File RAS LEC4/8/2/6 - 2015-2016

Publicity posters for Lectures and Book Launches from 2015-2016. These are a mixture of physical and electronic documents.

RAS Lectures and Book Launches:

• 4 September 2015: Professor Sarah Moate, 'The Moon of the Fileds: the Calligraphy and Poetry of the Japanese Jōdo-shū nun Ōtagaki Rengetsu'.
• 8 October 2015: Professor Janice Stargardt: 'The Adoption of Buddhism in Burma (Myanmar)'.
• 12 November 2015: Dr Ben Outhwaite, 'Lewis, Gibson and the Discovery of the Cairo Genizah'.
• 18 November 2015: Liana Siaf, 'The Arabic Influences on Early Modern Occult Philosophy', book launch.
• 10 December 2015: Dr Kaveh Bakhtiar, 'The British Mosque: Fragments of an alternative architecture'.
• 21 January 2016: Ashvin Kumar, 'Inshallah football', film an ddiscussion.
• 11 February 2016: Dr Sir Jim Mallinson, 'A History of Yoga and Yoga Scholarship'.
• 10 March 2016: Professor Emerita Doris Behrens-Abouseif, 'Scribes and Libraries in the Mamluk Period'.
• 16 March 2016: John Whelpton, 'Jang Bahadur in Europe; the First Nepalese Mission to the West', celebrating the bicentenary of Britain and Nepal, 1816-2016.
• 31 March 2016: Thomas Bell, 'Kathmandu', book launch.
• 12 April 2016: Isabella Tree, 'The Living Goddess', book launch.
• 14 April, 2016: Dr Jenny Balfour-Paul, 'Journeys in the Footsteps of Thomas Machell, Forgotten Explorer'.
• 25 May 2016: George Manginis, 'Mount Sinai: A History of travellers and Pilgrims', book launch. (Electronic document.)
• 26 May 2016: Celia Washington, 'Artist in Residence: Celia Washington and the Kathmandu Contemporary Arts Centre'. (Electronic document.)
• 1 June 2016: Professor William Lubenow, 'West to East/ East to West: The Royal Asiatic Society and Western Knowledge of Asia'.
• 9 June 2016: Professor Sarah Ansari: 'India at War: The Bombay presidency's 'Home Front', 1914-1918' (Electronic document).
• 13 June 2016: Konrad Hirschler,' Medieval Damascus: Plurality and Diversity in an Arabic Library', book launch with introduction by Doris Behrens-Abouseif. (Electronic document.)
• 15 June 2016: Nile Green, 'The Love of Strangers - What Six Muslim Students Learned in Jane Austen's London' book launch. (Electronic document.)
• 21 June 2016: Shireen El Kassem, 'Mamluk helmets (1250-1517): new perspectives'. (Electronic document.)
• 23 June 2016: Michael Loewe, 'Problems of Han Administration', book launch. (Electronic document.)
• 29 June 2016: Ilker Evrim Binbaş, 'Intellectual Networks in Timurid Iran', book launch. (Electronic document.)

• 24 August 2016: Dr Nassar Mansour, 'Muhaqqaq: Furthering the Aesthetic of Faith'. (Electronic document.)

  Fresh Perspectives Series:

• 16 September 2015: Dr Fozia Bora, 'Did Salah al-Din destroy the Fatimids' books? An historiographical enquiry'. (Electronic document.)
• 20 October 2015: Dr Richard Williams, 'Songs from behind the curtain: The influence of palace women on Hindustani music'.
• 17 November 2015: Azadeh Fatehrad, 'An Evening with Nizami'.
• 8 December 2105: John Earle, 'British Vice-Consul and Local hero: Nicholas Loney and a Sweeter Life on a 19th-Century Philippine Island'.
• 19 January 2016: Frederica Gigante, 'Collecting Islamic Art in Seventeenth-Century Italy: Ferdinando Cospi, the Medici Court and the Ottoman World'.
• 23 February 2016: Benedict Leigh, 'C.R. Ashbee's Vision of Jerusalem, the English Arts and Crafts Movement in the Middle East'.
• 15 March 2016: Nicholas Reese, 'Thieves, Cutthroats and Vagabonds, European Mercenaries in Eighteenth-Century India'.
• 19 April 2016: Charlotte de Blois, 'Hints of the Heterodox in Christian Images from China'. (Electronic document.)
• 17 May 2016: Cam Sharp Jones, 'Indian Tribal Ethnography in the 19th Century'.(Electronic document.)