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Minutes of and papers for the Library Committee Meetings for 2022, covering the following meetings:

• 13 January 2022
• 28 April 2022
• 29 September 2022

In 2022 the Society appointed Professor Benjamin Hopkins (George Washington University) Chair, Professor Susanne Brandtstädter (Koln), Professor Magnus Marsden (Sussex), Dr Rian Thum (Manchester), and Professor Arne Westad (Yale) to be the adjudicating panel.

The winner was Sonia Wigh (university of Exeter) for her thesis, The Body of Words: A social history of sex and the body in early modern South Asia.

The shortlisted candidates were Taushif Kara (University of Cambridge) for Abode of peace: Islam, empire and the Khoja diaspora; Katie Campbell (University of Cambridge) for Cities and the Mongol Conquest: Urban Change 1200-1400; Melyn McKay (University of Oxford) for For women there are two Nirvanas: Risk and Freedom in Myanmar’s contemporary Buddhist revival movement: and Matthew Woolgar (University of Oxford) for Communism in Context: The Indonesian Communist Party in West Java.

The archival material consists of 16 digital photographs of the award ceremony which took place on 19 January 2023.

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.

2025

• Agenda for the Anniversary General Meeting, 15 May 2025, with Minutes of the last meeting and Election of Council Members, 5 pieces.
• Royal Asiatic Society Report and Financial Statements for the year ending December 2024, 18 pieces.
• Poster for the AGM Lecture by Susan Stronge. The lecture was entitled 'Creating the Great Mughals Exhibition', 2 digital images.
• Photographs of the AGM, 3 digital images.

In 2021 the Society appointed Dr T. C.Sherman (LSE) Chair, Professor Naoko Shimazu (NUS), Professor Susanne Brandtstädter (Koln), Professor Rebecca Empson (UCL), and Professor Arne Westad (Yale ) as the adjudicating panel.

The Prize was awarded to Mallika Leuzinger (University College, London) for her thesis, Dwelling in Photography: Intimacy, Amateurism and the Camera in South Asia. The shortlisted candidates were Stefano Gandolfo (University of Oxford) for The Streams of Knowledge: Organising the Siku Quanshu and Shreyashi Dasgupta (University of Cambridge) for The Accommodation City: Private Low-Income Housing and Urban Space in Dhaka and Mumbai.

At present there is no archival material.

Signed Minutes for the Meetings of the Events and House Committee from 2021 to present, with allied agendas and some appendices and correspondence. These cover the following meetings:

2021
14 January 2021
6 May 2021
23 September 2021

2022
13 January 2022
5 May 2022
4 October 2022

2023
12 January 2023
4 May 2023 (wanting)
26 October 2023

2024
11 January 2024
21 March 2024
2 May 2024
26 September 2024

2025
9 January 2025
27 March 2025
1 May 2025
25 September 2025

Minutes of and papers for the Library Committee Meetings for 2021, covering the following meetings:

• 14 January 2021
• 29 April 2021
• 23 September 2021

The Agendas, Minutes and Papers for the Library Committee Meetings for 2020, covering the following meetings:

• 16 January 2020
• 23 April 2020
• 1 October 2020

In 2020 the Society was unable to hold an award ceremony due to the covid-19 pandemic. The judges reported a strong field of submission with three dissertations being of outstanding merit:

Liana Chase (School of Oriental and African Studies), Healing ‘Heart-Minds’: Disaster, Care, and Global Mental Health in Nepal’s Himalayan Foothills.
Hannah Theaker (University of Oxford), Moving Muslims: The Great Northwestern Rebellion and the Transformation of Chinese Islam, 1860-1896.
Hedwig Waters (University College, London), ‘Living from loan to loan’: Tracing networks of gifts, debt and trade in the Mongolian borderlands.

The Prize was awarded to Dr Liana Chase. At present there is no archival material associated with the 2020 award.

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'.

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.