Crossroads between Empires and Peripheries Knowledge Transfer, Product Exchange and Human Movement in the Indian Ocean World

Crossroads between Empires and Peripheries Knowledge Transfer, Product Exchange and Human Movement in the Indian Ocean World

Organizer
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, Canada (MCRI), Ghent University, Belgium FWO, Belgium Indian Ocean World Centre (IOWC), McGill University, Canada
Venue
Ghent University
Location
Ghent
Country
Belgium
From - Until
21.06.2012 - 23.07.2012
Deadline
15.11.2011
By
Angela Schottenhammer

This interdisciplinary conference on "Crossroads between Empires and Peripheries – Knowledge Transfer, Product Exchange and Human Movement in the Indian Ocean World (from East Africa to South and Southeast Asia, the Middle East, and the Far East)" will consider a wide range of themes with emphasis on the dichotomy between legal and illegal (contraband) private and official exchange, including the following:

- Private and official commercial exchange
- Exchange of knowledge, technology, and ideology
- Human movement and migration (including the slave trade)
- tribute and trade
- Indirect impacts of IOW global exchange (e.g. diseases, espionage, creolization, etc.)

While topics can cover periods from antiquity to modernity, the main focus will be on early middle to early modern periods.

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Contact (announcement)

Angela Schottenhammer,
Ghent University
Faculty of Arts and Philosophy
Languages and Cultures of South and East Asia, Sinology
Blandijnberg 2 (6th floor)
B-9000 Ghent
Belgium

Email: angela.schottenhammer@ugent.be

http://www.southandeastasia.ugent.be/crossroads_between_empires_and_peripheries_2012
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Published on
28.10.2011
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