Publicity posters for Lectures and Book Launches from 2015-2016. These are a mixture of physical and electronic documents.

RAS Lectures and Book Launches:

• 4 September 2015: Professor Sarah Moate, 'The Moon of the Fileds: the Calligraphy and Poetry of the Japanese Jōdo-shū nun Ōtagaki Rengetsu'.
• 8 October 2015: Professor Janice Stargardt: 'The Adoption of Buddhism in Burma (Myanmar)'.
• 12 November 2015: Dr Ben Outhwaite, 'Lewis, Gibson and the Discovery of the Cairo Genizah'.
• 18 November 2015: Liana Siaf, 'The Arabic Influences on Early Modern Occult Philosophy', book launch.
• 10 December 2015: Dr Kaveh Bakhtiar, 'The British Mosque: Fragments of an alternative architecture'.
• 21 January 2016: Ashvin Kumar, 'Inshallah football', film an ddiscussion.
• 11 February 2016: Dr Sir Jim Mallinson, 'A History of Yoga and Yoga Scholarship'.
• 10 March 2016: Professor Emerita Doris Behrens-Abouseif, 'Scribes and Libraries in the Mamluk Period'.
• 16 March 2016: John Whelpton, 'Jang Bahadur in Europe; the First Nepalese Mission to the West', celebrating the bicentenary of Britain and Nepal, 1816-2016.
• 31 March 2016: Thomas Bell, 'Kathmandu', book launch.
• 12 April 2016: Isabella Tree, 'The Living Goddess', book launch.
• 14 April, 2016: Dr Jenny Balfour-Paul, 'Journeys in the Footsteps of Thomas Machell, Forgotten Explorer'.
• 25 May 2016: George Manginis, 'Mount Sinai: A History of travellers and Pilgrims', book launch. (Electronic document.)
• 26 May 2016: Celia Washington, 'Artist in Residence: Celia Washington and the Kathmandu Contemporary Arts Centre'. (Electronic document.)
• 1 June 2016: Professor William Lubenow, 'West to East/ East to West: The Royal Asiatic Society and Western Knowledge of Asia'.
• 9 June 2016: Professor Sarah Ansari: 'India at War: The Bombay presidency's 'Home Front', 1914-1918' (Electronic document).
• 13 June 2016: Konrad Hirschler,' Medieval Damascus: Plurality and Diversity in an Arabic Library', book launch with introduction by Doris Behrens-Abouseif. (Electronic document.)
• 15 June 2016: Nile Green, 'The Love of Strangers - What Six Muslim Students Learned in Jane Austen's London' book launch. (Electronic document.)
• 21 June 2016: Shireen El Kassem, 'Mamluk helmets (1250-1517): new perspectives'. (Electronic document.)
• 23 June 2016: Michael Loewe, 'Problems of Han Administration', book launch. (Electronic document.)
• 29 June 2016: Ilker Evrim Binbaş, 'Intellectual Networks in Timurid Iran', book launch. (Electronic document.)

• 24 August 2016: Dr Nassar Mansour, 'Muhaqqaq: Furthering the Aesthetic of Faith'. (Electronic document.)

  Fresh Perspectives Series:

• 16 September 2015: Dr Fozia Bora, 'Did Salah al-Din destroy the Fatimids' books? An historiographical enquiry'. (Electronic document.)
• 20 October 2015: Dr Richard Williams, 'Songs from behind the curtain: The influence of palace women on Hindustani music'.
• 17 November 2015: Azadeh Fatehrad, 'An Evening with Nizami'.
• 8 December 2105: John Earle, 'British Vice-Consul and Local hero: Nicholas Loney and a Sweeter Life on a 19th-Century Philippine Island'.
• 19 January 2016: Frederica Gigante, 'Collecting Islamic Art in Seventeenth-Century Italy: Ferdinando Cospi, the Medici Court and the Ottoman World'.
• 23 February 2016: Benedict Leigh, 'C.R. Ashbee's Vision of Jerusalem, the English Arts and Crafts Movement in the Middle East'.
• 15 March 2016: Nicholas Reese, 'Thieves, Cutthroats and Vagabonds, European Mercenaries in Eighteenth-Century India'.
• 19 April 2016: Charlotte de Blois, 'Hints of the Heterodox in Christian Images from China'. (Electronic document.)
• 17 May 2016: Cam Sharp Jones, 'Indian Tribal Ethnography in the 19th Century'.(Electronic document.)

