Culture and Commerce in the Indian Ocean

25-27 September 2006
Leiden

Leiden University & University of Technology Sydney

Preliminary Program:

Panels will feature 3 papers of 20 minutes each with 10 minutes for discussion after each paper and will be run in parallel sessions. Keynote speeches will be an hour including time for questions.

DAY 1 Monday, 25 September 2006

Keynote Speech

Panel 1: Maritime and Commercial Cultures

Panel 2: Ship-circumscribed Societies

Panel 3: Diaspora and Migration

DAY 2 Tuesday, 26 September 2006

Plenary Speech

Panel 4: Religion

Panel 5: Decolonisation and Regime Change - 1

Panel 6: Decolonisation and Regime Change - 2

DAY 3 Wednesday 27 September 2006

Panel 7: Fisheries, Fisherfolk and Fishing

Panel 8: Trading People

Panel 9: Colonialism and the Indian Ocean

Roundtable Panel