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Creolization and Creole Communities in the Portuguese Atlantic. São Tomé, Cape Verde and the Rivers of Guinea in Comparison
Gerhard Seibert, Instituto de Estudos Africanos, ISCTE, Lisbon

Cultural Interaction on the pre-colonial Gold Coast: Modes of Incorporating Euro-Africans in Elmina Extended Families
Natalie Everts, University of Leiden

A Short History of Islam in Guinea-Bissau
Richard Lobban, Rhode Island College

Excavations of the First Christian Church in the Tropic Latitudes – Cidade Velha, Santiago
Konstantin Richter, Universidade Jean Piaget

The 'Guinea of Cape Verde' in the 'Dutch' Private Investment and Business Networks (c. 1590-1674)
Filipa Ribeiro da Silva, University of Leiden

Dutch Dominance in 17th Century Upper Guinea and the Emergence of Papiamentu
Bart Jacobs, University of Munich

Patterns of contact and interaction between the Dutch and West African communities: a comparative approach to agency and brokerage in the age of the Atlantic slave trade and beyond
Michel Doortmont, University of Groningen

'Into speyne to selle for slavys': English, Spanish and Genoese merchant networks along the 'cost of gwynea', 1500 - 1530
Heather Dalton, University of Sheffield

Slave routes in the Senegambian area and the links between African and Portuguese markets
Antonio de Almeida Mendes, University of Paris

Bartering for Slaves on the Upper Guinea Coast in the Early Seventeenth Century: Networks and Commodities
Linda Newson, King’s College London

 Enslavement on the coast of West Africa in the early modern period: the problem of debt
Judith Spicksley, Wilberforce Institute for the Study of Slavery and Emancipation, University of Hull

Identifying Captives' Places of Origin: Slave Production in and Trading from Bissau and Cacheu, 1750-1830
Walter Hawthorne, Michigan State University

Everyday Commodities, the Rivers of Guinea, and the Atlantic World: the Beeswax Export Trade, c. 1450-1800
Michael Tuck, University of North Eastern Illinois

What would Hegel have made of the lançados? Everyday Interactions in Early Modern Guiné
José Lingna Nafafé, University of Birmingham

Trade and Power in the Kaabu “Empire”, 16th-17th Centuries
Toby Green, University of Birmingham

Greater Senegambie as a model for culture contact in the early Atlantic world
Peter Mark, Wesleyan University and José da Silva Horta, University of Lisbon

In Northern Senegambia: An Old Colonial Construction Called Senegal
Ibrahima Seck, University of Dakar

A Commanding Commercial Position: The Settlement of Bolama Island and Anglo-Portuguese Rivalry (1792-1870)
Philip Havik, Instituto de Investigação Científica Tropical, Lisbon

American Trade with Cabo Verde and Guine, 1830s – 1850s: Exploiting the Transition From Slave to Legitimate Commerce
George Brooks, Indiana University - Bloomington

The Forsters and Forster & Smith: Their Trade and Short/Long-Term Influence on Anglophone West Africa From c. 1817
Marika Sherwood, Institute of Commonwealth Studies, London.

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Abdoulaye Bathily, University of Dakar

Closing Discussion
Led by Paulo de Moraes Farias, University of Birmingham

Conference ends