The Indian Ocean World Centre is led by Professor Gwyn Campbell and a team of highly accomplished academics.
Appraising Risk is an international collaboration based at the Indian Ocean World Center with academic partners across the world.
Established in 2017, the Journal of Indian Ocean World Studies is an open-access journal, published twice annually by the McGill University Library.
The IOWC successfully hosted an online international conference entitled, “Adaptation and resilience to climatic and environmental changes in the Indian Ocean World, past to present” from… Read More
On May 24th 2022, Dr. Julie Babin (IOWC), Dr. Philip Gooding (IOWC) and Dr. M. Christopher Low (Utah) successfully led the Second Annual Appraising Risk… Read More
The IOWC’s 2022 Winter Speaker Series has successfully concluded for the year. If you missed any of the talks, they have been posted on our… Read More
The IOWC 10th Anniversary Report
To celebrate 10 years of the IOWC’s existence, we have published a report that looks back on its past activities and successes and looks forward to the future. Download the report here.
The IOWC’s history in three points:
Indian Ocean Project (IOP) established by Gwyn Campbell in 1993 at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.
The IOP was reborn in 1999 as the Association pour l’étude de l’Afrique et les pays de l’Océan Indian (AAOI) at the University of Avignon, France.
The AAOI becomes the Indian Ocean World Centre (IOWC) based at McGill University.
Indian Ocean World Centre 