Join us either in Cerne Abbas Village Hall, Dorset or online for Day 1 on 15th October 2025 with lecturer Dr. Susan Whitfield.
The Silk Road - Art, History and Exploration
10:30 am Introduction to its History and Cultures. A general context-setting lecture, illustrated with maps and artefacts, giving an outline of what we mean by the Silk Road and introducing some of the major events and cultures along it in the first millennium AD.
11:30 - 12:00 - Coffee break
12:00 - 13:00 Exploration and Discovery. This tells the story of the early 20th imperial archaeologists of the Silk Road, concentrating on the British/Hungarian, Sir Aurel Stein, and how he uncovered forgotten civilisations of the Silk Road from the desert sands of the Taklamakan. His finds are now mainly in the British Museum and British Library.
13:00 - 14:00. Lunch
14:00 - 15:00 Art. This lecture introduces several wonderful pieces of art exemplifying the transmissions and interactions of peoples, faiths, technologies, materials and designs along the Silk Road. The objects include a gilt silver flask, a glass bowl, and a patterned sil.
Fee: £35 for individual days in the venue with coffee, tea and biscuits and a buffet lunch with wine and soft drinks.
Fee: £25 online (not recorded)
For all queries please email Christopher on wessexconnecedevents@theartssociety.org