Too bad that you can't join us at this event but I hope you can come see the exhibition! It's up until April 12, 2026 and full of amazing insights from the Guerrilla Girls archive.

www.getty.edu/exhibitions/...

Dave Eggers provides some good background on one of the main protagonists of the Yemeni American coffee revival: daveeggers.net/monkofmokha

Thank you for reading!!!!

Thank you so much for the kind words and for slogging through the long bits about coins and their details! Painful but (I hope) worth it!

Thank you!!! Let me know what the students think!

It deploys textual, archaeological & numismatic evidence to make the case for tangible material entanglements between the Red Sea & colonial North America & to explore the obscured lives of those enslaved from Madagascar in the 1690s. MAP: indianoceanexchanges.com/coin/mvvmap....

Yes! I’ll DM you to make the connection!

Very interesting - my colleague in conservation at Getty has worked on this topic. Do you know Arlen?

The terms 'lodge' or 'factory' make the establishments seem formal or structurally distinct from other bldg types. Sometimes they were purpose built, but often they were provisional. On this one, I'll boost an old article of mine from a different ocean. indianoceanexchanges.com/pubs/JSAHPub...

I love this thread! Art historians like @marselykehoe.bsky.social to the rescue! On the lodge ?, don't know specifically about Cochin, but it was common for a company/merchant to rent an ordinary house as trade base an in Indian Ocean port, especially before settling more formal trade agreements.

Here it is - still there, just covered up - for the solstice in 2023

Congratulations on the new appointment! I am sure that you are going to do great things in the role!