Silk Roads: module timetable
Lectures and workshops are at 12 noon on Mondays (Bedson Teaching Centre G37) and Fridays (Bedson Teaching Centre G35)
Seminars are on Wednesdays at 12 noon (Group A) in Herschel Level 4 Teaching Room 1 and Thursdays at 11 am (Group B) in King George VI 1.43A
Please give yourself plenty of time to find the rooms on the first day!

Week
LECTURES/WORKSHOPS
Monday 12-1
Bedson Teaching Centre G37
 SEMINARS
Weds 12 (A) Herschel L4 TR1
Thurs 11 (B) KGVI 1.43A
LECTURES/WORKSHOPS
Friday 12-1
Bedson Teaching Centre G35
INTRODUCTION
1
(25 Jan)
Introduction:
trade, religion and politics
Looking out from Inner Asia:
geography and ecology
PEOPLES, POLITIES, CULTURES
2
(1 Feb)
Origins: Xiongnu and Han
Arguing from material-culture evidence
Empires: Kushans and Sasanians
3
(8 Feb)
Nomads: Turks and Uyghurs

Oases: Kroraina and the Sogdians
4
(15 Feb)
Tang China and Turfan
 Locations and chronologies of the Silk Roads
The Islamic conquests and the Abbasid empire
TRADE, RELIGIONS, POLITICS
5
(22 Feb)
 Silk
WORKSHOP
Horses
WORKSHOP
6
(1 Mar)
Coins
WORKSHOP
Economics and cultural exchange
THIS WEEK ONLY:
Seminar B meets Weds 9-10, Percy G9		Buddhism
WORKSHOP
7
(8 Mar)
Nestorianism and Manichaeism
(Zoroastrianism)
WORKSHOP
Islam
WORKSHOP
8
(15 Mar)
 Antagonism and expansionism
WORKSHOP 		Religion and politicsDiplomacy and autonomy
WORKSHOP

EASTER VACATION
CASE STUDIES
9
(19 Apr)
No classes
RESEARCH CASE STUDIES AND PREPARE PRESENTATIONS
10
(26 Apr)
 PRESENTATIONS
Islamic empires, Tang China, Tibet 		PRESENTATIONS
Turks, Uyghurs
11
(3 May)
BANK HOLIDAY

PRESENTATIONS
CONCLUSIONS
12
(10 May)		The Pax Mongolica and the rise of the maritime tradeInterdependence, interaction, communicationRevision
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