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Modern Slavery, Human Rights, and Development

27th

– 28th

of June, York University, Toronto

Organized by

The Harriet Tubman Institute for Research on the Global Migrations of African Peoples,

York University

(www.yorku.ca/tubman)

The Wilberforce Institute for the study of Slavery and Emancipation, University of Hull

(http://www.hull.ac.uk/wise).

With funding support from

The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada

York's Office of the Vice-President Research & Innovation

Dean's Office, Faculty of Liberal Arts and Professional Studies

Sunday, June 26, 2011

Afternoon: Presenters arrive in Toronto

5:00 – 6:00 pm: Registration and material pick-up from Concierge at Schulich Executive

Learning Centre

6:00 – 8:00 pm Opening Dinner for presenters and discussants

Schulich Private Dining Room, York University

Welcome from Annie Bunting, Joel Quirk, Karlee Sapoznik

Monday, June 27 305 York Lanes

8:30 – 9:00 am Coffee and Welcome

9:00 – 10:30 First session: The Landscape of the Field and International Law

Joel Quirk, Wilberforce Institute, University of Hull

Competing Visions: Human Trafficking Versus Forced Labour?

Jean Allain, School of Law, Queen’s University of Belfast

Modern Slavery: From Human Rights to International Criminal Law

Chair/ Discussant: Annie Bunting, Law & Society/ The Harriet Tubman Institute, York University

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10:30 – 11:00 Health break

11:00 – 12:30 Second session: Enslavement, Slaveholders and the State

Austin Choi-Fitzpatrick, University of Notre Dame

Two to Tango: Slaveholders, Mobilization and Social Change

Rhoda Howard-Hassmann, Wilfred Laurier University

Slave Labour in North Korea

Chair/ Discussant: Joel Quirk, Wilberforce Institute, University of Hull

12:30 – 1:45 Lunch break

1:45 – 3:15 Third Session: Wartime Abuses and ‘Forced Marriage’ as Slavery

Annie Bunting, Law & Society/ The Harriet Tubman Institute, York University

Wartime Enslavement, Forced Marriage and Modern Slavery

Benjamin N. Lawrance, College of Liberal Arts, Rochester Institute of Technology

Forced Marriages, Marital Simulacra, and their Perpetrators: Conceptualizing Protagonists and

Process in West African Asylum Claims

Chair/ Discussant: Fuyuki Kurasawa, Sociology, York University

3:15 – 3:30 Health Break

3:30 – 5:00 Fourth Session: Poverty, Development, and Movement

Christien van Den Anker, University of West of England

Modern Slavery and Global Inequality: Lessons from Global Justice and Human Rights Debates

Andrew Crane, Schulich School of Business, York University

Modern Slavery as a Management Practice: Exploring the Conditions and Capabilities for Human

Exploitation

Chair/ Discussant: Karlee Sapoznik, PhD Candidate in History, York University

7:00pm Dinner for presenters and discussants at the home of Annie Bunting, 132 Albany Ave

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Tuesday, June 28 305 York Lanes

9:00 – 11:00 Fifth Session: Research Methods and Case Studies

Karlee Sapoznik, Department of History/ The Harriet Tubman Institute, York University

Cocoa Trafficking and Hereditary Slavery in Mali: Investigating Omissions, Contextualizing Reports

and Challenging Popular Narratives

Darshan Vigneswaran, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity

Methods and Modern Slavery: A South African Case Study

Jonathan Blagbrough, Children Unite, UK

The Politics of Child Domestic Labour

Chair/ Discussant: Nicholas Adeti Bastine, PhD Candidate Osgoode Hall Law School, York University

11:00 – 11:30 Health break

11:30 – 1:00 Sixth Session: Representations and Reparations

Fuyuki Kurasawa, Sociology, York University

Visual Representations of Modern Slavery

Roy L. Brooks, University of San Diego School of Law

Redress, Human Rights, and Human Development

Chair/ Discussant: Katrina Keefer, PhD Candidate in History/ Harriet Tubman, York University

1:00 – 2:30 Lunch break

2:30 – 4:30 Final Reflections and Future Publications

Annie Bunting, Joel Quirk, Karlee Sapoznik