Dear colleagues,
See below.
All the best,
Pat
Dr Patricia Noxolo,
Senior Lecturer in Human Geography
School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences,
University of Birmingham,
Edgbaston,
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK
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Subject: [BSA-RACE] For Distribution: Call for Papers: Third Global Meeting: Slavery Past, Present and Future
Dear Colleagues,
I am organizing an international conference on Slavery, and am requesting your assistance in distributing the attached call for papers (which is also copied below). The conference is scheduled for next July at the IU Europe Gateway, Berlin.
I hope that you consider participating, and that you will submit proposals to that end.
I am also requesting that you distribute the Call through your professional networks.
I’ve copied the text below, and the link is available here: https://global.iu.edu/global-gateways/europe/news-events/news/2018-07-10-call-for-papers-slavery-past-present-future-third-global-meeting.html
Call for Papers:
SLAVERY PAST, PRESENT & FUTURE: 3rd Global Meeting
Indiana University Europe Gateway, Berlin, Germany
July 10 & 11, 2018
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Throughout history, slavery (the purchase and sale of human beings as chattel), enslavement (through conquest, and exploitation of indebtedness, among other vulnerabilities), and similar extreme forms of exploitation and control have been an intrinsic part of human societies.
Is slavery an inevitable part of the human condition?
Controversial estimates indicate that up to 35 million people worldwide are enslaved today. This modern re-emergence of slavery, following legal abolition over two hundred years ago, is said to be linked to the deepening interconnectedness of countries in the global economy, overpopulation, and the economic and other vulnerabilities of the individual victims and communities.
This conference will explore slavery in all its dimensions and, in particular, the ways in which individual humans and societies understand and attempt to respond to it.
The varieties of contemporary forms of exploitation appear to be endless. Consider, for example, enslavement or mere “exploitation” among:
* fishermen in Thailand’s booming shrimping industry,
* children on Ghana’s cocoa plantations,
* immigrant farmworkers on U.S. farms,
* truck drivers in the port of Los Angeles.
* prostituted women and girls on the streets and in the brothels of Las Vegas,
* the dancing boys (bacha bazi) of Afghanistan,
* the sex workers of The Netherlands’ Red Light Districts and in Italian cities,
* Eritrean and other sub-Saharan Africans fleeing to Israel and trafficked and exploited in the Sinai,
* Syrian refugees in Jordan, Turkey, and Lebanon, and
* migrant workers from Southeast Asia and other countries who flock to the oil rich Gulf States for work.
Does the persistence and mutations of different forms of extreme human-of-human exploitation mean that the world may not have changed as much as contemporary societies would like to believe since worldwide abolition and the recognition of universal individual and collective human rights? Like the ‘consumers’ of past eras, such as early industrialization, are we dependent on the abhorrent exploitation of others?
Potential themes and sub-themes of the conference include but are not limited to:
1. Defining Slavery:
* What do we mean when we talk about “slavery”
* Using “slavery” to obscure other endemic forms of exploitation
* Teaching and learning about historic slavery and contemporary forms of exploitation
2. Slaveries of the Past
* Classical (Egyptian, Greco-Roman, etc.) slavery
* Conquests and colonizations – Aboriginal Australians, indigenous peoples of the New World, dividing and colonizing Africa and Asia
* Slaveries in Europe before the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade and Industrialization, such as villeinage and serfdom
* Trans-Atlantic Slavery and the trans-Atlantic Slave Trade
* Systems of slavery in tribal and traditional societies
* WWII and post-WWII forced labor camps
3. Human Trafficking and other Forms of Contemporary Exploitation
* Definitions
* Types of human trafficking
* Organ trafficking
* The focus on sex trafficking: reasons, purpose, effects
* Can nation states enslave?
* Is human trafficking “slavery”
* Contemporary usage and depictions of slavery
* Civil society anti-trafficking activism:
i. Methodologies
ii. Effectiveness
* Anti-trafficking policies and legislation
* Assessing contemporary anti-trafficking and/or anti-“slavery” Initiatives
1. Systems and Structures of Enslavement and Subordination (historic and contemporary)
* Role of slavery in national and global economies
* Economic, political, legal structures – their role in enslavement and exploitation
* Slavery’s impact on culture
* Cultural impacts of historic slavery
2. Voices of the Enslaved
* Slave narratives of the past and present
* Descendants’ interpretation of their enslaved and slave-holding ancestors
3. Legacies of slavery
* Identifying and mapping contemporary legacies – economic, social, cultural, psychological
* Assessment of slavery’s impact – economic, political, other
* Commemorations of enslavers and/or the enslaved
* Debating reparations
4. Anti-slavery movements:
* Reparations
* Economic compensation
* Restorative justice
* Teaching and learning about slavery
* Relationship to the global racial hierarchy
* Abolitionism and law: effects and (in)effectiveness
* The role of media and social media
Submissions to this conference are sought from people from all genders and walks of life, including academics (from multiple disciplines, such as art, anthropology, sociology, history, ethnic studies, politics, social work, economics) and non-academics; social workers, activists, and health care professionals; government representatives and policy makers; former slaves and indentured laborers; members of at-risk populations such as migrant and guest workers, non—regularized immigrants, and refugees.
Conference Committee:
Karen E. Bravo (Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law, IN, USA)
David Bulla (Augusta University, GA, USA)
Sheetal Shah (Webster University, Leiden, The Netherlands)
Polina Smiragina (University of Sydney, Australia)
Submitting Your Proposal
Proposals should be submitted no later than Friday, March 2, 2018 to:
Karen E. Bravo, Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law, Indianapolis: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>
E-Mail Subject Line: Slavery Past Present & Future 3 Proposal Submission
File Format: Microsoft Word (DOC or DOCX)
The following information must be included in the body of the email:
1. Author(s)
2. Affiliation as you would like it to appear in the conference program
3. Corresponding author email address
The following information must be in the Microsoft Word file:
1. Title of proposal
2. Body of proposal (maximum of 300 words)
3. Keywords (maximum of ten)
Please keep the following in mind:
1. All text must be in Times New Roman 12.
2. No footnotes or special formatting (bold, underline, or italicization) must be used.
Evaluating Your Proposal
All abstracts will be double-blind peer reviewed and you will be notified of the Organizing Committee’s decision no later than Friday, 16 March 2018. If a positive decision is made, you will be asked to promptly register online. You will be asked to submit a draft paper of no more than 3000 words by Friday, 01 June 2018.
The conference registration fee is Euro (€) 200. Please note that we are not in a position to provide funding to facilitate your participation.
Publication:
A selection of papers will be published in an edited volume, to be submitted to Brill’s ‘Studies in Global Slavery’ book series.
I look forward to hearing from you.
Cheers,
Karen
Karen E. Bravo
Professor of Law and
Associate Dean for Graduate Studies
and International Affairs
Indiana University
Robert H. McKinney School of Law
Pronouns:
She, Her, Hers
View my research on my SSRN Author page:
http://ssrn.com/author=396409
Co-Director, IUPUI Next Generation 2.0
Leadership Initiative
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