The IOWC’s Winter 2023 Speaker Series Schedule has now been released. New episodes of the Indian Ocean World Podcast will be released in conjunction with the Speaker Series.
Please see the schedule here.
We are pleased to invite you to the launch of Dr Philip Gooding’s first monograph: On the Frontiers of the Indian Ocean World: A History of Lake Tanganyika, c.1830-1890 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022). Philip is a postdoctoral researcher at the IOWC and continues to work on the IOWC’s Partnership project, Appraising Risk. At the event, he will introduce his book and will be joined by Prof. Elizabeth Elbourne (History and Classical Studies) and Prof. Khalid Medani (African Studies), who will act as discussants. Copies of the book will be available for sale from Paragraphe Bookstore.
The launch will be held in Morrice Hall 017 (TNC Theatre), McGill University at 14:30-15:30 ET on Friday 18 November. Full details are in the attached poster.
Philip has additionally written a short blog post on FifteenEightyFour that introduces the book and gives a flavour of what potential attendees might expect at the event.
The Journal of Indian Ocean World Studies (JIOWS) invites submissions for its 2023 issues,
to be published in Spring (May-June) and Fall (November-December).
Scholars seeking to submit manuscripts for publication in Spring 2023 should do so by
31 January 2023. Those seeking to publish in Fall 2023 should submit their manuscripts by
31 July 2023.
Queries should be directed to the editors at jiows@mcgill.ca
More information available below:
The IOWC’s Fall 2022 Speaker Series Schedule has now been released. New episodes of the Indian Ocean World Podcast will be released in conjunction with the Speaker Series.
Please see the schedule here.
The Indian Ocean World Centre (IOWC) is building a free interdisciplinary network of scholars working on topics related to slavery, bondage, and the environment, with a focus on the Indian Ocean World (IOW) and its constituent parts (eastern Africa to eastern and southeastern Asia). The Centre intends to build a forum for scholars to connect, exchange ideas, build bibliographies, circulate conference calls, and organise panels/conferences, etc. The IOWC will host an e-mail group and share news of relevant works, events, and opportunities, as well as member information on our website.
All scholars with interests in slavery, bondage, and/or the environment in the IOW, past, present, and future, are encouraged to participate. A publication record on the network’s themes is not a precursor to inclusion. Emerging scholars (including (post-)graduate students/candidates), women, indigenous, and scholars from or based in the IOW are particularly encouraged sign up. We hope to use this network as the starting point for important research into the linkages between environmental conditions and slavery/bondage in the future.
For more information on this network, please visit our website here.
Should you wish to sign up as a member of the network, please fill out this form.
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