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2017-2018
GB 891 RAS LEC4-RAS LEC4/8-RAS LEC4/8/3-RAS LEC4/8/3/6 · File · 2017 - 2018
Part of Royal Asiatic Society Lectures and Events: General Meetings, Lectures and Book Launches

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.
Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland
2017-2018
GB 891 RAS LEC4-RAS LEC4/8-RAS LEC4/8/2-RAS LEC4/8/2/8 · File · 2017 - 2018
Part of Royal Asiatic Society Lectures and Events: General Meetings, Lectures and Book Launches

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'.
Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland
2018-2019
GB 891 RAS LEC4-RAS LEC4/8-RAS LEC4/8/2-RAS LEC4/8/2/9 · File · 2018 - 2019
Part of Royal Asiatic Society Lectures and Events: General Meetings, Lectures and Book Launches

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'.
Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland
2018-2019
GB 891 RAS LEC4-RAS LEC4/8-RAS LEC4/8/3-RAS LEC4/8/3/7 · File · 2018 - 2019
Part of Royal Asiatic Society Lectures and Events: General Meetings, Lectures and Book Launches

Photographs from:

  • 18 September 2018: Dr Rose Kerr, 'Arrow Vase: From Ritual to Game', 6 images.
  • 20 September 2018: Dr Gulfishan Khan, 'The Indo-Persian elite and the Formation of Orientalist Tradition', 5 images.
  • 4 October 2018: Dr Rosie Llewellyn-Jones, 'My Dear Schonberg: Letters from Sir Aurel Stein', 5 images.
  • 11 October 2018: Dr Mehreen Chida-Razvi, 'The Mughal Madonna: Representations of the Virgin in Jahangiri-era Architecture', 2 images.
  • 25 October 2018: Professor Anna Contadini, 'The Pisa Griffin and the Mari-Cha Lion: Metalwork, Art, and Technology in the Medieval Islamicate Mediterranean', 23 images.
  • 2 November 2018: Dr George Michell and Dr Helen Philon, 'Islamic Architecture of Deccan India', book launch, 7 images.
  • 6 November 2018: Professor Donald Rayfield, Dr. Gillian Evison and Ms. Lia Chokoshvili, 'Unlocking the Door: Writing from Georgia', 16 images.
  • 7 November 2018: Omar Khan, 'Paper Jewels: Postcards from the Raj', book launch, 6 images.
  • 15 November 2018: Moin Mir with Dr Rosie Llewellyn-Jones, 'The Prince who Beat the Empire', book launch, 6 images.
  • 20 November 2019: Dr Jacob Ghazarian, 'The Ancient Silk Road: Its enduring impact on China and renewed objectives', 5 images.
  • 11 December 2018: Professor Ian Gow, 'The Scottish Sinologist Alexander Wylie (1815-1887): Missionary, Man of Letters, Mathematician', 5 images.
  • 10 January 2019: Dr Cailah Jackson, 'The Arts of the Book in a Time of Conflict: Manuscripts of Late Medieval Konya', 6 images.
  • 7 February 2019: Dr John Clarke, 'Collecting Tibet at the South Kensington Museum: the legacy of the 1904 expedition and beyond', 4 images.
  • 19 February 2019: Dr Oliver Crawford, 'The Languages of Indonesian Socialism', 5 images.
  • 26 February 2019: Deborah Freeman Fahid, 'The Ager Rock Crystal Chessmen: Some Early Medieval Imports from the Iranian World?', 3 images.
  • 7 March 2019: Dr Jharna Gourlay, 'Forceps, Stethoscopes and Sisterhood: British Female Doctors in 19th Century India', 3 images.
  • 14 March 2019: Dr Yossef Rapoport, 'Lost Maps of the Caliphs: Drawing the World in Eleventh-Century Cairo', 3 images.
  • 19 March 2019: Ursula Sims-Williams, 'Tipu Sultan's Library: Building a Collection', 4 images.
  • 11 April 2019: Dr Rayna Denison, 'The Hidden History of Studio Ghibli: Short Films, Advertising and the Industrial Reality of Japanese Animation', 2 images.
  • 23 April 2019: Dr Talat Ahmed in conversation with Professor David Arnold. 'Mohandas Gandhi: Experiments in Civil Disobedience', book launch, 2 images.
  • 25 April 2019: Dr Simon Wolfgang Fuchs, 'When Tehran was the Brightest Star: A Global History of the 1979 Iranian Revolution', 3 images.
  • 2 May 2019: Philip Davies, 'Lost Warriors - Seagrim and Pagani of Burma - The Last Great Untold Story of WWII', 3 images.
  • 9 May 2019: Professor Jonathan Phillips, ''Saladin, we have returned!': The Myriad Memories of the Crusades in the Near East during the Modern Era', 11 images.
  • 13 May 2019: Nawal Nasrallah, 'Treasure Trove of Benefits and Variety at the Table: A Fourteenth-Century Egyptian Cookbook', book launch, 9 images.
  • 21 May 2019: Cheryl Porter, 'Painting Manuscripts with Metal and Insects: Grind or flatten, catch and cook', 8 images.
  • 29 May 2019: Dominic Faulder, 'Anand Panyarachun and the Making of Modern Thailand', book launch, 6 images.
  • 6 June 2019: Edward Weech, 'Systems of Religion and Morality in the Collections of the Royal Asiatic Society', 3 images.
  • 18 June 2019: Susan Stronge, 'The Lapidary Arts of the Mughal Empire in the 17th and 18th centuries', 5 images.
  • 27 June 2019: Dr Ravinder Reddy, 'Numinous Imagery on Arms and Armour of the Indian Subcontinent', 4 images.
  • 30 July 2019: Dr Sarah Tiffin, 'Raffles and the Course of Empire: Decoding Ruin Imagery in the History of Java' 5 images.
Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland
2019-2020
GB 891 RAS LEC4-RAS LEC4/8-RAS LEC4/8/2-RAS LEC4/8/2/10 · File · 2019 - 2020
Part of Royal Asiatic Society Lectures and Events: General Meetings, Lectures and Book Launches

