The Antislavery Usable Past
Lead Research Organisation:
University of Hull
Department Name: Social Sciences
Abstract
There are approximately 30 million slaves alive today. Around the world, including in the UK, these disposable people are held against their will, trapped in a situation of control such as a person might control a thing, and forced to work for no pay. This number is more than at any point in history and more people than were transported from Africa to the Western Hemisphere during the entirety of the Atlantic slave trade. It is a number greater than the population of Australia and almost seven times greater than the population of Ireland. It includes around 1.1 million enslaved people in Europe. Over the past 15 years, a growing movement against this new global slavery has achieved many successes, including new legislation, a small number of prosecutions, changes to company supply-chains, and increased public awareness. But it is repeating mistakes of the past. Around the world, it starts from scratch rather than learning from earlier antislavery successes and failures. Focused on urgent liberations and prosecutions, antislavery workers operate within short time frames and rarely draw on the long history of antislavery successes, failures, experiments and strategies. At the same time, the public reads about shocking cases of women enslaved for 30 years in London, children enslaved in rural cannabis factories, and the large number of slaves who mine the conflict minerals used to make our mobile phones and laptops. For many of us, this presence of slavery confounds our understanding of history: wasn't slavery brought to an end? Weren't the slaves emancipated? This confusion extends beyond the public to politicians, policy makers, human rights groups, and educators. Official responses to slavery cases often reflect this confusion, expressing more emotional outrage than clear thinking.
However, responding to recently-expressed interest by antislavery groups and policy makers, including the recent appeal by Luis C. DeBaca (Ambassador in the State Department Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons) for scholars to translate the lessons of abolitionism for contemporary use, our project seeks to provide this movement with a usable past of antislavery examples and methods. We will bring to the present the important lessons from antislavery movements and policies of the past, and help translate those lessons into effective tools for policy makers, civil society, and citizens. As we identify, theorise and embed antislavery as a protest memory for contemporary abolitionism in this way, we will also emphasise that what earlier antislavery generations achieved was harder than what we face today, we don't have to repeat the mistakes of past movements, the voices of survivors are the best signposts to where we should be going next, and the lessons of past antislavery movements offer a way to 'care for the future'.
Throughout the project and across all its strands, we offer in the face of a mammoth task-ending the enslavement of 30 million people-a reminder of past antislavery achievements. For example, on the eve of the American Revolution, few Americans could envision a world in which slavery did not exist. Yet 100 years later, slavery did become illegal in the United States. This was an achievement that stemmed from the collective, varied and ever-evolving protest of countless slaves and abolitionists. Today we have a chance to end slavery, and to do so within our own lifetimes. This will be a watershed for humanity, a moment when we finally reject *the* great lie of history, that some people are sub-human, and embrace instead that great abolitionist truth-the truth that earlier abolitionists tried to teach us-that labour must not be forced and that people are not for sale.
However, responding to recently-expressed interest by antislavery groups and policy makers, including the recent appeal by Luis C. DeBaca (Ambassador in the State Department Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons) for scholars to translate the lessons of abolitionism for contemporary use, our project seeks to provide this movement with a usable past of antislavery examples and methods. We will bring to the present the important lessons from antislavery movements and policies of the past, and help translate those lessons into effective tools for policy makers, civil society, and citizens. As we identify, theorise and embed antislavery as a protest memory for contemporary abolitionism in this way, we will also emphasise that what earlier antislavery generations achieved was harder than what we face today, we don't have to repeat the mistakes of past movements, the voices of survivors are the best signposts to where we should be going next, and the lessons of past antislavery movements offer a way to 'care for the future'.
Throughout the project and across all its strands, we offer in the face of a mammoth task-ending the enslavement of 30 million people-a reminder of past antislavery achievements. For example, on the eve of the American Revolution, few Americans could envision a world in which slavery did not exist. Yet 100 years later, slavery did become illegal in the United States. This was an achievement that stemmed from the collective, varied and ever-evolving protest of countless slaves and abolitionists. Today we have a chance to end slavery, and to do so within our own lifetimes. This will be a watershed for humanity, a moment when we finally reject *the* great lie of history, that some people are sub-human, and embrace instead that great abolitionist truth-the truth that earlier abolitionists tried to teach us-that labour must not be forced and that people are not for sale.
Planned Impact
Over the past 15 years the global antislavery movement has experienced exponential growth. There are now antislavery groups in most countries, ranging from the tiny and suppressed El Hor in Mauritania, to the small but powerful Norwegian Anti-Slavery Society, to the many British and North American campaigning groups each with more than 100,000 members, and the Walk Free campaign with more than 5 million registered supporters worldwide. Altogether there are likely to be 10 million people who think of themselves as antislavery activists. But the growth of this movement masks disorganization, widely different interpretations of the needed work, and a profoundly ahistorical consciousness. Our project will foster critical memory within the movement, reclaiming varied modes of protest from the narrow and nostalgic storyline of antislavery's past. By the end of our project, and during our follow-through year (5), we hope to observe and measure:
1. Early shifts in scholarship toward incorporating contemporary slavery and antislavery into studies of slavery more broadly (which usually end in the late 19th century).
2. Early shifts in scholarship toward debating the ideas of a usable past and protest memory, so that the field of Memory Studies has expanded from its current focus on trauma, memory-as-burden and nostalgia.
3. Changes in how antislavery organisations use imagery, from their current tendency toward sensationalist images of slave passivity and abolitionist paternalism to a liberatory aesthetic of slave rebellion and empowerment.
4. Changes in how antislavery organisations use slaves' voices, from their current tendency to just quote or paraphrase, to placing slave narratives at their heart of the movement: in their campaign materials, in their own strategies (for we believe narratives can be analysed for antislavery ideas and solutions), and even in their leadership structures (where former slaves could take a more central leadership role).
5. The incorporation of several other abolitionist lessons from our seminars and resources into NGO campaigns and approaches.
6. The adoption of the Bellagio-Harvard Guidelines by NGOs and governments as the standard against which to measure the global population of enslaved people and the global phenomena of slavery and trafficking.
7. An increased awareness on the part of policy makers of the lessons of the antislavery past as they confront and address the slavery of the present, as seen in legislation, regulation, and the support of civil society organisations.
8. Shifts in how our heritage partners tackle the topic of slavery, to incorporate more material on contemporary forms in their exhibitions and public programming.
9. The use of our Congo photographs exhibit by local antislavery groups in Congo, as part of their ongoing work against the enslavement of 500,000 people there today.
10. A collection of short films submitted to Unchosen by filmmakers that incorporate history as a result of our work on Unchosen's themed competition series.
11. The creation of sustainable profession-specific networks, for artists, historians and lawyers, each achieving impact in their specific fields.
12. The use of our resources in school teaching.
13. New knowledge and application of the usable past on the part of the antislavery workers who take our MA module.
14. Potential changes in how we will approach the 200th anniversary of the abolition of slavery in the British Empire in 2033, based on our documentation and analysis of how Britain commemorated the bicentenary of the ending of the slave trade in 2007 (the limitations and successes of that 2007 bicentenary).
15. Shifts in public knowledge about the antislavery past and present, via our regional public presentations to communities with strong historical links to past slavery and abolitionism.
16. Widespread dissemination of our open education resources and digital archives, via multiple link-backs, page views and downloads.
1. Early shifts in scholarship toward incorporating contemporary slavery and antislavery into studies of slavery more broadly (which usually end in the late 19th century).
2. Early shifts in scholarship toward debating the ideas of a usable past and protest memory, so that the field of Memory Studies has expanded from its current focus on trauma, memory-as-burden and nostalgia.
3. Changes in how antislavery organisations use imagery, from their current tendency toward sensationalist images of slave passivity and abolitionist paternalism to a liberatory aesthetic of slave rebellion and empowerment.
4. Changes in how antislavery organisations use slaves' voices, from their current tendency to just quote or paraphrase, to placing slave narratives at their heart of the movement: in their campaign materials, in their own strategies (for we believe narratives can be analysed for antislavery ideas and solutions), and even in their leadership structures (where former slaves could take a more central leadership role).
5. The incorporation of several other abolitionist lessons from our seminars and resources into NGO campaigns and approaches.
6. The adoption of the Bellagio-Harvard Guidelines by NGOs and governments as the standard against which to measure the global population of enslaved people and the global phenomena of slavery and trafficking.
7. An increased awareness on the part of policy makers of the lessons of the antislavery past as they confront and address the slavery of the present, as seen in legislation, regulation, and the support of civil society organisations.
8. Shifts in how our heritage partners tackle the topic of slavery, to incorporate more material on contemporary forms in their exhibitions and public programming.
9. The use of our Congo photographs exhibit by local antislavery groups in Congo, as part of their ongoing work against the enslavement of 500,000 people there today.
10. A collection of short films submitted to Unchosen by filmmakers that incorporate history as a result of our work on Unchosen's themed competition series.
11. The creation of sustainable profession-specific networks, for artists, historians and lawyers, each achieving impact in their specific fields.
12. The use of our resources in school teaching.
13. New knowledge and application of the usable past on the part of the antislavery workers who take our MA module.
14. Potential changes in how we will approach the 200th anniversary of the abolition of slavery in the British Empire in 2033, based on our documentation and analysis of how Britain commemorated the bicentenary of the ending of the slave trade in 2007 (the limitations and successes of that 2007 bicentenary).
15. Shifts in public knowledge about the antislavery past and present, via our regional public presentations to communities with strong historical links to past slavery and abolitionism.
16. Widespread dissemination of our open education resources and digital archives, via multiple link-backs, page views and downloads.
Organisations
- University of Hull (Lead Research Organisation)
- Yolé! Africa (Collaboration)
- York University Toronto (Collaboration)
- Being Human Festival (Collaboration)
- Museum of African American History (Collaboration)
- African and Caribbean Support Organisation Northern Ireland (Collaboration)
- Utrecht University (Collaboration)
- Historians Against Slavery (Collaboration, Project Partner)
- Royal Institute of Philosophy (Collaboration)
- Unchosen (Collaboration, Project Partner)
- Masaryk University (Collaboration)
- University College London (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM (Collaboration)
- Anti-Slavery International (Collaboration)
- Independent Anti Slavery Commissioner (Collaboration)
- United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (Collaboration)
- Walk Free Foundation (Collaboration)
- International Slavery Museum (Collaboration)
- Freedom Fund UK (Collaboration)
- University of Central Lancashire (Collaboration)
- Yale University (Collaboration, Project Partner)
- Home Office (Project Partner)
- National Museums Liverpool (Project Partner)
- Anti-Slavery (Project Partner)
- Love146 (UK) (Project Partner)
- Unseen UK (Project Partner)
- Frederick Douglass Family Initiatives (Project Partner)
- International Justice Mission (Project Partner)
- Designers Against Child Slavery (Project Partner)
- Polaris Project (Project Partner)
- Hull City Council (Project Partner)
- London Young Lawyers Group (Project Partner)
- Free the Slaves (Project Partner)
- University of Richmond (Project Partner)
- Autograph ABP (Project Partner)
- Walk Free (Project Partner)
- Antislavery Literature Project (Project Partner)
Publications
Wills M
(2016)
The Royal Navy and the British Atlantic World, c. 1750-1820
Trodd, Z
(2015)
The Cambridge Companion to American Civil Rights Literature
Trodd, Z
(2016)
Visualising Slavery: Art Across the African Diaspora
TRODD Z
(2015)
Martha Schoolman, Abolitionist Geographies (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2014, $25.00). Pp. 240. isbn 978 0 8166 8075 7.
in Journal of American Studies
TRODD Z
(2015)
John Brown's Spirit: The Abolitionist Aesthetic of Emancipatory Martyrdom in Early Antilynching Protest Literature
in Journal of American Studies
Trodd Z
(2015)
The Cambridge Companion to American Civil Rights Literature
TRODD Z
(2016)
Louis DeCaro Jr. , Freedom's Dawn: The Last Days of John Brown in Virginia (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2015, $45.00/£29.95). Pp. 476. isbn 978 1 4422 3672 1.
