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GB 891 RAS LEC4-RAS LEC4/8-RAS LEC4/8/2-RAS LEC4/8/2/9
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2018-2019
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- 2018 - 2019 (Creation)
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Digital and printed files
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(1823 - present)
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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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Publicity posters for Lectures and Book Launches from 2018-2019. These are mixed physical and electronic documents.
- 12 September 2018: Captain Jay Singh-Sohal, presentation of the film, 'Saragarhi: The True Story'.
- 18 September 2018: Dr Rose Kerr, 'Arrow Vase: From Ritual to Game'.
- 20 September 2018: Dr Gulfishan Khan, 'The Indo-Persian elite and the Formation of Orientalist Tradition'.
- 4 October 2018: Dr Rosie Llewellyn-Jones, 'My Dear Schonberg: Letters from Sir Aurel Stein'.
- 11 October 2018: Dr Mehreen Chida-Razvi, 'The Mughal Madonna: Representations of the Virgin in Jahangiri-era Architecture'.
- 23 October 2018: Peter Hibbard, 'More than a Stuffed Bird Show: The RAS Legacy in Shanghai'.
- 25 October 2018: Professor Anna Contadini, 'The Pisa Griffin and the Mari-Cha Lion: Metalwork, Art, and Technology in the Medieval Islamicate Mediterranean'.
- 2 November 2018: Dr George Michell and Dr Helen Philon, 'Islamic Architecture of Deccan India', book launch.
- 6 November 2018: the Georgian Embassy, 'Unlocking the Door,' an evening of Georgian literature.
- 7 November 2018: Omar Khan, 'Paper Jewels: Postcards from the Raj', book launch. (Physical document.)
- 8 November 2018: Dr Christoph Baumer, 'Central Asia in the 21st Century, lecture hosted by the Royal Society for Asian Affairs, Royal Asiatic Society, IB Tauris and the Centre for Contemporary Asia, and SOAS, held at Brunei gallery Lecture Theatre.
- 15 November 2018: Moin Mir with Dr Rosie Llewellyn-Jones, 'The Prince who Beat the Empire', book launch.
- 20 November 2019: Dr Jacob Ghazarian, 'The Ancient Silk Road: Its enduring impact on China and renewed objectives'.
- 11 December 2018: Professor Ian Gow, 'The Scottish Sinologist Alexander Wylie (1815-1887): Missionary, Man of Letters, Mathematician'.
- 13 December 2018: Dr Alexandra Green, 'Sir Stamford Raffles: Civilised Views of Java'.
- 10 January 2019: Dr Cailah Jackson, 'The Arts of the Book in a Time of Conflict: Manuscripts of Late Medieval Konya'.
- 7 February 2019: Dr John Clarke, 'Collecting Tibet at the South Kensington Museum: the legacy of the 1904 expedition and beyond'.
- 19 February 2019: Dr Oliver Crawford, 'The Languages of Indonesian Socialism'.
- 26 February 2019: Deborah Freeman Fahid, 'The Ager Rock Crystal Chessmen: Some Early Medieval Imports from the Iranian World?'.
- 7 March 2019: Dr Jharna Gourlay, 'Forceps, Stethoscopes and Sisterhood: British Female Doctors in 19th Century India'.
- 14 March 2019: Dr Yossef Rapoport, 'Lost Maps of the Caliphs: Drawing the World in Eleventh-Century Cairo'.
- 19 March 2019: Ursula Sims-Williams, 'Tipu Sultan's Library: Building a Collection'.
- 11 April 2019: Dr Rayna Denison, 'The Hidden History of Studio Ghibli: Short Films, Advertising and the Industrial Reality of Japanese Animation'.
- 23 April 2019: Dr Talat Ahmed in conversation with Professor David Arnold. 'Mohandas Gandhi: Experiments in Civil Disobedience', book launch.
- 25 April 2019: Dr Simon Wolfgang Fuchs, 'When Tehran was the Brightest Star: A Global History of the 1979 Iranian Revolution'.
- 2 May 2019: Philip Davies, 'Lost Warriors - Seagrim and Pagani of Burma - The Last Great Untold Story of WWII'.
- 9 May 2019: Jonathan Phillips, '"Saladin we have returned!": The Myriad Memories of the Crusades in the Near East during the Modern Era'.
- 13 May 2019: Nawal Nasrallah, 'Treasure Trove of Benefits and Variety at the Table: A Fourteenth-Century Egyptian Cookbook', special ticketed event.
- 21 May 2019: Cheryl Porter, 'Painting Manuscripts with Metal and Insects: Grind or flatten, catch and cook'.
- 6 June 2019: Edward Weech, 'Systems of Religion and Morality in the Collections of the Royal Asiatic Society'.
- 18 June 2019: Susan Stronge, 'The Lapidary Arts of the Mughal Empire in the 17th and 18th centuries'.
- 27 June 2019: Dr Ravinder Reddy, 'Numinous Imagery on Arms and Armour of the Indian Subcontinent'.
- 28 June 2019: Chanchal B. Dadlani, 'From Stone to Paper: Architecture as History in the Late Mughal Empire'; and Ünver Rüstem, 'Ottoman Baroque: The Architectural Refashioning of Eighteenth-Century Istanbul', in conversation with Dr Sussan Babaie, book launch.
- 30 July 2019: Dr Sarah Tiffin, 'Raffles and the Course of Empire: Decoding Ruin Imagery in the History of Java'.