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GB 891 RAS LEC4-RAS LEC4/8-RAS LEC4/8/2-RAS LEC4/8/2/3
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2012-2013
Date(s)
- 2012 - 2013 (Creation)
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(1823 - present)
Administrative history
The Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland was founded by the eminent Sanskrit scholar Sir Henry Thomas Colebrooke on the 15th March 1823. It received its Royal Charter from King George IV on the 11th August 1824 'for the investigation of subjects connected with and for the encouragement of science, literature and the arts in relation to Asia'. It continues as a forum for those who are interested in the languages, cultures and history of Asia to meet and exchange ideas.
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Publicity Posters for 2012-2013. These are all held electronically.
RAS Lecture Series:
- 1 October 2012: Seemah Niaz, 'Mughal and Modernist Influences in Contemporary Pakistani Art'.
- 11 October 2012: Robert Dankoff, 'Explorations of an Ottoman Traveller: Evliya Çelebi'.
- 30 October 2012: 'A Georgian Evening of Talks, Film and Song to Celebrate Rustaveli', held in collaboration with the British Georgian Society.
- 1 November 2012: Garry Alder, 'The Moorcroft Mystery'. 8 November 2012: Jon Thompson, 'Some Thoughts on the Origins of the Artistic Style that emerged during the Reign of Suleyman 'the Magnificent''.
- 15 November: Lucy Anne Hunt, 'Observations on Some Byzantine and Other Christian Manuscripts and Book Covers from the Mediaeval Eastern Mediterranean'.
- 13 December 2012: Prof. Uta Lauer, 'Confluence: Arabic and Chinese Calligraphy'.
- 10 January 2013: Prof. Sanjoy Bhattacharya, 'Bhutan's smallpox eradication program: International health and the limits of global influence'.
- 23 January 2013: Dr Christopher Daily, 'Robert Morrison and the Protestant Plan for China', book launch.
- 24 January 2013: 'Sandy Morton Memorial Evening' with speakers Prof. Peter Robb, Mr William Morton, Prof. David Morgan and Prof. François de Blois.
- 14 February 2013: Stuart Laing, '"Unshook till the End of Time" : Relations between Britain and Oman, 1650 – 1975'.
- 19 February 2013: Dr Henk Vynckier, 'Men who loved books': The literary legacy of Robert Hart and the Chinese Maritime Customs Service'.
- 12 March 2013: Prof. Rudi Matthee, 'Safavid Iran and Georgia: How the Dominated Came to Dominate'.
- 14 March 2013: Ben Murtagh, 'Gender and Sexuality in Indonesian Cinema: New Order Constructions of gay, lesbi and waria Identities on Screen'.
- 11 April 2013: Shihan de Silva, 'African Soldiers, Governors, Nawabs and Cultural Brokers in South Asia'.
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13 June 2013: Dr Norbert Peabody, 'On the Indian Origin of Nationalism'.
Student Lecture Series:
- 17 October 2012: Cristina Castillo, 'Prehistoric Cuisine in Thailand: Rice, Beans and Spices'; and Matthew George Phillips, ''A Theatre with Two Stages': Jim Thompson and the Construction of Thainess during the Cold War'.
- 14 November 2012: Richard McClary, 'The Creation of a New Aesthetic: Early 12th Century Rum Saljuq Architecture in Anatolia'; and Juha Komppa, 'Tibet in Chinese Han Imaginings'.
- 16 January 2013: Tanmayee Banerjee, 'Nationalism and Internationalism in Indian English Fiction, 1909 – 1930'; and Ying Hwang, 'Chinese Visuality and Europe in the Modern Period'.
- 2- February 2013: Emily Hannam, 'Image and Essence in the Akbarnama'; and Sarah Ashraf, 'Understanding the education and training provided by madaris in the Afghanistan-Pakistan Region.
- 17 April 2013: Dhara D. Anjaria, 'Marginalised Colonials? Non-British European Powers in India vis-à-vis the British'; and Katherine Hughes, 'Birds and the Bevelled Style: Early Islamic Carved Wood from the Upper Zerafshan Valley'.
- 15 May 2013: Tanja Tolar, 'Early Islamic Enamelled Glass and its Iconography'; and Sami De Giosa, 'Being a Sultan in Style: Calligraphy and Decoration in The Arts of the Late Mamluk Period'.