Teaching the Silk Roads – Global Classroom Project
Merchant on camelback, Tang dynasty, © National Museum of China at Beijing
The Global Institute for Silk Roads Studies utilises its capacities and expertise in leading on global hybrid teaching across the Global Nottingham University and its three campuses (Nottingham UK, Ningbo China, Malaysia). With the interactive global classroom module “Silk Roads. Cultural Interactions and Perceptions,” the Institute and its members sets new standards of global hybrid teaching.
Weekly Topics from the 24/25 Handbook:
- Definition of the Silk Roads
- Early silk roads: agriculture and the environment
- Palmyra and the Roman near East
- The later Roman world and the world of the steppe
- Ninth and Tenth Century Networks across Eurasia
- Medieval Europe and the Silk Roads
- Trade and Exchange between Southeast Asia and China from the Tenth to Eighteenth Century
- Ningbo, central hub of the Silk Road in East Asia
- Iberian explorations and maritime silk roads in the 16th and 17th centuries
- The “New Silk Road” and BRI
- Video Presentation in Seminars
Gujarati merchants as represented in the Portuguese Codice Casanatense (16th century).