Dean Bravo Organizes Second Global Conference on Slavery in Prague
05/09/2016
The Second Global Conference on Slavery Past, Present and Future, part of a multi-year project proposed and organized by Dean Karen E. Bravo, took place in Prague, the Czech Republic, May 2-4.
Inspired by increasing public and academic awareness and discussions of slavery and its legacies, and modern forms of exploitation such as human trafficking, Dean Bravo collaborated with Interdisciplinary.Net, an Oxford-based pioneer in interdisciplinary and transnational academic gatherings, to hold the event. Building upon the First Global Conference on Slavery, which was held in July 2015 at Mansfield College, Oxford, the project provides new opportunities for dialog across disciplinary and national boundaries on the subject of slavery.
The participants addressed slavery in a variety of temporal and geographic spaces; analyzed the nature and meaning of slavery, including historic and present-day manifestations; the legacies of slavery in the United States, and in European and African countries, as well as human trafficking and other contemporary forms of exploitation.
Delegates came from across the globe – the Netherlands, Denmark, Iran, Italy, Turkey, the United States, the United Kingdom, and the United Arab Emirates – and from a variety of disciplines and backgrounds, including law, literature, anthropology, history, social work, and economic and political sciences.
In the photo from left are participants Ali Yigit of Kirklareli University in Turkey, Karen-Margarethe Simonsen of Aarhaus University in Denmark, Tiffany Beaver of the University of South Carolina, and Dean Bravo.
Dean Bravo’s paper, “Interrogating Everyperson’s Roles in Today’s Slaveries,” explored the roles of the average contemporary persons in modern forms of exploitation. An e-book of the proceedings will be published by Interdisciplinary.Net later in 2016.
Dean Bravo is Associate Dean for Graduate Studies and International Affairs at IU McKinney. She is a well-known international law scholar, and an expert in the study of human trafficking.
