Events
Chained in Paradise: History as the battlefield for the Caribbean Future.
Centre for Caribbean Studies, University of Toronto
January 13 , 2026 (Toronto, Canada).
Building Archives for the Future: Reflections on the Colonial Caribbean. (Keynote Address)
Société des Études Postcoloniales, Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne
January 30 , 2025 (Reims, France).
Strategies for working with colonial documents that were secretly taken from the region: Operation Legacy
Caribbean Digital X Conference, Yale University
December 8, 2023 (New Haven, Connecticut).
The future of history: Perspectives from a Caribbean historian. (Keynote address)
Underhill Graduate Colloquium, Carleton University
March 22nd, 2024 (Ottawa, Canada)
The Impact of Operation Legacy in the Caribbean: The removal and destruction of colonial records.
Annual Conference of the Association of Caribbean Historians.
June 13, 2023 (San Juan, Puerto Rico).
Imaginer l’horizon du pays sud sous l’angle d’histoire.
Séminaire de l’Atelier des Études Transnationales, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle-Paris 3.
22 mars, 2019 (Paris, France).
Radical Caribbean Thought and 21st Century Human Trafficking Discourses.
Annual Conference of the Caribbean Studies Association.
June 7, 2018 (Havana, Cuba).
New Strategies for the Battle Against Modern Day Slavery.
The Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center.
April 26, 2018 (Bellagio, Italy).
Rethinking the Problem of Contemporary Slavery: Insights from a Historian.
Annual Meeting of the Social Science History Association.
November 4, 2017 (Montréal, Canada).
Critical Applied History and the Caribbean Historian: Writing Usable Histories.
Association of Caribbean Historians Annual Conference.
May 14, 2017 (Lowlands, Tobago).
L’enfance et les discours humanitaires aux Antilles.
Conférence annuelle de l’association des études Caribéennes.
9 juin, 2016 (Port-au-Prince, Haïti).
Slavery and Memory in Present Day Humanitarian Discourses.
Conférence internationale ‘La mémoire de l’esclavage dans tous ses états. Perspectives internationales comparées.
April 21, 2016 (Ottawa, Canada).
The Problem of Child Slavery in the 21st Century: Is Critical Applied History the Answer?
Annual Meeting of the Social Science History Association.
November 7, 2014 (Toronto, Canada).
The Problem of Contemporary Child Slavery: Reflections on Using a Critical Applied History Approach.
When Is a Child a Slave? Children’s Labor and Children’s Rights, University of Connecticut.
October 18, 2013 (Storrs, Connecticut).
Remembering the Children: Re-thinking Slave Systems in French West Africa.
Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition, Yale University.
April 18, 2012 (New Haven, Connecticut).
Forced Migrations: Rethinking African Children in Atlantic Slave Systems.
Alexandrian Society Symposium, Virginia Commonwealth University
April 24, 2012 (Richmond, Virginia).
Children, Childhood, and Systems of Slavery in French West Africa.
