The second week of the seminar will open with a morning review of central Africa, the other major region of the continent where Africans were embarked for the Americas, but under distinctive circumstances and from differing backgrounds. That afternoon, and the following day, the director will consult further with individual participants about their emerging plans for the remainder of the seminar, considering the promising resources that they will be discovering at UVA and their initial personal impressions from the preceding week’s trans-Atlantic encounters. On the next morning, Wednesday, the first of six guests, all leading specialists in selected aspects of the field, will visit the Seminar to consider “Remembering Slavery and the Slave Trade in Africa and in the Diaspora” (Prof. Sandra Greene, Cornell University). She will share a hosted lunch with participants and remain available for individual consultations during the afternoon. Participants will have Thursday entirely free, except as they may wish to confer with the director or (at their own initiative) or other UVA faculty who may be available in Charlottesville at that high-summer season. On Friday, a second visiting scholar will consider “Art and History in Africa” (Prof. Babatunde Lawal, Virginia Commonwealth University); a hosted lunch and individual conferences will follow, as with all the specialists visiting the seminar.