[Colloque] That Mighty and Vast Sea, Britain and the Indian Ocean World

Britain and the Indian Ocean World

Programme

Thursday 8 July 2010

14.30   Registration and tea

15.00  Session 1

           Patterns of commerce in the Indian Ocean:

The Honourable East India Company

Huw Bowen, University of Swansea

Islands and empire: Johanna (Nzwani) and the maritime trading worlds of the East India Company, c. 1650–1813

Tony Webster, John Moores University, Liverpool

Oiling the wheels of Britain's Asian commerce 1780–1847: the rise and fall of the Calcutta and London Agency Houses

Margaret Makepeace, British Library

East India Company commercial operations in London, c. 1785–1834

16.30   Tea

17.00   KEYNOTE ADDRESS

Gwyn Campbell, Indian Ocean World Centre, McGill University, Montreal

Comparative perspectives on the British Indian Ocean world

18.15   Reception

Friday 9 July 2010

09.00   Coffee

09.30      Session 2

            Imperial dynamics in the Indian Ocean world

Robert J. Blyth, National Maritime Museum

Between Britain’s empires: the western Indian Ocean as a contested sphere

Robert Fletcher, Princeton University

Running ‘the Corridor’: the desert frontier of oceanic empire, 1919–36

Sujit Sivasundarum, London School of Economics

Ceylon as an island node in the British Indian Ocean world

11.00   Coffee

11.30   Session 3

Subaltern lives in the Indian Ocean

Clare Anderson, University of Warwick

Convicts in the Indian Ocean

Shihan da Silva, Institute of Commonwealth Studies

Recognizing the role of the subaltern: British intervention in an Indian Ocean island

Lindsay Doulton, University of Hull and National Maritime Museum

Anti-slavery and the Royal Navy in the western Indian Ocean, 1860–90: representations of race

13.00   Lunch

14.00   Session 4

            Indian Ocean world networks: Asia and Africa

Anna Winterbottom, Queen Mary, University of London

Botanical networks and materia medica in the Indian Ocean, 1660–1720: evidence from the East India Company archive

John McAleer, National Maritime Museum

‘The Key to India’: Southern Africa and the Indian Ocean world

Sarah Longair, Birkbeck, University of London

Balancing Indian Ocean and East African influences: British cultural perspectives in early 20th-century Zanzibar

15.30   Tea

16.00   Session 5

Round Table

Introduced and chaired by Gwyn Campbell.

Was there a British Indian Ocean world?

17.30      Close