Slavery and the Slave Trades in the Indian Ocean and Arab Worlds: Global Connections and Disconnections Gilder Lehrman Center’s 10th Annual International Conference November 7-8, 2008 Yale University, Luce Hall Auditorium 34 Hillhouse Ave, New Haven, CT Schedule Conference Participants Friday, November 7 8:30 – 9:00 a.m.        Continental Breakfast and Registration 9:00 – 9:15 a.m.        Welcome Remarks 9:15 – 10:30 a.m.        Keynote Address Sugata Bose, Harvard University, "Blackbirders Refitted: Towards a Connective Oceanic History of Slavery and Resistance" 10:30 – 11:00 a.m.        Coffee Break 11:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.        Panel 1: Indian Ocean Slavery and the 19th Century World Economy Gwyn Campbell, McGill University, "Servitude and the Changing Face of Demand for Labor in the Indian Ocean World, c.1800-1900" Janet Ewald, Duke University, "'No Objection to a Wandering Unsettled Life': Slaves and Freedmen in the Ports and on the Sea of the Indian Ocean World, c. 1500-1900" Matthew Hopper, Cal Poly-San. Luis Obispo, "'Slaves of One Master': Globalization and the African Diaspora in Arabia in the Age of Empire" Moderator: Thomas McDow, George Mason University 1:00 – 2:30 p.m.        Lunch 2:30 – 4:30 p.m.        Panel 2: Abolition and the Law: Islamic and Colonial Law in the Indian Ocean and Arab Worlds William Gervase Clarence-Smith, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, "Islam and the Abolition of Slavery in the Indian Ocean" Sue Peabody, Washington State University, Vancouver, "Free Soil in the Indian Ocean: Slave Law on the Eve of Emancipation" Bernard K. Freamon, Seton Hall University School of Law, "Straight, No Chaser: Slavery, Abolition and the Modern Muslim Mind" Moderator: David Blight, Yale University Saturday, November 8 9:00 – 9:30 a.m.        Continental Breakfast and Registration 9:30 – 11:30 a.m.        Panel 3: Economic and Social Mobility of Slaves in the Indian Ocean Abdul Sheriff, Zanzibar Indian Ocean Research Institute, "Social Mobility in Indian Ocean Slavery: The Career of Sultan b Aman" Thomas McDow, George Mason University, "Deeds of Slaves: Business and Debt among Khadim in Zanzibar" Mandana E. Limbert, Queens College, New York, "Genealogy, Status, and the Politics of Marriage in Oman" Moderator: Robert Harms, Yale University 11:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.        Lunch 1:00 – 3:00 p.m.        Panel 4: Slavery in the Indian Ocean: Abolition or Transformation? Mohamed Y. Mattar, Johns Hopkins, School of Advanced International Studies "Combating Contemporary Forms of Slavery in Islamic Law" Richard B. Allen, Framingham State College, "Abolitionism and 'New Systems of Slavery' in the Indian Ocean during the Late Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries" Pier M. Larson, Johns Hopkins University, "Ocean of Letters: Abolition and Literacy in an Indian Ocean Diaspora" Moderator: Bernard K. Freamon, Seton Hall University School of Law 3:00 – 3:15 p.m.        Short break 3:15 – 4:00 p.m.        Concluding Roundtable Sugata Bose, Harvard University Edward A. Alpers, University of California, Los Angeles Robert Harms, Yale University Moderator: David Blight