Term 1 1. Bridging week - no seminar 2. Travel and Travel Writing: A Global Genre? 3. Herodotus and Zhang Qian: Travel and "the Other" in the Ancient World 4. Religious Travel in the Global Middle Ages 5. Fact and Fabrication: Marco Polo and Ibn Battuta 6. Reading week – no seminar 7. Maps and Marvels: Travel and Mental Geographies 8. "Savage" and "Civilized": Early Modern Ethnography, Art, and Empire 9. Voyages Gone Wrong: Shipwreck and Captivity 10. "Orient" and "Occident": Travel Between Christian and Islamic Lands Term 2 11. How to Travel? Advice Literature, the Grand Tour, and the Travelling Self 12. The Male Gaze: Sexuality, Exoticism and Disease in Pacific Voyaging 13. A Female Gaze? Women's Travel Writing and Alterity 14. Forced Travel: Voices of the Enslaved 15. Scientific Travel and the Natural World 16. Reading week – no seminar 17. Travel and Imperialism in the Modern Age 18. Counterflows: Travellers from the Majority World 19. Tourism and the Environment in a Postcolonial World 20. A Global Genre? Travel and Travel Writing Today Term 3 21. Essay WorkshopLink opens in a new window 22. Local Traces of Global Travel (Fieldtrip Leamington Spa)

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