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'.

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'.

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.

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'.

Material for events held between 2011-2021:

2011
6 June: Visit by a Turkish Group.

• Three digital photographs.

10 July: Lunch with Cambridge University Press.

• Four digital photographs.

August: Visit by Oriental Club.

• Letter of thanks for the visit, 1 piece, dated 1 September 2011.

17 September: Open House, held at the Royal Asiatic Society, as part of Open City.

• Correspondence regarding participation, 2 pieces, dated 9 June 2011.
• 24 digital photographs.

2012
16-18 May: 'O-fuda - The Material Culture of Japanese Religious Practice', workshop and exhibition co-hosted by SOAS Centre for the Study of Japanese Religions and the RAS

• Printed programme of the workshop.

2013
14 March: Dinner held in celebration of the 190th anniversary of the Society, at Sardo, Grafton Street, London.

• Publicity poster, electronic document.

29 May: Visit by the Royal Asiatic Society to Sezincote House.

• Publicity poster, 2 electronic documents. Booking form, electronic document.

6 June: Concert 'POCHAGI - A Tapestry of Korean Sounds'

• Leaflet, with details of the performers.

2014
20-21 September: Open House.

• Open House London, Architectural information for the Royal Asiatic Society, 1 piece.
• Open House London Map for Marylebone to Bloomsbury, 1 piece.

14 November: Display of Byzantine Bookbinding,

• 77 digital photographs.

2015
17 July: Visit of the Royal Asiatic Society to the South Asian Decorative Arts and Crafts Collection Trust, Norwich.

• Seven digital photographs.

25 September: Oud Concert by Joseph Tawadros.

• Publicity poster, 2 pieces.
• Five digital photographs.

20 November: 'Tea and Testimony', a creative writing workshop held as part of Explore your Archive Week, with tutor Emily Filtness.

• Publicity posters, 4 pieces.
• Report on the event by Nancy Charley, Archivist.

9 December: Sale of Kope Scarves.

• Publicity poster, electronic document.
• Four digital photographs.

2016
14 June: Oud Concert by Joseph Tawadros.

• Publicity poster, electronic document.
• Four digital photographs.

27 October: Oud concert by Baba Yetkin.

• Publicity poster, electronic document.
• Three digital photographs.

16 November: Diwali celebration at which Dr Menaka Bora performed Indian classical dance.

• Publicity poster, electronic document.

23 November: 'Writ in Water,' a creative writing workshop held as part of Explore your Archive Week, with tutor Emily Filtness.

• Publicity poster, electronic document.
• Creative writing prompts, electronic document.
• Report on the event by Nancy Charley, Archivist, electronic document.

2017
16 June: Celebration of 'Conversation Piece' a commissioned painting of five Presidents and the Director of the Society.

• Publicity poster, electronic document.
• Nine digital photographs.

16 October: Visit by Julie Chun, Royal Asiatic Society, China.

• Four digital photographs.

2018
9 October: A concert by Chalpasah, the only Japanese Afghan band.

• Publicity poster, electronic document.
• Three digital photographs.

2019
3 October: Evening to celebrate the conservation of the braid of a Burmese manuscript.

• Ten digital photographs.

2021
28 September: Visit to the Royal Asiatic Society by the Travellers Club with dinner.

• Menu card, 1 piece.
• Fifteen digital photographs.

