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ESTA Database Launch

6 December 2023 (16:00 – 17:00 CET)

International Institute of Social History

Onsite event, registration via e-mail: secretar[at]iisg.nl.

On 6 December 2023 (16:00 – 17:00 CET), the International Institute of Social History will host the launch of the ESTA Database that will give access to data on more than 4,000 slave trade voyages across the Indian Ocean region. This is a milestone in Asian slavery studies and opens the way to more accurate reconstructions of the slave trade in the Indian Ocean region.

During the launch, we will provide context to the database and the ESTA project as a whole, after which experts such as Wim Manuhutu and Daniel Domingues da Silva will provide reflections. Of course, there will also be room for questions from the audience and a reception afterward.

Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies

17 November 2023 (13:30 – 16:30 CET)

Hybrid event, registration via here.

On 17 November 2023, we will also present the ESTA Database for international academic audiences during a hybrid event hosted by the Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies.


“Colonialism, Slavery and Local Histories in Early Modern Asia” 

15 – 16 September 2023

International conference organised by Hans Hägerdal and Merve Tosun in Växjö, Sweden.


“Reconstructing Global Slave Trade: New Data Initiatives in Slave Trade and Slavery Studies”

7 April 2021

Webinar organised by Merve Tosun.


“Capture, Bondage, and Forced Relocation in Asia, 1400 – 1900”

13 – 14 March 2019

International conference organised by Claude Chevaleyre and Jennifer L. Gaynor at ENS Lyon.


“Towards an Indian Ocean and Maritime Asia Slave Trade Database”

27 – 28 September 2018

International workshop organised by Matthias van Rossum and Merve Tosun at the International Institute for Social History.


“Enslavement in the Indian Ocean World”

8 – 9 September 2017

International conference organised by Hans Hägerdal at Linnaeus University.


“Slave Trade in the Indian Ocean and Indonesian Archipelago Worlds, 16th – 19th Century: New Research, Results and Comparisons”

9 – 10 November 2016

International workshop organised by Matthias van Rossum at the International Institute for Social History.

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