ANZAMEMS Seminar 2024

Intercultural encounters and materialities in the medieval and early modern period

Seminar organisers: Dr Kirk Essary and A/Prof Jacqueline Van Gent (both The University of Western Australia)

Date: Tuesday 26 November 2024

Location: The University of Western Australia, Perth, WA. Arts Building 106: Arts Seminar Room G.01 and the Shakespeare Garden. UWA Map.

This seminar will be part of the 2024 Congress of HASS to be hosted by The University of Western Australia (25–29 November 2024).

Contact: jacqueline.van.gent@uwa.edu.au

Lunch, morning and afternoon teas will be provided.

Seminar Program

The Seminar program is now available:

Download a copy of the revised Seminar Program. (last updated 15 November 2024)

Keynote speaker and other presenters

We are fortunate to have Professor Jos Gommans of the University of Leiden as a keynote speaker for this event. Prof Gommans is a leading historian in early modern global history. His research expertise includes early modern encounter histories in South Asia as part of global interactions with Central Asia, Southeast Asia and European colonial empires. Additionally, he has published in the field of inter-religious encounters, including Iberian-Chinese-Muslim encounters. His research on early modern Dutch collections, and new theoretical approaches to early modern global collections, such that of the Dutch VOC. He was a guest curator at the exhibition “India and the Netherlands in the Age of Rembrandt” in 2019.

Other confirmed scholars to be present and/or presenting: Professor Susan Broomhall (ACU), Professor Christopher Schabel (Institut de recherche et d’histoire des textes, CNRS, Paris), Assoc. Prof. Jacqueline Van Gent (UWA), Dr Arvi Wattel (UWA), Dr Susanne Meurer (UWA).

Funding for this Seminar has been generously provided by ANZAMEMS, CHASS, and BEPerth.