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Friday 8th February
10.30am Arrival and coffee
11.00am Welcome and introduction: Catherine Holmes (Oxford), Naomi Standen (Birmingham), Minoru Ozawa (Rikkyo, Japan)
11.15am First Session Chair: Simon Yarrow (Birmingham)
- Arezou Azad (Birmingham) Rethinking Khurasan: A Zomia in Islamic Central Asia?
- Lewis Borck (Leiden, Netherlands) Radical archives against the state: Historic zomias as temporary autonomous zones
- Minoru Ozawa (Rikkyo, Japan) Making Communities through Ships in Late Viking Age Scandinavia
1.00pm Lunch
2.00pm Second Session Chair: Naomi Standen (Birmingham)
- Takashi Kawato (Chiba Keizai, Japan) Wako (Japanese pirates) as a Maritime Zomiatic People in Late Medieval and Early Modern East Asia
- Elizabeth Lambourn (De Montfort, Leicester) Zomia as an approach to the Indian ocean world [TBC]
- Nicholas Matheou (IHR) Zomia, Hegemony & Counterpower: Towards an Anarchist Heuristic
3.30pm Tea Break
4.00pm Third Session Chair: Phacha Phanomvan (Oxford)
- Fiona McConnell (Oxford), Geography, Zomia and the knowledge production of area studies
- Nayanika Mathur (Oxford) Anthropologising the State and Government in Northern India
5.00pm Summary: Ian Forrest (Oxford)
5.30pm Launch Event: Past & Present Global Middle Ages supplement
Saturday 9th February
9.00am Coffee
9.15am Fourth Session Chair: Minoru Ozawa (Rikkyo, Japan)
- Lance Pursey (Birmingham) Coming to terms with illegibility: historiographical debates on the Northeast Asian frontier in Middle Period Chinese history
- Hirokazu Tsurushima (Kumamoto, Japan) Two or Three ‘Englands’ in the Long Eleventh-Century (c. 973-c. 1135)
- Marek Jankowiak (Oxford) and Christian Sahner (Oxford) At the fringes of Byzantium and the early Islamic empire
10.45am Coffee Break
11.00am Fifth Session Chair: Catherine Holmes (Oxford)
- Stephanie Wynne-Jones (York) Mobility, history and non-state actors
- Yoichi Isahaya (JSPS / Rikkyo, Japan) Sciences in Zomia: Nizārī Ismāʿīlī Movements (1090–1256) in the Iranian Plateau
- Hitomi Sato (Konan, Japan) Revolts and Boundary Areas in the Late Medieval Italian Peninsula
12.30pm Lunch
1.00pm Summary (& lunch cont’d): Amanda Power (Oxford)
This workshop has been generously supported by grants from the John Fell Oxford University Press (OUP) Research Fund and KAKENHI, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science.