Conference: Proto-globalisation in the Indian Ocean world
November 7th to 10th, 2013, hosted by the University of Oxford and the Sealinks Project. One hundred scholars and students from around the world will gather for 3 days of presentations and discussions covering the latest multidisciplinary research on the early Indian Ocean. The Indian Ocean has emerged as a major topic of interest amongst […]
From Colonisation to Globalisation: Species Movements in Human History
Ideas emerging from two European Research Council-funded projects, the Sealinks Project and the Palaeodeserts Project, have led to a spin off conference. The conference “From Colonisation to Globalisation: Species Movements in Human History” will explore the role played by humans in moving various species around the globe from the Palaeolithic era through to historical times. […]
Globalisation and the people without history
Conference Session: Society for American Archaeology, 3-7 April, 2013, Honolulu Globalisation and the people without history Session organisers: Nicole Boivin (University of Oxford) & Michael Frachetti (Washington University in St Louis) Challenges to dominant area studies paradigms and the study of bounded entities have provided a welcome new focus on processes of connectivity and interaction […]
Sealinks workshop covered in Azania
The Sealinks Project workshop “East Africa in the Indian Ocean II”, held in Oxford 22-23 March 2012, has been reviewed in a recent story in the African archaeology journal Azania (2012, Volume 47(2), pages 226-30). The piece, by Professor Peter Mitchell of Oxford University, describes it as “a highly productive as well as convivial workshop, conducted in […]
Sealinks presents in Australia
The Sealinks team presented a number of papers at recent meetings in Australia. Papers were presented by Dr. Alison Crowther (pictured), Dr. Nicole Boivin, and Professor Mark Horton at the Indian Ocean Archaeology Network meeting in Perth, 9-10 November, and the Dimensions of the Indian Ocean Past Conference in Fremantle, 12-14 November. Sealinks DPhil student […]
Oxford signs MOU with Madagascar
The University of Oxford signed an MOU with the Musée d’Art et d’Archéologie in Antananarivo, Madagascar in September. The MOU is part of a new joint Sealinks – Museum initiative that will see new archaeological and palaeoenvironmental research undertaken in northern Madagascar starting in 2013. The collaboration will aim to explore Madagascar’s early maritime links, and […]
Ethnicity and aquatic lifestyles
Hoogervorst, T.G. 2012. Ethnicity and aquatic lifestyles: Exploring Southeast Asia’s past and present seascapes. Water History 4: 245-265. Abstract: This study explores the profound maritime dimension in Southeast Asia’s past and present. It highlights the region’s “sea people”, giving special attention to their complex and dynamic interactions with terrestrial communities. Their cultures and aquatic lifestyles, […]
Indian Ocean meeting at British Museum
WUN Indian Ocean Archaeology Network, British Museum, 22-23 February, 2013. Sealinks will participate in the forthcoming World University Network Indian Ocean Archaeology Network meeting in London, to be held at the British Museum, 22-23 Feb, 2013. Student members of the project will give presentations on their research. The meeting is the second for the network, […]
