Conference Participants & Themes

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Themes & Papers

Eunuchs and Concubines:

• HUSSEIN, Ahmed Fulli (Department of History, Addis Ababa University): “Eunuchs of Abyssinian/Ethiopian Origin in the Muslim World”
• JONES, Eric (Department of History, Northern Illinois University): “Kept Women?: Concubinage in the Malay World”
• KANGYING, Li (University of Otago, New Zealand ): “The decision-making process was short cut underneath eunuch's bed sheets”
• LA RUE, George Michael (History Department, Clarion University, PA, USA): “The Homicidal Sorbet: An Account of Slavery, Jealousy, Pregnancy and Murder in a Harem in Alexandria, Egypt, ca. 1840”
• RAMASWAMY, Balambal (Indian Council of Historical Research, New Delhi): "The Plight of the Transgender"
• SHARMA, Karuna (Leiden University): “Love, Sex and Power Relations at Mughal Haram”
• SHERIFF, Abdul (Centre for Modern Oriental Studies, Berlin): “Suria (‘secondary wives’) – the impact of the institution in an Islamic society of Zanzibar”
• TRABELSI, Salah (GREMMO, Maison de l'Orient et de la Méditerranée, Université lumière Lyon 2) : “Eunuques et castrats dans le monde musulman classique”
• TRAN, Lisa (Department of History, California State University): “Household Matters: Concubines and the Law in Republican China”

Sex in Bondage:

• CASARES, Aurelia Martín (Department of Social Anthropology, University of Granada): "Slavery and gender roles in the Islamic Republics of Mauritania and Sudan: a comparative study"
• CHEIKH, Abdel Wedoud Ould (Département d’anthropologie et de sociologie, Université de Metz): "L’Esclavage Maure revisité"
• DENIS, Isabelle (Sorbonne, Paris): "Le mutisme à Mayotte: tabou des comportements sexuels dans une société musulmane au temps de la colonisation française (1843-1945)"
• HELLIE, Richard (East European, Russian, and Eurasian Center, University of Chicago): “Sex, Slavery, and Serfdom in Russian History”
• HOPPER, Mathew (Department of History, California Polytechnic State University): “Slavery, Family Life, and the African Diaspora in the Arabian Gulf, 1880-1940”
• McDOUGALL, Ann (Department of History & Classics, University of Alberta): "Sex, Slavery and Saharans: Listening for silences, seeing the invisible"
• PAIVA, Eduardo França (Département d’Histoire de l’Université fédéral de Minas Gerais, BRÉSIL) : “Les affections, le sexe, les pouvoirs : affranchissement et métissage au XVIIIe siècle brésilien”
• PARTNER, Nancy (Department of History, McGill University): "Marriage and Sex Obligations in the Middle Ages"
• ROSUNEE, Pritilah (Ministry of Education and Human Resources, Mauritius): “Enslavement and sex in 18th century Isle de France”
• WALKER, Niambi (University of London): “The social function of African enslavement in Qajar Iranian households”

The Imagery of Sex in Bondage:

• ARAUJO, Ana Lucia (Université Laval): “Woman’s body : gender and power in images of slavery in Brazil by Rugendas and Debret”
• BADEROON, Gabeba (University of Cape Town): "‘Prodigal with beauty’: sex, race and the legacy of slavery in the Cape"
• BLESSIN, Joseph (McGill University): "Beyond the Blinding Light: Black Ritual, White Myth and “Non-repressive” Visions of Ham the Freeman"
• FOSTER, Bill (History Department, University of Redlands, California): "Spectres of the Anti-Harem: White Christian Male Slaves and Free Muslim Women in the Early Modern Imagination"
• FRENKEL, Yehoshua (University of Haifa, Israel): "Slave Girls in Muslim Lands"
• JOHNSON, Laura A. (McGill University): “The Slave Singing Girls”
• KALIA, Shagun (Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute Of Technology - IIT, New Delhi): “Sexual Relationships and Metaphor of Power in Selected Works of Alice Walker”
• NELSON, Charmaine (Department of Art History & Communication Studies, McGill University): " 'I dread to see my children grow': Race, Slavery and the Sexualization of Black Girls in Western Art"
• TEELUCKSINGH, Jerome (University of the West Indies): “The Other Da Vinci Code: Sex and the Clergy in two West Indian slave novels”
• TAYLOR, Jean Gelman (School of History, University of New South Wales, Australia): “Visual Impressions of Slavery from Indonesia”
• ZIMBA, Benigna (History Department, Universidade Eduardo Mondlane, Maputo, Mozambique): “Marriage and enslavement amongst the Yao of northern Mozambique: Myths and traditions of Queen Achivanjila I”

Sex and Bondage: Race, Class, and Gender:

