File RAS LEC4/8/3/4 - 2015-2016

Photographs from:

• 4 September 2015: Professor Sarah Moate, 'The Moon of the Fields: the Calligraphy and Poetry of the Japanese Jōdo-shū nun Ōtagaki Rengetsu', 3 images.
• 16 September 2015: Dr Fozia Bora, 'Did Salah al-Din destroy the Fatimids' books? An historiographical enquiry', 2 images.
• 8 October 2015: Professor Janice Stargardt: 'The Adoption of Buddhism in Burma (Myanmar)', 5 images.
• 20 October 2015: Dr Richard Williams, 'Songs from behind the curtain: the influence of palace women on Hindustani music', 5 images.
• 12 November 2015: Dr Ben Outhwaite, 'Lewis, Gibson and the Discovery of the Cairo Genizah', 4 images.
• 17 November 2015: 'Azadeh Fatehrad, 'An Evening with Nizami', 6 images.
• 10 December 2015: Dr Kaveh Bakhtiar, 'The British Mosque: Fragments of an alternative architecture', 8 images.
• 14 December 2015: George Bryan Souza and Jeffrey S. Turley, 'he Boxer Codex,' book launch, 7 images.
• 15 December 2015: John Earle, 'British Vice-Consul and Local hero: Nicholas Loney and a Sweeter Life on a 19th century Philippine Island', 4 images.
• 19 January 2016: Frederica Gigante, 'Collecting Islamic Art in Seventeenth-Century Italy: Ferdinando Cospi, the Medici Court and the Ottoman World', 4 images.
• 21 January 2016: Ashvin Kumar, 'Inshallah, football', film screening with discussion, 2 images.
• 26 January 2016: Amara Thornton and Michael McCluskey, 'Excavating the City: Reginald Campbell Thompson's Moving Images of Mosul', film screening plus lecture, 7 images.
• 11 February 2016: Dr Sir Jim Mallinson, 'A History of Yoga and Yoga Scholarship' 9 images.
• 23 February 2016: Benedict Leigh, 'C.R. Ashbee's Vision of Jerusalem, the English Arts and Crafts Movement in the Middle East', 5 images.
• 10 March 2016: Professor Emerita Doris Behrens-Abouseif, 'Scribes and Libraries in the Mamluk Period', 4 images.
• 15 March 2016: Nicholas Reese, 'Thieves, Cutthroats and Vagabonds, European Mercenaries in Eighteenth-Century India', 3 images.
• 18 March 2016: Dr John Whelpton, 'Jang Bahadur in Europe; the First Nepalese Mission to the West', 4 images.
• 31 March 2016: Thomas Bell, 'Kathmandu', book launch, 9 images.
• 6 April 2016: Florence D' Souza, 'Knowledge, mediation and empire', book launch, 5 images.
• 12 April 2016: Isabella Tree, 'The Living Goddess', book launch, 5 images.
• 14 April, 2016: Dr Jenny Balfour-Paul, Journeys in the Footsteps of Thomas Machell, Forgotten Explorer', 6 images.
• 19 April 2016: Charlotte de Blois, 'Hints of the Heterodox in Christian Images from China', 10 images.
• 17 May 2016: Cam Sharp Jones, 'Indian Tribal Ethnography in the 19th Century', 6 images.
• 25 May 2016: George Manginis, 'Mount Sinai: A History of travellers and Pilgrims', book launch, 6 images.
• 27 May 2016: 'Presentation of a Festschrift in honour of Professor David O. Morgan', 56 images.
• 1 June 2016: Professor William Lubenow, 'West to East/ East to West: The Royal Asiatic Society and Western Knowledge of Asia', 10 images.
• 9 June 2016: Professor Sarah Ansari: 'India at War: The Bombay presidency's 'Home Front', 1914-1918', 9 images.
• 13 June 2016: Konrad Hirschler,' Medieval Damascus: Plurality and Diversity in an Arabic Library', book launch with introduction by Doris Behrens-Abouseif, 2 images.
• 15 June 2016: Nile Green, 'The Love of Strangers - What Six Muslim Students Learned in Jane Austen's London', book launch, 1 image.
• 21 June 2016: Shireen El Kassem, 'Mamluk helmets (1250-1517): new perspectives', 3 images.
• 23 June 2016: Michael Loewe, 'Problems of Han Administration', book launch, 9 images.
• 29 June 2016: Ilker Evrim Binbaş, 'Intellectual Networks in Timurid Iran', book launch, 6 images.
• 24 August 2016: Dr Nassar Mansour, 'Muhaqqaq: Furthering the Aesthetic of Faith', 11 images.

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