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GB 891 RAS LEC4-RAS LEC4/8-RAS LEC4/8/3-RAS LEC4/8/3/8
Title
2019-2020
Date(s)
- 2019 - 2020 (Creation)
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Name of creator
(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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The lecture series was foreshortened by the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic. Photographs from:
- 10 October 2019: Dr Bo Gao, 'China-North Korea Economic Cooperation', 6 images.
- 17 October 2019: Professor Stephen Martin, 'Flute Lecture Concert: Surviving Asia, Sponsoring Mozart, The Polymathic Portrait of Dr Ferdinand Dejean', 5 images.
- 22 October 2019: Dr Philip Mansel, 'The Sun King and the Sultan: Louis XIV and the Ottoman Empire', 3 images.
- 22 October 2019: Paul Bromberg, 'Thai Silver and Nielloware', 5 images.
- 14 November 2019: Professor Michael Franklin, 'Phebe Gibbes, Our Calcutta Correspondent', 4 images.
- 20 November 2019: Lord Stephen Green, 'The Human Odyssey - East, West and the Search for Universal Values', 4 images.
- 10 December 2019: Dr George Mak, 'The Mandarin Union Version after One Hundred Years: A Reflection on the History and Impact of a Classic Chinese Biblical Translation', 4 images.
- 12 December 2019: Dr Peter Coles, 'Silk, Syrup and Shade: 4000 Years of Mulberry Migration', book launch, 3 images.
- 17 December 2019: Alan Tritton, 'Scotland and the Indian Empire, book launch, 5 images.
- 16 January 2020: Professor Henrietta Harrison, 'George Thomas Staunton and the Perils of being a China Expert in Early Nineteenth-Century London', 2 images.
- 13 February 2020: Dr Simon O'Meara, 'The Ka'ba of Mecca as axis and matrix mundi', 4 images.
- 18 February 2020: Dr Fiona Kerlogue, ''Travelling and Collecting in the Dutch East Indies in the 1930s: the collections of Růžena Charlota Urbanová in the National Musuem, Prague', 4 images.
- 12 March 2020: Christopher de Bellaigue, 'The Islamic Enlightenment', 5 images.
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Language of material
- English