The Section of Oriental and African Studies of the Department of History and Archaeology of the University of Crete organises a public lecture by Dr Yorgos Moraitis, adjunct lecturer at the Department of Political Science of the University of Crete, entitled “Sir Robert Hart: The ‘Educator’ of Western Imperialism in China during the Late Imperial Period (1842–1911)”. The lecture will be given in Greek. It will take place on Wednesday 7 May 2025, at 8.30 p.m., at the House of the Section of Archaeology and History of Art, at the junction of Neophytou Patelarou and Patriarchou Gregoriou Streets, in the old town of Rethymno.