Professor Elizabeth Lambourn will be speaking to the Centre for Medieval Studies on 'Metals and Models: Geniza Documents on the Exchange of Technologies between Aden and the Malabar Coast' on Thursday  20 February (LR8, 4-5.15). She has published widely on the Indian Ocean World in the Middle Ages, including Abraham's Luggage, which uses a document from the Cairo Geniza to reconstruct the world of a Jewish merchant from North Africa living on the Malabar Coast in the twelfth century. She is also the editor of A Cultural History of the Sea in the Medieval Age (800-1450).