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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 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 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: * Brad Blitz, British Academy programme lead ‘Tackling Slavery, Human Trafficking and Child Labour in Modern Business’, Professor of International Politics, Middlesex University Panel: * Alex Balch, Professor of Politics, University of Liverpool. Co-Director of the Centre for the Study of International Slavery (CSIS) * Linn Aakvik, Programme Manager, Focus on Labour Exploitation (FLEX) * Penny Street, Ethics Manager, Group Policy and Campaigns, Co-Op Group * Leona Vaughn, University of Liverpool, Post-Doctoral Research Assistant for the British Academy Project: Clothes, Children and Chocolate: Realising the Transparency Dividend * Quintin Lake, Director of Fifty Eight, Research Fellow at the Ashridge Centre for Business and Sustainability 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