Identifying Slave-Ownership in European Cities. This session brings together new research on the history and legacy of Transatlantic slavery with a focus on networks, families and firms working in Europe. Topics of discussion will be the terminology of slave-ownership, from older concepts like 'absentee planters' to new proposals for a directer local, regional and urban European approach of the dynamics of slavery 'at home'. New economic, social and cultural historical aspects of enslavement, slave trade, investment, shareholding, mapping, cartography, transnational family dynamics and legacies will be discussed by experts from various West-European nations. The session's aim is to create a broader European network for this study, connected with existing research projects at University College London (Legacy of British Slave-Ownership), CNRS (Eurescl) in Paris and the project Mapping the History and Legacy of Slavery (VU University Amsterdam). prof.dr. Catherine Hall, University College London (History): Cultural Historical analysis of British Slave Owners; dr. Nick Draper, University College London (History): Economic Historical analysis of London Slave Owners;dr. Keith McClelland, University College London (History): Presenting a Database of British Slave-Owners;Rachel Lang, MA, University College London (History): Mapping British Slave Ownership;dr. Myriam Cottias, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris (History), The Memorial Culture of Slavery in Cities in France;prof. Martin Rodrigo y Alharilla, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona (History), The Spanish Merchant Class and the Slave Trade;prof. Eve Rosenhaft, University of Liverpool (History), Junior Partners? Investment, profit and ownership in the German lands;Dienke Hondius, VU University Amsterdam, History (coördinator).