BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 CALSCALE:GREGORIAN PRODID:iCalendar-Ruby BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Lectures & Presentations DESCRIPTION:Presented by Garrett Field\n\n \n\nIn 1804\, an elder courtier named Ban’deyri Hasan Manikufaanu (1745–1807) chronicled the sea voyage of the sovereign of the Maldives\, Sultan Muhammad Mueenuddeen I (r. 1799–1835 ). The purpose of the voyage was to visit the islands of Ari Atoll. Manikuf aanu crafted 171 verses according to the rules of a Maldivian genre of poet ry called raivaru. The work is known as Dhivehi Arumaadhu Raivaru (‘Raivaru that Chronicled the Journey of the Maldivian Royal Fleet’). In this presen tation\, I demonstrate how the verses provide a lens into early-nineteenth- century Maldivian boat construction\, court music\, navigational routes\, r egnal travel\, royal ensigns\, sailing\, and seamanship\, all of which have not been sufficiently explored in Indian Ocean studies. In contrast to sch olarship on travelogues that emphasizes Muslim men’s experiences of heterot opia when they travelled across the Indian Ocean on steamships to maritime ports\, this paper centers attention on a provincial journey of a royal fle et of sailboats taken by the Sultan of the Maldives and other noblemen to v isit Maldivian commonfolk who lived on islands that formed part of an atoll in the middle of the Indian Ocean.\n\n \n\nThe CIS Thursday Forum is a wee kly series focusing on international research\, scholarship and creative ac tivity for the OHIO community. DTEND:20250320T210000Z DTSTAMP:20250224T010752Z DTSTART:20250320T193000Z GEO:39.327748;-82.100322 LOCATION:Schoonover Center\, 145 SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:CIS Thursday Forum - A Provincial Travelogue of the Indian Ocean: C hronicling a Royal Sea Voyage in the Maldives through Dhivehi Poetry\, 1804 UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_48798905881623 URL:https://calendar.ohio.edu/event/cis-thursday-forum-garrett-field END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR