Black History Month Events
October 2023
The Ancestors Film Screening and Q&A
November 2023
‘Anilla, or by whatever other name…’: Enslavement and Childhood in the Ancient World
Tuesday 30th April 2024 (5pm – 7:30pm)
The Bluecoat, Liverpool
In this talk, Dr Pudsey addressed some of the questions facing one of the most under-researched areas of ancient slavery: the lived experiences of enslaved children. Across such a vast, harsh empire, in which slavery was so heavily embedded, we know comparatively little about how children featured. She argued that many non-Roman children were susceptible and vulnerable to captivity, and what she argues, amounts to a system of organised trafficking on a huge scale. Using Egypt as my case study, she presented the papyrological evidence for the enforced movement of enslaved children into and around Egypt, and more widely. For a society in which we have no written testimony of enslaved people, let alone children, some of this material can provide us with what comes close to partial life stories of these children.
Listening to the Caribbean
Tuesday 23rd April 2024 (3pm – 4:30pm)
Online
CSIS in partnership with Liverpool University Press hosted a book talk featuring Professor Martin Munro, Florida State University.
His book explores representations of sounds in contemporary accounts of slavery and revolt in the Caribbean, as a way of understanding the broader “auditory culture” of the enslaved, what it retained from African sources, and how it evolved in the plantations of the Caribbean.
Women, Slavery and the Church
Monday 13th May 2024 (4:30pm)
Online
This webinar was the second panel in the series of online discussions about the Anglican Church and Slavery, entitled Truth Telling: Slavery and the Anglican Church.
This webinar considered specifically the role of women as enslavers/beneficiaries of African enslavement and their links to the Anglican church, including religious justifications for keeping African-descended people enslaved. It focused on women as resistors/rebels against slavery (including as church leaders); and how women, especially Black women, are viewed in the church today as a result of slavery.
Michelle Charters, head of the International Slavery Museum, moderated this panel.
Our speakers included:
Fiona Compton (Know Your Caribbean)
Professor Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers (UC Berkeley)
Chine McDonald (Theos).
Slavery Remembrance Day 2024: Centre for Study of International Slavery Symposium - Space and Place - Building on the Past
Wednesday 21st August 2024
University of Liverpool, School of Law and Social Justice Events Space
The event brought together museum practitioners, scholars, and community-based historians to discuss the buildings, places, and spaces associated with the representation of slavery and its legacies. This included conversations about the Transatlantic Slavery Gallery (1994), the development of the International Slavery Museum, which opened in 2007 during the Bicentenary of the Abolition of the British Slave Trade, and projects, buildings and spaces throughout the African Diaspora. The event also explored the connections between the Waterfront Transformation project in Liverpool, models of co-production and design, African architectural history and practice, and diverse knowledge systems. Additionally, it considered how local landscapes interact with the global perspective and how we inclusively and equitably utilise past experiences and new practices in future museum design and development.
Speakers included Dr Richard Benjamin, Senior Lecturer for Contemporary Museum Practice, Professor Ola Uduku, Head of School at the Liverpool School of Architecture, Michelle Charters, Head of International Slavery Museum and Mike Boyle, Liverpool historian and author of “Liverpool Black Heritage: From Granby to Pitt Street”.