Signed Minutes for the Meetings of the Events and House Committee from 2011 to 2020, with allied agendas and some appendices and correspondence. These cover the following meetings:

• 13 January 2011
• 28 April 2011
• 29 September 2011
• 12 January 2012
• 19 April 2012
• 20 September 2012
• 10 January 2013
• 18 April 2013
• 19 September 2013
• 16 January 2014
• 24 April 2014
• 2 October 2014
• 15 January 2015
• 23 April 2015
• 30 September 2015
• 14 January 2016
• 28 April 2016
• 22 September 2016
• 12 January 2017
• 27 April 2017
• 21 September 2017
• 11 January 2018
• 26 April 2018
• 27 September 2018
• 15 March 2019
• 26 September 2019
• 16 January 2020
• 12 March 2020
• 7 May 2020
• 1 October 2020

Information regarding conferences and study events held from 2011-2020. There is little material for these events as yet available archivally. The documents within the archives are:

2015
26 September: 'Updating Hodgson: A Study day on the work of Brian Houghton Hodgson, 'Father of Himalayan Studies', held at the Royal Asiatic Society in association with the Bagri Foundation.

• Publicity poster with a programme containing speakers and their papers, and further background information, 3 pieces.

9-10 October: 'Muslim South Asia Graduate Conference 2015', convened by the Muslim South Asia Research Forum, Royal Asiatic Society, and SOAS; and held at SOAS.

• Publicity poster advertising the conference and the keynote speaker, Professor Michael Boivin, 1 piece.
• Conference programme listing panels, speakers and papers presented, 2 pieces.

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 the archives. The material available for the Anniversary General Meetings from 2011-2015 is:

2011

• Letter of Invitation and Application form for Reception Tickets for the Anniversary General Meeting, 12 May 2011, 1 piece.
• Agenda for the Anniversary General Meeting, 1 piece.
• 'Royal Asiatic Society: Election of Council Members 2011' - list of nominees, 2 pieces.
• Minutes for the Anniversary General Meeting, 1 piece.

2012

• Letter of Invitation and Application form for Reception Tickets for the Anniversary General Meeting, 10 May 2012, 1 piece.
• Agenda for the Anniversary General Meeting, 1 piece.
• Presidential address by Gordon Johnson, 3 pieces and digital
• Signed Minutes for the AGM, 1 piece.
• Invitation for the Reception after the AGM, 1 piece.
• Royal Asiatic Society Report and Financial Statements for the year ending December 2011, 14 pieces.

2013

• Letter of Invitation for the Anniversary General Meeting, 9 May 2013, 1 piece.
• Agenda for the Anniversary General Meeting with Election of Council Members, 3 pieces.
• Minutes for the AGM, 1 piece.
• Invitation for the Reception after the AGM, 1 piece.
• Royal Asiatic Society Report and Financial Statements for the year ending December 2012, 13 pieces.

2014

• Letter of Invitation and Application form for Reception Tickets for the Anniversary General Meeting, 15 May 2014, 1 piece.
• Agenda for the Anniversary General Meeting with Election of Council Members, 4 pieces.
• Signed Minutes for the AGM, 1 piece.
• Invitation for the Reception after the AGM, 1 piece.
• Royal Asiatic Society Report and Financial Statements for the year ending December 2013, 13 pieces.
• Poster for the lecture given by Professor Dame Caroline Humphreys after receiving the Richard Burton Memorial Medal as part of the AGM. The lecture was entitled Empires and their Merchants: Communication and Incomprehension on the Russia-China Border in the 19th Century. Printed, 1 piece + digital version.
• Photographs from the presentation of the medal to Caroline Humphreys, 5 digital images.

2015

• Agenda for the Anniversary General Meeting, 14 May 2015, with Election of Council Members, 2 pieces.
• Minutes for the AGM, 1 piece.
• Invitation for the Reception after the AGM, 1 piece.
• Royal Asiatic Society Report and Financial Statements for the year ending December 2014, 13 pieces.
• Report for the blog post of the Anniversary General Meeting and subsequent lecture by Eugene Rogan. The lecture was entitled The Dardanelles Campaign viewed from both sides of the trenches, digital pdf.
• Photographs from the Anniversary General Meeting and subsequent lecture by Eugene Rogan. 7 digital images.