"THE WESTERN INDIAN OCEAN RIM IN THE LONGUE DURÉE - LOCAL TRADE AND TRADITION, TRANSLOCAL EXCHANGE"

18 - 19 June 2004

SEMINAR ROOM, 5th FLOOR, STEIN ROKKANS HUS, (NYGÅRDSGATEN 5) UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN

FRIDAY 18 JUNE
09:30 Welcome and Opening: Anders Bjørkelo, Department of History, University of Bergen

PORT CITIES REVISITED AFTER THE PERIPLUS
10:00-10:30 Eivind Seland, University of Bergen: Ports, Ptolemy and Poetry: Some aspects of Rome's trade with South India and the Far East revisited
10:30-11:00 Vigleik Mathiesen, University of Bergen: The Indian Ocean Revisited. Five Hundred Years after the Periplus

11:00-11:20 COFFEE BREAK

11:20-11:50 A. Avanzini, University of Pisa, Italy: The IMTO-Italian archeological mission to Khor Rori, Oman
11:50-12:20 S. Sidebotham, University of Delaware, USA: Early Roman Berenike

12:30-14:00 LUNCH: "PÅ HØYDEN RESTAURANT"

SHIPS, SAILING AND CARGO
14:00-14:30 Seland/Krzywinski: Sailing times in the Indian Ocean
14:30-15:00 Abdul Sharif, Dept. of Museums Antiquities and Culture, Zanzibar: Dhow trade and slavery

15:00-15:20 COFFEE BREAK

RITUAL: CULTURAL EXCHANGE IN LOCAL SETTINGS
15:20-15:50 K. Larsen, Ethnographic Museum, Oslo: Christian Spirits in a Muslim Society: Multi-Culturalism, Religion and Identity in Zanzibar
15:50-16:20 F. Declich, University of Urbino, Italy: Exchanging dances and shaping identities in southern Somalia
16:20-16:50 S. Arnfred, Nordic Africa Institute, Sweden: Tufo Dancing: Muslim women's culture in Northern Mozambik
16:50-17:30 I. Soughayroun, Sultan Qaboos University, Oman: Oman and the Indian Ocean: Notes on some Aspects of Attraction and Dispersal and their Reciprocal Cultural Influences

17:30-18:00 GENERAL DISCUSSION
19:00/19:30 DINNER AT "EGON RESTAURANT"

SATURDAY 19 JUNE

TRADE, POLITICS AND MATERIAL CULTURE OF THE PRE-ISLAMIC INDIAN OCEAN
10:00-10:30 C. Meyer, University of Bergen: Roman coins as a source for Roman Trading in the Indian Ocean
10:30-11:00 R. Pierce, University of Bergen: The Martyrs of Nagran, a complex conflict in its regional setting.

11:00-11:20 COFFEE BREAK

11:20-11:50 J. Krzywinski, University of Bergen: Water Harvesting in the Eastern Desert of Egypt. Along the caravan routes between the Nile and the Red Sea in antiquity.

12:00-13:30 LUNCH: "PÅ HØYDEN RESTAURANT"

SCRIPTURAL HERITAGE OF THE ISLAMIC PERIOD
13:30-14:00 R.S. O'Fahey, University of Bergen, Arabic Literary Heritage of Zanzibar and East Africa
14:00-14:30 F. Hartwig, Berlin: Digitizing Arabic Manuscripts in Zanzibar
14:30-15:00 Maalim Muhammad Idris, Shangani Mosque, Zanzibar: Global Community Zanzibar

15:00-15:20 COFFEE BREAK

COSMOPOLITAN INDIAN OCEAN WORLDS?
15:20-15:50 R. Loimeier, Universität Bayreuth, Germany: Sit Local: Think Global: The Baraza in Zanzibar: Local sitting and transnational thinking in a cosmopolitan setting
15:50-16:20 A. K. Bang, University of Bergen: Contested Cosmopolitanism: Cases from Zanzibar, ca. 1880-1930.
16:20-16:50 L. Rohlinger, University of Alberta, Canada: Transoceanic research.
16:50-17:20 K. Kresse, University of St. Andrews, Skottland: 'Internal pluralism' in coastal East African Islam (20th century) - in relation to an intellectual genealogy

17:20-18:00 Sum up: L. Manger, University of Bergen - and general discussion

19:00 DINNER: TANDOORI INDIAN RESTAURANT

SUNDAY 20 JUNE
Boat Excursion to the fjords around Bergen - back in port in time for afternoon flights