Lovalerie King, Assistant Professor of African American Language and Literature, Penn State University 
Changing Definitions of Slavery and Freedom in African American Literary Texts

Robyn Spencer, Assistant Professor of African and African American Studies and History, Penn State University
Defining Freedom in Struggle: A View from the Sixties

Ben Vinson III, Associate Professor of Latin American History, Penn State University
Freedom as Slavery and Slavery as Freedom: A View from Latin America