BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//events.la.psu.edu//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20201101T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20200308T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:13533-8f27715bbb45f09a91542c30b46c5ecc@events.la.psu.edu DTSTAMP:20260416T010236Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190509T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190509T190000 SUMMARY:“Indian Oceanologies” DESCRIPTION:\nView the Indian Oceanologies conference website!\n\nIndian Ocean studies’ (re)emergence since the 1980s has offered approaches for going beyond the nation-state\, dismantling boundaries between area stu dies\, and a way of thinking about global\, pre-colonial\, and colonial worlds as connected histories. The study of the contemporary Indian Ocea n has just begun to play a part in this scholarship\, which until recent ly had been dominated by work focused on the early modern period. Apart from chronology\, the ocean has been conceptualized as constituted by ov erlapping networks through which the movement of people\, commodities\, and ideas were structured and as a multipolar space made up of individua l places and their plural relationality.\n\nIndian Oceanologies situates itself in relationship to this scholarship but also underscores the int ellectual and political urgency of thinking about the ocean within the c ontext\, for example\, of the rise of nationalisms\, religious fundament alisms and territorialisms in today’s world\; struggles around race and racialization\; fragile environments in the context of global capitalism \; and what has been discussed as “the Anthropocene.” Through a series o f monthly “Jam Sessions\,” the Indian Oceanologies collective seeks to m ove beyond linear\, colonial\, or national conceptions of space\,  time\ , identities\, and lifeworlds\, and the separation of the Indian Ocean f rom other oceans. In seeking to do so\, we are guided by the hope that n egotiating the fluxible realms of this dynamic oceanic space through rou ndtables focused on specific themes will generate new vocabularies and c oncepts for thinking about spatiality\, creolization\, forms of inhabita tion\, speculative histories\, extractive economics\, aesthetics and eth ics\, or ecologies and forms of life. The objective is to dismantle bina ry constructs and compartmentalizations (littoral and hinterlands\, hist ory and memory\, mobility and anchorage\, center and periphery\, to name a few)\, think about material and conceptual crossovers and vectors/vor tices of social\, cultural\, and economic exchange\, and open up the oce an as a site of profound epistemological inquiry.\n\nFor more details: h ttps://events.la.psu.edu/event/indian-oceanologies/ X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

View the Indian Oceanologies confer ence website!

Indian Ocean studies’ (re)emergence since the 19 80s has offered approaches for going beyond the nation-state, dismantlin g boundaries between area studies, and a way of thinking about global, p re-colonial, and colonial worlds as connected histories. The study of th e contemporary Indian Ocean has just begun to play a part in this schola rship, which until recently had been dominated by work focused on the ea rly modern period. Apart from chronology, the ocean has been conceptuali zed as constituted by overlapping networks through which the movement of people, commodities, and ideas were structured and as a multipolar spac e made up of individual places and their plural relationality.

Ind ian Oceanologies situates itself in relationship to this scholarship but also underscores the intellectual and political urgency of thinking abo ut the ocean within the context, for example, of the rise of nationalism s, religious fundamentalisms and territorialisms in today’s world; strug gles around race and racialization; fragile environments in the context of global capitalism; and what has been discussed as “the Anthropocene.” Through a series of monthly “Jam Sessions,” the Indian Oceanologies col lective seeks to move beyond linear, colonial, or national conceptions o f space,  time, identities, and lifeworlds, and the separation of the In dian Ocean from other oceans. In seeking to do so, we are guided by the hope that negotiating the fluxible realms of this dynamic oceanic space through roundtables focused on specific themes will generate new vocabul aries and concepts for thinking about spatiality, creolization, forms of inhabitation, speculative histories, extractive economics, aesthetics a nd ethics, or ecologies and forms of life. The objective is to dismantle binary constructs and compartmentalizations (littoral and hinterlands, history and memory, mobility and anchorage, center and periphery, to nam e a few), think about material and conceptual crossovers and vectors/vor tices of social, cultural, and economic exchange, and open up the ocean as a site of profound epistemological inquiry.

For more details: < a href='https://events.la.psu.edu/event/indian-oceanologies/'>https://ev ents.la.psu.edu/event/indian-oceanologies/

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