Histories of Slavery: slave resistance, Britain and the slave trade, women and slavery, slavery and literature, art and slavery

Broadway Cinema & Media Centre, Broad Street

Price: free, but please book by emailing janet@ccan.org.uk
Times: 10.30am registration 11.00am start - 5.30pm
Date: 11th January, 2008

Speakers include Godfried Donkor; Frank Abbott; Kobena Mercer; Prof. Dick Geary; Dr Sheryllynne Haggerty; Jane-Marie Collins; Dr Celeste-Marie Bernier and Dr Alan Rice.

Culture after Slavery (link through to relevant text in talks and events)

10.30 registration etc
11.00 Alex Farquharson, CCAN and Rob Flint, NTU introduction to symposium and NTU Broadway talks series

11.10 Kobena Mercer
11.50 – questions
12.30 Lunch

1.30 Introduction to afternoon session, Alex Farquharson
1.40 Professor Dick Geary

Introduction to the Work at the Institute for the Study of Slavery at the University of Nottingham & Slave Resistance
 
Dr Sheryllynne Haggerty
Britain and the Slave Trade
 
Jane-Marie Collins
Women and Slavery
 
Dr Celeste-Marie Bernier
Slavery and Literature

(45 mins for discussion/ questions)

3.00 Break

3.20 Michael Forbes introduction to Dr Alan Rice panel discussion

3.30 Dr Alan Rice  - Trade & Empire

4.00 Panel Discussion with Frank Abbott, Kobena Mercer, Alan Rice and Godfried Donkor. (Informally chaired by Frank Abbott)

4.45 Q & A

5.30 End of Symposium – catch buses to the Yard Gallery