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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Eugene Y. Park<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Korea Foundation Associate Professor of History<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Medieval Unfreedoms: Slavery, Servitude, and Trafficking in Humans before the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade<br>
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October 19 – 20, 2018<br>
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Across the medieval world (c. 500 — c. 1500), multiple forms and degrees of unfreedom—slavery, serfdom, forced concubinage, coerced labor, captivity, and bondage—co-existed. Slaves and other unfree people made crucial, but often obscured, marks on societies
that accorded them varying degrees of power even as they constrained and exploited them. Trade in humans tied together distinct cultural zones, religions, and geographic regions. Shifting definitions of freedom and unfreedom shaped evolving social systems,
and helped to shape developing concepts of race, ethnicity, social status, and cultural difference and belonging from Iberia to Ethiopia and from Iceland to Persia and beyond. Scholars have long pondered the decline of an ancient Roman slave society and the
legacy of both Roman and late-medieval forms of unfreedom for the emergence of the trans-Atlantic slave trade (and the concomitant transformation of slavery) and of colonial systems of race, power, and government. This interdisciplinary conference, hosted
by the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (CEMERS) at Binghamton University, seeks to bring together scholars whose research relates to unfreedom before the advent of the trans-Atlantic slave trade. We hope to foster conversations across traditional
disciplinary boundaries about the definitions, cultural significance, and evolution of unfreedom in disparate parts of the medieval world. How does examining conceptions of freedom and unfreedom inform our understanding of medieval cultures? What is the legacy
of medieval definitions of liberty and bondage? We particularly welcome comparative perspectives on unfreedom across religious and geographical frontiers.<br>
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We invite papers from a variety of disciplinary and methodological perspectives on any topic related to medieval unfreedom, including:<br>
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</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:black">·</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black"> Forms of unfreedom after the end of ancient slavery and on cultural frontiers<br>
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</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:black">·</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black"> Unfreedom in the Byzantine, Islamic, and Latin Christian worlds<br>
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</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:black">·</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black"> Trafficking in humans across political and religious frontiers<br>
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</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:black">·</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black"> Concepts of humanity, race, ethnicity, religion, and freedom<br>
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</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:black">·</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black"> Gender, sexuality, and unfreedom<br>
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</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:black">·</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black"> The interaction between slaving zones and centers of power<br>
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</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:black">·</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black"> The unfree at royal and aristocratic courts<br>
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</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:black">·</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black"> Textual and artistic unfreedoms<br>
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</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:black">·</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black"> Law, rights, and unfree status<br>
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</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:black">·</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black"> Manumission, social capital, and social mobility<br>
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</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:black">·</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black"> Varieties of coerced and unfree labor<br>
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</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:black">·</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black"> Raiding, piracy, and unfreedom<br>
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</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:black">·</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black"> Resistance and rebellion against bondage<br>
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Abstracts for individual papers and for sessions are invited. Papers should be 20 minutes in length. Send abstracts to
<a href="mailto:cemers@binghamton.edu">cemers@binghamton.edu</a>. For information, contact Elizabeth Casteen (<a href="mailto:ecasteen@binghamton.edu">ecasteen@binghamton.edu</a>).<br>
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