Journeys into the Heart of Asia
The West has long been fascinated by Asia - and by its riches. Join us as we explore trade, cultural exchange and downright plundering.
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About this event
Asia is big. Very big. The largest continent. It confounds and perplexes many Europeans even today. Our tiny world, with its dozens of countries, cultures, and languages, would all fit comfortably into modern-day Kazakhstan!
And yet visitors from the West there always were. Starting in the Tudor age, with the first English merchants trying to find a way past Hanseatic blockades into the land of Muscovy, all the way to the Great Game of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, during which British and Russian empires eyed one another suspiciously over vast swathes of Central Asia… the West has been fascinated by Asia – and, frankly, by the riches it might offer.
On this course, we will follow the Cossacks into Siberia, watch the Persian army be trained by an Elizabeth aristocrat, and travel with the Jesuits into China and the locked land of Tibet.
Every week’s session will be its own travelogue and thriller!
No preparation or reading is required.
No exams, no homework - just entertaining, informative, and accessible learning for pleasure.
You can join us 'live' via Zoom and/or watch recordings of the lectures on demand.
Delivery:
A lecture-based course, delivered via 7 x 2-hour sessions, 18:45-20:45, UK time:
Monday 22 September
Monday 29 September
Monday 13 October
Monday 20 October
Monday 27 October
Monday 3 November
Monday 10 November
The course will be delivered via 7 live Zoom sessions, and include opportunity for questions and discussion.
Recordings of the lecture elements of each session (with discussion elements edited out for GDPR reasons) will also be available – posted within 48 hours of each session, and available on demand for 2 weeks thereafter.
Frequently asked questions
No problem! We record all of our courses. Recordings are usually posted within 48 hours of broadcast, and available for 2 weeks thereafter (officially. Let us know if you'd like them to be available beyond that). NB Recordings are shorter than the live sessions, but all lecture content is included.
Absolutely! We take Q&As before a 10-minute break at approx. half-time, and there's also time at the end of each session. Sometimes we have very lively Q&A sessions, and sometimes there's just a screen of happy faces. Either's fine by us, and it's not compulsory to join in if you don't want to.
Don't worry! Our recordings just show the slides, plus Robert in a little window. To comply with data privacy (& any squeamishness!), we edit out all personal details - i.e. pre-session chats and Q&A sections - and retain all the actual content.
Good question! We've set up a YouTube channel, with snippets from previous courses, to help you to work that out. You'll find them from here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfNz_GwYH-g
We’re new to Eventbrite, so I know that I may not have thought of everything you might like to ask. Do please email me at robert@wrighthistory.uk and we'll take it from there!
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