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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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