in Journal of American Studies
| Title | 'Pathway' Murals project, AHRC Connected Communities |
| Description | In 2016, the Centre for Research in Race and Rights (part of the Rights and Justice Research Priority Area), and the New Art Exchange joined together to create Nottingham's first black history mural. The four-month project transformed an old wall in the heart of Hyson Green into a vibrant and inspiring piece of public art. It depicts the diverse histories and potential futures of Nottingham's Global Quarter, and explores utopia and community activism. Project Team: Skinder Hundal (Executive Producer); Bo Olawoye (Manager); Melanie Kidd (Producer); Professor Zoe Trodd, Dr. Katie Donington and Hannah Jeffery (Directors); Maxine Davis and NG7 Voices Youth Forum (Participants); Tim Weeden and Andrew Wright (Mural Artists). |
| Type Of Art | Artwork |
| Year Produced | 2016 |
| Impact | Strengthening of existing relationships between C3R, ASUP project, the New Art Exchange and Boseda Olawoye. Built new relationships with artists and youth groups in Hyson Green. Artist Andrew Wright indicated he would pursue further funding for more murals in sites related to the history of slavery. I advised Andrew on which funding bodies to approach, how he might structure the project, historical background and resources, possible sites, and academic and heritage partners who might be interested in pursuing this. The community response to the project and launch event was largely positive. |
| URL | http://rightsandjustice.nottingham.ac.uk/items/show/17 |
| Title | Assistant Curator, La Lucha Continua/The Struggle Continues: 1985 & 2017, The Loisaida Center, East Village, New York City |
| Description | Assisting the curation of an exhibition that celebrates the 30th anniversary of the 26 La Lucha Continua murals painted by Artmakers Inc. in 1985. The exhibition explores the social, political and cultural context in which the murals were created, as well as looking at present-day Loisaida, assessing how the neighbourhood and issues have changed. The exhibition is funded in part by the Humanities New York Action Grant. |
| Type Of Art | Artistic/Creative Exhibition |
| Year Produced | 2017 |
| Impact | Working with the residents in the local area on contemporary issues concerning social, political and racial inequality. |
| Title | Assistant, Journey to Justice Exhibition, National Justice Museum, Nottingham |
| Description | Installed a pop-up exhibition of Journey to Justice on the Civil Rights Movement, Black Power Movement and local history, at the Nonsuch Theatre, Nottingham. Co-running a training session on the US Civil Rights Movement for secondary school teachers from Nottingham. Assisting throughout the lifecycle of the permanent exhibition at the National Justice Museum by being a volunteer guide from April to June. |
| Type Of Art | Artistic/Creative Exhibition |
| Year Produced | 2017 |
| Impact | Public engagement on local Civil Rights history. |
| Title | Co-director of Connected Communities AHRC project, Nottingham |
| Description | Assisted in the creation of Nottingham's first Black History Mural in Forest Fields/Hyson Green (depicts George Africanus.) |
| Type Of Art | Artwork |
| Year Produced | 2016 |
| Impact | Positive reception from Hyson Green community with discussions over new mural for the area. |
| Title | Contributor to Picturing Frederick Douglass Exhibition, the Museum of African American History, Boston |
| Description | Created exhibition of Frederick Douglass murals to be displayed at the Boston Museum of African American History with interactive touch screen displays for visitors to navigate through Douglass murals around the U.S., providing contextual information for each mural. |
| Type Of Art | Artistic/Creative Exhibition |
| Year Produced | 2016 |
| Impact | Exhibition was extended from ending in July 2017 until December 2017 because of popularity |
| Title | Curator of AHRC-Funded Connected Communities Project at the Utopia Fair Exhibition, Somerset House, London |
| Description | Connected to the AHRC-funded Connected Communities Grant, curated a pop-up exhibition for Somerset House's Utopia Fair in London. |
| Type Of Art | Artistic/Creative Exhibition |
| Year Produced | 2016 |
| Impact | This pop-up exhibition was later displayed at the Nottingham Contemporary for The October Dialogues Conference, as well as the National Justice Museum, Nottingham for the Journey to Justice exhibition. |
| Title | Picturing Frederick Douglass |
| Description | An exhibition of 100 original photographs at Boston African American Museum drawn from my book Picturing Frederick Douglass (2015) |
| Type Of Art | Artistic/Creative Exhibition |
| Year Produced | 2016 |
| Impact | - Impact update to follow when the exhibition ends in 2017 |
| Title | Yole!Africa: Film |
| Description | Resulting from collaboration with ASUP, this artistic film was created by Yole!Africa and focuses on reactivating historical memory in Goma, Democratic Republic of the Congo. It highlights how photographs from the Alice Seeley Harris archive were exhibited in the public marketplace and within workshops. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Impact | The film was screened at the Congo International Film Festival |
| Title | You Should Know Me: Photography Project |
| Description | London-based artist Letitia Kamaye has created a project called You Should Know Me, where she seeks to interview members of the Congolese diaspora in London, and photograph sites of Congolese importance. |
| Type Of Art | Image |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Impact | Kamaye's photographs will be displayed on the ASUP website, and she will also showcase her photographs at the Decolonising the Archive event in London in March 2019. |
| Description | Please see the other version of this award (2016-2019) |
| Exploitation Route | Please see the other version of this award (2016-2019) |
| Sectors | Communities and Social Services/Policy,Digital/Communication/Information Technologies (including Software),Education,Government, Democracy and Justice,Culture, Heritage, Museums and Collections |
| URL | http://moodle.nottingham.ac.uk/course/view.php?id=93558 |
| Description | Development of museum exhibits, art production. |
| First Year Of Impact | 2014 |
| Sector | Communities and Social Services/Policy,Education,Leisure Activities, including Sports, Recreation and Tourism,Government, Democracy and Justice,Culture, Heritage, Museums and Collections,Security and Diplomacy |
| Impact Types | Cultural,Societal,Policy & public services |
| Description | APuZ- German Parliamentarian Supplement |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Implementation circular/rapid advice/letter to e.g. Ministry of Health |
| URL | http://www.bpb.de/apuz/216480/sklaverei-und-internationales-recht |
| Description | Cited in Report of the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Trafficking in Persons, A/68/256, 2016. |
| Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
| Policy Influence Type | Citation in other policy documents |
| URL | http://www.ohchr.org/documents/issues/Trafficking/A-68-256-English.pdf |
| Description | Code of Practice on the Exercise of Maritime Powers Under the Modern Slavery Act 2015 |
| Geographic Reach | Local/Municipal/Regional |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| URL | http://blogs.qub.ac.uk/hrc/files/2016/01/QUB-HRC-Comments-on-Maritime-Powers-21-Dec-2015.pdf |
| Description | Consultation on the Transparency in Supply Chains Clause in the Modern Slavery Bill' |
| Geographic Reach | Local/Municipal/Regional |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| Description | Florida State Anti-Trafficking Task Force, address by Kevin Bales |
| Geographic Reach | Local/Municipal/Regional |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Description | Freedom Fund |
| Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| Impact | As a director of The Freedom Fund, Kevin Bales brings the usable past to bear upon the activities of the first private donor fund dedicated to identifying and investing in the most effective front-line efforts to end slavery. The Freedom Fund invests in anti-slavery interventions, scaling those that succeed, shares its knowledge, to encourage best practice and greater collaboration in the sector, measure impacts, to improve its strategy over time, and align diverse disciplines, to develop more effective approaches to end slavery. In the past two years, working with its committed frontline partners in India, Nepal, Ethiopia and Thailand, it has: liberated 4,761 men, women and children from slavery ensured 15,968 children at risk of slavery instead get to go to school assisted with 650 legal cases against traffickers supported 92 anti-slavery organisations around the world, 63 of them in hotspot projects in high slavery prevalence countries, 29 working internationally |
| URL | http://freedomfund.org/about/directors/ |
| Description | Gave Evidence at the Inter-American Court of Human Rights |
| Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
| Policy Influence Type | Citation in other policy documents |
| Impact | The determination of the Inter-American Court in the Trabalhadores da Fazenda Brasil Verde, took the 2012 Bellagio-Harvard Guidelines which I initiated through my Slavery as the Powers Attaching to the Right of Ownership AHRC grant, and made it part of the established international law in the Americas. In this regard, the Antislavery Usable Past grant, which provided funding for the dissemination of the Guidelines, has provided to deliver a step-change in the fight against modern slavery. This is so as the established legal definition of slavery, which previously was thought not to apply in international law was accepted by the Court to apply (some 90 years after it was first established in the 1926 Slavery Convention) on the basis of the development of the 2012 Bellagio-Harvard Guidelines, my Written Testimony, and my Expert Evidence given to the Court. In legal terms, this determination establishes at the regional level of the Americas that modern cases of slavery are to be prosecuted and thus provided for the first time in 90 years, the possibility of the prohibition of slavery being enforced. In legal terms, this impact is fundamental: previous to the 2012 Bellagio-Harvard Guidelines and its acceptance by the Inter-American Court in 2016 there existed an international consensus that slavery (again: in law) did not exist, and thus those who enslaved could not be prosecuted. The Inter-American Court's judgement is the end of the beginning: It is a recognised that parameters can be place around modern manifestation of slavery and thus can, be prosecuted. What remains now is to move to have this determination accepted in other regional and domestic settings. That said, the reach of this impact in currently regional (the Americas, North and South), but its reach may extent international as other regional and domestic courts look to this determination as being persuasive. |
| URL | http://www.corteidh.or.cr/docs/casos/articulos/seriec_318_por.pdf |
| Description | Joint Meeting US Government departments, Washington DC, Kevin Bales address on measuring prevalence of slavery |
| Geographic Reach | North America |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| Description | Legatum Institute and Modern Slavery Bill |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Impact | Abolitionism, Oldfield explained, brought Britain together in a mass extra-parliamentary moral uprising for the first time in its history. The challenge they faced was huge. Slavery was a fact of life in 18th-century Britain. The abolitionists had to recalibrate not just the law but the moral fibre of the nation. Yet individuals with a vested interest in the slave trade made up Britain's oligarchic political structures. The abolitionists therefore relied on petitions to pressure parliament. They built "monster petitions" the size of tree trunks, which they carried into parliament on the shoulders of ten people, illustrating the weight of public opinion they brought with them. This sea-change in public opinion spread to every sphere of society. Josiah Wedgwood's "Kneeling Slave" image with the slogan "Am I Not a Man and a Brother?" became a must-have item for the fashion-conscious, and the plan of the Brookes slave ship, illustrating the cramped conditions of slaves in transit, circulated widely as one of the slave trade's horror stories. Answering questions from Cristina Odone, Director of Communications at the Legatum Institute, on women's role in the movement, Oldfield explained that women were crucial to the anti-consumption campaign that forced British business to its knees. They boycotted slave-made Caribbean goods in favour of sugar and coffee from the East Indies. Mike Dottridge, a human rights adviser to the United Nations, drew parallels between the entrenched business interests that abolitionists had to fight in the 19th century and the powerful corporate lobby in British politics today. Parosha Chandran, a human rights barrister at 1 Pump Court Chambers, voiced concerns about the re-enslavement of freed victims. Asked whether an adaptation of the 19th-century apprenticeship scheme could break the cycle, Oldfield explained that the idea was itself a failure. The abolitionists failed to ensure that former slaves were aware of their rights under the scheme, leading to further exploitation and, ultimately, the abolition of apprenticeships in 1838. Revd Rachel Carnegie, Director of the Anglican Alliance, asked about the role of religion in Britain's first abolitionist movement. Oldfield explained that non-mainstream Christian denominations, such as the Quakers, used abolitionism as a way to unite. The eventual effect of that unison and activism in support of abolitionism had a powerful effect on British civil society. Frank Field MP advocated the need to "call a spade a spade". Referring to the problem as "modern slavery" rather than "human trafficking", he argued, allows the debate to develop in a more targeted and coherent fashion, because "trafficking" is associated with the commercial and impersonal. Once "slavery" is the term around which the debate is centred, Field continued, it is important not just to report on the issue, but also to systematically update and substantiate research in the area, and to provide a clear direction for positive action and engagement. As an example, Field cited the power of the Commonwealth. Many of the supply chains tainted by slavery pass through former Commonwealth territory, he explained. Therefore the anti-slavery cause has the potential to reunite the Commonwealth countries behind a clearly-defined moral agenda, in a manner reminiscent of their successes in the abolition of apartheid. This, Field claimed, could give the British Commonwealth a totally new lease of life. Field stressed the value of encouraging former slaves to come forward and speak about their experience publically. Doing so would bring to life an otherwise often abstract issue whose atrocities are difficult to imagine, he argued. The success of the first abolitionist movement, Field claimed, was dependent on the powerful civil society in Britain at the time. Correspondence societies wrote letters en masse to Members of Parliament, demanding their support for the abolitionist cause. The Church, Field argued, is the one institution in Britain with the political and popular wherewithal to replicate this today. |
| Description | Public Consultation: Modern Slavery Act 2015 -- DoJ NI -- Maritime Powers |
| Geographic Reach | Local/Municipal/Regional |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| URL | https://www.dojni.gov.uk/consultations/consultation-code-practice-exercise-maritime-powers-under-mod... |
| Description | Public Consultation: Modern Slavery Bill 2014 -- Written Evidence |
| Geographic Reach | Local/Municipal/Regional |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| Impact | Written Submission to the Joint Committee (House of Lords, House of Commons) on the UK Draft Modern Slavery Bill, April 2014. Cited on the three occasions by the Joint Committee in their Report on the Draft Modern Slavery Bill, April 2014, including using the definition of slavery model on the 2012 Bellagio-Harvard Guidelines. |
| URL | http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/jt201314/jtselect/jtslavery/166/166.pdf |
| Description | Public Consultation: UK Modern Slavery Bill -- Oral Evidence |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| Impact | I was asked to twice submit written evidence and to once appear to give oral evidence at Westminster in the drafting of the Modern Slavery Bill, my work on both the definition of slavery and other types of exploitation as well on supply chain was brought into that process. |
| URL | http://www.law.qub.ac.uk/schools/SchoolofLaw/News/Title,442908,en.html |
| Description | Public Consultation: on the Transparency in Supply Chains Clause in the Modern Slavery Act 2015 |
| Geographic Reach | Local/Municipal/Regional |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| URL | https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/modern-slavery-and-supply-chains |
| Description | Set out States' Antislavery Obligations at the United Nations Headquarters |
| Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| URL | https://www.eventbrite.com/e/on-states-anti-slavery-obligations-tickets-32125318693# |
| Description | Submission of Amicus Curiae Brief on Forced Marriage to Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia |
| Geographic Reach | Asia |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| Description | The No Project |
| Geographic Reach | Europe |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Impact | Zoe Trodd is an adviser to the No Project, an NGO based in Europe that campaigns against modern slavery. She worked with its director to refine a new campaign video, about slavery in gold-mining, and to make additions to the organisation's Guidelines for Artists documents. |
| URL | http://thenoproject.org/ |
| Description | UN Security Council |
| Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| Impact | The Freedom Fund used Kevin Bales' research into slavery and conflict to brief the UN Security Council during its first ever debate on human trafficking and modern slavery. The debate focused on the connection with armed conflict. The Freedom Fund called for the Security Council to label widespread and systematic human trafficking by armed groups as a crime against humanity, appoint a Special Envoy to better organise and focus UN efforts, and support supply chain transparency efforts. The outcome of the debate was a Presidential Statement calling for the UN Secretary General to report back to the Security Council in 12 months on progress in achieving measures outlined in the statement. This means that the issue remains firmly on the agenda of the Council, and hence provides the opportunity for further high level engagement. In addition to UN Security Council engagement, the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court has publicly responded to the report, pledging the commitment of the ICC to "highlight the severity of such crimes and hold the perpetrators accountable". |
| URL | http://freedomfund.org/blog/slavery-and-the-united-nations/ |
| Description | AHRC Connected Communities Festival |
| Amount | £15,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 02/2016 |
| End | 07/2016 |
| Description | British Academy Rising Star Engagement Award |
| Amount | £15,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | The British Academy |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 03/2015 |
| End | 03/2016 |
| Description | British Acdemy Rising Star Engagement Award |
| Amount | £14,997 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | EN150148 |
| Organisation | The British Academy |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 03/2016 |
| End | 03/2017 |
| Description | Discipline Bridging Award |
| Amount | £25,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | University of Nottingham |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 08/2015 |
| End | 07/2016 |
| Description | Forced Labour Programme |
| Amount | £25,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 09/2013 |
| End | 08/2015 |
| Description | Research Priority Area Funding |
| Amount | £33,800 (GBP) |
| Organisation | University of Nottingham |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 08/2015 |
| End | 08/2016 |
| Description | Research Priority Area Step-Change Funding |
| Amount | £299,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | University of Nottingham |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 08/2016 |
