Imbrications of Oceanic Slavery’. Discussant: Matthew Chin.
3.30 - 4.30 pm: Anjali Arondekar, ‘A Promiscuous Introduction: Indenture in the Breach’. Discussant: Geeta Patel.
Dinner for Speakers, Discussants, Invitees and Assistant Graduate Students from 6.30 pm
March 29th
9 am- 10 am: Sudipta Sen, ‘Convict Servitude and the Carceral Landscape of Early British India’. Discussant: Soumya Johri.
10.15- 11.15 am: Clare Anderson, ‘Connected Carceral Worlds: Mauritian convict lives in the Australian penal colonies’. Discussant: Kath Weston
11.30 am-12.30 pm: Sue Peabody, ‘“Indians are a Free People!”: French Regulation of Indian Slavery in Réunion, 1817–1844’. Discussant: Paul Halliday
LUNCH 1- 2.30 pm
3-4 pm Behnaz Mirzai, ‘The Autobiography of Mahboob [Sweetheart], an enslaved African in Iran’. Discussant: Kristina Richardson
4.15- 5.15 Nira Wickramasinghe, ‘A Constable’s List: The Borders of Race and the Making of Respectable Burghers in 19th century Sri Lanka’. Discussant: Emily Burrill