Publicity posters for Lectures and Book Launches from 2019-2020. These are mixed electronic and physical documents. The lecture series was foreshortened by the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic.

  • 26 September 2019: Dr Stefan Halikowski-Smith, 'Two Missionary Accounts of Southeast Asia in the Late Seventeenth Century'.
  • 10 October 2019: Dr Bo Gao, 'China-North Korea Economic Cooperation'. (Physical document.)
  • 17 October 2019: Professor Stephen Martin, 'Flute Lecture Concert: Surviving Asia, Sponsoring Mozart, The Polymathic Portrait of Dr Ferdinand Dejean'.
  • 22 October 2019: Dr Philip Mansel, 'The Sun King and the Sultan: Louis XIV and the Ottoman Empire'.
  • 6 November 2019: Paul Bromberg, 'Thai Silver and Nielloware'.
  • 11 November 2019: 2019 Annual Rustaveli Day, Nino Strachey, 'Princess Tamara Imeretinsky' and Alec and Katya D'Janoeff, 'Michael Aramyants'.
  • 12 November 2019: Dr Giles Tillotson, 'Vision and Landscape: New Perspectives on Oriental Scenery by Thomas and William Daniell'.
  • 14 November 2019: Professor Michael Franklin, 'Phebe Gibbes, Our Calcutta Correspondent'.
  • 19 November 2019: Dr Tilman Frasch, 'Bagan and the Theravada Buddhist Ecumene in the 12-13 Centuries CE'.
  • 20 November 2019: Lord Stephen Green, 'The Human Odyssey - East, West and the Search for Universal Values'.
  • 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'.
  • 12 December 2019: Dr Peter Coles, 'Silk, Syrup and Shade: 4000 Years of Mulberry Migration', book launch.
  • 16 January 2020: Professor Henrietta Harrison, 'George Thomas Staunton and the Perils of being a China Expert in Early Nineteenth-Century London'.
  • 21 January 2020: Dr Ed Pulford, 'Time and History across China's Northeastern Borders'.
  • 25 February 2020: Annabel Teh Gallop, 'Malay Seais from the Islamic World of Southeast Asia'.
  • 12 March 2020: Christopher de Bellaigue, 'The Islamic Enlightenment'.
Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland
2019-2020
GB 891 RAS LEC4-RAS LEC4/8-RAS LEC4/8/3-RAS LEC4/8/3/8 · File · 2019 - 2020
Part of Royal Asiatic Society Lectures and Events: General Meetings, Lectures and Book Launches

