Julia Stephens: The Crafty Widow: Mapping Gendered Mobilities Across InterAsian Geographies

This lecture pushes back against the pervasive masculinist gendering of mobility in the emerging field of “InterAsian” studies, exploring preliminary strategies for pursuing this wider project through a close study of the life and legacies of Janbai, the matriarch of a family of Khoja-Muslim merchants who built substantial religious, economic, and cultural influence across the Indian Ocean.