IOWC WINTER 2026 Speaker Series Schedule out now
The IOWC’s Winter Speaker Series Schedule is now available. Talks will take place on Wednesdays at 3pm. Download the programme here.
ABOUT US
The Indian Ocean World Centre (IOWC) is a research initiative and resource base established to promote the study of the history, economy, and cultures of the lands and peoples of the Indian Ocean world (IOW) – from China to Southeast and South Asia, the Middle East and Africa.
People
The Indian Ocean World Centre is led by Professor Gwyn Campbell and a team of highly accomplished academics.
The Appraising Risk Project
Appraising Risk is an international collaboration based at the Indian Ocean World Centre with academic partners across the world.
The JIOWS
Established in 2017, the Journal of Indian Ocean World Studies is an open-access journal, published twice annually by the McGill University Library.
Latest from the IOWC
The Indian Ocean World Podcast
Kundai Manamere – "Malaria on the Move" – The Indian Ocean World Podcast
Kundai Manamere (University of the Free State) joins Philip Gooding to discuss her newly published book "Malaria on the Move: Rural Communities and Public Health in Zimbabwe, 1890-2015."
Scholar profile: https://www.ssrc.org/fellows/f1b62cd1-500a-eb11-a813-000d3a3be5cf/
Book: https://www.ohioswallow.com/9780821425862/malaria-on-the-move/
The Indian Ocean World podcast is hosted by Dr. Philip Gooding, produced and edited by Sofia O’Reilly, and published under the SSHRC-funded Partnership, “Appraising Risk, Past and Present.”
Music: “Nam Nhi-tu” by M. Nguyen Van Minh-Con.
Cover image from Pexels
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