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GB 891 RAS LEC4-RAS LEC4/8-RAS LEC4/8/2-RAS LEC4/8/2/4
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2013-2014
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- 2013 - 2014 (Creation)
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(1823 - present)
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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 2013-2014. These are all held electronically.
RAS Lecture Series:
- 10 October 2013: Prof. Charles Schencking, 'The Great Kantō Earthquake and the Chimera of National Reconstruction in Japan'.
- 14 November 2013: Dr. Christoph Baumer, 'The Bronze Age Culture of Ayala Mazar-Xiaohe: Recent Archaeological Discoveries in the Taklamakan Desert, China'.
- 12 December 2013: Dr Ladan Akbarnia, 'Cathay at Court: Far Eastern Inspirations in Some Post-Mongol Persianate Drawings'.
- 16 January 2014: Prof. Hans van de Ven, 'The Chinese Maritime Customs Service, the 1911 Revolution, and the Bond Markets'.
- 14 February 2014: Dr Bilha Moor, 'Mosque and Church: Arabic Inscriptions at Shivta in the Early Islamic Period'.
- 13 March 2014: Presentation of the RAS Medal 2014 to Professor Bridget Allchin with a lecture in her honour: Prof Robin Coningham, 'From Oxus to Mysore: the Story of the Allchin Partnership in South East Asian Archaeology'.
- 26 March 2014: Jamie Bunchuk and Matthew Traver, 'Down the Post Roads: On Horseback across East Kazakhstan'
- 6 May 2014: Dame Caroline Humphrey, 'Intellectual Currents across North Asian Borders in the 20th Century-, with presentation of the Richard Burton Memorial Medal.
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27 May 2014: S. Frederick Starr, 'The Lost Enlightenment: central Asia's Golden age from the Arab conquest to Tamerlane', book launch.
Student Lecture Series:
- 13 November 2013: David Beamish, 'Answering Back to Europe: Ottoman and North African Journalists in Paris'; and Shivan Mahendrarajah, 'Balance of Power: Re-examining the Relationship between the Kart Dynasty of Herat and the Mystics of Turbat-I Jam, 1307 to 1381'.
- 11 December 2013: Francesca Fuoli, 'The role of ethnography and the study of Pashto in the construction of the Pashtun race in nineteenth century British colonial discourses on Afghanistan'; and Barakatullo Ashurov, 'Material Culture Objects and Structures: on the Social Representations of the Church of the East in Sogdiana'.
- 15 January 2014: Massimiliano Fusari, 'Representing the Visual in Anthropology'; and Azadeh Fatehrad, 'Persian Paintings and Representations of Women during the Timurid Dynasty 1370-1507'.
- 2 April 2014: In-Sung Kim Han, 'Islamic Cultural Presence in Medieval Korea'.
- 7 May 2014: Matteo Miele, 'Mongolian Independence and the British'; and Dr Brainerd Prince, ' Sri Aurobindo and the Question of God'.
- 12 June 2014: Dr Jan-Peter Hartung, 'Of 'Creeds' and 'Guidances': Tradition, Commentary and Canon in the Early Modern Persianate World'.
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- English