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 |