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The Agendas, Minutes and Papers for the Library Committee Meetings for 2012.

Publicity Posters for 2012-2013. These are all held electronically.

RAS Lecture Series:

• 1 October 2012: Seemah Niaz, 'Mughal and Modernist Influences in Contemporary Pakistani Art'.
• 11 October 2012: Robert Dankoff, 'Explorations of an Ottoman Traveller: Evliya Çelebi'.
• 30 October 2012: 'A Georgian Evening of Talks, Film and Song to Celebrate Rustaveli', held in collaboration with the British Georgian Society.
• 1 November 2012: Garry Alder, 'The Moorcroft Mystery'. 8 November 2012: Jon Thompson, 'Some Thoughts on the Origins of the Artistic Style that emerged during the Reign of Suleyman 'the Magnificent''.
• 15 November: Lucy Anne Hunt, 'Observations on Some Byzantine and Other Christian Manuscripts and Book Covers from the Mediaeval Eastern Mediterranean'.
• 13 December 2012: Prof. Uta Lauer, 'Confluence: Arabic and Chinese Calligraphy'.
• 10 January 2013: Prof. Sanjoy Bhattacharya, 'Bhutan's smallpox eradication program: International health and the limits of global influence'.
• 23 January 2013: Dr Christopher Daily, 'Robert Morrison and the Protestant Plan for China', book launch.
• 24 January 2013: 'Sandy Morton Memorial Evening' with speakers Prof. Peter Robb, Mr William Morton, Prof. David Morgan and Prof. François de Blois.
• 14 February 2013: Stuart Laing, '"Unshook till the End of Time" : Relations between Britain and Oman, 1650 – 1975'.
• 19 February 2013: Dr Henk Vynckier, 'Men who loved books': The literary legacy of Robert Hart and the Chinese Maritime Customs Service'.
• 12 March 2013: Prof. Rudi Matthee, 'Safavid Iran and Georgia: How the Dominated Came to Dominate'.
• 14 March 2013: Ben Murtagh, 'Gender and Sexuality in Indonesian Cinema: New Order Constructions of gay, lesbi and waria Identities on Screen'.
• 11 April 2013: Shihan de Silva, 'African Soldiers, Governors, Nawabs and Cultural Brokers in South Asia'.

• 13 June 2013: Dr Norbert Peabody, 'On the Indian Origin of Nationalism'.

  Student Lecture Series:

• 17 October 2012: Cristina Castillo, 'Prehistoric Cuisine in Thailand: Rice, Beans and Spices'; and Matthew George Phillips, ''A Theatre with Two Stages': Jim Thompson and the Construction of Thainess during the Cold War'.
• 14 November 2012: Richard McClary, 'The Creation of a New Aesthetic: Early 12th Century Rum Saljuq Architecture in Anatolia'; and Juha Komppa, 'Tibet in Chinese Han Imaginings'.
• 16 January 2013: Tanmayee Banerjee, 'Nationalism and Internationalism in Indian English Fiction, 1909 – 1930'; and Ying Hwang, 'Chinese Visuality and Europe in the Modern Period'.
• 2- February 2013: Emily Hannam, 'Image and Essence in the Akbarnama'; and Sarah Ashraf, 'Understanding the education and training provided by madaris in the Afghanistan-Pakistan Region.
• 17 April 2013: Dhara D. Anjaria, 'Marginalised Colonials? Non-British European Powers in India vis-à-vis the British'; and Katherine Hughes, 'Birds and the Bevelled Style: Early Islamic Carved Wood from the Upper Zerafshan Valley'.
• 15 May 2013: Tanja Tolar, 'Early Islamic Enamelled Glass and its Iconography'; and Sami De Giosa, 'Being a Sultan in Style: Calligraphy and Decoration in The Arts of the Late Mamluk Period'.

Photographs for:

• 30 October 2012: 'A Georgian Evening of Talks, Film and Song to Celebrate Rustaveli', held in collaboration with the British Georgian Society, 2 images. 20 February 2014: lecture and celebration of the collaboration between the Royal Asiatic Society and Cambridge University Press, 14 images.
• 26 March 2014: Jamie Bunchuk and Matthew Traver, 'Down the Post Roads: On Horseback across East Kazakhstan', 33 images.
• 27 May 2014: S. Frederick Starr, 'The Lost Enlightenment: central Asia's Golden age from the Arab conquest to Tamerlane', book launch, 1 image.
• 12 June 2014: Dr Jan-Peter Hartung, 'Of 'Creeds' and 'Guidances': Tradition, Commentary and Canon in the Early Modern Persianate World', 14 images.

The Agendas, Minutes and Papers for the Library Committee Meetings for 2013.

Publicity Posters for 2013-2014. These are all held electronically.
RAS Lecture Series:

• 10 October 2013: Prof. Charles Schencking, 'The Great Kantō Earthquake and the Chimera of National Reconstruction in Japan'.
• 14 November 2013: Dr. Christoph Baumer, 'The Bronze Age Culture of Ayala Mazar-Xiaohe: Recent Archaeological Discoveries in the Taklamakan Desert, China'.
• 12 December 2013: Dr Ladan Akbarnia, 'Cathay at Court: Far Eastern Inspirations in Some Post-Mongol Persianate Drawings'.
• 16 January 2014: Prof. Hans van de Ven, 'The Chinese Maritime Customs Service, the 1911 Revolution, and the Bond Markets'.
• 14 February 2014: Dr Bilha Moor, 'Mosque and Church: Arabic Inscriptions at Shivta in the Early Islamic Period'.
• 13 March 2014: Presentation of the RAS Medal 2014 to Professor Bridget Allchin with a lecture in her honour: Prof Robin Coningham, 'From Oxus to Mysore: the Story of the Allchin Partnership in South East Asian Archaeology'.
• 26 March 2014: Jamie Bunchuk and Matthew Traver, 'Down the Post Roads: On Horseback across East Kazakhstan'
• 6 May 2014: Dame Caroline Humphrey, 'Intellectual Currents across North Asian Borders in the 20th Century-, with presentation of the Richard Burton Memorial Medal.

