Lubaaba Al-Azami (University of Liverpool), “Do ye know what I am, sir, and my prerogative?”:Quisara, Gulbudan and the Authority of the Indian Princess

Amrita Sen (University of Calcutta), Jahangir’s China and other Toys: Mughal collecting and the early East India Company

Nat Cutter (University of Melbourne), Knowing the Maghreb in Stuart Scotland, Ireland and Northern England

Peter Good (University of Kent), The East India Company and Local Intermediaries in the Early Modern Persian Gulf and Red Sea 1600-1750

Merchants, Monarchs and Media Power play and mercantile pursuits in the early modern Islamic worlds