The Indian Ocean World Centre at McGill University

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

New Publication by IOWC Researchers

We are incredibly happy to announce that IOWC Research Assistant, Lilia Scudamore, and Project Manager, Philip Gooding, have just had their article “Between meteorology, waterworks,…

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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.

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