File RAS LEC4/8/3/6 - 2017-2018

Photographs from:

• 12 October 2017: Russell Harris, 'A Journal of Three Months' Walk in Persia in 1884 by Captain John Compton Pyne', 4 images.
• 26 October 2017: Dr Yuka Kadoi, 'Arthur Upham Pope and A New Survey of Persian Art', book launch, 6 images.
• 2 November 2017: Charles Allen, 'Coromandel: A Personal history of South India', book launch, 4 images.
• 9 November 2017: Dr Andrew Arsan, 'Beyond Formal and Informal Imperialism: Beirut, Hong Kong, and the Growth of European Power, c.1830-1870', 4 images.
• 16 November 2017: Professor David Park, 'Preserving the Buddhist Wall Paintings of Bhutan', 7 images.
• 23 November 2017: Dr Elaine Wright, 'Lapis and Gold: Exploring Chester Beatty's Ruzbihan Qur'an', 8 images.
• 7 December 2017: Dr Diana Lange, 'Exploring Tibet in the Mid 19th Century: The British Library's Wise Collection', 4 images .
• 7 December 2017: David Leffman, 'William Mesny: How a British Adventurer Became a General in Qing-Dynasty China', 6 images.
• 11 January 2018: Professor Christopher Fuller, 'European Science and Colonial Anthropology in British India, c.1871-1911', 5 images.
• 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 launch with introduction by Professor Francis Robinson, 7 images.
• 18 January 2017: Dr Mark Condos, 'Anarchists, Revolutionaries, and Franco-British Imperial Policing in French Chandernagore, 1905-1930', 4 images.
• 23 January 2018: Dr Alban von Stockhausen, 'Images and (Post)colonial Encounters: A History of the Visual Representation of the Nagas of Northeast India', 3 images.
• 8 February 2018: Dr Annabel Gallop, 'The Great Seal of Aceh', 5 images.
• 20 February 2018: Amy Matthewson, 'Mr Punch and Chinamania: Blue Willow China and Consumer Consumption in 'Punch' Magazine, 1874-1880', 4 images.
• 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', 4 images.
• 8 March 2018: Dr Peter Webb, 'Arab Origins: Identity, History and Islam', 9 images.
• 15 March 2018: Robert Irwin, 'Ibn Khaldun', book launch, 3 images.
• 20 March 2018: Dr Zeynep Yürekli-Görkay, 'An Ottoman Sense of Place: Topographical illustration between Europe and Iran', 5 images.
• 27 March 2018: Drs George Michell and Gethin Rees 'Buddhist Rock-Cut Monasteries of the Western Ghats', 6 images.
• 10 April 2018: Ezra Rashkow, Sanjukta Ghosh and Upal Chakrabarti (editors), 'Memory, Identity and the Colonial Encounter in India: Essays in Honour of Peter Robb', book launch, 13 images.
• 12 April 2018: Dr Omniya Abdel-Barr, 'K.A.C. Creswell's Photographic Archive at the V&A Museum', 8 images.
• 17 April 2018: Professor Francis Robinson, 'Jamal Mian', book launch, 9 images.
• 19 April 2018: John Falconer, 'A Glorious Galaxy of Monuments: Photography and Archaeology in India in the 19th Century', 2 images.
• 26 April 2018: Dr Alex McKay, 'The View from the Palace: The Sikkim Royal Archives', 4 images.
• 3 May 2018: Professor Anthony Stockwell, 'Plunder and Restitution: Britain and the Mandalay Regalia', 6 images.
• 15 May 2018: Dr Deniz Tuerker, 'The Yildiz Kiosk and the Queen Mothers of the Tanzimat Era: Gender, Landscape and Visibility'; and 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)' , 9 images.
• 29 May 2018: Dr Ashmita Khasnabish, 'Indian Imagination in a Postcolonial Context', 3 images.
• 31 May 2018: Nancy Charley, 'Feart', book launch, 5 images.
• 7 June 2018: Dr. Umberto Bongianino, 'Like Sweet-Smelling Blooms: Arabic Calligraphy in the Islamic West', 3 images.
• 14 June 2018, Professor Ornit Shani, 'How India became democratic', 8 images.
• 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, 8 images.
• 18 June 2018: Professor Robert Dankoff, 'Ottoman Explorations of the Nile', book launch, 14 images.