PATHWAYS AND PASSAGES: FAITH AND MIGRATION IN THE INDIAN OCEAN REGION
Sheridan Institute of Higher Education and our sponsors wish to announce the third biennial Indian Ocean Studies Conference, Pathways and Passages: Faith and Migration in the Indian Ocean Region, to be held in Perth, Western Australia at the WA Maritime Museum on November 17-18 (Friday, Saturday), 2023.
The Indian Ocean Region is the birthplace of three of the world’s major religions – Hinduism, Islam, and Buddhism – and the avenue for propelling the two other major religions born nearby – Judaism and Christianity – to the East. Many other lesser known religions such as Zoroastrianism and Jainism also originated in and spread throughout this region, carried across its waters in trading ships or across its land formations in trading caravans. These religions were propagated by both traders and scholars, missionaries and migrants. At this year’s biennial Indian Ocean Studies Conference, we will be focusing on the movements of people across the Indian Ocean Region – broadly defined as ‘migration’ – and how this has and continues to impact the spread, reception, and adaptation of faith in various contexts throughout the region. Further, we will explore how faith may also impact the movements of people, including the destinations they move towards, the livelihoods they engage in, and the social connections they retain, reshape, and develop.
We would like to invite scholars to consider the interrelation of faith and movement of people throughout the Indian Ocean Region, and we also welcome scholars interested in exploring faith and migration in the region as separate topics. Through individual presentations and panels, we encourage participants to reflect upon the historical and contemporary roles of faith and migration in mutually propelling and influencing each other across the Indian Ocean Region, and/or the ways in which faith and people have spread across the region in general.
We welcome scholars with a research interest in the above topics to submit abstracts for individual papers and/or panel proposals for the conference (see the ‘Abstract Submission’ tab at the top of this page). Please note that, with the relative decline of the pandemic, we are encouraging in-person presentations and attendance. As with the 2021 conference, we anticipate producing a publication following the 2023 conference, and welcome your expression of interest in contributing to this publication if you are able to participate in the conference. Following is a link to the book based on the 2021 conference: https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781666922172/Indian-Ocean-Imaginings-People-Time-and-Space
The conference is organised by the Indian Ocean Research Centre at Sheridan Institute of Higher Education.
The Indian Ocean Region is the birthplace of three of the world’s major religions – Hinduism, Islam, and Buddhism – and the avenue for propelling the two other major religions born nearby – Judaism and Christianity – to the East. Many other lesser known religions such as Zoroastrianism and Jainism also originated in and spread throughout this region, carried across its waters in trading ships or across its land formations in trading caravans. These religions were propagated by both traders and scholars, missionaries and migrants. At this year’s biennial Indian Ocean Studies Conference, we will be focusing on the movements of people across the Indian Ocean Region – broadly defined as ‘migration’ – and how this has and continues to impact the spread, reception, and adaptation of faith in various contexts throughout the region. Further, we will explore how faith may also impact the movements of people, including the destinations they move towards, the livelihoods they engage in, and the social connections they retain, reshape, and develop.
We would like to invite scholars to consider the interrelation of faith and movement of people throughout the Indian Ocean Region, and we also welcome scholars interested in exploring faith and migration in the region as separate topics. Through individual presentations and panels, we encourage participants to reflect upon the historical and contemporary roles of faith and migration in mutually propelling and influencing each other across the Indian Ocean Region, and/or the ways in which faith and people have spread across the region in general.
We welcome scholars with a research interest in the above topics to submit abstracts for individual papers and/or panel proposals for the conference (see the ‘Abstract Submission’ tab at the top of this page). Please note that, with the relative decline of the pandemic, we are encouraging in-person presentations and attendance. As with the 2021 conference, we anticipate producing a publication following the 2023 conference, and welcome your expression of interest in contributing to this publication if you are able to participate in the conference. Following is a link to the book based on the 2021 conference: https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781666922172/Indian-Ocean-Imaginings-People-Time-and-Space
The conference is organised by the Indian Ocean Research Centre at Sheridan Institute of Higher Education.
