Warwick, Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia and NTU Singapore are collaborating to complete a digital version of Ibn Battuta’s Travels that has been already partially made and put online on the Engineering Historical Memory Link opens in a new windowwebsite. The team aim to have the digitasion of the text finished by the beginning of 2025.

Ca Foscari University (Venice, Italy), Fudan University (Shanghai) and University of Warwick - alongside other global institutions - are participating in the opening of a new exhibition on Marco Polo at Shanghai Museum and a conference 'Marco Polo: Antecedents, History and Legacy' at Fudan University.

Warwick's Global History and Culture Centre will convene a special conference with speakers from around the world on the art and science of telling stories about travel - through time and across the globe.

Luca Molà and Eugenio Burgio have organized a workshop that will take place both at the WVC and at Ca’ Foscari in December.

We are excited to reveal the restoration of a 14th-century document on parchment that contains the most detailed and important description of the trip of Venetian merchants to China and India in the 1330s, a few years after the death of Marco Polo.

This event is open to the public and press and will take place at the Venice State Archives - where the parchment is preserved.

The event will be hosted by Andrea Erboso, Director of the Archivio di Stato di Venezia and Prof Michael Scott, Pro-Vice-Chancellor (International).

Expert presentations will shed light on the story contained in the document, the characteristics of the document itself and the process of restoration.