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Accordingly, the Conference seeks to foster exchanges and collaboration among historians, scholars in related fields, public policy experts, and representatives of non-governmental agencies, and activists who are directly engaged on a day-to-day basis in combating the legacies of 19th century slavery and the persistence of slavery as it practiced today.

In the largest sense, this Conference aspires to link the study of the past with the activism of the present in order to better understand and more effectively combat both the legacies of 19th century slavery and the continuation of slavery in the world today.

With these goals in view, the Conference’s organizers invite proposals that address specific aspects of these broad areas:

- 18th and 19th British and American Abolitionist and Antislavery Movements: Comparisons, Contrasts, Consequences
- Emancipation Movements “Then” and “Now”: Comparisons, Contrasts and Analogies
- Documenting and Combating the Legacies of Transatlantic Slavery: Economics, Public Policy, NGOs and On-the-Ground Activism
- Documenting and Combating the New Slavery: Economics, Public Policy, NGOs and On-The-Ground-Activism