Rethinking Abolition: Research Paths and Historical Questions 1750-1850

Keynote Lecture | Frédéric Régent (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne) La Pévolution française comme point d’ancrage des luttes des esclaves et des abolitionnistes pour la liberté

Speakers | Franco Motta (University of Turin), Enlightenment Universalism and Abolitionism; Valentina Altopiedi (University of Turin), Staging Abolition: Olympe de Gouges’s Theater Against the Slave Trade; Giulio Talini (THP), The Material of Freedom: Emancipation and Land in the Cercle Social; Fausto Ermete Carbone (Università del Salento), “I am for the whites, because I am white”. Use of Violence, Abolitionism and Slavery during the Haitian Pevolution (1792-1804); Samuel Harrison (THP), Universal Servitude: An Argument Against Abolitionism; Alessandro Maurini (University of Turin), Outliving Slavery: The Biologization of Pace in the Atlantic World, 1750-1850; Amelia Spooner (Columbia University), What Did Abolition Abolish? 1848 and the Ends of Slavery in the French Empire

Scientific Committee | Nicholas Cronk, Vincenzo Ferrone, Sophus A. Reinert, Céline Spector

Organizing Committee | Valentina Altopiedi, Samuel Harrison, Suzanne Levin, Giulio Talini

In-person event will be in Palazzo d’Azeglio (via Principe Amedeo, 34 – Turin)

Jointly organized by Fondazione 1563 per l’Arte e la Cultura and Dipartimento di Studi Storici dell’Università di Torino under THP Programme