We hold a range of public events throughout the academic year in Oriel Chambers, our lovely Institute building at 27, High Street, Hull, HU1 1NE. This year we are continuing to live-stream these events whenever possible, so that they are open to a wider audience. For details of how to get to the Institute, or for more information about live-streaming, please contact Sophie Blanchard at Sophie.Blanchard@hull.ac.uk or Judith Spicksley at Judith.Spicksley@hull.ac.uk
We open our doors fifteen minutes before events begin to offer you refreshments. We also encourage you to stay behind afterwards for a glass of wine and a chat with our speakers.
More details of individual events and live-streaming links will be provided on the ‘Events’ page as they approach. Below you will find basic information about our programme of public lectures for Autumn and Spring 2022-2023.
| AUTUMN TERM 2022 |
| Alderman Sydney Smith Annual Lecture Professor Matthew Smith, University College London Righting History: Why Teaching Slavery Matters |
| 5.30 BST Wednesday October 12, 2022 |
| Dr Jim Powell, University of Liverpool Losing the Thread: Cotton, Liverpool and the American Civil War |
| 4.30 GMT Wednesday November 9, 2022 |
| Dr Lucy Mayblin, University of Sheffield Criminal assistance: Understanding Crimes of Solidarity |
| 4.30 GMT Wednesday December 7, 2022 |
| SPRING TERM 2023 |
| Professor Steven Sarson, University of Lyon A ‘Cruel War Against Human Nature’: Conditional Proslavery in the US Declaration of Independence |
| 4.30 GMT Wednesday January 25. 2023 TO BE HELD ON CAMPUS – SEE EVENTS PAGE FOR DETAILS |
| What’s going on at the Wilberforce Institute? Our students in the Falling though the Net cluster reveal their findings as their projects come to an end |
| 4.30 GMT Wednesday February 15, 2023 |
| Dr Dean Clay, University of Hull ‘To Bunco a Yankee’: The American Congo Reform Movement, 1903-1909 |
| 4.30 GMT Wednesday March 15, 2023 |
| Dr Rosemary Broad, University of Manchester Women in modern slavery offending |
| 4.30 BST Wednesday April 19, 2023 TO BE HELD ON CAMPUS – SEE EVENTS PAGE FOR DETAILS |
| Dr Nicholas Evans, University of Hull Memorialising Antislavery in South Africa: Unearthing Black Agency |
| 4.30 BST Wednesday May 17, 2023 |
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Public Lecture Programme
SPRING 2022
Public Lecture Programme CANCELLED
4.00PM GMT Thursday February 10, 2022
Who: What’s going on at the Wilberforce Institute? A look at our postgraduate research.
Title: Former and current students talk about their PhD project
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Public Lecture Programme
4.00PM GMT Thursday March 3, 2022
Who: Dr Bruce Ragsdale, former director of the US Federal Judicial History Office
Title: Washington at the Plow: The Founding Farmer and the Question of Slavery
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Public Lecture Programme
4.00PM GMT Thursday March 17, 2022
Who: Dr Filipa Ribeiro da Silva, Senior Researcher at the International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam
Title: Rethinking ‘the numbers game’ and the debate on profits from the trade in enslaved Africans and slave-produced commodities: preliminary steps towards a global approach
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Public Lecture Programme POSTPONED UNTIL DECEMBER AS A RESULT OF STRIKE ACTION
4.00PM GMT Thursday March 24, 2022
Who: Dr Lucy Mayblin, University of Sheffield
Title: Criminal assistance: Understanding Crimes of Solidarity
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Wilberforce Institute Webinar
4.00PM Thursday March 31, 2022
Who: Sandi Brewster-Walker, Executive Director and Government Affairs Officer for the Montaukett Indian Nation; Linford D. Fisher, Associate Professor at Brown University; Rebecca Goetz, Associate Professor at New York University; and Brooke Newman
Title: Indigenous Slavery in the Atlantic World
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Public Lecture Programme CANCELLED
4.00PM BST Thursday April 7, 2022
Who: Dr Sheryllynne Haggerty, Wilberforce Institute, University of Hull
Title: Tales of the Enslaved in Jamaica, 1756
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Public Lecture Programme
THIS EVENT WILL BE ONLINE ONLY
4.00PM BST Thursday April 28, 2022
Who: Professor Geraldine van Bueren, Queen Mary University, London
Title: Class Discrimination and Children’s Rights
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Public Lecture Programme
4.00PM BST Thursday May 12, 2022
Who: Dr Virginia Morrow, Visiting Professor at University College, London
Title: Understanding children’s work: evidence from the Young Lives study in Ethiopia, India, Peru and Vietnam
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Wilberforce Institute Summer Debate
4.00PM BST Thursday May 19, 2022
Who: Professor Chris Brown of Columbia University, Dr Bronwell Everill of Cambridge University, Dr Dexnell Peters of Warwick University and Dr Nick Radburn of Lancaster University.
Title: Principles and Agents: The British Slave Trade and Its Abolition by David Richardson
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Wilberforce Institute Webinar
4-5.30PM BST Thursday June 16, 2022
Who: Dr Blessing Chapfika, University of Hull Alumnus
Title: The African Philosophy of Freedom
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