Dear friends and colleagues
We are delighted to announce two events taking place next month on June 20th which we hope will be of interest. In the morning the CSIS is part of the programme of Liverpool’s International Business Festival with a panel session
on slavery in supply chains.
In the afternoon of the same day there will be a CSIS Public Lecture at the MLK building on the Albert Dock on ‘Slave Resistance and the Making of American Abolition’ by Professor Manisha Sinha, Draper Chair in American History, University
of Connecticut.
Further details below - we hope to see you there.
Best wishes
Alex
1) 20th June 2018, 10.30-12.00 - ‘Supply chains, transparency and modern slavery: beyond compliance’, International Business Festival, Liverpool
Further details either via the IBF website
https://www.internationalbusinessfestival.com
Or the University of Liverpool site
https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/international-business-festival/our-presence/
Description: This session will include perspectives from academia, business and charities regarding the latest practice and research on ethical sourcing and responsible supply chain governance. The obligations arising from the Modern Slavery
Act for company statements will be discussed. The panel will examine the latest evidence on what businesses are doing in their statements on modern slavery and how some are choosing to go beyond the minimum obligations - using the issue to rejuvenate the ethical
identity/health of their business.
Chair:
Panel:
2) 20th June 2018, 2.00-3.30pm - ‘Slave Resistance and the Making of American Abolition’ by Professor Manisha Sinha, University of Connecticut, International Slavery Museum, Liverpool
This talk explores the central role of slave resistance in the emergence and development of the abolition movement in the United States from the American Revolution to the Civil War.
Overturning the conventional image of abolitionists as white bourgeois reformers burdened by racial paternalism and economic conservatism, it argues that slave resistance radicalized abolitionist ideology and tactics.
The relationship between slave rebellions and runaways and the American antislavery was proximate and continuous. Fugitive slave abolitionists provided the best riposte to the proslavery argument and came to lead the abolition movement
on the eve of the Civil War.
The actions of slave runaways laid the foundations of the emancipation process during the war when thousands of slaves defected to Union Army lines.
More details, speaker bio, and how to register via Eventbrite here:
https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/csis/events/php/index.php?event=88184