| End | 07/2019 |
| Title | Application of Multiple Systems Estimation technique to measurement of modern slavery |
| Description | Why are there no 'research tools or methods' appropriate to social sciences on the list above? "Model of mechanisms or symptoms - human" is the closest thing to this method, but as a descriptor is both odd and inappropriate. This statistical technique originated in the estimation of wild populations, was adopted into estimation of victims of mass atrocities, and in this case was further adapted into estimating the hidden population of trafficking/slavery victims. Use of this technique broke through a long-time barrier which prevented the accurate measurement of the 'dark figure' and the population of enslaved people in developed countries. |
| Type Of Material | Model of mechanisms or symptoms - human |
| Year Produced | 2015 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | UK Home Office altered their resource allocations and anti-crime strategy based on the new more accurate estimates provided by this technique, UK government and the UK Modern Slavery Act was guided in its policy an resources allocation recommendation by these new estimates. After technique was published, it was adopted by governments of the Netherlands and Spain, as well as adopted by the UN Office on Drugs and Crime for to be used in a series of European countries. |
| Title | Adaptation and application of multiple systems estimation to modern slavery estimates for the first time. |
| Description | This statistical technique originated in the estimation of wild populations, was adopted into estimation of victims of mass atrocities, and in this case was further adapted into estimating the hidden population of trafficking/slavery victims. Use of this technique broke through a long-time barrier which prevented the accurate measurement of the 'dark figure' and the population of enslaved people in developed countries. |
| Type Of Material | Data analysis technique |
| Year Produced | 2016 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | UK Home Office altered their resource allocations and anti-crime strategy based on the new more accurate estimates provided by this technique, UK government and the UK Modern Slavery Act was guided in its policy an resources allocation recommendation by these new estimates. After technique was published, it was adopted by governments of the Netherlands and Spain, as well as adopted by the UN Office on Drugs and Crime for to be used in a series of European countries. |
| Title | Global Slavery Index 2018 data set |
| Description | The full Global Slavery Index data base of 169 countries as well as extensive variables measuring vulnerability to enslavement and government responses to modern slavery is made freely available via the GSI website along with methodological materials. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2018 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | Data is provided yearly since 2014. National governments use these data to explore their region, or to consider different policy responses they might make to modern slavery. |
| URL | http://www.globalslaveryindex.org |
| Description | African and Caribbean Support Organisation of Northern Ireland |
| Organisation | African and Caribbean Support Organisation Northern Ireland |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | Organisation and hosting of a public event 'Dealing with the Past, Looking to the Future: An Intercultural Dialogue on Human Rights and Justice'. The Antislavery Usable Past research team provided the infrastructure for the hosting of a collaborative event, as well as organising and promoting the public forum. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The African and Caribbean Support Organisation of Northern Ireland (ACSONI) provided valuable connections to the community of African and Caribbean people living in Northern Ireland, facilitating dialogue to engage local communities in the issues surrounding reparations. |
| Impact | A Public Forum hosted by the Antislavery Usable Past team in collaboration with ACSONI engaged the public with issues relating to the research of the team. The event brought members of the public and local African and Caribbean communities together with academics, prominent politicians and the Hon. Consul at the Consulate of St Vincent and the Grenadines in Northern Ireland together in a cultural event which fostered cross-community dialogue on the issue of reparations. |
| Start Year | 2016 |
| Description | Anti-Slavery International |
| Organisation | Anti-Slavery International |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | As Special Adviser, my role has just commenced and is meant to call on States to implement domestic legislation related to slavery. In 2016 hosted, in Belfast, a one-day Workshop to start to develop Anti-Slavery International's Model Legislation11 June 2016. |
| Collaborator Contribution | providing access to UN bodies and material required to carry out activities |
| Impact | nothing as yet |
| Start Year | 2015 |
| Description | Being Human Festival |
| Organisation | Being Human Festival |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | We organised a three-part series for the national Being Human Festival in November 2016, including an event on Nottingham becoming a slavery-free city. Kevin Bales and Zoe Trodd were two of the main speakers at the event. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The Being Human festival funded our three-part series, with venue costs. |
| Impact | The event launched a new Modern Slavery partnership in the city: http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/news/pressreleases/2016/november/making-nottingham-a-slavery-free-city.aspx |
| Start Year | 2016 |
| Description | CSiW - Forced Marriage in War |
| Organisation | York University Toronto |
| Department | The Harriet Tubman Institute |
| Country | Canada |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Assisting in providing a legal basis for considerations of forced marriage -- as conjugal slavery -- in war |
| Collaborator Contribution | Providing factual examples of as conjugal slavery in war which allowed for the production of a chapter in my 2012 book Slavery in International Law |
| Impact | Chapter: "Forced Marriage, Slavery Qua Enslavment and the Civil War in Sierra Leone", Slavery in International Law: Of Human Exploitation and Trafficking, Martinus Nijhoff, 2013, pp. 293-324. |
| Start Year | 2010 |
| Description | Collaboration with Walk Free Foundation in the production of the annual Global Slavery Index |
| Organisation | Walk Free Foundation |
| Country | Australia |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | Our research team provides statistical support, writing, authorship, and needed media appearances both at the time of the annual launch of the Index, and year round in response to media inquiries. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The key and largest in the millions of dollars paid to the Gallup World Poll for the surveys in many countries each year upon which the Index rests. Also the staff, research and statistical, that co-produce the Index. Plus the large cost of the Launch of the Index each year. |
| Impact | Annual editions of the Global Slavery Index (GSI), plus direct input, advice, and policy review to national governments who respond to the Index with requests for assistance. As of 2016, we have now signed a partnership agreement with the Walk Free Foundation to formally collaborate on the GSI at the University of Nottingham, led by Kevin Bales. The GSI is a country by country estimation of slavery's prevalence, together with information about the steps each government has taken to respond. It allows an objective comparison and assessment of both the problem and the adequacy of response in 167 countries. Kevin Bales, the grant PI, is the lead author on the index. The most recent GSI (2016) covered 99% of the world's population, and was supported by extensive on-the-ground research through the Gallup World Poll. The partnership allows the exchange of knowledge and expertise with our team, including access to Gallup data to enable secondary analysis and collaboration on the government response database. As the most robust metric available, the GSI's global reach in bolstering public awareness and support for policy and enforcement was evident in the awareness figures from the June 2016 launch: over 2000 traditional media articles, 250 million Twitter impressions, and more than 255,000 website viewings within a week of its release. |
| Start Year | 2014 |
| Description | Collaboration with the Freedom Fund on training for frontline workers and research on global challenges |
| Organisation | Freedom Fund UK |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | Collaboration supported mental health trainings in late October 2016 in SE Nepal (basic awareness of mental health and self-care for frontline workers), as well as supporting a convening in dec. 2016 that reviewed what's been effective in anti-slavery interventions during the past year, and what might be changed or improved in the planning of rehabilitative and reintegrative work with slavery survivors in the coming year. Further joint fieldwork was carried out in two locations in Maharashtra: 1. villages with high levels of hereditary debt bondage slavery working in sandstone quarries (with resultant very high mortality from silicosis); 2. ground-truthing data and surveying of slave-base brick kilns in preparation for larer satellite based study of number and type of brick kilns in the "brick belt". |
| Collaborator Contribution | Freedom fund provided just at half the total budget, organised meeting and logistics, and this work feeds into collaborative development of both articles and joint grant proposals. |
| Impact | An ESRC GCRF Impact Accelerator grant grew from this work. |
| Start Year | 2015 |
| Description | Historians Against Slavery |
| Organisation | Historians Against Slavery |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | We have expanded this US-based organisation to the UK, bringing together UK historians into a network, with launch workshop, new speakers' bureau and a large conference scheduled for 2017 |
| Collaborator Contribution | US directors of Historians Against Slavery visited for the launch workshop, will host their biennial conference in Liverpool in 2017 (rather than at the National Underground Railroad Museum in Ohio), and welcomed us as an official UK sub-committee. |
| Impact | New UK-based branch of HAS 2017 conference Network map (digital) of UK historians Speakers' bureau New digital resource of slavery walking trails |
| Start Year | 2015 |
| Description | Independent Antislavery Commissioner Office |
| Organisation | Independent Anti Slavery Commissioner |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | We are providing research team members to work on two new joint projects: The first mapping of contemporary slavery research around the UK: http://www.antislaverycommissioner.co.uk/news-insights/help-create-uks-first-mapping-of-modern-slavery-research/ And the first mapping and analysis of modern antislavery partnerships around the UK: http://www.antislaverycommissioner.co.uk/news-insights/launch-of-research-into-uk-modern-slavery-partnerships/ |
| Collaborator Contribution | The Commissioner's office provides expertise, research collaboration, data and partnership links. |
| Impact | To be updated at the end of the projects (autumn 2017) |
| Start Year | 2016 |
| Description | International Slavery Museum |
| Organisation | International Slavery Museum |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | We are collaborating on an international conference in 2017 (at the museum's 10 year anniversary) and on new educational resources. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The partner has arranged an internship for one of our PhD students and is donating its space for free during our October 2017 conference. The ISM director spoke at our launch event for Historians Against Slavery UK, and has arranged a panel about the ISM's first 10 years for our October conference. |
| Impact | Biennial Historians Against Slavery conference: October 2017 |
| Start Year | 2014 |
| Description | Museum of African American History |
| Organisation | Museum of African American History |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Zoe Trodd curated an exhibition based on her book Picturing Frederick Douglass, which opened at the Museum in June 2016 and will close in December 2017. It is the first major exhibition of Frederick Douglass photographs, extends across two floors of the museum, and has attracted thousands of visitors since its opening. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The museum funded the exhibition, including all object loans, staffing, space, installation costs, interactive displays, new graphic panels, launch events, and schools programming. |
| Impact | Large-scale exhibit New digital displays Schools and public workshops |
| Start Year | 2016 |
| Description | PhD School on Antislavery and Human Trafficking |
| Organisation | Masaryk University |
| Department | Faculty of Law |
| Country | Czech Republic |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Initiated collaboration with Masaryk University, the Utrecht Network (http://www.utrecht-network.org/) and United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime to develop and host a week-long PhD School on Antislavery and Human Trafficking. The Antislavery Usable Past team conceptualised and actualised this innovative PhD School, the first of its kind. Our Investigators travelled to the Czech Republic and taught and facilitated the discussions amongst PhD Candidates, further developing our Postgradute Research Network by hosting 19 students from 12 different countries. The Antislavery Usable Past provided partial funding; with further funding coming from the host institution and the participants. |
| Collaborator Contribution | - Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic: Provided the physical space, made local arrangements in regard to accommodations and activities. - Utrecht Network: provided further academics to engage with PhD Candidates - United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime: hosted a one-day field-trip giving PhD Candidates insights into the work of UNODC in regard to human trafficking. |
| Impact | The collaboration was multi-disciplinary: The PhD School was sold as a five-day interdisciplinary PhD School focused on antislavery and trafficking. The School was open to any PhD candidate whose dissertation were focused on issues of slavery, antislavery, or trafficking; be it historical or contemporary. The School allowed PhD Candidates to develop a network of early career scholars of like-interest; learn practical academic skills and multi- and inter -disciplinary methods; and engage with leading scholars in the field. As for disciplines involved were, from the established Academics: Anthropology, ,History, Law, American Literature, and Sociology. From the PhD Candidates: Anthropology, Business/Management,History, Law, and Sociology/Social Work. |
| Start Year | 2015 |
| Description | PhD School on Antislavery and Human Trafficking |
| Organisation | United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime |
| Country | Global |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Initiated collaboration with Masaryk University, the Utrecht Network (http://www.utrecht-network.org/) and United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime to develop and host a week-long PhD School on Antislavery and Human Trafficking. The Antislavery Usable Past team conceptualised and actualised this innovative PhD School, the first of its kind. Our Investigators travelled to the Czech Republic and taught and facilitated the discussions amongst PhD Candidates, further developing our Postgradute Research Network by hosting 19 students from 12 different countries. The Antislavery Usable Past provided partial funding; with further funding coming from the host institution and the participants. |
| Collaborator Contribution | - Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic: Provided the physical space, made local arrangements in regard to accommodations and activities. - Utrecht Network: provided further academics to engage with PhD Candidates - United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime: hosted a one-day field-trip giving PhD Candidates insights into the work of UNODC in regard to human trafficking. |
| Impact | The collaboration was multi-disciplinary: The PhD School was sold as a five-day interdisciplinary PhD School focused on antislavery and trafficking. The School was open to any PhD candidate whose dissertation were focused on issues of slavery, antislavery, or trafficking; be it historical or contemporary. The School allowed PhD Candidates to develop a network of early career scholars of like-interest; learn practical academic skills and multi- and inter -disciplinary methods; and engage with leading scholars in the field. As for disciplines involved were, from the established Academics: Anthropology, ,History, Law, American Literature, and Sociology. From the PhD Candidates: Anthropology, Business/Management,History, Law, and Sociology/Social Work. |
| Start Year | 2015 |
| Description | PhD School on Antislavery and Human Trafficking |
| Organisation | Utrecht University |
| Department | Department of Infectious Diseases and Immunology |
| Country | Netherlands |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Initiated collaboration with Masaryk University, the Utrecht Network (http://www.utrecht-network.org/) and United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime to develop and host a week-long PhD School on Antislavery and Human Trafficking. The Antislavery Usable Past team conceptualised and actualised this innovative PhD School, the first of its kind. Our Investigators travelled to the Czech Republic and taught and facilitated the discussions amongst PhD Candidates, further developing our Postgradute Research Network by hosting 19 students from 12 different countries. The Antislavery Usable Past provided partial funding; with further funding coming from the host institution and the participants. |
| Collaborator Contribution | - Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic: Provided the physical space, made local arrangements in regard to accommodations and activities. - Utrecht Network: provided further academics to engage with PhD Candidates - United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime: hosted a one-day field-trip giving PhD Candidates insights into the work of UNODC in regard to human trafficking. |
| Impact | The collaboration was multi-disciplinary: The PhD School was sold as a five-day interdisciplinary PhD School focused on antislavery and trafficking. The School was open to any PhD candidate whose dissertation were focused on issues of slavery, antislavery, or trafficking; be it historical or contemporary. The School allowed PhD Candidates to develop a network of early career scholars of like-interest; learn practical academic skills and multi- and inter -disciplinary methods; and engage with leading scholars in the field. As for disciplines involved were, from the established Academics: Anthropology, ,History, Law, American Literature, and Sociology. From the PhD Candidates: Anthropology, Business/Management,History, Law, and Sociology/Social Work. |
| Start Year | 2015 |
| Description | Re-presenting slavery: making a public usable past |
| Organisation | University College London |
| Department | Institute of Education (IOE) |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Katie Donington has built a network of scholars, public historians and activists interested in the ways in which slavery has figured in public history in Britain. Katie has created a website to publicise the network. She has organised one conference and three workshops to facilitate the brokerage of relationships between different network members. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The Institute of Education partners waived their fees for speaking at the conference. They have secured the involvement of a network of teachers and students that they work with for a conference in 'Slavery and Education' taking place in June 2017. The Institute for Black Atlantic Research has contributed space for a workshop on 'Slavery, Emancipation and Art'. Director Lubaina Himid has waived her speaking fee for an archive session for the network. |
