Programme

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Recordings of the following sessions are available on request (contact m.g.paijmans@uva.nl):

• ‘Reclaiming the Enlightenment.’ Interview with Hasana Sharp and Marlene L. Daut (Amsterdam, 28 October).
• ‘Januari’s Ghost.’ Keynote lecture by Alicia Schrikker (Utrecht, 29 October).
• A recording of ‘Silent / Loud Voices / Bodies’ with Sandy Bosmans, Francio Guadeluope, Charissa Granger and Thalia Ostendorf (Amsterdam, 28 October) is available on the Spui25 website.

Thursday 28 October, University of Amsterdam

Location: University Theatre, Nieuwe Doelenstraat 16.

Time	Activity	Location	Speaker and short title
10:15	Welcome with coffee	Hall
10:45	Introduction	UT	Organising committee
11:00	Session 1a Silence and Dreams	UT	Chair: Sophie van de Elzen * Mikki Stelder, ‘Attending to the Leusden’ * Thomas van Binsbergen, ‘A Philosopher’s Dream’ * Sophie Rose, ‘Enlightenment Imaginations’
	Session 1b Literature and Empathy	101a	Chair: Sruti Bala * Sarah Adams, ‘Subversion and the White Self’ * Pichayapat Naisupap, ‘Elephants and Slavery’ * Claudia Zeller, ‘Attitudes on Slavery in Travel Accounts for Children’
12:30	Lunch	Hall
13:30	Session 2a Political Debates	UT	Chair: Karwan Fatah-Black * Gertjan Schutte, ‘Dutch debates about slavery and the “Berbice Rebellion”’ * Philip Post, ‘A Benign Empire?’ * Dirk Alkemade, ‘Pieter Vreede, Abolitionism and Human Rights’
	Session 2b Women’s Voices	101a	Chair: Barnita Bagchi * Gerlov van Engelenhoven, ‘Historical Voices and Silences’ * Claire Morrison, ‘Whitewashing Nature’ * Marijke Huisman, ‘Protestant and Feminist Appropriations’
15:30	Tea	Hall
16:00	Online interview with keynote speakers	UT	Moderators: Rachell Gillett and Marrigje Paijmans * Hasana Sharp * Marlene Daut
17:00	No programme
18:00	Conference dinner	Kantjil en de tijger, Spuistraat 291
21:30	Evening Programme Silent / Loud Voices / Bodies	Spui25	Moderator: Thalia Ostendorf * Charl Landvreugd, ‘A boat came from Braamspunt’ * Charissa Granger and Francio Guadeluope, ‘Trans-Caribbean Theorizing via Trance-Caribbean Daaance’ * Sandy Bosmans, performance
22:30	End of programme

Friday 29 October, Utrecht University

Location: University Library, Drift 21

Time	Activity	Location	Speaker and short title
9:30	Welcome with coffee	D21 0.32
10:00	Keynote lecture	D21 0.32	Moderator: Nancy Jouwe Alicia Schrikker, ‘Januari’s Ghost’
11:00	Coffee	Hall Drift 21
11:30	Session 3 On Tour and on Display	D25 3.03	Chair: Alison Boyd * Maria-Rey Lamslag, ‘The Contested Golden Coach’ * Emmanuel Akwasi Adu-Ampong, ‘Tourism and the Cultural Imagination of Slavery’ * Esther Captain and Jennifer Tosch, ‘Sites of Memory: Drift 27’
	Student programme	D21 0.32	More information can be found here.
13:00	Lunch	Hall Drift 21
14:00	Session 4a Contemporary Culture	D21, 0.32	Chair: Margriet van de Waal * Anne Marieke van der Wal, ‘Kaap AFRIKAans Hip-hop’ * Aafje de Roest, ‘Slavery in Contemporary Dutch Hip-Hop’ * Ayesha Harruna Attah, ‘Uncovering Silence in Slavery’
	Session 4b Archives and Activism	D21, 1.05	Chair: Devin Vartija * Laura Wetherington, ‘Henk Rossouw’s Xamissa’ * Brenda Bikoko, ‘Appropriated Postcoloniality?’ * Karen van Minnen, ‘Mining Inequality’
15:30	Tea	Hall Drift 21
16:00	Panel discussion Anton de Kom in education	D21, 1.05	Moderator: Yra van Dijk * Thalia Ostendorf * Michiel van Kempen * Henna Goudzand * Esther Vogel
17:00	Wrap up	D21, 1.05	Organising committee
17:15	Drinks	Restaurant Gys, Voorstraat 21
18:00	End of conference