Call for Papers to Workshop on Black Presence and Influence in Europe Before the Atlantic Slavery

We encourage submissions that engage with the following questions:
1. What forms of evidence can allow us to trace the presence and significance of Black populations in Europe across prehistoric, classical, and medieval contexts?
2. How do current efforts to retrieve these histories intersect with broader intellectual projects aimed at decolonizing knowledge and reimagining Europe’s past through the lens of Africa’s historical presence?
3. Which methodological approaches can best uncover and reconstruct these early histories from archives and records marked by fragmentation, distortion, or erasure?
4. In what ways did religion, empire, migration, and trade shape how Black individuals were received, integrated, and remembered in various regions of Europe?