Sumatran camphor in medieval Afro-Eurasia, lecture by Alex West (University of Leiden), a Silk Roads Programme event, King's College Cambridge via Zoom, February 25, 2022, 2:00 pm (UK)

Alex West is a lecturer at the Institute for Area Studies, University of Leiden. Specialising in the Indo-Malaysian archipelago in the fifteenth century before the arrival of the Portuguese and the Islamisation of Sunda, his translations and research have revealed the presence of commodities sourced from places as far apart as the Levant and New Guinea.

Join us to hear more about how Sumatran camphor in medieval Afro-Eurasia, and what this reveals about global medieval trade networks.

Advance registration required.