Ryuto Shimada

The University of Tokyo, Japan

Ryuto Shimada obtained PhD from Leiden University in 2005 and currently Associate Professor in Asian History at the Department of Oriental History, Faculty of Letters, the University of Tokyo. He is working on maritime Asian history since the sixteenth century and particularly interested in intra-Asian trade and the cross-cultural history of international ports in Asia such as Nagasaki, Ayutthaya and Batavia during the early modern period. He has published several books and articles in English and Japanese, including Ryuto Shimada, The Intra-Asian Trade in Japanese Copper by the Dutch East India Company during the Eighteenth Century, Leiden and Boston: Brill Academic Publishers, 2006; Ryuto Shimada, “The Bay of Bengal Trade in the Late Seventeenth Century and Armenian Merchants,” Acta Asiatica: Bulletin of the Institute of Eastern Culture, 123, 2022; and Radhika Seshan and Ryuto Shimada (eds.) Merchants and Ports in the Indian Ocean World: Across Sea and Land, London and New York: Routledge, 2023.

Presentation(s):

• Overlooked Mobilities in the Indian Ocean and Beyond I

  Wednesday, July 31, 2024
  09:00 – 10:45 (GMT+7)

• Indian Muslim Merchants in Batavia during the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries

  Wednesday, July 31, 2024
  09:00 – 10:45 (GMT+7)