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GB 891 RAS LEC4-RAS LEC4/8-RAS LEC4/8/3-RAS LEC4/8/3/5
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2016-2017
Date(s)
- 2016 - 2017 (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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Photographs from:
- 12 September 2016: Hasan Ali Khan, 'Constructing Islam on the Indus', book launch, 2 images.
- 27 September 2016: Dr Rose Kerr, 'Statue of Zhenwu, the Dark Warrior', 10 images.
- 13 October 2016: Dr Chandrika Kaul, 'The BBC and India: Mediating Empire, War and Decolonisation', 8 images.
- 18 October 2016: Marion Molteno, 'Ralph Russell's The Famous Ghalib: The Sound of My Moving Pen', 15 images.
- 24 October 2016: Professor Karel Werner, 'Pure Yoga in its Historical Context and Today', 1 image.
- 26 October 2016: David Waterhouse, 'Brian Hodgson and the RAS - Fresh Perspectives', 3 images.
- 2 November 2016: Dr Mark Watson, 'Nepal: The Early years of Natural History Exploration and the Role of Learned Societies', 8 images.
- 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, 5 images.
- 8 November 2016: John Baily, 'War, Exile and the Music of Afghanistan: The Ethnographer's Tale', book launch, 4 images.
- 10 November 2016: Dr Imma Ramos, 'From Akbar to Ambedkar: Retelling of the Story of South Asia at the British Museum', 2 images.
- 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, 7 images.
- 6 December 2016: Professor Jordan Goodman, 'Pictures, Texts and Plants: Joseph Banks and Chine, 1780-1820', 2 images.
- 8 December 2016: Arthur Milner, 'Damascus Tiles: Some Enduring Questions', 5 images.
- 12 December 2016: Frances Wood and Christopher Arnander. 'Betrayed Ally: China in the Great War', book launch, 11 images.
- 14 December 2016: Professor Nile Green, 'The Afghan Discovery of Buddha: Archaeology and Nationalism in Pre-Taliban Afghanistan', 1 image.
- 12 January 2017: Dr Edward Anderson, 'Hindu Nationalism Abroad: The Indian Diaspora and Hindutva's Early Transnational Development (1946-77)', 7 images.
- 18 January 2017: The Hon. James Stourton, 'Reflections on Chinese Porcelain Collectors', 7 images.
- 26 January 2017: Elisabeth Leake, 'The Defiant Border', book launch, 2 images.
- 9 February 2017: Stéphane Pradines, 'The Swahili, a Muslim Culture of the Indian Ocean World: New evidence from archaeological excavations', 2 images.
- 14 February 2017: Dr Arthur Dudney, 'The Literature of Decline under the Late Mughals', 4 images.
- 16 February 2017: Richard P. McClary, 'Rum Seljuq Architecture, 1170-1220', book launch, 3 images.
- 23 February 2017: Nancy Charley, 'Little Blue Hut', book launch, 12 images.
- 2 March 2017: Bérénice Guyot-Réchard, 'Shadow States: India, China and the Himalayas, 1910-1962', book launch, 7 images.
- 2 March 2017: Joint lecture with the Armenian Institute, Patrick Donabedian, 8 images.
- 7 March 2017: Professor Sheila Blair, 'Monumentalizing the Grave: Muslim-style Mausolea across Mongol Eurasia', 7images.
- 9 March 2017: Dr Roy Fischel, 'Sultans of Many Idioms: Kingship, Ideology and Locality in Bijapur and Golkonda, ca. 1600', 13 images.
- 14 March 2017: Edward Weech and Nancy Charley, 'Exploring the Royal Asiatic Society Archives: In the Footsteps of Thomas Manning and Sir Richard Burton', 8 images.
- 28 March 2017: Prof Robert Ousterhout, 'Palmyra through the lens of John Henry Haynes: Legendary City, forgotten photographer, and monuments in peril', with Cornucopia, 13 images.
- 7 April 2017: Dr Giles Tillotson, 'Architecture and Landscape in Marwar', 7 images.
- 18 April 2017: Dr Martin Bayly, 'Taming the Imperial Imagination: The Genesis of Colonial Knowledge on Afghanistan, 1808-1878', 14 images.
- 27 April 2017: Tara Purnima, 'Tales of the Tribes: Connecting to Cultures through Animation', 7 images.
- 28 April 2017: Dr Bruno de Nicola, 'Women in Mongol Iran: The Khatuns, 1206 - 1335', book launch, 7 images.
- 4 May 2017: Armenian Institute lecture, Dr Claude Mutafian, 'The Magic of Writing: A Survey from Stone Inscriptions, Illuminated Manuscripts to Printing', 5 images.
- 8 May 2017: Professor Nobuaki Kondo, 'Islamic Law and Society in Iran', 1 image.
- 16 May 2017: Dr Simon Layton, 'Piracy and Politics in the Indian Ocean World', 5 images.
- 22 May 2017: Professor Jonathan Bloom, 'Silk Road or Paper Road?', 3 images.
- 8 June 2017: Dr Peter Frankopan, 'Asia and the Formation of Early Modern Europe', 23 images.
- 13 June 2017: Burzine Waghmar, 'The East is a Career': A Centennial Appreciation of SOAS', 10 images.
- 15 June 2017: Armenian Institute Lecture, Dr Yolande Crowe, 'Armenian Merchants and Kϋtahaya Potters in the 18th Century', 1 image.
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- English