Closing of the Slave Trades: Transatlantic Perspectives, An International Symposium Thursday, May 29-Saturday, May 31, 2008 Queens University, Belfast, Northern Ireland Co-sponsored by the British Academy, the School of History and Anthropology, Queens University-Belfast, and the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition, Yale University Thursday, May 29, 2008 2:00-2:30 p.m. Welcome David Blight, Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition, Yale University Catherine Clinton, U.S. History Chair, Queens University-Belfast 2:30 – 4:30 p.m. Postgraduate Student Roundtable Augusta de Fatima Charifo Maita, Eduardo Mondlane University, Mozambique British Abolition’s Impact on the Global Slave Trade in Mozambique Richard Huzzey, Oxford University “A Nation of Abolitionists”: Britain’s Crusade Against the Slave Trade Nicholas Wood, University of Virginia Abolition or Non-Importation?: Moral and Commercial Language in British and American Prohibition of the Slave Trade [Abstract] Comment: Catherine Clinton and David Blight Friday, May 30, 2008 8:30-9:15 a.m. Coffee and Tea 9:15-9:30 a.m. Opening Remarks 9:30 – 10:45 a.m. Panel 1: Commemoration of the Ending of the Slave Trade in the UK: A Retrospective Roundtable James Walvin, University of York How Should We Remember the Slave Trade?: History and Public Memory Tony Phillips, British Broadcasting Corporation Helen Weinstein, Institute for the Public Understanding of the Past, University of York Reflections on the 2007 Bicentenary Chair: David Blight, Yale University 10:45 – 11:30 a.m. Break 11:30 a.m. – 12:45 p.m. Panel 2: Visual Images and Curatorial Strategies Zoe Whitley, Victoria and Albert Museum Facing “Uncomfortable Truths”: Re-evaluating a Museum Project Cheryl Finley, Cornell University Curating the Slave Trade: Exhibition, Re-enactment, Embodiment [Abstract] Hazel Edwards, Tyne and Wear Museums Remembering Slavery - A Catalyst for Change [Abstract] Chair: Catherine Clinton, Queen’s University 12:45 – 2:30 p.m. Lunch 2:30 – 3:45 p.m. Panel 3: Going Global: New Perspectives in Slavery Studies Adam Rothman, Georgetown University The United States and Africa in the Nineteenth Century David Eltis, Emory University The Transatlantic Slave Trade Database Jean Allain, Queen’s University School of Law International Criminal Law and Anti-Slavery Today [Abstract] Chair: David Blight, Yale University 3:45 – 4:30 p.m. Tea 4:30 – 5:45 p.m. Panel 4: Public History: How Do We Take Our Projects into the Future? Richard Rabinowitz, American History Workshop Piercing the Paper Mask: Hearing the Voiceless in Exhibitions about Slavery Robert Blyth, Greenwich Maritime Museum Bringing the Past to a New Generation of Museumgoers Richard Benjamin, International Slavery Museum “Museums and Politics”: The International Slavery Museum Chair: David Richardson, Hull University 5:45 – 6:30 p.m. Reception and Book Signing 6:30 – 7:45 p.m. Closing Dinner 8:00 p.m. Public Lecture Saturday, May 31, 2008 Downtown Walking History Tour Mural tour including the image of Frederick Douglass