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The Indian Ocean World Podcast

The Indian Ocean World Podcast seeks to educate and inform its listeners on topics concerning the relationship between humans and the environment throughout the history of the Indian Ocean World — a macro-region affected by the seasonal monsoon weather system, from China to Southeast and South Asia, the Middle East, and Africa. Based out of the Indian Ocean World Centre, a research centre affiliated with McGill University’s Department of History and Classical Studies, under the direction of Prof. Gwyn Campbell, the Indian Ocean World Podcast is part of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada funded Appraising Risk Part...

Eric Jennings - "Vanilla: The History of an Extraordinary Bean"

46 mins; January 29, 2026

Kundai Manamere - "Malaria on the Move"

47 mins; November 26, 2025

The aftermath of Cyclone Idai (2019): Youth narratives beyond official and online discourses in Zimbabwe.

25 mins; November 13, 2025

Devika Shankar - “An Encroaching Sea”

32 mins; September 25, 2025

Fiona Williamson - Imperial Weather: Meteorology, Science, and the Environment in Colonial Malaya

36 mins; September 10, 2025

Alastair McClure - "Trials of Sovereignty"

50 mins; July 15, 2025

Adam Bobbette - The Pulse of the Earth

35 mins; February 27, 2025

Everjoy Chiimba - "Assessing the Potential of Mobile Communication Technologies to Enhance Early Warning and Disaster Preparedness in Zimbabwe"

29 mins; October 30, 2024

Lukas Ley & Tarini Monga - S.AND

36 mins; October 16, 2024

James Warren - "Typhoons: Climate, Society, and History in the Philippines"

34 mins; September 25, 2024

Marit Kleinert - "Women Cooperatives on Zanzibar: Transformative Spaces of Resistance through Care"

27 mins; September 11, 2024

The IOWC Research Assistants - Summer 2024 Research Roundup

31 mins; July 30, 2024

Tasha Rijke-Epstein - "Children of the Soil: The Power of Built Form in Urban Madagascar"

46 mins; April 17, 2024

Nienke Boer - "The Briny South"

28 mins; March 13, 2024

John Lee - "Sylvan Anxieties and the Making of Landscapes in Early Modern Korea" & "A State of Ranches and Forests"

48 mins; February 28, 2024

Krishnendu Ray - "Culinary Cultures on the Move" & "Food in the Indian Ocean World"

46 mins; February 07, 2024

Arunima Datta - "Race, Anxiety and Shopping in the Australian Outback: Indian Hawkers and Victoria's 1884 Smallpox Outbreak"

33 mins; January 24, 2024

Chris Gratien - ”The Unsettled Plain”

41 mins; December 13, 2023

Jeremy Prestholdt - Monsoon: Journal of the Indian Ocean Rim

51 mins; November 30, 2023

Julien Greschner - ”Solutions to Poverty According to Those Who Live It: Case Study in Manyatta B Informal Settlement, Kisumu, Kenya”

40 mins; November 15, 2023

James Parker - ”Ecologies of Development: Ecophilosophies and Indigenous Action on the Tana River”

41 mins; October 24, 2023

James Beattie - ”Migrant Ecologies” & International Review of Environmental History

34 mins; October 04, 2023

Sophie Chao - ”The Beetle or the Bug” & ”The Multispecies World of Oil Palm”

31 mins; September 20, 2023

Tamara Fernando - ”Mapping Oysters and Making Oceans in the Northern Indian Ocean, 1880–1906”

39 mins; September 06, 2023

The IOWC Research Assistants - Summer 2023 Research Roundup

48 mins; July 03, 2023

Philip Gooding - “On the Frontiers of the Indian Ocean World: A History of Lake Tanganyika, c.1830-1890”

37 mins; April 05, 2023

Alice Nyawira Karuri - “Adaptation of Small-Scale Tea and Coffee Farmers in Kenya to Climate Change”

33 mins; March 22, 2023

Justin Raycraft - “Islamic Discourses of Environmental Change on the Swahili Coast of Southern Tanzania”

30 mins; March 08, 2023

Pao K. Wang - The REACHES Database

40 mins; February 15, 2023

Kasia Paprocki - “Threatening Dystopias: The Global Politics of Climate Change Adaptation in Bangladesh”

39 mins; February 08, 2023

Ruth Mostern - “The Yellow River: A Natural and Unnatural History”

45 mins; February 01, 2023

Ruth Morgan - “Health, Hearth and Empire: Climate, Race and Reproduction in British India and Western Australia”

44 mins; January 25, 2023

Julia Jong Haines - “Shaping Landscapes: Environmental History, Plantation Management and Colonial Legacies in Mauritius”

27 mins; November 02, 2022

Sugata Ray - “From New Spain to Mughal India: Rethinking Early Modern Animal Studies with a Turkey, ca. 1612”

29 mins; October 26, 2022

Franziska Fay - “Kuishi Ughaibuni” & “To Everyone Who Told Zanzis That They Are Not Omani”

48 mins; October 19, 2022

Harriet Mercer - “Atmospheric Archives: Gender and Climate Knowledge in Colonial Tasmania”

35 mins; October 07, 2022

Manikarnika Dutta - “Cholera, British Seamen and Maritime Anxieties in Calcutta, c.1830s–1890s.”

