Entangled Archipelagos of Southeast Asia: Conflict – Trade – Migration – Diplomacy (16th-18th Centuries)

An international workshop on the global history of insular Southeast Asia during the early modern age – with a special focus on conflict, trade, migration and diplomacy – will be held at the University of Zurich on 11 and 12 May 2026.

This workshop is organized within the framework of the research project Digitale Edition und globale Mikrogeschichte: ein Basler Kolonialsöldner in der südostasiatischen Inselwelt des 17. Jahrhunderts. The project is funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (running 2024-2028).