Across the High Seas: Cross-Cultural Encounters in the Indian Ocean Littoral

Panel 1: Across the High Seas: Cross-Cultural Encounters in the Indian Ocean Littoral

Across the High Seas, Panel 1

MAY 2018 
Eivind Heldaas Seland, University of Bergen
"Spaces, Places, and Things: Spatiality in early Indian Ocean exchange"

Steven Sidebotham, University of Delaware 
"Berenike's Role in the Ancient Maritime Silk Road Based on Results of Recent Excavations"

Chapurukha Kusimba, American University 
"Ancient Ties between China and East Africa"

Panel 2: Across the High Seas: Cross-Cultural Encounters in the Indian Ocean Littoral Conference

Across the High Seas, Panel 2

MAY 2018 
Ariane de Saxcé, CNRS
"Trade Networks and Cultural Appropriations in South India and Sri Lanka at the Beginning of our Era"

James Lankton, UCL 
"Roman Glass in Asia: Where, When and Why"

Osmund Bopearachchi, CNRS/UC Berkeley 
"Indian Ocean Trade through Buddhist Iconographies"

Panel 3: Across the High Seas: Cross-Cultural Encounters in the Indian Ocean Littoral Conference

Across the High Seas, Panel 3

MAY 2018
Jun Kimura, Tokai University
"Voyage and Shipbuilding during the Maritime Silk Route's Period"

Derek Heng, Northern Arizona University
"Reconstructing Demographics, Social Hierarchies and Ethnicity in Early Second-Millennium AD Port-Cities in the Malacca Straits Region"

Hyunhee Park, John Jay College of Criminal Justice
"Theorizing Maritime Space through Premodern Sino-Islamic Connections"