Events and Projects

We host a variety of different events including lectures, seminars, fieldtrips, and symposiums that aim to discuss the stories of enslaved people, and educate others about historical and contemporary slavery. Our events are open to all.

Events

We also work on multiple collaborative projects throughout the year to bring together academics to develop an understanding of slavery past and present. We aim to create a base of knowledge that today’s thinkers can use to understand and tackle slavery in the present, while also focusing on reparations and decolonisation.

Tickets for events are available on our Ticket Source page. 

Upcoming Events

CSIS Annual Lecture: Restitution and the Teaching of African History
18th February 2025 (5pm)
The Athenaeum, Liverpool

Join the CSIS Annual Lecture on 18th February 2025 at The Athenaeum, hosted by Miles Greenwood.

Speaker: Toby Green, Fellow of the British Academy, and Professor of Precolonial and Lusophone African History and Culture at King’s College, London

Discussions around restitution of objects from Western museums to their places of creation are widespread. But in spite of much discussion, little has changed on the ground for many institutions on the continent, from Dakar to Benin City.

Much of the discussion around restitution focusses on historical justice and the concerns raised by some Western institutions. This lecture takes a different approach, and looks towards the future: how would a mass programme of restitution of these objects change the dynamic of teaching and researching the history of Africa, and what difference would this make to questions of global inequity?

Dibia’s World: Life on an Early Sugar Plantation
25th March 2025 (6pm)
Online 

Join us online to mark International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade with William Jennings as he discusses his book, Dibia's World: Life on an Early Sugar Plantation.

 

Recent past events

Alongside the event archives below, some of our past events are available to watch via our Youtube page. 

2024-25 Events Archive

2023-24 Events Archive

2022-23 Events Archive 

2021-22 Events Archive 

2020-21 Events Archive 

2019-20 Events Archive 

2018-19 Events Archive 

2017-18 Events Archive 

2016-17 Events Archive 

2015-16 Events Archive 

 

International Slavery Museum and Maritime Museum Workshops

While ISM and MM close for refurbishment in 2025, the two museums will be continuing to offer outreach workshops for schools.

 

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