Charmaine Nelson , McGill University, Montreal
Talk title: Sugar Cane, Slaves and Ships: Race, Location and Power in Transoceanic Visual Art

Julie Crooks , scholar, curator, Toronto
Talk title: Signifying Black Modernities: Nineteenth and Twentieth-Century Photography in Sierra Leone and Nova Scotia

Barrington Walker , Queen's University, Kingston
Talk title: Blackness and the Law in Slavery and Freedom

Jonathan Farley , University of the West Indies
Talk title: "As Long As You're South of the Canadian Border...": How the Pro-Slavery South Won the American Civil War

Afua Cooper , scholar, author, curator, poet, Toronto
Talk title: Black People in Defence of Themselves: Antislavery as Human Rights, 1772-1807.