1. Frontier Matriarchy: Indigenous Women's Labor and Economic Agency in the Nineteenth-Century Cape Colony • Calumet Links, Stellenbosch University; Anne McCants, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

2. The Architecture of Empire: Dutch Colonialism, the Built Environment, and Micro-Segregation • Martin Ruef, Duke University.

3. The Long-Term Relationship between Episodic and Systemic Power: Dividend Distributions at the Dutch East India Company • Wim Van Lent, IESEG School of Management.

4. Pressure, People, Project, Performance: Captains in the Dutch East India Company • Katrina Q. Wang, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

5. Counter-Elite Mobilization and Settler Colonialism: Political protest in the VOC Cape Colony, 1779 • Jonathan Schoots, Stellenbosch University; Johan Fourie, Stellenbosch University.