Josie Gill has been awarded Brigstow Institute seed-corn funding (as Co-I), together with PI Professor Julia O’Connell Davidson in SPAIS for the collaboration 'Slavery: Interdisciplinary Dialogue on its Memory and Afterlives', which will bring the research from my AHRC 'Literary Archaeology' project into a dialogue with Julia O’Connell Davidson's work on 'modern slavery' through the openDemocracy editorial partnership ‘Beyond Trafficking & Slavery’ (BTS) . The project will bring the work of literary scholars, creative writers, archaeologists and others to the BTS audience through a series of articles on slavery and its memorialisation in fiction and other cultural artefacts and productions, and commissioning responses to that work from researchers and activists working on contemporary systems of domination and on questions about the ‘afterlife’ of transatlantic slavery.  The value of the award is £7,500.