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New Publication: selected papers from the 2006 ISOS conference:
Dick Geary & Kostas Vlassopoulos (eds.), Slavery, Citizenship and the State in Classical Antiquity and the Modern Americas, Special issue of European Review of History: Revue Europeenne d'Histoire, Vol. 16.3 (2009) 295-436.

Dr Susanne Seymour (Geography) and Dr Sheryllynne Haggerty (History) have been awarded £10,000 by English Heritage for a project on 'The Slavery Connections of English Heritage Properties'. This forms part of English Heritage's scheme to conduct case study research into the slavery linkages of selected properties in its care.

The Institute for the Study of Slavery (ISOS)

Established by the late Thomas Wiedemann as the International Centre for the History of Slavery in 1998, ISOS now seeks to pursue and develop research on contemporary, as well as historical, slavery in all parts of the globe and through all historical periods. It aims to stimulate cross-cultural and comparative work on slavery, develop collaborative projects inside and outside Nottingham and attract and train postgraduate students. To this end it organises seminars, workshops and an annual international conference. Seven such conferences have already been held:

• The Body of the Slave (2000) - publication
• Manumission (2001) - publication
• 5000 Years of Slavery (2002)
• Resistance and Accomodation: Strategies of Survival in Slave Societies (2003).
• Practices and Discourses of Abolition (2004)
• Slavery, Citizenship and the State (2006) - publication
• Slaves, Cults and Religions (2008) - being prepared for publication by Cambridge Scholars Publishing

In 2005 ISOS also co-sponsored a one-day conference on 'Slavery, Freedom and Unfreedom' with the University of Nottingham's Institute for Medieval Studies.

In 2006 ISOS co-sponsored a one-day conference on 'Gender and Culture in Slave Societies' with the University of Nottingham's School of History.

Contact details:

Co-Directors:

Professor Dick Geary
School of History
University of Nottingham
Nottingham NG7 2RD UK
Tel: 0115 9515935
email: dick.geary@nottingham.ac.uk

Professor Stephen Hodkinson
Department of Classics
School of Humanities
University of Nottingham
Nottingham NG7 2RD UK
Tel: 0115 9514806
email: stephen.hodkinson@nottingham.ac.uk