| Impact | This is a multi-disciplinary collaboration involving history, art, art history, cultural studies, education, sociology, museum studies and English literature. The outputs so far include a website and blog, a conference and three workshops. Katie is planning on submitting a book proposal based on the work of the network members. |
| Start Year | 2016 |
| Description | Re-presenting slavery: making a public usable past |
| Organisation | University of Central Lancashire |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Katie Donington has built a network of scholars, public historians and activists interested in the ways in which slavery has figured in public history in Britain. Katie has created a website to publicise the network. She has organised one conference and three workshops to facilitate the brokerage of relationships between different network members. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The Institute of Education partners waived their fees for speaking at the conference. They have secured the involvement of a network of teachers and students that they work with for a conference in 'Slavery and Education' taking place in June 2017. The Institute for Black Atlantic Research has contributed space for a workshop on 'Slavery, Emancipation and Art'. Director Lubaina Himid has waived her speaking fee for an archive session for the network. |
| Impact | This is a multi-disciplinary collaboration involving history, art, art history, cultural studies, education, sociology, museum studies and English literature. The outputs so far include a website and blog, a conference and three workshops. Katie is planning on submitting a book proposal based on the work of the network members. |
| Start Year | 2016 |
| Description | Society of Applied Philosophy |
| Organisation | Royal Institute of Philosophy |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | Organisation and convening of the two day event 'From the Transatlantic Slave Trade to Engaging the Maangamizi: Intergenerational Justice and Repair'. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Assistance and co-convening of the two day event 'From the Transatlantic Slave Trade to Engaging the Maangamizi: Intergenerational Justice and Repair'. |
| Impact | Hosting of a two-day event which engaged with the public and with specialists on issues of intergenerational justice and reparations. The forum provided a rich opportunity for public, cross-community dialogue and connected the academic issues to these communities. The pre-conference workshop placed academics from different disciplines (primarily law and philosophy) in dialogue with reparations activists and scholar activists working at the grassroots level. It created seldom explored connections between these different actors, building upon the momentum established in 2015 at the 'Repairing the Past, Imagining the Future: Reparations and Beyond' conference hosted by the University of Edinburgh in collaboration with Wheelock College. Hosting the event in collaboration with the Society for Applied Philosophy and in conjunction with their annual conference allowed for in depth engagement between philosophers, legal academics and activists that rarely occurs in conversations surrounding reparations. |
| Start Year | 2016 |
| Description | Student Antislavery Group |
| Organisation | University of Nottingham |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | We launched a new student antislavery group at the University of Nottingham, which now fund raises for our partner Antislavery International, holds public events, and partners with us on engagement activities. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The students organise their own events, have built a large student membership, and employ social media for communication. |
| Impact | New student engagement Internship opportunities for students at Antislavery International in London Funds raised for Antislavery International, a registered charity |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | Unchosen |
| Organisation | Unchosen |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | We provided case studies about historical slavery for Unchosen's annual national film competition in 2016: http://unchosen.org.uk/films/film-competition-1/, in order that filmmakers could factor in a 'usable past' lens to their short films. In June 2017 we also co-host a national conference on child slavery with Unchosen. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Unchosen raises awareness of Modern Slavery by empowering individuals, communities and organisations to recognise the signs and take action. By screening films, it hopes that more people will be able to recognise the signs of slavery, and therefore more victims will be identified, more perpetrators prosecuted, and demand for services and products produced from slave labour will be reduced. They ran the film competition to which we contributed case studies, and are co-running our joint conference. |
| Impact | Film competition using historical case studies Joint conference |
| Start Year | 2015 |
| Description | Yale University Working Group |
| Organisation | Yale University |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Jean Allain, Kevin Bales and Zoe Trodd are now members of the new Gilder Lehrman Center (GLC) for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition Working Group on Modern Day Slavery, Yale University (2016-19), a group of the world's 12 leading scholars of modern slavery. We will attend two meetings a year (March 2017, September 2017, March 2018 and September 2018) and work on specific outputs that will be collaborations between the Antislavery Usable Past and the GLC. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Yale University funds travel (from the UK for Bales/Trodd and from Australia for Allain), accommodation and meals during the two-day workshops, meeting space on campus, and coordinates the organisation of the meetings. |
| Impact | Outputs to come in 2018 |
| Start Year | 2016 |
| Description | Yole!Africa - partnership for working with local communities in Goma (DRC) |
| Organisation | Yolé! Africa |
| Country | Congo, the Democratic Republic of the |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | I researched the work of the partners in order to make sure that their approach and methods were in line with the desired outcome for the project. I set up a meeting in North Carolina to discuss the project with the partners. Together we developed a new project and budget. We are co-producing an exhibition and education pack for use by local schools, colleges, universities, community organizations and NGOs. I am organising the Archives into the Future conference which we will speak at. I will arrange the NGO session at Antislavery International. I will arrange for the student ambassador from Goma to have a series of meetings with archives, museums, community groups and artists when she arrives in London. I have (along with Charlotte Lloyd) been responsible for managing the budget and financial aspects of the project. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Yole!Africa have designed and implemented the workshop programme in Goma and Lubumbashi. They set up a new partnership with PICHA! Gallery in Lubumbashi for the second set of workshops. They have maintained contact with the students in Goma via a Facebook group which the students regularly submit their new photography to. They have recruited a University of North Carolina PhD student Carlee Forbes to work on developing the education pack, she also assisted with the workshop in Goma. They are co-producing the exhibition and educational materials. They are solely responsible for the production of the film. They have organised the Congo International Film Festival in 2017 and will do so again in 2018 when they will showcase the exhibition and educational resources. They are attending Archives into the Future and will speak on a panel. They will deliver an NGO workshop to Antislavery International. |
| Impact | The partnership is multi-disciplinary and involves history, art history, photography, film, art, and ethnography. Workshops for young people in Goma and Lubumbashi. An exhibition which will be displayed at the Congo International Film Festival in Goma in 2018. Education resources. 45 minute film. The exhibition, educational resources and film will be digitised and put on the online Antislavery Usable Past archive. Panel at Archives into the Future conference. NGO workshop with Antislavery International. |
| Start Year | 2016 |
| Description | "'There wouldn't be an America if it wasn't for Black people": Programme Review of the University of Nottingham's Black History Month Events" |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Wrote summary article on Black History Month 2014 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | http://www.baas.ac.uk/usso/there-wouldnt-be-an-america-if-it-wasnt-for-black-people-series-review-of... |
| Description | "A View from the Arts: Race and Rights: Ferguson Part 4" |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Wrote a response piece to the Ferguson riots, assessing how the movement uses historical protest strategies. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | http://blogs.nottingham.ac.uk/arts/2014/12/17/race-and-rights-ferguson-part-4/ |
| Description | "Black History Month: A Pulitzer Prize Winner on Campus" |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Wrote article about forthcoming lecture with Professor Annette Gordon-Reed at the University of Nottingham |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| URL | http://blogs.nottingham.ac.uk/blackhistorymonth/2014/10/24/a-pulitzer-prize-winner-on-campus/ |
| Description | "Documentary Review: The Black Panther Party: Vanguard of the Revolution" |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Wrote review of Stanley Nelson's 'The Black Panther Party: Vanguard of the Revolution". |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | http://www.baas.ac.uk/usso/reviewblackpantherpartyvanguard/ |
| Description | "The Legacy of Black Power Visual Culture in 1990s Hip Hop" |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Wrote an article on the prevalence of a Black Power aesthetic in 1990s Hip Hop iconography. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | http://www.baas.ac.uk/usso/the-legacy-of-black-power-visual-culture-in-1990s-hip-hop/ |
| Description | #hiddeninplainsight (Hull) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Campaign #hiddeninplainsight to mark Anti-Slavery Day in the UK. Events was picked up by over 40 media outlets, including the Huffington Post, Buzzfeed, the Independent, local radio and TV. Massive response via Twitter and Facebook. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | 'Confronting past injustices by teaching 'forgotten' histories' workshop University College London |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Dealing with the legacies of past injustices necessitates a multi-pronged approach, of which teaching 'forgotten' histories is a vital part. This talk explored this issue using Local Roots/Global Routes, a collaborative project run by the Legacies of British Slave-ownership project at UCL and Hackney Museum and Archives, as an example. The project explored Hackney's links to transatlantic slavery, helping to expand the history already being taught about abolitionists in the area to also reflect the presence of slave-owners and people of African descent. It did this through archival research, explorations of built heritage, and direct engagement with teachers and young people. In the process, the project also addressed constructs of the past that either ignored or distorted the histories of people of African descent, particularly the history of Africa before European contact and the role played by enslaved Africans in the fight against slavery. The audience was around 12 people, mainly educational researchers and practitioners. There was an interesting debate afterwards. The panel included a representative from the Institute of Education which has helped to strengthen an existing relationship as we started to make future plans for another project. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | https://www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of-advanced-studies/ias-events/conflict-confrontation-and-justice-co... |
| Description | 'Ending Slavery' MOOC engagement |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The world's first ever massive open online course about contemporary slavery in partnership with FutureLearn. A four-week course delivered by experts at the cutting edge of historical and contemporary human rights research. Free and open to anyone - there were 7000 participants. The course is designed to try and increase awareness of slavery and the strategies used to combat it. The participants were engaged, read the material and took part in online dialogues with each other and with the facilitators. I facilitated for the week focused mainly on historical material. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/slavery |
| Description | 'Slavery and Art' workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The workshop is examining some of the different ways that slavery and its legacies have figured within the art world. The framework we are using is broad and considers issues of slavery, emancipation and identity, race and racism, institutions and collections, curatorial voice and authority. In partnership with the Institute for Black Atlantic Research at the University of Central Lancashire. We expect 40 participants including artists, curators, researchers, and interested members of the general public. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | 'Slavery and Education' planning forum |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | This meeting is a planning forum to discuss the development of an event to take place on Thursday 1 June 2017 at University College London. The main event will consider the ways in which slavery has been taught in both formal and informal learning environments. Bringing together historians, teachers (all levels / formal and informal), community groups, public history professionals, activists and students, this event will share different kinds of practice and approaches to the subject. It will also act as a brokering event to facilitate relationships between different institutions and individuals. The event is the start of the conversation and we hope for some concrete outcomes going forwards. The planning forum is a space in which different interested individuals can come together to help shape the form, content and legacies. The event and its offshoots should meet a need - we hope that in bringing together different perspectives we will formulate something that is useful to different groups. This event is in partnership with the Institute of Education, UCL. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | 'Slavery and Public History' Workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This workshop explored how different kinds of public historians and organisations have represented Britain's historic role in both slavery and its abolition. Throughout the day we heard from museum and heritage professionals, community historians and academics - there was plenty of opportunities to ask questions and jdebate. There was an open session for people to discuss new projects and ideas giving participants a chance to see how they might help each other and get involved. A walking tour of Liverpool allowed participants to see first hand how the history of slavery has shaped the city of Liverpool. There were 41 participants. The feedback was very positive - people commented on the usefulness of making new contacts and hearing about new projects. Katie recruited new members to the network associated with this workshop 'Re-presenting slavery: making a public usable past.' |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | 'Slavery, memory and citizenship' conference, University of the West Indies, Jamaica |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | The Harriet Tubman Institute for Research on Africa and Its Diasporas, York University, Toronto in collaboration with The Faculty of Humanities and Education, University of the West Indies, Mona Campus, Kingston Jamaica, presented the Seventh Annual Summer Institute: "Slavery, Memory, Citizenship" at the University of the West Indies, Mona Campus, Kingston, Jamaica between 7-14 August, 2016. The objective of this summer institute was to analyse and reflect on the experiences and memories of slavery; the research, pedagogies and representations associated with enslavement; and the implications of its legacies for claims for full citizenship, all in historical and contemporary contexts. My paper was well received and the audience asked lots of questions. I built up good contacts with researchers at universities in Canada and the West Indies. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://tubman.info.yorku.ca/research/summer-institute-2016-slavery-memory-and-citizenship/ |
| Description | 'Social History: Legacies and Prospects' Society History Society Plenary Panel |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Professor Karen Hunt chaired a discussion on social history and its future, with a panel of the University of Manchester's Professor Penny Summerfield, Anglia Ruskin University's Professor Rohan McWilliam and the University of Nottingham's Dr Kate Donington. A video of this discussion was posted on YouTube and has been seen 330 times. The audience was approximately 200 for the event. There was a lively discussion and debate around the issues raised and some further enquiries about finding out more about the public engagement work I have done. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRhsvYILb4Q |
| Description | 'Unspeakable things unspoken: Transatlantic slavery - a public conversation' |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This conference examined the ways in which slavery has figured in public history in Britain. It considered how academic history has shaped public perceptions of slavery and how public debate has challenged and inspired scholarship. It gave critical attention to the ways in which slavery and colonialism has shaped both our public and academic history institutions. Given the increasing emphasis on 'impact' within university research agendas the event offered new possibilities for building relationships across academic and public history. Public history was conceived of in its broadest sense and speakers were invited from among museum and heritage professionals, artists, community historians, activists, academics, poets, performers and educators. There was an evening of performance, conversation and music that will explore transatlantic slavery and its legacies through the work of renowned Jamaican poet Jean 'Binta' Breeze and guest artists and musicians. The second day was a half day workshop focused on local history activism in Nottingham and the East Midlands. There were 120 attendees. Feedback was overwhelmingly positive with people citing a variety of different reasons for enjoying the event. Many people commented on the value of bringing together different disciplines, individuals and organisations involved with the public representation of slavery. The conference was organised by Katie Donington. Jean Allain and John Oldfield participated as chairs for two panels on 'Reparations' and 'Race' respectively. Mary Wills, Rebecca Nelson and Hannah Jeffrey all acted as facilitators. Hannah also tweeted throughout the day and engaged in online conversations with people who were viewing the conference through the live feed as well as audience members. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://www.octoberdialogues.org/ |
| Description | - "Looking Back on the Centre for Research in Race and Rights Events," Black History Month Blog, University of Nottingham, November 2016 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Wrote a summary blog piece on the success of Black History Month 2016. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://blogs.nottingham.ac.uk/peopleandculture/2016/11/07/looking-back-centre-research-race-rights-e... |
| Description | A Society Built on Slavery - article for History Today |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | I wrote an article 'A society built on slavery' for History Today. The article explored Clapham's links to slavery through research on the Hibbert family. This article was designed to engage an interested general public. As a result I was contacted by the Clapham History Society and asked to give a talk. I was also contacted by an independent author who publishes work on the history of Clapham. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | http://www.historytoday.com/katie-donington/society-built-slavery |
