Conference: Connecting Continents in the Indian Ocean World
Dr. Nicole Boivin of the Sealinks Project will participate in a conference at Stanford University, March 6-7, 2014, entitled ‘Connecting Continents: Setting an Agenda for a Historical Archaeology of the Indian Ocean World’. Location: Location: Stanford Archaeology Center, Building 500, 488 Escondido Mall Conference abstract: The Indian Ocean has formed an enduring connection between three continents, countless small islands […]
Conference: Becoming Urban – The Challenge of High Definition
The Sealinks Project will participate in a one-day conference at the Royal Academy of Sciences and Letters in Copenhagen, 31 March, 2014. The conference “Becoming Urban: The Challenge of High Definition” will explore how interdisciplinary approaches can be used to study the rise of urban networks in human history. Dr. Nicole Boivin (University of Oxford) […]
East Africa and Madagascar in the Indian Ocean
Boivin, N., Crowther, A., Helm, R. & Fuller, D. 2013. East Africa and Madagascar in the Indian Ocean World. Journal of World Prehistory 26(3): 213-281. PDF Abstract The Indian Ocean has long been a forum for contact, trade and the transfer of goods, technologies and ideas between geographically distant groups of people. Another, less studied, […]
Sri Lankan CCF to make documentary on Sealinks
The Central Cultural Fund (CCF), Sri Lanka, is making a documentary on the joint CCF-Sealinks excavations undertaken at the southern port site of Kirinda in spring, 2013. A trailer for the documentary can be seen here.
Sealinks thesis wins ICAS Accolade
The International Convention of Asia Scholars (ICAS) Book Prize Committee has awarded the Best PhD for “Ground-breaking subject matter Accolade” to Dr. Tom Hoogervorst. The thesis, entitled Southeast Asia in the Ancient Indian Ocean World: Combining Historical Linguistic and Archaeological Approaches (2012), was written while Dr. Hoogervorst was a student at the University of Oxford. Dr. Hoogervorst’s PhD […]
IPPA Congress Session: Maritime Silk Road
Sealinks team members will chair a session at the 20th Congress of the Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association, in Seam Reap (Angkor), Cambodia, to be held Sunday 12 to Saturday 18 January 2014. Dr. Alison Crowther and Dr. Nicole Boivin are jointly organising the session, entitled “Biological, cultural and material exchange along the Maritime Silk Road. Please contact […]
Sealinks Project highlighted in ERC Report
The 2012 European Research Council Annual Report has just been published online, and carries a feature on the Sealinks Project. The piece, which appears in the Research Highlights section, describes the Sealinks Project’s innovative, multidisciplinary approach. It also mentions Project PI Dr. Nicole Boivin’s trip to the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) […]
AARD Session: East Africa’s engagement with the Indian Ocean world
Members of the Sealinks Project are organising a session at the African Archaeology Research Day Conference, which will take place at the Sainsbury Institute for Art at the University of East Anglia, 1-2 November, 2013. The session, organised by Dr. Alison Crowther and Dr. Nicole Boivin, will be chaired by Professor Mark Horton. Session: East […]
Mark Horton at Maritime Networks Conference
Sealinks team member Professor Mark Horton will participate in a round-table discussion at the Maritime Networks and Urbanism in the Medieval World Conference, 11-12 April, 2013. The conference will be held at the Viking Ship Museum, Roskilde, Denmark. The conference is organised jointly by the research project ENTREPOT (Aarhus University, Denmark / University of York, […]
Sealinks thesis long-listed for ICAS Prize
Dr. Tom Hoogervorst’s recently finished D.Phil thesis has been long-listed for the International Convention of Asia Scholars (ICAS) PhD Prize 2013. The thesis, entitled Southeast Asia in the Ancient Indian Ocean World: Combining Historical Linguistic and Archaeological Approaches (2012), was completed by Dr. Hoogervorst as part of the Sealinks Project. Dr. Hoogervorst’s research was funded through the European Research […]
