CHAIR Caroline Gleason-Mercier (THP Junior Fellow)
9:30-10:15 • Julia Prest (University of St Andrews) Writing Enslaved People into the (Hi)story of Theatre Performance in Colonial Saint-Domingue
10:15-11:00 • Scott M. Sanders (Dartmouth College) The Price of Virtue: Enslaved Performance and the Making of French Empire

11:00-11:30 • Coffee Break

CHAIR Jill Burke (THP Senior Fellow, University of Edinburgh)
11:30-12:15 • Sofya Dmitrieva (Voltaire Foundation, University of Oxford) Voltaire among the Peasants: Patriarch of Ferney, Advocate for the Serfs of Saint-Claude

12:15-13:50 • Lunch

CHAIR Samuel Harrison (THP Junior Fellow)
13:50-14:35 • Cristina Trinchero (University of Turin) Voltaire e i servi mainmortables del Jura: strategie narrative e retorico‑stilistiche al servizio della libertà. Il contributo del philosophe di Ferney alla rappresentazione di una realtà e di un simbolo dell’Ancien Régime
14:35-15:20 • Aleksander Musiał (GTA Institute, ETH Zürich) Peaceful slavery or dangerous liberty? Anette Tyszkiewicz-Potocka and the origins of Bertel Thorvaldsen’s Poniatowski monument in Warsaw, ca. 1813-1829

15:20-15:40 • Coffee Break

CHAIR Morgan Golf-French (THP Junior Fellow)
15:40-16:25 • Karīna Janova-Jannava (Riga, Latvia) The Abolitionist’s Paradox: The Image of the Eighteenth-Century Livonian Peasant in the Writings of Heinrich Johann von Jannau and Garlieb Merkel, and Its Afterlife
16:25-17:10 • Obenewaa Oduro-Opuni (University of Arizona) Performing Abolition: Black Protagonism, White Self-Reference, and Managed Freedom in Nesselrode’s Zamor und Zoraide

17:10 • CLOSING REMARKS
Nicholas Cronk (THP Senior Fellow, Voltaire Foundation, University of Oxford), Jill Burke (THP Senior Fellow, University of Edinburgh), Caroline Gleason-Mercier (THP Junior Fellow), Morgan Golf-French (THP Junior Fellow), Samuel Harrison (THP Junior Fellow)