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This joint lecture will take place online. Registration is required; click through for the registration link. Zoom information will be provided via confirmation email to registered participants. The lecture, by two distinguished scholars of Indian Ocean maritime networks and trade, will focus on the crossing and experience of the first-millennium seascape. By drawing from epigraphic, artifactual, and spatial evidence, stories of mariners and merchants, church officials, holy men, artisans, enslaved people, Indians, Christians, and others – and sometimes their shipwrecked goods – will people the first-millennium Indian Ocean bringing culturally-specific human concerns to light. Who were these intrepid travelers from the Red Sea region and the ports of South Asia? Were they plying a luxury trade? What did they live, love, and carry home with them across the monsoon sea?