Programme: UTokyo Seminar in Maritime Asian History
The Bey of Bengal in the Long Eighteenth Century
Date and Time: Sunday 27 October 2024, 14.00-17.00
Venue: Rm 217, Building Hobun 1, Faculty of Letters, Hongo Campus, The University of Tokyo
14.00-14.10
Ryuto Shimada (Associate Professor, The University of Tokyo)
Aim and Scope: The Bay of Bengal in the Long Eighteenth Century
14.10-14.40
Keynote Speech
Radhika Seshan (Retired Professor, Savitribai Phule Pune University)
Continuity in the Bay of Bengal Networks till the 18th Century
14.40-15.10
Yusuke Yoshioka (MA student, The University of Tokyo)
Rendez-vous in the Indian Ocean: Ceylon on the Dutch East India Company’s Shipping Network during the Eighteenth Century
15.10-15.40
Shohei Okubo (Associate Professor, Ryukoku University)
The Commodity Chains of Opium from Bihar to Batavia: Monsoon Dynamics beyond the Bay of Bengal during the First Half of the Eighteenth Century
16.00-16.30
Chisa Mizobuchi (PhD student, The University of Tokyo)
Diplomatic Gifts as Bridge or Burden: Exchange of Elephants between the Dutch East India Company and Mughals in Bengal during the First Half of the Eighteenth Century
16.30-17.00
General discussion
Discussant: Shinsaku Kato (Associate Professor, Shiga University)
Contact: Ryuto Shimada (The University of Tokyo) at: shimada[at mark]l.u-tokyo.ac.jp
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