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Slavery, Ransom and Liberation in Russia and the Steppe Area, 1500-2000
| Location: | United Kingdom |
| Call for Papers Deadline: | 2009-01-11 (Archive) |
| Date Submitted: |
2008-11-21 |
| Announcement ID: |
165323 |
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This international conference backed by the Leverhulme Trust concentrates on captivity, slavery and ransom in the vicinity of the Eurasian steppe from the early modern period to recent developments and seeks to explore its legacy and relevance down to the present day. The conference will centre on the Russian Empire, while aiming to bring together scholars from various disciplines and historical traditions of the leading states in this region, including Poland-Lithuania, the Ottoman Empire, Persia, Mongolia and China, and their various successor states.
Recent research has demonstrated that early modern slavery was much more widespread than the traditional concentration on plantation slavery in the context of European colonial expansion would suggest. At the centre of attention will be transfers, transnational fertilisations and the institutional mechanisms, rituals and representations facilitating enslavement, exchanges and ransoming.
The key note will be delivered by Don Ostrowski (Harvard).
venue: University of Aberdeen, UK, 15-16 June 2009
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