Winter 2019

Scroll down for links to presenters’ individual posters and abstracts for the Winter 2019 IOWC Speaker Series.

• 16 January: Christopher Miller, New Evidence for the Origins of Brahmi and the Indic Scripts
• 23 January: [CANCELLED]
• 30 January: Luka Miro, McGill University, Locating the Past: Landscape as Archive in Remote Sensing
• 6 February: Rachel Sandwell, Fantasy, Utopia, and Intimacy in the 1950s Anti-Apartheid Movement
• 13 February: [CANCELLED]
• 20 February: Caroline Seagle, McGill University, “The Forest is not a Forest”: Madagascar’s 1947 Uprising and the Re-Situating of Culture
• 26 February: Megha Sharma Sehdev, McGill University, Jhijhak, Chhatak, Jhatak: Traps & Derailment in Indian Domestic Violence Cases
• 13 March: Joseph McQuade, University of Toronto, State Violence and Violence against the State in the Indo-Burmese Borderlands
• 20 March: Stephen J. Rockel, University of Toronto, Slave Redemption in Western Tanzania, 1882-1925: The Slave Trade, Missionary Practice and African “Orphans”
• 27 March: Katherine Lemons, McGill University, Peregrinations of Islamic Law: Toward an Anthropology of Knowledge
• 3 April: Anna Winterbottom, IOWC, Aloe: From the Indian Ocean to the Caribbean
• 10 April: Joseph Howard, McGill University, Africa and Indian Ocean Christianity