The central idea
Understand Orientalism as a framework for reading representation and power.
Learn
Orientalism
Examine how knowledge, representation and power have shaped the ways Muslim and Eastern societies are described, studied and imagined.
What we will explore
Build the foundations before navigating complexity.
Courses and learning resources in this area are being developed with a beginner-friendly approach that never waters down the ideas.
Knowledge & empire
Explore how scholarship, institutions and colonial histories intersected.
Contemporary echoes
Recognise how inherited frames continue to influence media and public discourse.