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Indian Ocean World Centre / Winter 2015 Speaker Series, Thursdays, 5:45-7:30pm116 Peterson Hall, McGill University, 3460 McTavish Street, Montréal, Québec, H3A 0E6Each talk is followed by a reception15 January: Giancarlo Casale (Professor of History, McGill University), "The Eunuch's Galleons: Cultural Exchange, Technology Transfer, and Warfare at Sea between the Early Modern Mediterranean and the Indian Ocean World"22 January: Rashed Chowdhury (IOWC Postdoctoral Fellow, McGill University), "Miklouho-Maclay and the Maclay Coast of New Guinea"29 January: Erin Bell (IOWC PhD Student, McGill University), "Girls in Moral Danger: Juvenile Prostitution in Late Colonial Nairobi"5 February: Peter Hynd (IOWC PhD Student, McGill University), “Bureaucrats, Smugglers, Peons and Preachers – Regulating the Liquor Trade in Late Nineteenth Century India: Local Policy and Global Politics'"12 February: Veysel Simsek (PhD Student in History, McMaster University / IOWC Research Assistant, McGill University), "Uneasy Friends in Calm Waters: Anglo-Ottoman competition in the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf, 1860-80"19 February: Gwen Bennett (Professor of Anthropology, McGill University), "Cities on a Sea of Grass: Urbanism on the North Asian Steppe"26 February: Nikolas Gardner (Professor of History, Royal Military College of Canada), “The Experience of Indian Soldiers in Mesopotamia, 1915–1916”5 March: No talk (study break)12 March: Junko Takeda (Professor of History, Syracuse University), "They don't have a word for entrepreneur? French mercantilism and the Asia Trade, 1650-1700"19 March: Prashant Keshavmurty (Professor of Islamic Studies, McGill University), "Translating Rāma as a Proto-Muhammadan Prophet: Masih’s Masnavi-ye Rām va Sitā"26 March: Wilson Chacko Jacob (Professor of History, Concordia University), "Oceans Apart: Discovering Sovereignty in the Life of Sayyid Fadl b. Alawi"2 April: Banu Kaygusuz Tezel (PhD Student in East Asian Studies, University of Toronto), "Contra-images of Empires’ Identities: Collectivity and Incongruity in the Commemorative Photography Albums Circulated in the Japanese and the Ottoman Empires at the Turn of the Nineteenth Century"9 April: Julie Laplante (Professor of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Ottawa), "Indian Ocean Worlds: Tracing Anthropological Fluidities between South African Muti and Javanese Jamu Medicine"16 April: Omri Bassewitch Frenkel (IOWC PhD Student, McGill University), "Ginger, Pepper and Prestige: Spice Transplantation, the Philippine Project and Spanish Ideals of Chivalry"23 April: Keynote Speech of the IOWC International Conference "Currencies of Commerce in the Greater Indian Ocean World"(speaker and title TBA)30 April: Andrew Ivaska (Professor of History, Concordia University), "Leftwing Political Networking in a Global 1960s: Dar es Salaam at a Crossroads"7 May: Tyler Yank (IOWC PhD Student, McGill University), “Exploring the Slavery Amelioration Project in Colonial Mauritius, c. 1826-1835”