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INDIAN OCEAN EMPIRE
I N T H E
AGE OF
INDIAN OCEAN
EMPIRE
I N T H E
AGE OF
TRINITY 2023
Week 1 | 25 April 2023 | 3pm BST
STEPHEN J. RAMOS (University of Georgia)
Mapping Gulf Infrastructure and Territory
Week 3 | 09 May 2023 | 3pm BST
ANDREW B. LIU (Villanova University)
Tea War: A History of Capitalism in China and India
Week 5 | 23 May 2023 | 3pm BST
ROY BAR SADEH (Yale University)
Worldmaking in the Hijaz: Muslims between Indian and Soviet Visions of Managing Difference, 1919-1926
Week 6 | 30 May 2023 | 3pm BST
PETER E. HAMILTON (Lingnan University)
Made In Hong Kong: Transpacific Networks and a
New History of Globalization

INDIAN OCEAN
EMPIRE
I N T H E
AGE OF
HILARY 2023
Week 1 | 17 January 2023 | 3pm GMT
JOHAN MATHEW (Rutgers University)
Historicizing Human Capital: Rickshaws, Narcotics, and a Global History of Labor
Week 3 | 31 January 2023 | 3pm GMT
NIDHI MAHAJAN (UC Santa Cruz)
'The Fire Under the Sea’: Arbitrage and Smuggling in the Western Indian Ocean
Week 5 | 14 February 2023 | 3pm BST
TYLER KYNN (Central Connecticut State University)
The Seasonality of Ottoman Imperial Power: Mecca, Medina,
and the Sultan’s Purse
Week 7 | 28 February 2023 | 3pm BST
ABDEL RAZZAQ TAKRITI (University of Houston)
Southern Arabian Revolutions: Challenging Colonial
Capitalism in the Indian Ocean

INDIAN OCEAN
EMPIRE
I N T H E
AGE OF
MICHAELMAS 2022
Week 1 | 11 October 2022 | 4pm BST
NILE GREEN (UCLA)
Asia’s Self-Discovery: Intercultural Understanding and the Infrastructure of Empire
Week 5 | 08 Novermber 2022 | 3pm GMT
NURFADZILAH YAHAYA (Yale University)
Bound by Property in Death

INDIAN OCEAN
EMPIRE
I N T H E
AGE OF
TRINITY 2022
Week 1 | 26 April 2022 | 3pm BST
FAHAD AHMAD BISHARA (University of Virginia)
Rewriting the Bazaar: Vernacular Histories of Capitalism
in the Indian Ocean World
Week 3 | 10 May 2022 | 3pm BST
MATTHEW HOPPER (Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo)
Made Liberated Africans in the Indian Ocean World
Week 5 | 24 May 2022 | 3pm BST
MICHAEL O'SULLIVAN (Harvard University)
'No Salve for Muslim Wounds:' Proprietary Islam, Economic Disparity, and Gujarati Muslim Institutions, 1870-1970
Week 7 | 07 June 2022 | 3pm BST
HOLLIAN WINT (UCLA)
From 'Desh' to 'Desh:' The Family Firm as a Trans-Local
Household in the Nineteenth Century Western Indian Ocean

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