Thursday, 21 September
10:00AM – Welcome
10:15AM-11:45AM- Session 1
Chair: Richard Unger
The Western Ocean before the West: The Indian Ocean in the Chinese Geographical Imagination
Timothy Brook, University of British Columbia
Acceleration and Assurance: Why the Indian Ocean Shiptracks are the Opposite of the Eurasian Wheeltracks
Pamela Kyle Crossley, Dartmouth
12:00PM-1:30PM – Lunch Break
2:00-4:15 – Session 2
Chair: Renisa Mawani
Tracing "la Traite" in the Indian Ocean
Margaret Schotte, York University
Slavery and Slave trading Scholarship in the Indian Ocean: Some Lessons from the Atlantic
David Eltis, Emory University
Export Led Growth in Arabia from the Middle Ages to WWI: Trading dates, pearls, and slaves with Africa to India
Bob Allen, New York University - Abu Dhabi
5:00PM-6:30PM – Session 3
Introduction: Sebastian Prange
The Dutch Oceanic Empire in the Indian Ocean: the emergence of a "system"
Eric Tagliacozzo, Cornell University
6:30PM-7:00PM – Reception
Friday, 22 September
9:30AM-12:00PM – Session 4
Chair: Sara Ann Knutson
Mapping East Africa: Dutch East India Company maps of the gateway to the Indian Ocean world
Michiel van Groesen, Leiden University
Melding Technologies: Shipbuilding around the Indian Ocean after the Arrival of European Ships
Richard Unger, University of British Columbia
Muddy Waters: Port Environments and Terraqueous Legalities
Bhavani Raman, University of Toronto
12:15PM-1:30PM – Lunch Break
2:00PM-4:00PM – Session 5
Chair: Hicham Safieddine
The Amphioen Sociëteit (1746-1794): opium, intra-Asian trade, and the elite commercial world of Batavia in the eighteenth to early nineteenth centuries
Noelle Richardson, Leiden University
Intersectional interactions: Women as brokers and go-betweens in the Portuguese State of India
Amélia Polónia, University of Porto
Bank van Lening en Courant in Batavia (1746-1814)? The First Modern Bank in Asia?
Cátia Antunes, Leiden University
7:00PM-9:00PM – Participants (No host) Dinner
9:00PM – End of Conference
Generously supported by Green College, the History Department, UBC, the Asian Studies Department, UBC, the Sociology Department, UBC, the Centre for India and South Asia Research (CISAR) at UBC, the Faculty of Arts, UBC, Dutch Studies Endowment, the Faculty of Arts SSHRC Exchange Grant – Visiting Speakers, Canada Research Chair in the History of the Modern Middle East Fund, Canada Research Chair, Colonial Legal Histories