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.
Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland
2021-
GB 891 RAS LEC3-RAS LEC3/7 · Series · 2021 - ongoing
Part of Royal Asiatic Society Lectures and Events: Anniversary General Meetings

The Report and Financial Statements for the Society were no longer published in the Society's Journal after 2011. Therefore these have been included within these archives. The material available for the Anniversary General Meetings from 2021 to present is:

2021
In 2021, due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the Anniversary General Meeting was held using the online platform, Zoom. The collated material is:

  • Notification concerning Election of Officers for 2021, 3 pieces.
  • Agenda for the Anniversary General Meeting, 27 May 2021, with Election of Council Members, 2 pieces.
  • Minutes for the AGM, 1 piece.
  • Royal Asiatic Society Report and Financial Statements for the year ending December 2020, 18 pieces
  • Photographs of preparations for holding the AGM via Zoom, 4 digital images.

    2022

  • Agenda for the Anniversary General Meeting, 12 May 2022, with Election of Council Members, 2 pieces.
  • Minutes for the AGM, 1 piece.
  • Royal Asiatic Society Report and Financial Statements for the year ending December 2021, 18 pieces.
  • Poster for AGM Lecture by Vaseem Khan. The lecture was entitled: Killing Gandhi, Dante's Divine Comedy and India at the Crossroads. 2 digital images
    *. Menu for the Anniversary General Meeting Dinner held at the Oriental Club, 2 copies.

    2023

  • Agenda for the Anniversary General Meeting, 18 May 2023, with Election of Council Members, 1 piece.
  • Royal Asiatic Society Report and Financial Statements for the year ending December 2022, 24 pieces.
  • Minutes of the Anniversary General Meeting,18 May 2023, 1 piece.
  • Photographs of the AGM, 8 digital images.

    2024

  • Agenda for the Anniversary General Meeting, 16 May 2024, with Election of Council Members, 4 pieces.
  • Royal Asiatic Society Report and Financial Statements for the year ending December 2023, 18 pieces.
  • Poster for the AGM Lecture by Professor Dr Julia Hegewald. The lecture was entitled 'Jambūdvīpa and other Jaina Cosmological Representations from India', 1 digital image.
  • Photographs of the AGM, 13 digital images.
Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland
GB 891 RAS BMM-RAS BMM/22 · Series · 2022-2023
Part of Royal Asiatic Society Richard Burton Memorial Medal

In 2022, three Burton Memorial Medals were given by the Royal Asiatic Society to:

  • Dr. Peter Alford Andrews and Mrs. Mügül Andrews for their study on Eurasian tents.
  • Pepita Seth for her exploration of the closed worlds of the Guruvayur Temple and Theyyam Rituals in Kerala.
  • Professor Tim Williams for his exploration, archaeological and documentation projects in Beirut and Central Asia, and for his collaborations with local partners on the Silk Road and for UNESCO and ICOMOS Silk Roads mapping.

Much of the material concerned with the awarding of these medals is still within the current records. However there are some publicity material and photographs. Associated with the award of the medal in 2022 is:

  • 'The Sir Richard Burton Medal, 2022' - part of the blogpost, Reflecting on 2021, posted on 17 December 2021. Archival electronic document created in September 2024.
Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland 1823-