• 27 May 2014: S. Frederick Starr, 'The Lost Enlightenment: central Asia's Golden age from the Arab conquest to Tamerlane', book launch.

  Student Lecture Series:

• 13 November 2013: David Beamish, 'Answering Back to Europe: Ottoman and North African Journalists in Paris'; and Shivan Mahendrarajah, 'Balance of Power: Re-examining the Relationship between the Kart Dynasty of Herat and the Mystics of Turbat-I Jam, 1307 to 1381'.
• 11 December 2013: Francesca Fuoli, 'The role of ethnography and the study of Pashto in the construction of the Pashtun race in nineteenth century British colonial discourses on Afghanistan'; and Barakatullo Ashurov, 'Material Culture Objects and Structures: on the Social Representations of the Church of the East in Sogdiana'.
• 15 January 2014: Massimiliano Fusari, 'Representing the Visual in Anthropology'; and Azadeh Fatehrad, 'Persian Paintings and Representations of Women during the Timurid Dynasty 1370-1507'.
• 2 April 2014: In-Sung Kim Han, 'Islamic Cultural Presence in Medieval Korea'.
• 7 May 2014: Matteo Miele, 'Mongolian Independence and the British'; and Dr Brainerd Prince, ' Sri Aurobindo and the Question of God'.
• 12 June 2014: Dr Jan-Peter Hartung, 'Of 'Creeds' and 'Guidances': Tradition, Commentary and Canon in the Early Modern Persianate World'.

The Agendas, Minutes and Papers for the Library Committee Meetings for 2014.

Recommendation, correspondence and photographs concerned with the conferment of the Burton Memorial Medal on Professor Caroline Humphrey.

Photographs from:

• 9 October 2014: Professor Paul Brass, 'Criminalization of Politics in India, 2 images.
• 21 October 2014: Fan Yang, 'Fansub groups in China: When Independent translation meets the market'; and Sami Winton, 'Ritual and survival amongst the Malay community in Cape Town', 6 images.
• 13 November 2014: Professor Paul Bailey, 'Chinese Workers in World War One France', 6 images.
• 25 November 2014: Simon Denham, 'Identity and Power in Neolithic stamp seals from Greater Mesopotamia, 4 images.
• 3 December 2014: Angela Beecher, 'A Look Behind the façade: Critical Inquiries into China's Monumental Architecture in Contemporary Chinese Art'; and Cleo Roberts, 'Waterscapes in Indian Cities', 2 images.
• 11 December 2014: Dr Sussan Babaie, 'A nān-o halvā (Bread and Sweets) in the V&A: Thoughts on the Aesthetics of 'taste'', 1 image.
• 15 January 2015: Dr Santanu Das, 'British India and the First World War: Words, Objects and Images', 3 images.
• 23 January 2015: Michael Palin, lecture plus presentation of Honorary membership, 8 images.
• 12 February 2015: Professor Phiroze Vasunia, 'Sir William Jones and the Gods of Greece, Italy and India', 5 images.
• 17 February 2015: Ünver Rüstem, 'Justice Conquest and Victory: The Evolving Symbolism of Istanbul's Nusretiye Mosque', 5 images.
• 12 March 2015: Dr Chi-kwan mark, 'Not for (Re)turning: Margaret Thatcher and the Anglo-Chinese negotiations over the Future of Hong Kong', 4 images.
• 17 March 2015: Maurizia Onori, 'Turkish bath, Indian restaurant and funky bar: The fate of an oriental building in the East End of London'; and Aisa Martinez, 'Omani Costumes', 5 images.
• 9 April 2015: Dr Rosie Llewellyn-Jones, 'The Last King in India: Wajid Ali Shah', 12 images.
• 21 April 2015: Karin Warch, 'Humour and Eighteenth-Century Korean Art'; and Tara Desjardins, '18th century Indian-Mughal glass', 11 images.
• 19 May 2015: Professor John Baily and Veronica Baily, 'Live Afghan Music', 7 images.
• 26 May 2015, Professor Richard John Lynn, 'Early reception of the Zhuangzi in the West', 3 images.
• 27 May 2015: Professor Sonja Arntzen, 'The Sarashina Diary: A Woman's life in 7th century Japan', 4 images.
• 4 June 2015: Melissa Dale: 'Discovering the Real Lives of China's Emasculated Servants: Chinese Eunuch History Revisited', 3 images.

Publicity posters for Lectures and Book Launches from 2014-2015. These are held electronically.

• 14 October 2014: Dr Sharmina Mawani and Dr Anjum Mukadam, 'Researching Gujarati Identities: Current Perspectives'.
• 19 November 2014: Alexander Monro, 'The Paper Trail: An Unexpected History of the Wolrd's Greatest Invention', book launch.
• 4 June 2015: Melissa Dale: 'Discovering the Real Lives of China's Emasculated Servants: Chinese Eunuch History Revisited'.

The Agendas, Minutes and Papers for the Library Committee Meetings for 2015.