| Description | AHRC Early Career Researchers 'Past Matters, Research Futures', Royal Society, London |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | I delivered a conference paper 'Red rubber in sepia: slavery, memory and representation in the Democratic Republic of Congo' for Early Career Researchers. I received useful feedback on the project and there was a brief discussion of some of the issues raised. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Academic Conference (Liverpool) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
| Results and Impact | Activity was a keynote address that stimulated question and discussion afterwards. Email contacts following activity, including PhD students. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | Address to Annual Meeting of Rotary International |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | This presentation made to Rotary International in Norwich UK promoted the idea of an antislavery usable past and was able to influence decision making and stimulate future activity. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| Description | Address to Student Body, University of Oklahoma |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | This presentation to the academic and student community promoted the idea of an antislavery usable past. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| Description | Advice/Content for Chelsea Garden Show |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | I helped to design and provide content for the Modern Slavery Garden which won both Gold and the BBC / RHS People's Choice Award at the 2016 RHS Chelsea Flower Show. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-kent-36367792 |
| Description | Advocacy to the G20 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Meeting with leading practitioners dealing with antislavery consider the means of getting such issues on the G20 agenda. Meeting included Kevin Hyland, the UK Antislavery Commissioner, The Freedom Fund, Walk Free, Transparency International, United Nations University, Save the Children and Anti-Slavery International. I was invited in my capacity as Special Advisor to Anti-Slavery International |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Africans in Yorkshire (Hull) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | Address/workshop re: anti-slavery usable past at organising event for 'Africans in Yorkshire', funded by the National Lottery Fund, 19 February 2016. Approximately 40 people present, mainly local historians and archivists. Events prompted widespread debate and discussion and requests for further information. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | After Slavery? Labour and Migration in the Post-Emancipation World conference, University of Leeds |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | This was an international interdisciplinary conference to explore the emergence of global patterns of labour and migration in the post-emancipation world. I spoke on 'Identifying a usable past for tackling modern slavery: heritage, memory and activism', looking at ways in which commemorations of slavery and abolition have incorporated contemporary slavery. The talk assessed how representations of slavery are revised and contested, and provoked discussions between academics, heritage professionals, representatives from third sector organisations, and members of the public present about the relationships between commemorations, public histories and social memory. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | https://afterslaveryconference.wordpress.com/about/ |
| Description | Al Jazeera interview |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Interviewed about impact of forced migration on modern slavery and women's rights |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Ambition Widening Particpation Teaching Session |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Delivered a session on 'Nottingham's local histories of slavery and abolition' for the University of Nottingham's 'Ambition' Widening Participation programme. There were 11 student in attendance. The students were actively engaged especially with the material on cases of modern slavery in Nottingham. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Amistad Center |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Zoe Trodd delivered a talk at the Amistad Center, Wadsworth Athenaeum, Hartford, titled "The Abolitionist's Camera." |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | Annual Ferens Lecture, Institute of Directors, London |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | This presentation drew upon the idea of an antislavery usable past, leading to a reported change in views amongst the audience. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| Description | Annual Public Lecture Delivered in Collaboration with Antislavery Usable Past Project |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | In October 2015 the University of Hull's annual Alderman Sydney Smith lecture was held in collaboration with the Antislavery Usable Past project. The lecture was delivered by Professor David W. Blight of Yale University and was entitled: Frederick Douglass on Why Slavery and its Ideologies Never Really Ended. The lecture drew together an academic and public audience and was followed by a lively discussion. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | Antislavery Protest Memory |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Paper at the University of Nottingham Memory Studies conference |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Antislavery Usable Past Website, Blog and Social Media |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | A project website, Facebook community page and Twitter account have been operating since 2015 and continue to build a following. Our developing blog contains articles from July 2015. Through our online presence, we interact with a mix of audiences, from the interested general browser, to professional organisations and practitioners, academic and student audiences and media. Through these channels we share the idea and application of an antislavery usable past; we disseminate research outcomes and reflections and we promote events and activities. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015,2016,2017 |
| URL | http://www.usablepast.ac.uk/usablepast/index.aspx |
| Description | Antislavery Usable Past project panel for the Centre for the Study of International Slavery, Liverpool |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Three members of the Antislavery Usable Past team - Katie Donington, Rebecca Nelson and Mary Wills - spoke about the project and their own research at a seminar organised by the Centre for the Study of International Slavery at the University of Liverpool. Mary Wills spoke on 'Commemorating slavery and abolition in the UK: heritage, memory and activism', Rebecca Nelson on 'The Many Faces of the Modern Museum' and Katie Donington on 'Red rubber in sepia: slavery, memory and representation in the Democratic Republic of Congo'. There were around 20 people there. There was an interesting discussion of the issues afterwards. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Apologies for Historical Wrongs |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Participant, in Workshop on "Apologies for Historical Wrongs: When, How, Why?" AHRC Funded Project, 16 May 2015. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | https://ahrc.som.surrey.ac.uk/ |
| Description | Article for Scientific American |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Article published in magazine with readership of 546,000, |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-hunger-for-shrimp-and-slavery-destroy-mangroves-excerp... |
| Description | BAAS conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Paper delivered at the British Association for American Studies conference: "The Abolitionist's Camera." |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | BBC World Service Radio The Conversation |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Interview with BBC World Service radio The Conversation in August 2015, promoted the idea of an antislavery usable past. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | Black History Murals |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Public screening and debate at the New Art Exchange, Nottingham, for Black History Month, including presentation of our new local mural (Nottingham's first black history mural) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://www.nae.org.uk/page/black-history-month-at-nae/1014 |
| Description | Blog - The iron in the ivory tower: dealing with Georgetown's legacies of enslavement |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Blog on the Georgetown's attempts to deal with historical ties to enslavement. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://www.slaveryandpublichistoryuk.com/blog/the-iron-in-the-ivory-tower-dealing-with-georgetowns-l... |
| Description | Blog, 'A Valuable experience at the International Slavery Museum,' ASUP wordpress site. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | This blog looks at the placement experience from time at the International Slavery Museum and reflects on the challenges facing museums working on antislavery history today. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | https://blog.antislavery.ac.uk/2017/01/26/a-valuable-experience-at-the-international-slavery-museum/ |
| Description | Boston African American Museum |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Zoe Trodd delivered a talk at the Boston African American Museum called "Frederick Douglass in Photographs." |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | Britain and Slavery - article for Modern History Review |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | I wrote an article for a publication that is aimed at A-Level students. My piece focused on using the Legacies of British Slave-ownership database to understand and localize the history of slavery. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | Britain's Forgotten Slave-owners - public talk |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | I was invited to participate in an evening event based on the BBC documentary Britain's Forgotten Slave-owners to mark Black History Month at the University of Nottingham. I was involved in the making of the programme and, along with David Olusoga, we discussed some of the underlying research that it was based on. Susanne Seymour then focused on a local Midlands angle based on her own research. The audience was very engaged and a lively debate on black history took place afterwards. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/home/featureevents/2015/britains-forgotten-slave-owners.aspx |
| Description | Brooklyn Historical Society |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Zoe Trodd delivered a talk at the Brooklyn Historical Society as part of a panel called "Lost, Found, Stewarded: Black Civil War Photographs." |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | Cambridge American History Seminar |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Zoe Trodd delivered a talk at the Cambridge American History Seminar called "Frederick Douglass: The Most Photographed American." |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| Description | Cambridge Conversation Event (Talk), Boston |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | This presentation at an invited event drew upon the idea of an antislavery usable past. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Camden New Journal interview |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | I gave an interview of the British business of slavery to the Camden New Journal to publicize the series of talks at Conway Hall and to commemorate Black History Month. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | http://www.camdenreview.com/node/990412 |
| Description | Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Zoe Trodd delivered a talk at the Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice, Brown University, titled "Picturing Frederick Douglass." |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | https://www.brown.edu/initiatives/slavery-and-justice/lunch-talk-prof-zoe-trodd |
| Description | Chair: Panel at Conference of Historians Against Slavery Conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Chaired, Panel on "Interrogating the Efficacy of State Intervention against Slavery, Then and Now" Historians Against Slavery Conference, National Underground Railroad Freedom Center, Cincinnati, 25 September 2015. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | Clapham's Saints and Sinners - Local History Talk |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | This talk used Clapham's local history of slave-owners and abolitionists to engage the Clapham Society with some of the themes raised by the Antislavery Usable Past project. There were around 40 people in attendance. Audience members were very engaged and asked lots of questions. They reported that they were largely unaware of the presence of slave-owners in Clapham and it complicated their view of the local history. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://claphamsociety.com/news/a-talk-in-clapham-by-dr-katie-donington/ |
| Description | Co-ordinator for Black History Month 2016 at the University of Nottingham |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Organised a lecture to be given by Professor Manisha Sinha from the University of Connecticut titled The Slave's Cause |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Co-ordinator for Black History Month 2016 at the University of Nottingham |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Organised Black History Month event titled 'Beyond the Wall: Murals as Activism' at the New Art Exchange, Nottingham which was a film screening of 'Beyond the Wall' followed by a panel discussion on the efficacy of murals, as well as a celebration of Nottingham's first Black history mural. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Collegium of African American Research Biennial conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Zoe Trodd delivered a paper at the Collegium of African American Research Biennial conference titled "Frederick Douglass Murals." |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | Columbia University talk |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Zoe Trodd delivered a talk at Columbia University titled "Remembering Douglass: Photography and Protest Memory" |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | Comentary - 'Remembering Racism: Will History Fall with Rhodes?' |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Commentary on the Rhodes Must Fall movement brought to public attention and fostered a dialogue with key figures in the movement. Commentary to be used as a teaching resource by external actor. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | https://blog.antislavery.ac.uk/2016/05/27/remembering-racism-will-history-fall-with-rhodes/ |
| Description | Commentary - 'From the Transatlantic Slave Trade to Engaging the Maangamizi: Intergenerational Justice and Repair' |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Report on the conference hosted as part of the Antislavery Usable Past project for the general public to keep the activities of the grant team in the public eye. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | https://blog.antislavery.ac.uk/2016/07/01/from-the-transatlantic-slave-trade-to-engaging-the-maangam... |
| Description | Commentary - Knowing the Chains: Corporate Reporting under the Modern Slavery Act |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Commentary on corporate reporting under the Modern Slavery Act to raise public awareness. Request for material to be used as a teaching resource in the future. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | https://blog.antislavery.ac.uk/2016/12/30/knowing-the-chains-corporate-reporting-under-the-modern-sl... |
| Description | Community Heritage Day |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
| Results and Impact | Our BAME Community Heritage Day in June 2016 brought together Midlands-based Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) community groups to share their historical research and to discuss with academics and heritage representatives how heritage venues present BAME histories. Community and academic participants presented their research findings through talks and small exhibitions, heritage organisation representatives presented good practice examples, and all engaged in roundtable discussions about the presentation of BAME histories. It developed a series of "triplet" relationships, where an academic, a community/activist representative and a heritage representative committed to working together on changing a specific presentation of BAME history in heritage venues. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/research/groups/c3r/news-events/current-events/bame-community-history-a... |
| Description | Conference (York) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | Keynote address, 'Rethinking the Boundaries of anti-Slavery', at conference at York St John, 23 June 2016. Approximately 30 people present. Address provoked lengthy debate and discussion and requests for further information. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Conference Convened 'From the Tranatlantic Slave Trade to Engaging the Maangamizi: Intergenerational Justie and Repair' |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | In collaboration with David Archard, the PI on the Care for the Future's Exploratory Award entitled "Generating Justice: The social, legal, political and ethical issues of ensuring justice across generations", Prof Jean Allain and Katarina Schwarz hosted a two-day event on 29 and 30 June 2016, entitled: From the Transatlantic Slave Trade to Engaging the Maangamizi at Queen's University Belfast. The first day of the event featured a Public Forum - an Intercultural Dialogue on Human Rights and Justice co-hosted with the African and Caribbean Support Network of Northern Ireland (ACSONI) entitled Dealing with the Past, Looking to the Future. A pre-Conference Workshop entitled Historical Injustice and Reparations took place on the second day, co-hosted by Dr Jeremy Watkins (QUB Philosophy) and coinciding with the Royal Institute of Philosophy's Annual Conference of the Society of Applied Philosophy held in Belfast. The Public Forum focused on community engagement, working with ACSONI to reach out to the local African and Caribbean communities as well as the broader public. Scholar activists, academics, and public officials from across the UK and Ireland were brought together to discuss research, activism, and policy with the participants. Presenters engaged with the feedback, questions, and views of the public, creating multilateral discourse. Irish experiences of colonialism and anti-imperialism were acknowledged, building solidarity between people of African descent in Northern Ireland and the Irish Catholic community. This solidarity was recognised as being crucial to dealing with racial violence and discrimination within Northern Ireland. The Public Forum was framed around the question 'what is the Maangamizi?' introducing a concept developed by scholar-activists of African descent into both the public and academic discourse. The Maangamizi - the African holocaust of chattel, colonial, and neo-colonial enslavement perpetrated by Europeans and their prodigy - is a term central to many reparations and justice movements seeking to address the suffering of people of African descent. Guest speakers included internationally acclaimed reparationist, advocate and radio broadcaster Esther Stanford-Xosei, Dr Nathaniel Tobias Coleman, Dr Kwesi Tsri, Dr Christopher Stange - Hon. Consul for St Vincent and the Grenadines to Northern Ireland, Minister of Finance Mairtin O'Muilleor MLA, Michael McEachrane, and Elly Odhiambo. The pre-Conference Workshop sought to settle the Maangamizi into the academic discourse through constructive dialogue between mainstream academics, scholar activists, and representatives from the Public Forum. Participants presented academic papers on issues relating to intergenerational justice and repair, with particular consideration of the place of marginalised communities and persons within their research. The importance of engaging with the voices of those people was consistently highlighted, and the ideas and language of activist communities was discussed and incorporated into the scholarship. Rather than simply seeking to disseminate information to the public, this two day event promoted active engagement of both the public, activists, and academics, enriching the academic discourse through consideration of concepts developed by scholar-activists. The Forum also helped to engage a broader audience with issues associated with the past, whilst respecting for the voices of marginalised persons and their contributions. The event created a unique opportunity for the development of networks including academics, scholar-activists, activists, public officials and members of local communities. