[Discussion] Conference on Slavery, Islam, and Diaspora

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Conference on Slavery, Islam, and Diaspora

 Conference organizer: Harriet Tubman Resource Centre on the African
Diaspora
 Department of History
 York University
 Date: Oct 24- 26, 2003
 Location: Calumet College

 Conference Programme

 Thursday, October 23, 2003
  12:00-8:00         Arrival and Registration

 Harriet Tubman Resource Centre on the African Diaspora, 202B Founders
 College

 Friday, October 24, 2003
  8:00-9:00         Registration and Tea/Coffee (214 Calumet College)

  9:00-10:00        Welcome and Opening Remarks

  Paul Lovejoy, Director, Harriet Tubman Resource Centre on the African
 Diaspora
 Adrian Shubert, Associate Vice-President International
 Ismael M. Montana, Graduate Program in History

  John Hunwick, Northwestern University, on Nehemia Levtzion

  10:00-11:30    Panel 1: The African Diaspora in the Indian Ocean

  Chair: Mohamad Tavakoli-Targhi (University of Toronto)

  Thomas Vernet (Universit Paris 1, Pantheon-Sorbonne), Slave Trade
  and Slavery on the Swahili Coast, 1500-1750

  R. Jackson Armstrong-Ingram (University of Nevada), "Black Pearls":
The
  African Household Slaves of a Nineteenth Century Iranian Merchant
Family

  Alia Paroo (York University), The Ismailis in East Africa from 1835
  to 1914

  Discussant: Michael Salman (UCLA)

  11:30-1:15        Lunch (Founders College)

  1:15-2:45        Panel 2: Slavery in North Africa

  Chair: Jos C. Curto (York University)

  George Michael La Rue (Clarion University), "Dying like Sheep with
  the Rot": The Health of Enslaved Sudanese in the Egyptian Army -
  Myth and Reality, 1820-1835

  Benjamin Brower (Cornell University), The Servile Populations of the
  Algerian Oases Seen Through the French Colonial Archives

  Kim Searcy (Indiana University), Mahdist Proclamations on Slavery,
  the Slave Trade and Emancipation: 1885-1898

  Discussant: John Hunwick (Northwestern University)

  2:45-3:00        Coffee/Tea

  3:00-4:30        Panel 3: Slavery Beyond the Mediterranean

  Chair: Rina Cceres (Universidad de Costa Rica)

  Behnaz Mirzai Asl (York University), Commerce and the Dispersal of
  Africans in Persia

  Abdul Sheriff (Zanzibar Museums), Slavery in Early Islam and the
  Social Composition of the Zanj Rebellion

  Maryna Kravets (University of Toronto), Blacks beyond the Black Sea:
  Eunuchs in the Crimean Khanate

  Discussant: Martin Klein (University of Toronto)

  4:45-6:15        Panel 4: African Muslims in the Americas

  Chair: Carolyn Brown (Rutgers University)

  Sultana Afroz (University of West Indies, Mona), Setting the Record
  Straight, the Invincibility of Islam in Jamaica

  Maureen Warner-Lewis (University of West Indies, Mona), Religious
  Constancy and Compromise Among Nineteenth Centur Caribbean-Based
  African Muslims

  Jalani Niaah (University of West Indies, Mona), "Not a Continent
  for an Island": Rastafari, Representations and History

  Discussant: Paul E. Lovejoy (York University)

  6:30            Reception and Music

  Saturday, October 25, 2003
  8:30-9:00         Coffee/Tea (214 Calumet College)

  9:00-9:45        KEYNOTE

  Introduction: Behnaz Mirzai Asl (York University)

  Ehud R. Toledano (Tel-Aviv University), Ottoman Slaves as Individuals,
  Ottoman Slavery as a Relationship

  Presentation: Yacine Daddi Addoun (York University)

  9:45-11:15     Panel 5: Slavery in the Maghreb

  Chair: Rene Soulodre-La France (King's College, University of
  Western Ontario)

  Chouki El Hamel (Arizona State University), Writing Moroccan Slavery:
  Slave Registers and Slave Definition

  Yacine Daddi Addoun (York University), Racialization of Slavery:
  The End of "White-European" Slavery in Algeria: 1816-1830

  Ismael Musah Montana (York University), Religious Identity and Social
  Consciousness of the Black Slave Community of Tunis in the Nineteenth
  Century

  Discussant: Thabit Abdullah (York University)

  11:15-12:45    Panel 6: Islam and the Abolition of Slavery

  Chair: David Trotman (York University)

  Amal Ghazal (University of Alberta), Debating Slavery: Abolition
  between Muslim Reformers and Conservatives

  Emad Ahmed Helal (Cairo University), The Anti-Slavery Movement in
  Nineteenth Century Egypt: Between Shari`a and Practice

  Bernard K. Freamon (Seton Hall Law School), The 'Ulama' and the
  Abolition of Slavery in Nineteenth Century Egypt: The Role of
  the Modernists

  Discussant: Ehud R. Toledano (Tel-Aviv University)

  12:45-2:00    Lunch

  2:00-3:30    Panel 7: Islam and Slavery in the Central and Western
Sudan

  Chair: Kwabena Akurang-Parry (Shippensburg University)

  Jennifer Lofkrantz (York University), Power Dynamics, Society, and
  Ransoming of New Captives and Long-Term Slaves in West and North-West
  Africa in the Nineteenth Century

  Olatunji Ojo (York University), Islam, Ethnicity and Slave Resistance:
  Hausa 'Mamluks' in Nineteenth Century Yorubaland

  Mohammed Bashir Salau (York University), Slaves in a Muslim City: A
  Survey of Slavery in Nineteenth Century Kano

  Bruce Hall (University of Illinois) Bellah Highwaymen: Slave Banditry
  and Crime in Colonial Northern Mali

  Discussant: Femi Kolapo (University of Guelph)

  3:30-3:45    Coffee/Tea

  3:45-5:15    Panel 8: Conceptions of Slavery and Emancipation

  Chair: Michele Johnson (York University)

  Ibrahim Hamza (York University), Some Historical and Cultural
Definitions
  of Slavery and Freedom Among the Hausa People

  John Philips (Hirosaki University), Reconciling Definitions of Slavery

  Osman Tastan (Ankara University), On the Notion of Slavery in Islamic
  Law: The Concept of Rights and Liberties Encountering the Historical
  Social Realities

  Discussant: Sean Stilwell (University of Vermont)

  Sunday, October 26, 2003
  10:00-10:30     Coffee/Tea (214 Calumet College)

  10:30-12:00    Panel 9: Slavery in Brazil

  Chair: A. Sydney Kanya-Forstner (York University)

  Jos Cairus (York University), "Brothers," "Partners" and "Clubs":
   Muslim Brotherhood and Sufi Practices in the Diaspora in the Shadow
   of the Muslim Uprising's Criminal Court Trials Sources, Bahia (1835)

  Nikolay Dobronravin (Saint-Petersburg State University), Multilingual
  Arabic-script Literacy in 19th Century Brazil and Trinidad:
  New Sources in Dublin, Havre and Salvador (Bahia)

  Mariza C. Soares (Vanderbilt University) and Juliana B. Farias (UFF),
  Religious Tolerance: Black Muslims among White Christians in 19th
  and Early 20th Century in Rio de Janeiro

  Discussant: Joseph C. Miller (University of Virginia)

  12:00-1:30      Lunch

  1:30-2:30       Closing Remarks

   Paul E. Lovejoy, Slavery, the Bilad al-Sudan and the Frontiers of the
   African Diaspora

  2:30                Vote of Thanks: Mohammed Bashir Salau


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