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International Workshop on BONDAGE, RIGHTS, AND VOICE IN THE INDIAN OCEAN WORLD 16TH CENTURY TO THE PRESENTDates : 9-11 October 2014,Location: EHESS, Paris Sale 8, 105 Bd Raspail. Salle 8, École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS), 105 Bd Raspail, 75006 Paris (Metro Saint-Sulpice, ligne 4)UPDATED PROGRAM ADDED SEPT. 14th (click here)It is estimated that some 27 million people live in contemporary forms of human bondage, notably in the Indian Ocean World (IOW), a vast region running from Eastern Africa, to the Middle East, South and Southeast Asia to China. This conference will explore the relationship between historical and contemporary forms of servitude and human trafficking in the IOW within the context of socio-economic, institutional and specific environment interaction, from the 17th century to present days.Scholars, activists and representatives of international organizations (ILO) and ONGs will interact to set a new research agenda and new policies orientations.This conference is the conclusive meeting of a France-Quebec program, co-sponsored by the ANR and the FQRSC.Further information on the program and the team on: http://aiow.hypotheses.org/Programme8 October - Arrival9 October09.30-13.00• Introduction: Gwyn Campbell, Alessandro Stanziani• Xiyang Liu, Simon Fraser University, “Female Domestics and the Neo-Confucian Family Ideal in Ming and Qing China.”• Claude Chevaleyre EHESS Paris, “From bonded to free labor in late Ming China. A comparison of bondservants and hired-laborers.”• Margaret Kalacska and Pablo Arroyo, McGill University, “Disease in the 19th Century: Results from the MCRI database on the history of human-environment interaction in the IOW.”• Ian Breman, University of Amsterdam, “On bondage old and new. unfree labour and the globalization of capitalism.”13.00-14.00 Lunch14.00-17.30• Gwyn Campbell, IOWC, McGill University, “The Question of Demand for Malagasy Labour in the Mascarenes, 1820-45.”• Alessandro Stanziani, EHESS Paris, “Post-slavery labor and bondage in the Indian Ocean.”• Catarina Madeira Santos, EHESS, CEAF, “Servitude par dettes, justice et colonialisme en Angola: crédit africain, traite atlantique et impôt indigène (XVIIIème-XXème siècles).”• Matthew Pritchard, McGill University, “Perceptions of Slavery in an Independent South Sudan: The impacts of forced migration on contemporary labour and gendered relations in a post-conflict environment.”10 October09.30-13.00• Smita Premchander, Sampark, Bangalore, “Contracting and sub-contracting: how markets work to perpetuate indebtedness and bondage.”• Jon Unruh, McGill University, “The Somali Bantu: contemporary attempts at exiting slavery's legacy.”• Coen Kompier, ILO, Delhi, “Fifteen Years of ILO Bonded Labor Interventions in India.”• Tonia Warnecke, Co-Director of the Center for India &#38; South Asia, Rollins College, “Sex and Money: Female Slavery in Contemporary China.”13.00-14.00 Lunch14.00-17.30• Beate Andrees, ILO, Geneva, Head, “The Price of Having a Job: Labour Recruitment Practises in Global Markets”.• Sudhir Katiyar, Centre for Labor Research and Action, Udaipur, Rajasthan. “Debt and bondage in contemporary Indian economy. A case study of brick kiln industry'.”• Isabelle Guèrin IRD-University Paris 7, “Contemporary Bondage in South India”• Jo Ann Levesque, Directrice du développement stratégique de la recherche, Université du Québec, “Funding Opportunities for Continued International Collaboration.”11 October09.30-12.30• Margaret Kalacska and Pablo Arroyo, McGill University, “Global Warming and Natural Disasters in the IOW since 1980.”• Laura De Lisi, EHESS, Child labor and its interaction with adult labor in Ivory Coast (1980-2002)• Nithya Joseph, EHESS-French Institute of Pondicherry, “The roles of debt in labor contracts in a South Indian silk-reeling hub.”• David Picherit, EHESS, CEIAS, “Servitude and debt in South India.”October 12:Departure.Sponsored by the ANR-FQRSC France-Quebec Program