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GB 891 RAS LEC4-RAS LEC4/8-RAS LEC4/8/2-RAS LEC4/8/2/8
Title
2017-2018
Date(s)
- 2017 - 2018 (Creation)
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Digital and printed files
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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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Scope and content
Publicity posters for Lectures and Book Launches from 2017-2018. These are a mixture of physical and electronic documents.
- 26 October 2017: Dr Yuka Kadoi, 'Arthur Upham Pope and A New Survey of Persian Art', book launch. (Physical document.)
- 26 October 2017: Professor Francis Robinson, Marion Molteno and Dr Rakjshanda Jalil. 'A Thousand Yearnings: A Book of Urdu Poetry and Prose" A new edition of Ralph Russell's translations with introduction by Marion Molteno', book launch.
- 2 November 2017: Charles Allen, 'Coromandel: A Personal history of South India', book launch.
- 9 November 2017: Dr Andrew Arsan, 'Beyond Formal and Informal Imperialism: Beirut, Hong Kong, and the Growth of European Power, c.1830-1870'.
- 16 November 2017: Professor David Park, 'Preserving the Buddhist Wall Paintings of Bhutan'.
- 21 November 2107: RAS Collections Evening.
- 23 November 2017: Dr Elaine Wright, 'Lapis and Gold: Exploring Chester Beatty's Ruzbihan Qur'an'.
- 4 December 2017: Mark Condos, 'The Insecurity State', book launch.
- 7 December 2017: Dr Diana Lange, 'Exploring Tibet in the Mid 19th Century: The British Library's Wise Collection'.
- 13 December 2017: David Leffman, 'William Mesny: How a British Adventurer Became a General in Qing-Dynasty China'.
- 11 January 2018: Professor Christopher Fuller, 'European Science and Colonial Anthropology in British India, c.1871-1911'.
- 17 January 2018: "Anglo-Indian and Minority Politics in South Asia" by Uther Charlton-Stevens, 'Refugees and the Politics of the Everyday State in Pakistan Resettlement in Punjab, 1947-1962" by Elisabetta Iob, "Urbanisation, Citizenship and Conflict in India Ahmedabad 1900-2000" by Tommaso Bobbio; book launches with introduction by Professor Francis Robinson.
- 18 January 2017: Dr Mark Condos, 'Anarchists, Revolutionaries, and Franco-British Imperial Policing in French Chandernagore, 1905-1930'.
- 23 January 2018: Dr Alban von Stockhausen, 'Images and (Post)colonial Encounters: A History of the Visual Representation of the Nagas of Northeast India'.
- 8 February 2018: Dr Annabel Gallop, 'The Great Seal of Aceh'.
- 20 February 2018: Amy Matthewson, 'Mr Punch and Chinamania: Blue Willow China and Consumer Consumption in 'Punch' Magazine, 1874-1880'.
- 26 February 2018: Rohan Deb Roy, 'Malarial Subjects: Empire, Medicine and Nonhumans in British India, 1820-1909', book launch.
- 6 March 2018: Professor Mercedes Volait, 'The Domestic Collecting of Islamic Artefacts in 19th Century Cairo: The Meymar Objects at the Victoria and Albert Museum'.
- 8 March 2018: Dr Peter Webb, 'Arab Origins: Identity, History and Islam'.
- 15 March 2018: Robert Irwin, 'Ibn Khaldun', book launch.
- 20 March 2018: Dr Zeynep Yürekli-Görkay, 'An Ottoman Sense of Place: Topographical illustration between Europe and Iran'.
- 12 April 2018: Dr Omniya Abdel-Barr, 'K.A.C. Creswell's Photographic Archive at the V&A Museum'.
- 17 April 2018: Professor Francis Robinson, 'Jamal Mian', book launch.
- 19 April 2018: John Falconer, 'A Glorious Galaxy of Monuments: Photography and Archaeology in India in the 19th Century'.
- 26 April 2018: Dr Alex McKay, 'The View from the Palace: The Sikkim Royal Archives'.
- 3 May 2018: Professor Anthony Stockwell, 'Plunder and Restitution: Britain and the Mandalay Regalia'.
- 15 May 2018: Dr Deniz Tuerker, 'The Yildiz Kiosk and the Queen Mothers of the Tanzimat Era: Gender, Landscape and Visibility'.
- 17 May 2018: Dr. Indira Viswanathan Peterson, 'The Royal Asiatic Society's recruitment of elite Indians in its foundational years, making specific reference to the relationship between the RAS's VP Sir Alexander Johnston (1775-1849) and King Serfoji II of Tanjore (r. 1798-1832)'.
- 24 May 2018: Dr Susan Whitfield, 'Silk, Slaves and Stupas: Material Culture of the Silk Road'.
- 29 May 2018: Dr Ashmita Khasnabish, 'Indian Imagination in a Postcolonial Context'.
- 31 May 2018: Nancy Charley, 'Feart', book launch.
- 7 June 2018: Dr. Umberto Bongianino, 'Like Sweet-Smelling Blooms: Arabic Calligraphy in the Islamic West'.
- 14 June 2018, Professor Ornit Shani, 'How India became democratic'.
- 15 June 2018: John de Lucy, 'The Chinese Labour Corps 1917-1920 & their role in the First World War'; and Frances Wood, 'Essential but Unacknowledged: The Contribution of the CLC in WW1', lectures as part of the British Chinese Armed Forces Heritage Exhibition Roadshow at the Royal Asiatic Society, 22 May-18 June 2018.
- 18 June 2018: Professor Robert Dankoff, 'Ottoman Explorations of the Nile', book launch.
- 11 July 2018: Farrukh Husain & Victoria Schofield, 'Afghanistan in the Age of Empires'.