THURSDAY, JUNE 15

10:15 - 11:00
- Prince Lourenço da Silva Mendonça’s Court Case: Black Atlantic Abolitionism and the Claim for Universalist Justice (José L. Nafafe, University of Bristol)
- Capuchin Antislavery: Transnationalism and Anti-Capitalism (Justine Walden, University of Wisconsin-Madison)
11:00 – 11:30 Q & A

11:45 - 12:30
- Manumission as a Geopolitical Tactic: Spanish Sanctuary Decrees in the 17th and 18th Centuries (Linda Rupert, University of North Carolina at Greensboro)
- Catholicism and the Haitian Revolution (Miriam Franchina, University of Trier):
12:30 - 13:00 Q & A

14:00 - 14:45
- The Roman Holy Office: A Tribunal Against Abolitionists or an Actor of Abolitionism? (Maria T. Fattori, independent scholar)
- Gender, Family, and Social Control on Plantations Managed by the Catholic Clergy in the Mascarenes,1712-1793 (Nathan Marvin, University of Arkansas at Little Rock)
14:45 - 15:15 Q & A

15:30 - 16:00
- Afro-Brazilian Catholic Brotherhoods and their Abolitionism (Online) (Miguel Valerio, Washington University at St. Louis, MO)
16:00 – 16:30 Q & A

FRIDAY, JUNE 16

10:00 - 10:45
- From ‚Servitude‘ to ‚Esclavage‘. Conceptual, Anthropological, and Biographical Dimensions of Abolitionist Discourses in the Work of Abbé Henri Grégoire (Hans-Jürgen Lüsebrink, Univ.ersität des Saarlandes)
- Religion and Anti-Slavery in Revolutionary France (Jeremy Popkin, University of Kentucky)
10:45 - 11:15 Q & A

11:30 - 12:15
- “Trading in the Blood of Our Fellow Creatures”: Catholic Abolitionism in Ferdinando VII’s Court (Jesús Sanjurjo, University of Cambridge)
- Two Africans Facing the New Spain's Inquisition: Enslaved Strategies to Pursue Freedom (Andrea Guerrero Mosquera, Universidad Autónoma Nacional de México)
12:15 - 12:45 Q & A