By Associate Professor Emma Christopher

Conference Presentations

Christopher E, 2024, 'Blackness and ‘Enslaveability’ in the aftermath of abolition: ‘Oceanic Negroes’ and Black Sailors in the Pacific People Trade.', presented at Imagining Emancipation in the Atlantic World: 1750-1888 Copenhagen 2024, University of Copenhagen, 13 June 2024 - 14 June 2024, http://inthesamesea.ku.dk/news/imagining-emancipation/

Christopher E, 2024, 'The Use of History in the Challenging Present: The Case of the Río Yurumanguí', presented at LASA2024 Reacción y Resistencia: Imaginar Futuros Posibles en las Américas, Bogota, Colombia, 12 June 2024 - 15 June 2024, http://lasaweb.org/en/lasa2024/

Christopher E, 2023, 'Blackness in the aftermath of abolition: the case of South Sea Islanders in Australia', presented at Australian Legacies of Slavery, State Library of Western Australia, 01 December 2023 - 02 December 2023, http://australian-legacies-slavery.org/events/australian-legacies-of-slavery-conference-2023

Christopher E, 2023, 'Linking Voyages and Plantations: creating an online database of South Sea Islander voyages', presented at ASHA 2023 Conference: The Past in the Present for Historical Archaeology, Mackay Entertainment & Convention Centre, 19 September 2023, http://asha.org.au/past-conferences/2023-asha-conference/

Christopher E, 2023, '“Oceanic Negroes”: British Slavery’s Aftermath and Pacific Labourers in Queensland', presented at GLOBAL VOYAGES, LOCAL SITES: THE LONG SHADOW OF ATLANTIC SLAVERY IN THE ANGLO-AMERICAN AND GERMAN PACIFIC, Bonn Center for Dependency and Picture credits: Volker Lannnert/University of Bonn; cover image: iStock.com/filo Slavery Studies (BCDSS) University of Bonn, 20 June 2023 - 22 June 2023, http://www.dependency.uni-bonn.de/en/outreach/events/dependency-and-slavery-studies-workshop/view

Christopher E, 2023, '‘Black is not the Skin’: Slavery, Freedom, and the Fight for Survival in the Río Yurumanguí', presented at Workshop on Imagining Emancipation in the Atlantic World, 1750-1888, University of Exeter, 02 June 2023 - 03 June 2023, http://www.exeter.ac.uk/research/centres/cpt/infocus/news/articles/workshoponimaginingemancip.php

Christopher E, 2022, 'ʻKidnapping Cannibalsʼ: The Scandal Over Recruitment and the British/German Division of New Guinea', presented at Slavery and Dependency: New Perspectives on Heritage and German Global History, Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies (BCDSS), University of Bonn, 06 July 2022 - 08 July 2022, http://www.dependency.uni-bonn.de/en/news/news-bcdss/new-perspectives-on-cultural-heritage-and-german-global-history

Christopher E, 2022, 'Reinventing the “necessary" Blackness of sugar workers: Atlantic Racialisation’s Pacific Legacies', presented at Colonising Companies, Commodities, and Labour in the Western Pacific, Department of Modern History and Society, NTNU Dragvoll, 13 June 2022 - 14 June 2022, http://d.docs.live.net/documents/1292402039/1300284206/symposiumColonisingCompanies_programme2022jun.pdf/cd68c552-99fb-aa47-60f1-2002b429b6ac?t=1655121147559

Christopher E, 2018, 'The Trope of the Ruined Planter and Australia’s Sugar Pioneers', presented at Ending Slavery in the Caribbean and Beginning Settler Colonialism in Australasia, La Trobe University, Melbourne, VIC, 14 December 2018

Christopher E, 2018, 'When Legacies of 'old' slavery and Methods of resisting 'new' slavery overlap: The Banta of Sierra Leone', presented at Between Slavery and Post-Slavery: Citizenship, Dependence and Abolitionism in African and Indian Ocean Societies, University of Mauritius, 10 April 2018 - 12 April 2018, http://benedettarossicom.files.wordpress.com/2018/04/programme-10-12-april-final.pdf

Christopher E, 2018, '"The Coast Swarms with Slave Ships": Slaving Trading and Captives after Abolition', presented at American Historical Association Annual Conference, Washington DC, 04 January 2018 - 07 January 2018, http://aha.confex.com/aha/2018/webprogram/Paper24026.html

Back to profile page