File RAS LEC4/8/2/7 - 2016-2017

Digital and printed documents

Publicity posters for Lectures and Book Launches from 2016-2017. These are a mixture of physical and electronic documents.

• 12 September 2016: Hasan Ali Khan, 'Constructing Islam on the Indus', book launch.
• 27 September 2016: Dr Rose Kerr, 'Statue of Zhenwu, the Dark Warrior'.
• 13 October 2016: Dr Chandrika Kaul, 'The BBC and India: Mediating Empire, War and Decolonisation'.
• 18 October 2016: Marion Molteno, 'Ralph Russell's The Famous Ghalib: The Sound of My Moving Pen'.
• 24 October 2016: Professor Karel Werner, 'Pure Yoga in its Historical Context and Today'.
• 26 October 2016: David Waterhouse, 'Brian Hodgson and the RAS - Fresh Perspectives'.
• 2 November 2016: Dr Mark Watson, 'Nepal: The Early years of Natural History Exploration and the Role of Learned Societies'.
• 7 November 2016: Francis Gooding and Noah Angell, 'Lux Imperium, Colonial Film at Home: Amateur Movies of the British Empire taken from the Bristol Records Office Collection', film and talk.
• 8 November 2016: John Baily, 'War, Exile and the Music of Afghanistan: The Ethnographer's Tale', book launch. (Physical document.)
• 10 November 2016: Dr Imma Ramos, 'From Akbar to Ambedkar: Retelling of the Story of South Asia at the British Museum'.
• 21 November 2016: H.J. Noltie, ' "Indian Forester, Scottish Laird: the Botanical Lives of Hugh Cleghorn of Stravithie' and 'The Cleghorn Collection: South Indian Botanical Drawings, 1845-1860', book launches. (Physical document.)
• 6 December 2016: Professor Jordan Goodman, 'Pictures, Texts and Plants: Joseph Banks and Chine, 1780-1820'.
• 8 December 2016: Arthur Milner, 'Damascus Tiles: Some Enduring Questions'.
• 12 December 2016: Frances Wood and Christopher Arnander. 'Betrayed Ally: China in the Great War', book launch. (Physical document.)
• 14 December 2016: Professor Nile Green, 'The Afghan Discovery of Buddha: Archaeology and Nationalism in Pre-Taliban Afghanistan'.
• 12 January 2017: Dr Edward Anderson, 'Hindu Nationalism Abroad: The Indian Diaspora and Hindutva's Early Transnational Development (1946-77)'.
• 18 January 2017: The Hon. James Stourton, 'Reflections on Chinese Porcelain Collectors'.
• 26 January 2017: Elisabeth Leake, 'The Defiant Border', book launch.
• 9 February 2017: Stéphane Pradines, 'The Swahili, a Muslim Culture of the Indian Ocean World: New evidence from archaeological excavations'.
• 14 February 2017: Dr Arthur Dudney, 'The Literature of Decline under the Late Mughals'.
• 16 February 2017:, Richard P. McClary, 'Rum Seljuq Architecture, 1170-1220', book launch.
• 23 February 2017: Nancy Charley, 'Little Blue Hut', book launch.
• 2 March 2017: Bérénice Guyot-Réchard, 'Shadow States: India, China and the Himalayas, 1910-1962', book launch.
• 2 March 2017: Joint lecture with the Armenian Institute, Patrick Donabedian.
• 7 March 2017: Professor Sheila Blair, 'Monumentalizing the Grave: Muslim-style Mausolea across Mongol Eurasia'.
• 9 March 2017: Dr Roy Fischel, 'Sultans of Many Idioms: Kingship, Ideology and Locality in Bijapur and Golkonda, ca. 1600'.
• 14 March 2017: Edward Weech and Nancy Charley, 'Exploring the Royal Asiatic Society Archives: In the Footsteps of Thomas Manning and Sir Richard Burton'. (Physical document.)
• 28 March 2017: Prof Robert Ousterhout, 'Palmyra through the lens of John Henry Haynes: Legendary City, forgotten photographer, and monuments in peril', with Cornucopia. (Physical document.)
• 7 April 2017: Dr Giles Tillotson, Architecture and Landscape in Marwar'.
• 18 April 2017: Dr Martin Bayly, 'Taming the Imperial Imagination: The Genesis of Colonial Knowledge on Afghanistan, 1808-1878'.
• 27 April 2017: Tara Purnima, 'Tales of the Tribes: Connecting to Cultures through Animation'.
• 28 April 2017: Dr Bruno de Nicola, 'Women in Mongol Iran: The Khatuns, 1206 - 1335', book launch.
• 4 May 2017: Armenian Institute lecture, Dr Claude Mutafian, 'The Magic of Writing: A Survey from Stone Inscriptions, Illuminated Manuscripts to Printing'.
• 8 May 2017: Professor Nobuaki Kondo, 'Islamic Law and Society in Iran'.
• 15 May 2017: George Kam Wah Mak, 'Protestant Bible Translation and Mandarin as the National Language of China', book launch.
• 16 May 2017: Dr Simon Layton, 'Piracy and Politics in the Indian Ocean World'.
• 22 May 2017: Professor Jonathan Bloom, 'Silk Road or Paper Road?'.
• 23 May 2017: Collections Evening.
• 8 June 2017: Dr Peter Frankopan, 'Asia and the Formation of Early Modern Europe'.
• 13 June 2017: Burzine Waghmar, 'The East is a Career: A Centennial Appreciation of SOAS'.
• 15 June 2017: Armenian Institute Lecture, Dr Yolande Crowe, 'Armenian Merchants and Kϋtahaya Potters in the 18th Century'.

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