Fall 2024

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• August 28: Hannah Sparwasser Soroka – “Volcanic Cluster, Archival Absence: The Case of Seventeenth-Century Dutch Batavia“
• September 27: Tasha Rijke-Epstein – “Aesthetic Extraversion: Violence, Circulation, and Protective Amulets in the Southwestern Indian Ocean Basin (17th – 19th century)“
• October 2: Jorge Muniz de Souza Mortean – “Sailing the Lusophone Legacy: Brazil’s Geopolitical Odyssey in the Indian Ocean“
• October 23: Raffaele Maddaluno – “Oceanic Dispossessions in the Comoros: Ecological Claims, Economic Aspirations, and Imaginaries along the Routes to a Blue Future“
• November 6: Zitian Sun – “Pitfalls of Popularity: The Radicalization Dynamics of the 1989 Tiananmen Student Movement“
• November 20: Juliette Françoise – “A Colonial Scandal Born of a Web of Debts: Paul Darifat’s Bankruptcy in the Isle of France in the Late Eighteenth Century“