Speaker:
Dr. Jan-Georg Deutsch

Dr Deutsch is University Lecturer in Commonwealth History and Fellow of St Cross College, University of Oxford, Dr Deutsch works on the social and economic history of West and East Africa in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. He has published numerous works, including a book on the end of slavery in East Africa (2007).

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Prof. Dr. Piet Emmer

Professor Emmer is Professor of the History of European Expansion and Migration at the University of Leiden. Recent publications include: A Deus ex Machina Revisited: Atlantic Colonial Trade and European Economic Development, (2006); The Dutch Slave Trade, 1550-1850, (2000); The General History of the Caribbean, vol II, P.C.Emmer, G. Carera Damas (eds.), (1999).

The seminar will involve two thirty minute presentations, and general discussion, followed by a tea/coffee break. After the seminar, a special workshop has been arranged for secondary and higher education teachers, led by Ronald Donk (School Textbook Author) reviewing questions on pedagogy, how to utilise these ideas in current classroom teaching.

Teacher's Workshop:

Following the seminar, a special workshop was arranged with EUROCLIO. This innovative workshop will bring together local history teachers from secondary and higher education institutions to delve into the questions of how best to teach the end of slavery to their students.

*Please download the Lecture Poster for further information.