• COTÉ, Joost (School of History, Deakin University): “Garrisons whores, concubines and bed mates’: the unfreedom of colonised women in Java at the turn of the 20th century”
• CANDIDO, Mariana (Department of History, University of Wisconsin-La Crosse): “Strategies for social mobility: the liaisons between foreign men and free and slave women in 18th century Benguela.”
• COTTIAS, Myriam (L'École des hautes études en sciences sociales - EHESS), Paris): "Les relations sexuelles entre maître et esclaves à travers un journal de planteur à la Martinique (fin XVIIIè-milieu XIXè)"
• DIPTEE, Audra (Department of History, Carleton University): "Sex and Slavery in Late-Eighteenth-Century Jamaica"
• FITTE-DUVAL, Annie (Droit public, Université de Pau et des Pays de l'Adour): "Sexe et mutations du statut juridique des personnes en société esclavagiste : le cas des Antilles françaises"
• GASPAR, David Barry (Department of History, Duke University): " ‘Wanton Delights’: Sex, Miscegenation and Slavery in Early Colonial Antigua, 1632-1702"
• GRAF, Márcia Elisa de Campos (História, Universidade Tuiuti do Paraná, Brasil): “La femme esclave au Brésil du XIXème. Siècle”
• HANZIMANOLIS, Margaret (Johnson State College, Vermont): "Marriages of Convenience: Portuguese Shipwreck Survivors in Southern Africa"
• KARAHASAN, Devrim (Euopean University, Florence) “Indian Concubines into Wives: Encouragement and Prohibition of White-Indian Mixed Marriages in New France: Attitudes of French Metropolitan and Colonial Authorities 1633 to 1808”
• LEWIS, Brian (Department of History, McGill University): "Anti-Slavery, Homosexuality and Sexual Imperialism: The Case of Roger Casement"
• LIBERATO, Carlos (York University): “As If There Was No Sin Below the Equator: Sex, Power, Slavery and Ethnicity in the 18th Century Portuguese Amazonia”
• MARMON, Shaun (Department of Religion, Princeton University): "The Black, the White and the Brown: Attitudes towards Slave Concubines in the Mamluk Empire”
• MITCHELL, Laura (History Department, University of California, Irvine): “Carnal Calvinists or Sex, Settlers, Servants & Slaves Household Intimacy at the Cape of Good Hope”
• NEWTON-KING, Susan (Department of History, University of the Western Cape): “Hilletje Smits and the shadow of death”
• SAVAGE, John (History Department, Lehigh University, PA, USA): “Medea in the Tropics: Vengeful Mistresses, Trusted Favorites and the Sexual Politics of Slavery in Martinique, 1815-1830”
• SCHMIEDER, Ulrike (Historisches Seminar der Universität Hannover): “Sexual relations between the enslaved and between slaves and non-slaves in Cuba (19th century)”
• VANDER BIESEN, Ivan (University of Leuven, Belgium): “Gender and sexual Relationship on 19th Century Zanzibar”

Bondage and Sex Through Abolition to the Present Day:

• CORRIVEAU-BOURQUE, Alexandre (Department of History, McGill University): “Child Soldiers in the Conflict Zones of Eastern Africa”
• INNIS, Tara (University of the West Indies): " “This Complicated Incest”: Children, Sexuality and Sexual Abuse during Slavery and the Apprenticeship Period"
• KORSIEPORN, Kanjapat (Social Research Institute, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok): “The Thin Line between Free and Forced Labor: Female Migrant Workers from Myanmar, Cambodia and Laos in Thailand”
• RODET, Marie (University of Vienna): “Émancipation des esclaves, exodes et relations sexuelles au Soudan Français : la redéfinition progressive des notions de mariage, de famille et d’appartenance (1900-1912)"
• SATTAR, Rana (Coordinator, Technical Support Secretariat, UN Special Rapporteur on Trafficking in Person (UNSRT), Bangladesh): “Power, Sex and the ‘E-Child': Major Challenges, Strategies and Actions”
• TRODD, Zoe (History and Literature Department, Harvard University), with BALES, Kevin: “sex and power and 21st century slavery”
• WARREN, James Francis (Social Science & Humanities Division, Murdoch University, Australia): “Japanese Brothel family ,daily life and clients in Singapore and Southeast Asia.1880-1921”
• WORTHEN, Miranda (Stanford University): “Slave or Slut? Approaches to Sex Trafficking and Domestic Prostitution in Nepal”

Market for Sex and Sex Slave Trades:

• ESEMBE, Beryl (Independent Researcher, Nicosia, Cyprus): "Tricks of the Trafficker in the Modern Sex Slave Traffic"
• EVERS, Sandra (Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam): “Lure of the Impure: Sexuality, Gender and Agency of ‘Slave’ Girls in Contemporary Madagascar.”
• HUDA, Sigma (United Nations Special Rapporteur on Trafficking in Person - UNSRT, United Nations Human Rights Council – OHRC): “Gender-Enslavement’, Sexual Violence and Trafficking in the South Asian Societies”
• JEFFREYS, Sheila (Department of Political Science, University of Melbourne): “Euphemism and sexual slavery: trafficking in women becomes ‘migration for labour’ in the twenty first century”
• KLEIN, Martin (Department of History, University of Toronto): "Sexuality and the Market for Slaves in Asia and Africa"
• KRAVETS, Maryna (University of Toronto): "East European Women in Slave Traffic to the Early Modern Middle East: Politics of Profit, Sex, and Reproduction"
• MHINA, Christine (Department of Modern languages & Cultural Studies, University of Alberta): "Sexual enslavement and vulnerability to HIV/AIDS"
• MUFTIC, Maja (McGill University): "Human Trafficking – Victims of Modern Slavery and Social Changes"SATO, Shigeru (School of Humanities and Social Science, University of Newcastle, Australia): “Forced Prostitution for the Japanese Military during World War Two”
• SATO, Shigeru (School of Humanities and Social Science, University of Newcastle, Australia): “Forced Prostitution for the Japanese Military during World War Two”
• SCHOTTENHAMMER, Angela (Institut für Ostasienkunde, Munich University): “Sex and Forms of Slavery in the East Asian Mediterranean, 15th through early 19th centuries”
• SEIJAS, Tatiana (Yale University): “The Traffic of Female Slaves from the Indian Ocean World to the New World”
• SENCER, Caroline (University of Melbourne): “Enslavement of women under Japan’s licensed prostitution system in the modern period”
• UYANGA, Roseline (Federal University of Technology, Yola, Nigeria): “Slavery, Sex and Power: An overview of structures and trends in 21st century Nigeria –West Africa”