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Conference Paper |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Gave paper entitled, '"Unarmed People Are Slaves': Using 19th Century Abolitionist Aesthetics in the 1960s Radical Movement" at Wilberforce Institute for the Study of Slavery and Emancipation, Hull, October 16-17, 2015. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | Conference Paper - Anti-Slavery and Trafficking PhD School, Masaryk University |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Conference paper titled 'Historical Wrongs, Contemporary Rights: Reconsidering Reparations for the Maangamizi' presented at the Anti-slavery and Trafficking PhD School organised by the Antislavery Usable Past and Utrecht Network, hosted at Masaryk University, Brno. The presentation sparked in depth discussion with established academics and PhD researchers working in the field, and fostered the development of a community of likeminded early career researchers. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Conference Paper - From the Transatlantic Slave Trade to Engaging the Maangamizi: Historical Injustice and Reparations Conference, Queen's University Belfast |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Conference paper titled 'Wrong to Remedy: Evolving Law to Redress Historical Injustices' presented to an audience of academics, reparations activists and members of the public sparking a rich dialogue between different actors in the field. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Conference Paper - Human Rights Centre Postgraduate Conference, Queen's University Belfast |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Conference paper titled 'Redressing the Past in Post-Colonial States: Historical Injustice and International Reparations' presented to a wide audience of PhD Candidates from across Europe and to academics. This event sparked dialogue between postgraduate researchers and established academics, and the discussion session on the paper created meaningful dialogue on the issues explored. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Conference Paper presented at University of Edinburgh |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | A joint paper entitled - 'Repairing the Past, Imagining the Future: Reparations and Beyond...' was presented at a conference at the University of Edinburgh in November. The conference initiated the establishment of an international network of scholars and activists working on the issue of reparations, with the aim of globalising the discussions, bringing people from different contexts into the same room, and bringing activists and grassroots organisations together with scholars. There was intense discussion and questioning at every panel. A workshop that is planned to take place in Belfast in June 2016 (as part of the Antislavery Usable Past project) will act as a follow up to the Edinburgh event. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | Conference Paper, 'Commemorating Challenging Histories: Antislavery in Museums,' Challenging Histories Network Conference, Cardiff University. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Around 60 academics, students and heritage professionals attended a talk on the development of museum interpretation and antislavery. There were lots of interesting questions and discussions afterwards. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Conference Paper, 'Legacies on Display: Antislavery in Museums,' University of Hull, History Postgraduate Conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | 20 students were in the audience for this presentation on the development of antislavery in museums over the last century. This led to questions and discussions after. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Conference Paper, 'Reviewing the Campaign: Antislavery in Museum Interpretation,' Teeside University, Heritage Consortium Annual Conference (AHRC funded) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | 40 postgraduate students, academics and heritage professionals attended this presentation about the research project. This led to questions and further discussion. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Conference Paper, 'The Antislavery Usable Past,' Social History Curators Group Annual Conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | 60 people attended the presentation which debated the role of ethics in discussions of antislavery as a topic of museum interpretation. This raised questions and further discussions, and several attendees followed up with emails stating they were thinking about changing their own current practise. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Conference Talk at Cambridge World History of Slavery Meeting, Emory University, Atlanta |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The antislavery usable past was presented as a key message within the address, leading to a reported change of views within the audience. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| Description | Conference paper at Maritime Trade and Cultural Encounters (The Hakluyt Society) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | This was an international conference to discuss maritime trade and cultural encounters in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. My presentation on the relationships between naval officers on the anti-slavery patrols and the West African peoples they met sparked questions and discussion among the audience, which included members of the general public and the Hakluyt Society. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/maritime-trade-travel-and-cultural-encounter-in-the-18th-and-19th-cen... |
| Description | Conference: American Sociological Association |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | "Modern Slavery: Linking the Legal to the Sociological", American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, USA, 24 August 2015. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | Contributor to "Memory and Activist Art" week as part of Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) on 'Ending Slavery: Strategies for Contemporary Global Abolition' |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Created digital archive map titled 'Murals of Race, Resistance and Abolition' that was used in a MOOC course titled 'Ending Slavery: Strategies for Contemporary Global Abolition,' with 7,000 participants from across the world. Gave individual responses to participant's questions and queries on various murals, their function and their value. Received over 6,000 views on the digital archive map from 52 countries |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/slavery/1/steps/122989 |
| Description | Contributor to Faculty Teaching Institute on Picturing Frederick Douglass: An Illustrated Biography of the Nineteenth Century's Most Photographed American at the Museum of African American History, Boston |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Provided teachers from the Boston area with materials about the importance of anti-slavery murals as a tool for unofficially preserving history, as well as the contemporary impact of Frederick Douglass's memory and legacy in African American communities. Shared digital mural map, 'Murals of Race Resistance and Abolition,' as a tool for teachers to discuss the power of art in public memory. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Creator of 'Murals of Race, Resistance and Abolition' Digital Archive Map |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Creator of a digital map that brings together, for the first time, a collection of all U.S. murals connected to themes of abolition, anti-slavery history, Black Power, black protest and resistance. This has been a successful learning tool for the general public, as well as undergraduate students at the University of Nottingham in a first year module called 'Approaches to American Culture,' and a Level 3 module at Brigham Young University, Utah titled 'Freedom and Slavery |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016,2017 |
| URL | https://a.tiles.mapbox.com/v4/hanjeffers.p1mje5fp/page.html?access_token=pk.eyJ1IjoiaGFuamVmZmVycyIs... |
| Description | Curator of 'Murals of Resistance and Abolition' for 'Anti-Slavery Then and Now' |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Creating an extensive digital archive of every US-based mural pertaining to slavery, abolition and anti-slavery resistance. The archive will be the first instance where all these murals of the past and present are brought together under the theme of 'Anti-Slavery.' The collection will also highlight the efficacy of murals as a protest tool in raising awareness of slavery and contemporary slavery, whilst also offering suggestions on how to create community murals around the world. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016,2017 |
| Description | Draw for the Future |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Public event, with talks and performances, to unveil a new Black History Mural iin Nottingham |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://www.nae.org.uk/page/pathways-mural/1004 |
| Description | Edinburgh Literature Seminar |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Zoe Trodd delivered a talk for the Edinburgh Literature Seminar, University of Edinburgh, called "Picturing Frederick Douglass." |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | Expert Witness -- Inter-American Court of Human Rights |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Was an Expert Witness giving evidence on behalf of the Government of Brazil on the legal content of slavery, servitude, and forced labour before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | https://vimeo.com/156624613 |
| Description | Feature on Radio Program Disability Matters (NPR USA) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Radio discussion on USA NPR radio program Disability Matters on 5 May 2015 made reference to the ides of an antislavery usable past. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | Freedom X (Hull) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Address, 'William Wilberforce: Lessons from the Past, at Freedom X, Hull, 19 November 2016. Approximately 200 people present. No discussions but subsequent emails from people wanting more information and a request from the organisers to give an expanded version of the same talk, possibly as a Wilberforce Lecture, under the auspices of the Wilberforce Lecture Trust (Hull City Council). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Get Up Stand Up Project |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Kevin Bales and Zoe Trodd delivered a workshop at the New Art Exchange in Nottingham to community members, part of a series connected to the Get Up Stand Up Project. The workshop was titled "Modern Slavery: How to Make the Past Usable." |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | Global multiple platform launch of Global Slavery Index |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | This launch included ALL of the options listed above under the 'select one' engagement activity. Its impact includes ALL of the options below under 'What do you consider was the most significant outcome/impact of this activity?' I've highlighted 'decision made' since governments altered policy based on this Launch. Topline outcomes: - Substantial global coverage across principal wires, broadcasters, print and digital media. In excess of 2000+ top line media articles across all core markets lead by Brazil, India, USA, United Kingdom, Mexico, Italy and Germany (*excludes regional and local coverage) - Key coverage secured in key global and important national broadcasters media such as BBC World, CNN, Channel News Asia, NDTV India, South Africa Broadcasting Corporation, O Globo Brazil, Sky News, Al jazeera - All main wires ran with the story including Associated Press, Press Association, Reuters, Bloomberg, Australian Associated Press as well as the main national wires covering the French (Agence France Press), Spanish (EFE), Portuguese (Lusa) and German (DPA) language markets - Key global and regional print media included The Hindustan Times, The Times, The Guardian, South China Morning Post, New York Times, Forbes, TIME, Wall Street Journal, Sydney Morning Herald, The Australian, El Pais, Der Spiegel, Süddeutsche Zeitung, La Repubblica - 201 Million Twitter impressions over the 48 hour launch period - Most popular tweets and re-tweets were by Bill Gates, Hilary Clinton, Russell Crowe, Richard Branson, AP, and UN Women - Media mentions in 159 countries |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Grant Supported PhD Research presented at Postgraduate Research Network Workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Our three PhD students (part of the Antislavery Usable Past research team) each presented papers at the Antislavery Useable Past Postgraduate Research Network launched in October 2015. Papers addressed the following themes: - '"Unarmed People Are Slaves": Using 19th Century Abolitionist aesthetics in the 1960s Radical Movement'; 'Legacies on Display: Antislavery in Museums' and 'Reparations for Slavery in International Law'. All papers sparked questions and further discussion. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | Guest Lecturer, 'Slavery, Abolition and Resistance,' Level 3 module, Department of American and Canadian Studies, University of Nottingham |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Gave a a guest lecture on how an anti-slavery memory is incorporated into community murals in the US, focusing on murals of the Black Power Movement, but also ending with a discussion on murals of #BlackLivesMatter. Students gave visual analysis to murals. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Harvard University |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Zoe Trodd delivered a talk at Harvard University's Department of English titled "Douglass, Lincoln and Photography." |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Historians Against Slavery and the Usable Past |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
| Results and Impact | Workshop to launch the UK branch of the international organisation Historians Against Slavery, at the Wilberforce Institute, University of Hull |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://www.historiansagainstslavery.org/main/2016/05/has-uk-off-to-a-terrific-start/ |
| Description | History Guest Lecture at University of Worcester, Transnational Studies Research Group |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | I gave a guest lecture about the suppression of the slave trade to members of the University of Worcester's Transnational Studies Group, which was primarily made up of undergraduate and postgraduate students. The talk was in part designed to assist in their special subject research about slavery, the slave trade and abolitionism. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | https://uwstaffnews.wordpress.com/2015/04/27/history-guest-lecture-seriestransnational-studies-resea... |
| Description | History Today podcast |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | I was interviewed for the History Today podcast as an accompaniment to the article I wrote for their September 2015 edition. The interview focused on the profits made from slavery using a case study of the Hibbert family. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | http://www.historytoday.com/podcast/podcast-profits-slavery |
| Description | Hosted a one-day Workshop for Anti-Slavery International to start to develop model legislation |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
| Results and Impact | Hosted a Workshop which set out the framework for developing Model Legislation for Anti-Slavery International as a means of dissemination the Bellagio-Harvard Guidelines. The Model Legislation will be completed by the end of 2017 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Hosting an Antislavery Film and Discussion Evening |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The viewing of films produced by anti trafficking charity Unchosen was hosted and facilitated by the Antislavery Usable Past research team. The films sparked questions and stimulated discussion between the audience and a panel made up of antislavery practitioners and academic experts (including two members of the research team). The event also brought together a mixed audience of academics, practitioners, NGOs, community groups and the general public. The estimated total audience was between 58 and 65. Of these, 28 completed an evaluation form, which were subsequently analysed by Unchosen. Of the 28, 70% reported that their understanding of modern day slavery had increased by 'a lot'; 100% reported that they will now tell others about modern day slavery and 96% said that they would look out for forms of slavery in their area. Feedback forms reported change in views amongst the section of the audience that were not previously aware of the issues of modern day slavery (TO BE COMPLETED - ADD STATS). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | Human Rights Conference Presentation, University of Chicago Law School |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Presentation drew upon the idea of an antislavery usable past and resulted in a reported change of views within the audience. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | Human Rights Speech to University of Notre Dame Students |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | This speech made via Skype to university undergraduates drew upon the idea of an antislavery usable past. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | Human Trafficking Foundation |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
| Results and Impact | Zoe Trodd delivered the keynote titled "Art for Freedom: Antislavery Visual Culture" at the opening of an exhibition of antislavery artwork held by the Human Trafficking Foundation and the Red Light Campaign. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | Imagining the Creole - School Lecture |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | I was invited to give a lecture at Latymer School in Edmonton, London. The A-Level students are studying The Wide Sargasso Sea and Jane Eyre therefore their teacher invited me to give a contextual lecture on the historic depiction of 'the Creole'. The lecture was followed by an excellent student-led discussion. The students reported favourably on the session and a parent contacted me to say their child had been inspired by the event. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Institute for Government and Midlands3Cities |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Zoe Trodd delivered a workshop for the Institute for Government and Midlands3Cities DTP on "Policy-Making in the Arts and Humanities." |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | International Media Interviews |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | A series of international media interviews in January and February 2016 promoted the idea of an antislavery usable past. Interviews took place with the following: New Orleans morning TV and current affairs radio (22 Jan); Toronto Star newspaper (27 Jan), Global Perspectives TV program (2 Feb, University of Florida, Orlando); Canadian Broadcasting IDEAS program, Minneapolis (4 Feb). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Interview for BBC Radio Announcing Grant Award |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Radio interview announcing the award of the AHRC grant, introducing the project and explaining the concept of an antislavery usable past. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| Description | Interview for CBC radio |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | A CBC radio interview reached 400,000 listeners. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/blood-and-earth-kevin-bales-1.3442119 |
