Saturday, September 23, 2017, 10:00 am – 3:00 pm at the Sultan Qaboos Cultural Center, 1100 16th Street NW, Washington, D.C. 20036
This first workshop of the new academic year is a collaboration between the CCAS and the SQCC, and takes up the seafaring legacy of trade and travel in the Indian Ocean and the Mediterranean in the history of the Middle East and North Africa and the globe.
Tour the Exhibition: “From Sindbad to the Shabab Oman: a Seafaring Legacy”
Come with us as we sail the high seas alongside some of history’s most famous explorers and navigators – Marco Polo, Ibn Battuta, and Ahmad Ibn Majid – and visit different Omani ports of call. Each leg of this journey will explore Omani history, Omani mariners, and the Omani vessels they sailed. By interweaving the stories of these explorers with items from Omani ships and shipbuilding, we will explore the history of Omani seafaring over the last millennia.
Speakers:
Allen Fromherz, Director of the Middle East Studies Center at Georgia State University. His research focuses on Mediterranean and the Gulf. His research ranges widely from North African and Iberian history in the time of the Almohads and its influence on the work of Ibn Khaldun, to the history of the Persian/Arabian Gulf. His most recent book is The Near West: Medieval North Africa, Latin Europe and the Mediterranean in the Second Axial Age (Edinburgh U. Press, 2016) and his current book project is The Global Gulf: A History (Harvard U. Press, forthcoming).
Harrison Guthorn, SQCC will conduct the exhibition tour and speak about Oman’s modern and medieval seafaring legacy.
Susan Douglass, CCAS Georgetown, will focus on matching teaching resources around the speaker’s topics of the Indian Ocean and the Mediterranean in world history, with emphasis on the new features of the SQCC teaching resource The Indian Ocean in World History, and the British Council project Our Shared Past in the Mediterranean, and others.
Admission is free. Educator attendees will receive a book and teaching resources, and lunch will be served. To reserve your place at the workshop, register at this link.
This workshop is co-sponsored by SQCC, and made possible by Georgetown University’s Center for Contemporary Arab Studies and a Title VI grant from the U.S. Department of Education, which is funding a National Resource Center on the Middle East at Georgetown.