MARCH 13, 2019
ENS-Lyon Descartes Site (15 Parvis René Descartes) Room D2.034
9.00 Welcome (Béatrice Jaluzot, IEP Lyon, Director of East Asian Institute)
Panel I – 9.15-10.45
Discussant: Richard Allen (Framingham State University)
- Domestic slavery in eighteenth-century Dutch Ceylon: The case of Jaffnapatnam, Ceylon (Sri Lanka)
Lodewijk Wagenaar (University of Amsterdam)
- Making of a domestic slave: Capture and bondage in 19th century India
Akanksha Kukreja (University of Delhi)
- Regulating mobility of slaves in Cochin and Batavia
Alexander Geelen (IISH, Amsterdam)
Panel II – 11.15-12.45
Discussant: Paola Calanca (Ecole Française d’Extrême Orient)
- The structure of the slave trade along the Southern Chinese coastline in the 16th century
James Fujitani (Azusa Pacific University)
- The link between captivity and slavery in the Ming context across different borderland: Coast, Inner Mongolia, and Southwest Zomia
Fei Si-yen (Penn State University)
Panel III – 2.30-4.00
Discussant: Pierre-Yves Manguin (Ecole Française d’Extrême Orient)
- Of slave material: Indigenous forms of slavery in late colonial Indonesia
Emilie Wellfelt (Stockholm University)
- Slaves and bondsmen on Sumbawa: changes in bonded labour relations on an Indonesian island, 17th-20th centuries
Hans Hägerdal (Linnaeus University)
- The systemic character of servitude in island Southeast Asia
Jennifer Gaynor (University at Buffalo, State University of New York)
Panel IV – 4.30-5.30
Discussant: Anas Ansar (Bonn Centre for Dependency and Slavery Studies)
- Colonisers, slaves and go-betweens: The varying roles of Swedish 18th-century prisoners of war in Central Asia
Lisa Hellman (Freie Universität Berlin)
- Buying and selling dependent peasants in Tibet: Legal terminology for something that officially did not exist
Jeannine Bischoff (Bonn Centre for Dependency and Slavery Studies)
MARCH 14, 2019
ENS-Lyon Monod Site (46 allée d’Italie)
Salle des conseils, Grand Nef 1-2
Panel V – 9.00-10.30
Discussant: Jennifer Gaynor (University at Buffalo, State University of New York)
- Slavery and forced displacement in the Portuguese empire in Asia: local dynamics and global connections between Goa and Lisbon (17th century)
Patricia Souza de Faria (Federal Rural Univ. Rio de Janeiro)
- Emancipation at the Cape: First thoughts on a new project
Kate Ekama (Stellenbosch University)
- The role of children in forced migrations, slavery and slave trafficking
Michael Reidy (London)
Panel VI – 11.15-12.30
Discussant: Mònica Ginés Blasi (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya)
- Bonded labour in the first half of the 20th century Persian Gullf: A quantitative approach
Hideaki Suzuki (Nagasaki University)
- Malagasi slave resistances, 17th-18th centuries
Rafaël Thiébaut (IISH, Amsterdam)
Special Session – 2.00-3.30: Database Projects
Discussant: Stephan Connerman (University of Bonn—BCDSS)
- Towards a database initiative on slave trade in the Indian Ocean and maritime Asia
Ulbe Bosma (IISH), Matthias van Rossum (IISH), Samantha Sint Nicolaas (IISH)
- An exploratory database project: Slavery and slave trade in late imperial China
Fei Siyen & Claude Chevaleyre
- GECEM Project Database: A Multi-Relational Database to Analyse Consumption and Trade Networks in Marseille and Macao, 1680-1840
Manuel Pérez García (Shanghai Jiao Tong University / P.I. GECEM Project-ERC) & Lucio de Sousa (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies)
- Discussion: Database projects (first results and future developments)
Round Table – 4.15-6.00
Conclusions, perspectives, projects, and publication
Richard Allen, Mònica Ginés Blasi, Stephan Connerman, Jennifer Gaynor, Michaël Zeuske
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