| Description | Interview for German TV |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Interview with German TV promoted the idea of an antislavery usable past. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | Keynote Address to Guernsey South and Islands Area Quakers Meeting |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | This keynote focused upon the theme of the antislavery usable past as the key message of the address, leading to a reported change of views within the audience. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | Keynote Address to UNICEF NextGen Event, Chicago |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Keynote address drew upon the idea of an antislavery usable past and resulted in a reported change of view within the audience. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | Keynote address at 2015 Interdisciplinary Conference on Human Trafficking, University of Nebraska-Lincoln |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Keynote paper entitled 'The Prevalence of Human trafficking World-Wide' was delivered at the conference and included the idea of an antislavery usable past as one of the key messages of the address. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | http://humantrafficking.unl.edu/program.aspx?id=2015_09_22.htm |
| Description | Keynote address, Collegium on African American Research, Liverpool Hope University |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | Talked stimulated discussion that went on outside session. Talk aroused further interest and email correspondence re: Anti-Slavery Usable Past project. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | Launch of Historians Against Slavery UK |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | In April 2016 we launched a UK branch of the international organisation Historians Against Slavery (HAS). We invited 30 historians based in the UK, as well as the US directors of HAS, two of our key partners - the director of the International Slavery Museum and the director of Antislavery International - to come to this inaugural workshop. We had sessions on the contributions of historians to the work of the heritage sector and to the work of antislavery NGOs, as well as a session on digital projects we might do together. We followed up with a request to members for profiles (for a new HAS-UK database), contributions to our major HAS conference, and network ideas. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://www.historiansagainstslavery.org/main/2016/05/has-uk-off-to-a-terrific-start/ |
| Description | Lawyers Guild Hour Radio Show (USA |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Radio programme for lawyers, interviewed about recent work on UK legislation |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Leading Weekend Workshop on Slavery and Supply Chains |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | This extended workshop focused upon the idea of an antislavery usable past as a means of raising awareness of the issue of slavery in supply chains, leading to a reported change of views. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | Legacies of Slave Ownership Project |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Zoe Trodd delivered a talk at the Legacies of Slave Ownership Project public forum titled "The Antislavery Usable Past." |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | Lehigh University Public Lecture Series |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Zoe Trodd delivered a talk as part of the Lehigh University Public Lecture Series called "Picturing Frederick Douglass." |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | Liaison in the preservation of Cityarts Workshop/CITYarts Inc. archives to the New-York Historical Society |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Successfully assisted in the protection and preservation of Cityarts Workshop/CITYarts Inc. archives to the New-York Historical Society. These archives contain information on the inception of anti-slavery murals. Met with current director of CITYarts Inc., Tsipi Ben-Haim, to assess the archive collection (from 1968-present) and offer advice on their value, whilst also highlighting the specific materials/files researchers are interested in. Co-authored a letter of support to the New-York Historical Society outlining the importance of archiving the materials in their institution, and as such, the archive collection is currently being process for permanent housing in the Patricia D. Klingsenstein Library at the New-York Historical Society |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Manchester and Slavery Workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | 50 members of the public gathered at Manchester Central Library to discuss the local history of slavery and abolition. There were presentations by academics, artists and local historians, followed by discussion and debate. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | Media Coverage of Postgraduate Workshop and Film Event |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | A press release issued to regional media in October 2015 resulted in local and regional coverage for project activity delivered in Hull. The coverage focused (with varying emphasis) upon issues of modern slavery, the antislavery usable past project, our inaugural Postgraduate Research Network workshop and our Unchosen public film event. The project was covered by: Hull Daily Mail (print and web), Yorkshire Post (print and web), BBC Look North, BBC Radio Humberside, KC FM. A feature article was also included in the Winter/Spring 2016 edition of the University of Hull alumni magazine - Venn, which has an international reach (23,358 copies distributed in 178 countries). Raised general awareness and helped to attract an audience for the public film event. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | https://issuu.com/hull/docs/venn_winter-spring_2016 |
| Description | Media Interviews on Theme of Antislavery Usable Past |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | A series of international media interviews took place in November 2014 promoting the idea of the antislavery usable past. Interviews were held with: NPR, NewsMax TV, Peru national newspaper and Boston Globe (x2). The coverage raised general awareness of the usable past concept and led to requests for future activity/involvement. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| Description | Media Interviews with Telegraph and CNN TV |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Media interviews with the Telegraph newspaper and CNN TV (x2) in March 2015 promoted the idea of an antislavery usable past. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | Meeting with legislative drafting team, Bailiwick of Guernsey |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | The Bailiwick of Guernsey is re-writing its laws on sexual offences, with an eye to passing laws equivalent to the UK Modern Slavery Act of 2015, this session with legislative drafters explored a series of topics relevant to contemporary slavery - consent, appropriate penalties, role of supply chain inspection, links to money laundering, intersection with migration, etc. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Moderator at Historians Against Slavery Conference, Cincinnati, Ohio |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Three members of the team participated in the 2015 Historians Against Slavery conference in Cincinnati. The participation precedes the setting up of a UK branch of this predominantly US organisation as part of the the antislavery usable past project. The UK branch will be developed from 2016. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | NPR interview |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | An interview on NPR reached a listenership of 4.6 million people. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2016/01/20/463600820/todays-slaves-often-work-for-enterpris... |
| Description | Networking vfisit to Freetown, Sierra Leone |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Visit to Freetown, Sierra Leone, 24-29 January 2016, organised by Hull City Council and the University of Hull. Visit included meetings and discussions with heritage organisations, academics at the University of Sierra Leone, government ministers, DFID, schoolteachers and representatives of the British Council. Discussions with University and Minister for Heritage and Education prompted lengthy (and continuing) discussions about heritage, the anti-slavery usable past and combatting contemporary slavery that subsequently led to a expression of interest involving the universities of Hull, Liverpool and Nottingham to the AHRC's GCRF programme. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | New York, United Nations, Book Launch and Talk |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Talk and launch event for Kevin Bales' book 'Blood and Fire: Modern Slavery, Ecocide and the Secret to Saving the World'. The book and the launch make reference to and promoted the idea of an antislavery usable past. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | October Dialogues: Black Lives Matter |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This conference was convened to respond to the development of the Black Lives Matter movement in the US. It brought together academics, activists and the general public to discuss ways for moving forward on a range of social justice issues. As a result the first Black Lives Matter in the UK was formed in Nottingham. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | http://www.octoberdialogues.org/ |
| Description | Old South Meeting House |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Zoe Trodd delivered a talk at the Old South Meeting House, Boston, titled "Picturing Frederick Douglass." |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | One-day course on Slavery and Human Exploitation at The Hague Academy of International Law, Peace Palace, The Hague |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Presented a one-day course on "Slavery and Human Exploitation: History and Current Challenges" at the Advanced Course on International Criminal Law on Migration and Human Trafficking of The Hague Academy of International Law at the Peace Palace in The Hague in June 2016. The Hague Academy is the most prestigious international law centre of learning and attracts policy makers and others to its courses. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | https://www.hagueacademy.nl/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Flyer-Advanced-Course-on-International-Crimin... |
| Description | Open Campus (University of Hull) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Lecture on 'Wilberforce and the anti-slavery usable past', 26 November 2016. Approximately 80 people present. Events provoked lengthy discussion and debate and requests for further information. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Organisation of Archives into the Future Conference 2016 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
| Results and Impact | The Archives into the Future conference series is a collaboration between the British Library and major projects funded by the AHRC Care for the Future theme. The 2016 conference was led by the Antislavery Usable past team. It examined the value of archives in the Third Sector and how heritage resources can be utilised in modern day campaigning. Team members organised the event, presented papers and facilitated breakout groups. The event provoked lively discussion and enabled those attending to make valuable contacts. Feedback forms (completed by approx. 30% of an audience of 63) indicated that the conference had stimulated thought and inspired future activity. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | https://www.eventbrite.com/e/archives-into-the-future-tickets-19676494926 |
| Description | PGR Network Event (Brno) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | PGR Network event, Brno. 21-23 November 2016. Workshop stimulated widespread debate and discussion. There were also opportunities for mentoring PGR students and providing expert commentaries of their own contributions and wider issues related to slavery and abolition. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Panel discussion at Climate Change and International Conflict and Coercion workshop (University of Leeds) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | I spoke on an interdisciplinary panel discussing methods used by nations to 'persuade' others into taking moral action against climate change, organised by an AHRC-funded project on climate change, ethics and responsibility at the University of Leeds. As a lesson from the history of anti-slavery efforts, I discussed the moral imperatives behind the abolition of the transatlantic slave trade, and the subsequent British diplomatic and coercive efforts against the slave trades of other nations. Several participants noted that they hadn't realised that British coercion based on moral arguments on the international stage had such historical precedents. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | http://www.leeds.ac.uk/arts/info/125225/climate_change_ethics_and_responsibility/2436/about |
| Description | Paper at Digital Humanities Early Careers Forum at Sheffield University (DHECF) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | This event was a one-day conference organised by the Digital Humanities Early Career Forum, designed to showcase current research in the digital humanities and create a network of early career researchers in the field. I spoke about the creation of the Antislavery Usable Past's 'Remembering Slavery, 1807-2007' digital archive collection. The talk provoked discussions between the postgraduate students and heritage professionals present about the relationships between commemorations and public histories, and provided ideas and advice regarding the project's presentation of digital resources to audiences. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://www.dhecf.group.shef.ac.uk/programme/ |
| Description | Paper at Myth and Popular Memory Conference (University of Essex) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | I spoke about the lessons and legacies of the UK's commemorations in 2007 of the bicentenary of the 1807 Abolition Act, research which is developing alongside the Antislavery Usable Past's 'Remembering Slavery, 1807-2007' digital archive collection (which will collate information and resources from the many commemorative efforts of that year). The talk assessed how representations of slavery and abolition were revised and contested during the bicentenary year, and provoked discussions between the postgraduate students and heritage professionals present about the relationships between commemorations, public histories and social memory. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | https://mythandpopularmemoryconference.wordpress.com/ |
| Description | Paper: British Academy Symposium |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | "The Long Arc of Forced Labour: Defining Exploitation" British Academy Symposium on Challenges in Researching the Shadow Economy, Sheffield Political Economy Research Institute in October 8-9, 2015. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | Paper: Peking University Law School |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | "International Law and Human Exploitation: Slavery in the 21st Century", Peking University Law School, Beijing, China, 20 April 2015. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | Paper: Reparations and Beyond Conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | "The Legal Case for Reparation for the Atlantic Slavery Trade: Invoking Diplomatic Protection and the Right to a Remedy", Reparations and Beyond Conference, University of Edinburgh, 6 November 2015 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | Participant, Litigating for Social Change Conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Various funding bodies and academics came together to consider the manner in which strategic litigation can transform lives and enable people and communities to realise their rights. This Conference allowed me to meet with funders and to consider the way in which the Bellgio-Harvard Guidelines might be used in strategic litigation as a means of bringing legal claims as an antislavery tool. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://www.atlanticphilanthropies.org/news/litigating-for-social-change-conference |
| Description | Participation in Archives into the Future Conference 2015 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The Archives into the Future conference series is a collaboration between the British Library and major projects funded by the AHRC Care for the Future theme. This 2015 workshop was led by colleagues at the Performing the Jewish Archive project and examined a range of issues facing archives today. It was supported by the Antislavery Usable Past team, who attended the event and contributed a paper entitled 'Gaps in the Archive'. The event led to the 2016 Archives into the Future conference, that was led by the Antislavery Usable Past team. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | Participation in public event - 'Unspeakable things unspoken: Transatlantic slavery - a public conversation' |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Participation in 'Unspeakable things unspoken: Transatlantic slavery - a public conversation' held at the Nottingham Contemporary and organised as part of the 'Re-presenting slavery: making a public usable past' network grant. Rich dialogues across sectors engage with issues relating to slavery and involved actors from a wide variety of backgrounds in the discussion. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Participation in public event - Slavery and Public History Workshop - International Slavery Museum |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Participation in the Slavery in Public History Workshop as part of the 'Re-presenting slavery: making a public usable past' network sparking broad discussions on issues of representation and commemoration of slavery. Discussion across multiple sectors helped enrich interaction and cooperation between different actors and to build relationships across different fields. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Peterhouse College Politics Society |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Zoe Trodd delivered a talk at Peterhouse College Politics Society, University of Cambridge, on "Contemporary Slavery." |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | Postgraduate Research Network Inaugural Workshop 2015 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Type Of Presentation | workshop facilitator |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | This inaugural workshop was held in Hull and organised by the Antislavery Usable Past team. It established a new interdisciplinary network of researchers studying historical and contemporary slavery. The event generated two days of discussion and information exchange focused around the theme of 'antislavery lessons and legacies'. In the closing session, plans were made to establish an online network to continue the sharing of information and ideas. It was agreed that the second annual workshop (planned for 2016) would be opened up to practitioners and NGOs, with the aim of encouraging the two-way flow of knowledge between academics and practitioners and enabling research outcomes to become 'usable'. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | http://www.usablepast.ac.uk/usablepast/events/postgraduate-research-network-workshop-2015.aspx |
