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What are the connections between unfree labour and recent changes in Brazilian politics? Our first lecture of the year discusses why it is important to talk ...

How did slavery and forced labor coexist in Tahoua? In our next JCMML, Benedetta Rossi will discuss the labor regimes and their implications in this West ...

How did enslaved Black people in Sevilla imagine freedom and what strategies did they deploy to obtain it? The talk explores the collective and fractured ...

Were strategies of ancient Greek slavery contradictory? The lecture will discuss this topic with a small number of Greek funerary epigrams from the Roman ...

Old Goa developed as one of the major port cities of the Indian Ocean during the sixteenth century, as the Portuguese attempted to control maritime trade ...

Deprived of basic rights and sometimes even their proper names, female domestic workers fell victim of sexual abuse and had to fear unwanted pregnancies. Dr. ...

Prof. Dr. Julia Hillner's latest book, "Helena Augusta: Mother of the Empire" will be presented, including a reading, followed by a discussion and a reception.

This week, Cristina Mocanu will present her project “Productive and Reproductive Labor of Roma Slaves in Moldavia (before 1830s)”. She will explain how these ...

This week, Özden Mercan is looking forward to a lively discussion of and feedback on her project on premodern Mediterranean forms of unfree labor and its ...

This week, Christian Laes is looking forward to a lively discussion of and feedback on his presentation “Writing the histories of slavery in Antiquity. How to ...