This conference offers a platform for discussion, networking, and knowledge production through which we question the new modes of engagement that scholars, activists, grassroots, and heritage practitioners are developing, thus linking reparatory justice to environmental and heritage justice. Transnational Conversations will offer avenues for groundbreaking discussions underpinning diverse fields, including heritage and memory studies, history, environmental humanities, political science, law and policy studies. The main questions addressed are: how do heritage and memory practices, and climate coloniality shape contemporary understandings and mobilisations of reparations?; and how do historical and political dynamics influence reparations narratives in the Caribbean, Europe, and beyond? 

                Keynote speaker

Professor Ana Lucia Araujo, Howard University, USA

Ana Lucia Araujo is a Professor at the Department of History, Howard University, USA and 2025 Heinz-Heinen Senior Fellow. She specializes in the history and memory of slavery and the Atlantic slave trade and is particularly interested in the visual and material culture of slavery, and she is the author or editor of over fifteen books. Her recent books include Reparations for Slavery and the Slave Trade: A Transnational and Comparative History (second edition 2023) and The Gift: How Objects of Prestige Shaped the Atlantic Slave Trade and Colonialism (2024). Her latest book is Humans in Shackles: An Atlantic History of Slavery and was published with the University of Chicago Press in 2024. Her work has been recently supported by fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies, the Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton, NJ), the Getty Research Institute, the American Philosophical Society. In 2025, she was awarded a John Solomon Guggenheim Fellowship. She is a member of the International Scientific Committee of the UNESCO Routes of Enslaved Peoples Project and among others she is the member of the editorial boards of the journal Slavery and Abolition and African Economic History.