The Abbey Museum Friends invite you to their Presentation hosted by Professor Patrick Jory, exploring Asian trade networks in the Indian Ocean during the late medieval period.

This presentation will discuss the era when the global economy was centred on the Indian Ocean. In the late medieval period, no one state or region dominated the global economy. Global maritime trade and commercial interactions were expanding. The presentation highlights the importance of Asian trade networks in the Indian Ocean in the late fifteenth century; the global spice trade centred on Southeast Asia and Islamic commercial power in the Indian Ocean; imperial China’s so-called ‘tributary system’ which sought to regulate China’s trade relations with the outside world, and the rise of Portuguese naval power and its entry into Asian trade networks in the Indian Ocean in the late fifteenth century.

Bio:
Patrick Jory completed his PhD in Southeast Asian history at the Australian National University. From 1995-2001, he lectured in the Department of Asian Studies at the University of Western Australia. From 2001-2009, he was co-founder and Coordinator of the Southeast Asian Studies program at Walailak University, southern Thailand. Currently, he is Associate Professor in History in the School of Historical and Philosophical Inquiry at the University of Queensland. From 2017-2022, he was the inaugural president of the Association of Mainland Southeast Asia Scholars (AMSEAS). His research interests are in modern Southeast Asian history, with a focus on Thai history. He won the Asian Studies Association of Australia Mid-Career Book Prize in 2022 for A History of Manners and Civility in Thailand (Cambridge University Press, 2021), and a CHOICE Outstanding Academic Titles Award for Thailand’s Theory of Monarchy: The Vessantara Jataka and the Idea of the Perfect Man (State University of New York Press, 2016). Much of his work has been published in Thai translation. In 2024 he was elected to the Australian Academy of the Humanities. He is cohost of the New Books in Southeast Asian Studies podcast channel, part of the New Books Network: https://newbooksnetwork.com/hosts/profile/d1ad4bb7-4d47-465f-a052-4e4fb779cc16

Includes a light afternoon tea.
Time: 2pm – 4pm Saturday, 18th April 2026
Location: The Abbey Hall (located behind the Abbey Museum), 31 The Abbey Place, Caboolture

Tickets: $20 Guest | $10 Friends Member
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