34 mins; September 28, 2022

Anna Winterbottom & Victoria Dickenson - Introducing the Gwillim Project

52 mins; September 21, 2022

W. Nathan Green - Micro-Financing Rural Cambodia: Loans, Debt, and Climate Change

61 hours 56 mins; March 25, 2022

Nuno Grancho - Never Again was there a City like Diu: Architecture, History, and Culture in Colonial Gujarat

34 mins; February 16, 2022

Hasan H. Karrar - The Indus Delta Between Past and Future

35 mins; January 11, 2022

Kaustubh Mani Sengupta - William Tolly and His Canal: 18th Century Calcutta and the Complexities of Industrialization

35 mins; January 04, 2022

Denise Matias - The Disadvantaged Asian Honeybee

36 mins; November 15, 2021

Mikko Toivanen - 19th Century Transcolonial Tourism

52 mins; October 12, 2021

Patrick Slack - ‘Black Cardamom is Forever‘

40 mins; September 29, 2021

Ling Zhang - The Yellow River‘s Shifting Course: 11th Century Northern Song China

65 hours 11 mins; September 02, 2021

Chandni Singh & Roger Few - Recovery with Dignity in South Asia

39 mins; July 28, 2021

Lisa Schipper - Vulnerability, Adaptation, and Maladaptation to Climate Change

46 mins; July 21, 2021

Jakobina Arch - Coastal Shipping of Tokugawa Japan

44 mins; July 12, 2021

Alexandra Kelly - Consuming Ivory

40 mins; May 26, 2021

Emily Brownell - Gone to Ground

42 mins; April 06, 2021

Annu Jalais - Tigers, Tiger Food, and Mental Health in the Sundarbans

40 mins; March 11, 2021

Jenny Goldstein - Indonesia’s Peatlands and Environmental Politics

48 mins; March 11, 2021

Rosabelle Boswell - Ocean Cultures and Heritage

38 mins; February 18, 2021

Mustafa Emre Günaydı - Contextualizing Environmental Contingencies

26 mins; February 03, 2021

Gwyn Campbell - The Travels of Robert Lyall

31 mins; January 27, 2021

Joseph McQuade - A Genealogy of Terrorism

42 mins; January 27, 2021

Angela Schottenhammer - Maritime Disasters, Risk Appraisals, and Exchanges of Medicinal Knowledge in Maritime East Asia

34 mins; January 27, 2021

Xu Zhexin - Tang-Song Transition Era Maritime Activities in East and Southeast Asia

25 mins; January 27, 2021

Shaila Seshia Galvin - Sustainable Organic Farming and Questions of Value

40 mins; January 27, 2021

Meera Muralidharan - Hortus Malabaricus: Dutch East India Company (VOC) and the Production of Natural History Knowledge in Malabar (1678-1693)

25 mins; January 27, 2021

Anna Winterbottom - ‘Becoming Traditional’: A Transnational History of Neem and Biopiracy Discourses

34 mins; January 27, 2021

Thomas Kuehn - Managing the Hazards of Yemen’s Natural Environment

28 mins; January 27, 2021

Michael Christopher Low - Imperial Mecca

36 mins; January 27, 2021

Steven Serels - Animal Diseases as Threats to State Power in the SRSR

36 mins; January 27, 2021

Akash Ondaatje - Animal Ascension

34 mins; January 27, 2021

Radhika Govindrajan - Animal Intimacies: Interspecies Relatedness in India’s Central Himalayas

48 mins; January 27, 2021

Martha Chaiklin & Philip Gooding - Animal Trade Histories in the Indian Ocean World

19 mins; January 27, 2021

Margaret Kalacska & Oliver Lucanus - Land Cover and Freshwater Fish in Madagascar

36 mins; January 27, 2021

James Warren - Colonial Monocrops and Global Climatic Oscillations in the Philippines

54 mins; January 27, 2021

Brian Tomaszewski - Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and Disaster Management

50 mins; January 27, 2021

Jon D. Unruh - Land Rights and Conflict

38 mins; January 27, 2021

Debjani Bhattacharyya - Empire and Ecology in the Bengal Delta

34 mins; January 27, 2021

Archisman Chaudhuri - Climatic History of Late Seventeenth Century Coromandel and the VOC Sources

22 mins; January 27, 2021

Philip Gooding - Tsetse Flies, ENSO, and Murder

26 mins; January 27, 2021

The IOWC Team - Key Works in Indian Ocean World Studies

26 mins; January 27, 2021

The IOWC Team - Human-Environment Interaction

12 mins; January 27, 2021

Jon D. Unruh - IOW at a Glance: Conflict and Humanitarian Crisis in Yemen

36 mins; January 27, 2021

Introduction to the Indian Ocean World Podcast

13 mins; January 27, 2021

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