A presentation should generally be about 20 minutes long, leaving time for discussion of the day’s readings as well as of your presentation. If you decide on a much longer presentation, please discuss it with the coordinator.
In choosing a topic for a presentation, try to find one is especially interesting to you. Your enthusiasm for the topic will make for a better presentation.
You may decide just to expand upon some aspect of the assigned readings for the class at which you present. You may come having prepared as the leader of a class discussion, rather than as one who is delivering a talk as such.
The following is a list of topics that might appeal to you, but these are suggestions only.
Early Chinese Adventurers: Gan Ling, Li Guanling, Zhang Qian, Fachien et al.
The Greeks, the Romans and the Silk Road
Buddhism, India and China
The Geography Travelled by Xuanzang and Stein in Western China
Stein’s Men, Animals and Supplies
Comparison of Stein’s and Xuanzang’s Lifetime Travels
The Tales Told in the Photographs by Aurel Stein
Xuanzang and Buddhist History
Monkey, or The Journey to the West
The Diamond Sutra
Turfan, Gaochang and Kocho
Cities of the Tarim Basin
The Mysterious Tocharians
The Mummies of the Tarim Basin
Archeological Ethics: Lord Elgin, Aurel Stein and Archeology Today