| Description | Presentation - Hman Rights Centre Postgraduate Research Series |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Presentation titled 'Repair, Redress or 'Justice'? An Exploration of the Boundaries of Judicial Remedies for Grave Injustices in International Law' presented as part of the QUB Human Rights Centre Postgraduate Research Series at Queen's University Belfast. The presentation sparked in depth discussion on the legal issues in question and furthered understandings of the ideas presented. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Presentation - School of Law Research Presentation Series, University of Nottingham |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Presentation titled 'Enslavement, Emancipation, Reparation: International Law in Transition' as part of the School of Law Research Series at the University of Nottingham. The presentation introduced academics and postgraduate students to new ideas concerning historical slavery and reparations, and sparked heated and in depth debate on the legal issues at hand. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Presentation Home Office Conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Annual Home Office conference on International Policing - informed professionals of latest work on modern slavery; met privately with Home Secretary (May) to brief her. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Presentation to Annual Trafficking Conference, Denver |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Presentation drew upon the idea of an antislavery usable past. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | Presentation to IdeaCity Conference, Toronto |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | This presentation in June 2015 drew upon the idea of an antislavery usable past. The online permanent provision of the talk reached an extended international audience. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | Presentation to International Book Festival |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Keynote talk/presentation to Gorzia (Italy) International Book Festival - participation included three TV interviews; two radio interviews; 2 newspaper interviews |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Presentation to NGO Leaders, Los Angeles |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
| Results and Impact | Presentation drew upon the idea of an antislavery usable past. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Public Conference Keynote Address University of Oklahoma |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | This keynote address drew upon the idea of an antislavery usable past, leading to a reported change of views within the audience. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| Description | Public Engagement; Connected Communities Festival (Somerset House, London) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | A small exhibition was put together on the theme of murals and their role in putting forward Utopian ideas. These were researched, written and printed. The display was then put on at Somerset House over a weekend. Whilst there mass public engagement was undertaken with the general public, and an activity to create a mural of utopian ideas was run. There was over 1000 visitors over the whole weekend and lots of interesting discussions and questions. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2k8U_fYJGw |
| Description | Public Lecture- 'Legacies on Display: Antislavery in Museums' (WISE, Hull) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | A ten minute summary of the PhD research project was delivered to a general public audience, as well as peers, as part of the wider public lecture programme at the institute. Around thirty people attended, and there were questions and discussions afterwards. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Public Seminar; 'The Many Faces of the Modern Museum through Interpretation of Antislavery,' Centre for the Study of International Slavery, University of Liverpool. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Twenty-five people listened to the presentation on the role of museums today, reflected through their work on antislavery both as a historic and a contemporary issue. There were lots of interesting questions and discussions from that. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Public Talk Ryerson University, Toronto |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Presentation drew upon the idea of an antislavery usable past. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Public Talk Unlockiing the Science of Slavery, Hull |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | This presentation drew upon the idea of an antislavery usable past, leading to a reported change of views within the audience. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| Description | Public Talk at College of William and Mary Law School, Williamsburg VA |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | This presentation drew upon the idea of an antislavery usable past. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Public Talk at Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Presentation drew upon the idea of an antislavery usable past. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Public Talk at Loyola University, New Orleans |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Presentation on 22 Jan 2016 drew upon the idea of an antislavery usable past. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Public Talk at Notre Dame University |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Presentation drew upon the idea of an antislavery usable past. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | Public Talk at Pennington School, NJ, USA |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | This public talk drew upon the idea of an antislavery usable past. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | Public Talk at Pozen Centre for Human Rights, University of Chicago |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Presentation drew upon the idea of an antislavery usable past. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | Public Talk at University of Minnesota |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | This presentation drew upon the idea of an antislavery usable past. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Public Talk at University of Richmond |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | This presentation drew upon the idea of an antislavery usable past, stimulating future activity. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| Description | Public Talk at University of Richmond VA |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | This presentation drew upon the idea of an antislavery usable past. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Public Talk to Friends of Le Monde Diplomatique, London |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | This presentation drew upon the idea of an antislavery usable past. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Public Talk to Wimbledon Quaker Meeting |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | The antislavery usable past was presented as a key message within this address. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| Description | Public Talk, 'Museums and the Fight Against Contemporary Slavery,' Hull Heritage Open Days (WISE) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | 30 people attended this public talk, part of the city-wide Heritage Open Day programme, which outlined the research project. There were lots of interesting questions and discussions following it. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Public Talk, 'The Longest Fight; Antislavery Past and Present,' The Tolbooth Museum (Aberdeen) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Around 40 people attended a lunchtime talk about antislavery history and the relevance this has to antislavery campaigns today, as part of the museum's wider programme of public engagement. This led to lots of interesting questions and discussions with many people remarking they had learned new things. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Public talk for faith groups in Texas. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | A meeting of faith based organisations concerned with human trafficking and slavery in Woodlands Texas, asked to be keynote speaker. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Race and Gender: The Creole in Historical Perspective - School Talk |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | I delivered a lecture to students at Latymer Grammar School in Edmonton, London. The students were studying Jean Rhys's text The Wide Sargasso Sea - the lecture offered contextual information on the changing ways in which the figure of the Creole woman had been imagined over time. The students were fully engaged and asked a range of thoughtful and perceptive questions during the debate afterwards. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Radical Histories / Histories of Radicalism, Conference and Public History Festival, Queen Mary's University London and the Raphael Samuel History Centre |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This international event commemorated twenty years since the death of the leftwing social historian Raphael Samuel and forty years since the founding of History Workshop Journal. The event explored radical approaches to the past and histories of radical ideas and action through lectures, panels, performances, screenings, workshops and exhibitions. The event was hosted by Queen Mary University of London and organised by the Raphael Samuel History Centre. It engaged a diverse audience, and brought together practitioners of many varieties of historical research, curatorship, writing and performance, from both inside and outside the academy. Other venues and partners for the event include Bishopsgate Institute, the London Metropolitan Archives and Tower Hamlets Local Studies Library. My paper explored the public history project 'Local roots / global routes: the legacies of slavery in Hackney'. The audience engaged in a lively discussion afterwards we were invited to repeat the paper at the Public History Seminar at UCL. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://www.historyworkshop.org.uk/radical-historieshistories-of-radicalism-a-major-conference-public... |
| Description | Radio Interviews with BBC and NPR (USA) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Radio interviews with BBC and NPR (USA - on theme of rights and justice) promoted the idea of an antislavery usable past. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | Radio interview on launch of Global Slavery Index |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | One of a series of radio interviews on the launch of the Global Slavery INdex |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Radio interview, South African radio, on launch of GLobal Slavery Index |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Talk radio, South Africa, engaged in dialogue with a number of government officials as well as public. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Re-presenting slavery: making a public useable past website |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The website contains information on new scholars, heritage practitioners, and community historians working on the subject of slavery. It provides details of current and past projects that link academic and public history together. We have complied resources that we hope will be useful to people interested in doing their own research whether that is for family, local or schools history projects. The blog presents new research being generated by the network members that engage with issues of history, memory and representation across a broad field of social, cultural, economic, legal and political history. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://www.slaveryandpublichistoryuk.com/ |
| Description | Repairing the Past, Imagining the Future: Reparations and Beyond Conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | I gave a paper on the notion of reparative histories within education. The conference was designed to explore notions of reparartive action. The talk was followed by an intense discussion on the continued inequalities faced by people of African-descent in the education system, including within higher education. Myself and my co-presenter were asked after if there were plans to extend the education work we had done in London to other areas. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | http://conferences.hss.ed.ac.uk/reparations/ |
| Description | Roundtable discussion (arts and social activism) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | Yes |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The roundtable discussion stimulated lots of questions and discussion. Email follow-up from those present. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | Roundtable discussion on 'Global Abolitionisms', Social Science History Association, Baltimore, USA |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | Talk stimulated lengthy discussion, which went on outside the session. One notable impact of this discussion has been the creation of a 'Global Abolitionists' network and website (http://www.hum.leiden.edu/history/global-abolitionisms-network/) linking together scholars in the UK, USA, Brazil and the Netherlands. There are also plans to publish the papers delivered at the roundtable. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | S. Korea radio interview on launch of Global Slavery Index - 5 June 2016 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | National radio S. Korea, on launch of Global Slavery Index - this was the first year that North Korea was included in the Index, so much of the interview concerned the situation of state slavery in North Korea. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Shadow Economy Symposium |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Zoe Trodd delivered a paper as part of the Shadow Economy Symposium at the University of Sheffield, titled "The Antislavery Usable Past." |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | Slavery and Abolition: Then and Now |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | The Legatum Institute hosted an event called Slavery and Abolition: Then and Now that brought together Frank Field, MP, chair of the Modern Slavery Bill Evidence Review; Nick Grono, CEO of the Freedom Fund; and project investigator John Oldfield. The event examined how the experiences of 19th century abolitionists can help us to tackle human trafficking and forced labour today. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| Description | Slavery walking tour training session with the London Blue Badge Guides |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Training session for the London Blue Badge Tour Guides who were interested in developing walking tours based on London's local history of slavery, abolition and the historic African presence. The tour guides were very receptive to the session and asked lots of questions. They intended to develop walking tours based on this material. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Speech to Pioneer Fund Luncheon, London |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | This presentation drew upon the idea of an antislavery usable past and led to a reported change in view within the audience. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | State-wide, Week-long Honours Class on Modern Slavery, University of Oklahoma |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | This week long course examined slavery since emancipation and put the concept of the antislavery usable past at the centre of teaching/ learning about modern day slavery. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | Symposium on Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Children Born of War |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | with Eithne Dowds (PhD candidate under my supervision), "The Law and Children Born of War: Rape, Slavery and Consent across Enemy Lines", Symposium on Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Children Born of War, Hannover, Germany, 4 June 2015. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | Talk at St Thomas University, St Paul Minnesota |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | This presentation drew upon the idea of an antislavery usable past. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Talk at UNICEF NextGen Event |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Presentations made at UNICEF NextGen events on 19th and 26th Jan 2016 made reference to the idea of an antislavery usable past. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Talk to Conference on Effective Intervention, C&A Foundation, London |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This presentation drew upon the idea of an antislavery usable past, leading to a reported change of views within the audience. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| Description | Talk to High School Students, Orlando |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Presentation drew upon the idea of the antislavery usable past. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Talks at University of Central Florida, Orlando |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Two presentations were delivered on 2nd February 2016 at the University of Central Florida - one to Honors College students, one to Global Studies students. Both drew upon the idea of an antislavery usable past. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | The Abolitionist Camera |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Paper at the British Association for American Studies conference |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | The Antislavery Usable Past |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | The American Studies Annual Lecture at the University of Manchester |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | The British Business of Slavery Series at Conway Hall |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | I was invited to give a lecture at Conway Hall on 'George Hibbert and the defence of British slavery'. The event was attended by interested members of the public and a lively debate followed the talk. This led to an invitation to train London Blue Badge tour guides on how to incorporate the history of slavery into their walking tours. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | http://conwayhall.org.uk/event/george-hibbert-m-p/ |
| Description | The Impact of Migration Conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Invited to be the keynote speaker for the Impact of Migration conference for the University of the Third Age. There were around 200 attendees. The lecture 'Slavery and the making of modern Britain' sparked a 45 minute debate with lively audience discussions. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | The Midlands and Slavery Workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Alongside Prof. Zoe Trodd and PhD student Michael Gill, I gave a paper on the visual representation of self-emancipation within Black British art. The panel and the audience discussed the material afterwards. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | http://www.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/media-new/pdfs/lbs_nottingham2015.pdf |
| Description | Thomson Reuters Reporting Slavery |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Kevin Bales talked about modern slavery to journalists taking a week-long course in London that is connected to the annual Trust Women Conference. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| URL | http://news.trust.org/spotlight/reporting-trafficking-and-slavery/?tab=agenda |
| Description | University of Kent |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Zoe Trodd delivered a public talk at the University of Kent for its American Studies series called "The Antislavery Usable Past." |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | University of Leeds |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Zoe Trodd delivered a talk for the University of Leeds American Research Series titled "Representing Douglass: Images and Legacies." |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Workshop: AHRC/Labex |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | "The Neo-Antislavery Movement: Between the Past and the Future", AHRC/Labex -- Pasts in the Present Joint Workshop, Royaumont Foundation, Val d'Oise, France, 17 January 2015. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | Workshop: Global Slavery and the Exhibitionary Impulse, |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | "How to Distinguish Slaver from other Forms of Exploitation" Workshop: Global Slavery and the Exhibitionary Impulse, University of Leiden, The Netherlands, 11 June 2015. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | Yale University |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Zoe Trodd delivered a talk at Yale University's Department of History titled "Frederick Douglass in Photographs." |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | York Centre for the Americas |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Zoe Trodd delivered the Annual Public Lecture at York Centre for the Americas, titled "Antislavery Visual Culture." |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |