Wednesday 18 September, 2024 - Thursday 19 September, 2024
2:30pm BST - 5:00pm BST
Professor Susan Whitfield, Professor in Silk Road Studies and member of the Nara to Norwich research project team, will be speaking at a two part online course exploring the Silk Roads.
About the course
A unique opportunity to discover the Silk Roads on this two-part study course with Professor Susan Whitfield, who has been researching, travelling and writing about the Silk Roads for over 30 years. With major exhibitions at the British Museum and British Library about to open, explore the artistic outputs resulting from consequences of medieval trade and travel across Afro-Eurasia which, as the British Museum exhibits show, can even be seen in the British Isles.
Tickets are available to purchase from the ARTscapades website. Includes two lectures, Q&A and a short break. Tickets £20. Online via Zoom. Ticket holders will receive a link to watch the on-demand recording available for a month.
Short Course Part One – book here.
– Lecture 1: Introduction to the Silk Roads: history and religions.
Lecture 2: Silk on the Silk Roads.
Short Course Part Two – book here.
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Lecture 1: The Expanding Silk Roads: From Nara to Norwich
Lecture 2: Travelling objects
Susan Whitfield’s book Silk Roads: Peoples, Cultures and Landscapes is published by Thames & Hudson. Short Course ticket holders receive a code for 20% off the retail price of the book via thamesandhudson.com.
Proceeds from ARTscapades ticket sales benefit museums, galleries and other arts-based organisations and projects.
Image: Child’s Silk Jacket, 700s. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund