Thursday, 3rd October 2019
16.30 – 17.00 Registration and ‘Meet-and-Greet’
17.00 – 17.15 Welcome Address by Chris Hann, Director of the MPI for Social Anthropology, and Organizational Matters by the Organizers
17.15 – 18.00 Burkhard Schnepel
Cargoes: Introduction to the conference theme
18.00 – 18.45 Evening Lecture: Timothy Brook
University of Vancouver
Carrying Stone to Sri Lanka: An intercultural history of the Galle Stele
19.00 – 20.00 Dinner
20.00 Wrap-up and discussion
Friday, 4th October 2019
Chair: Ulrike Freitag (Leibniz-Centre Modern Orient, Berlin)
9.15 – 10.00 Tansen Sen
New York University Shanghai
Giraffes and Elephants: Gift cargoes and their afterlives in the Longue Durée history of the Indian Ocean
10.00 – 10.45 Edward A. Alpers
University of California, Los Angeles
Cattle on the Hoof: The Mozambique Channel provisioning trade in the nineteenth century
10.45 – 11.15 Coffee break
Chair: Boris Wille (Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg)
11.15 – 12.00 Karl-Heinz Kohl
Goethe University Frankfurt
The Elephant with the Seven Tusks: From cargo to myth
12.00 – 12.45 Hanne Schönig
Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle
Arab Perfumes and the Indian Ocean Trade in Animal-derived Aromatics: The case of Civet (zabād)
13.00 – 14.00 Lunch break
Chair: Hermann Kulke (Christian Albrechts University, Kiel)
14.15 – 15.00 Lisa Krieg
University of Bonn
Geckos on the Move: Transitions and translations of a small cosmopolitan reptile
15.00 – 15.45 Pedro Machado
Indiana University, Bloomington
Littoral Luminescence: Pearls, shell and cargoes of the sea in the Indian Ocean
15.45 –16.15 Coffee break
Chair: Ildikó Bellér-Hann (University of Copenhagen)
16.15 – 17.00 Vera-Simone Schulz
Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – Max Planck Institute, Florence
Cargo, Connectivity, and Containers: Art historical considerations of the ‘Swahili Corridor’ as contact zone
17.00– 17.45 Prita Meier
New York University, New York
A Sea of Things: Swahili coast postcards in global circulation
18.00 – 19.00 Round Table Discussion ‘Abrahams Luggage’
Participants: Julia Verne (Chair), Elizabeth Lambourn (De Montfort University, Leicester), Iain Walker (Martin Luther University Halle- Wittenberg), Kai Kresse (Leibniz-Centre Modern Orient, Berlin)
19.00 – 20.00 Dinner
20.00 Wrap-up and discussion
Saturday, 5th October 2019
Chair: Chris Hann (Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle)
9.15 – 10.00 Michael Jansen
Research Centre Indian Ocean, Muscat, Oman
Portuguese Cargoes in the Sea of Oman, 1506-1650
10.00 – 10.45 Muati-al-Muati
Office of the Adviser to His Majesty the Sultan for Cultural Affairs, Oman
Maritime Heritage of Oman
10.45 – 11.15 Coffee break
Chair: Robert Parkin (Oxford University)
11.15 – 12.00 Kunbing Xiao
Southwest Minzu University, Chengdu
The Flow of Bohea: From the deteriorated tea to the major product in the seventeenth to nineteenth century global tea trade
12.00 – 12.45 Mareike Pampus
Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle
From Cargo to Characteristic: Trade and translation of beads and beadwork in Penang
13.00 – 14.00 Lunch break
Chair: Jean-Claude Galey (EHESS, Paris) Anu Krishna
14.15 – 15.00 Anu Krishna
Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle
Scent, Savour and Semblance: ‘Alleppey Green’ in the Indian Ocean world
15.00 – 15.45 Rupert Neuhöfer and Hannah Pilgrim
University of Bonn
The Journey of Cloves: Historical trajectories and new dynamics of marketization
15.45 – 16.15 Coffee break
Chair: Peter Kneitz (Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg)
16.15 – 17.00 Steven Serels
Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle
The History of Red Sea Salt in Indian Ocean Trade
17.00 – 18.00 Julia Verne
Afterword and Conference Wrap-up
18.00 – 18.30 Burkhard Schnepel and Julia Verne
Pre-Publication Talk
19.00 – 20.00 Dinner
20.00 Pre-Publication Talk