Publicity Posters for 2011-2012. These are all held electronically.

• 13 October 2011: Richard Bowring, 'Bushidō: Yet another invented tradition'.
• 10 November 2011: Briony Llewellyn, 'Painted Embroideries: Interwoven Threads in the Orientalist Images of John Frederick Lewis'.
• 23 November 2011: Dr Fiona Kerlogue, 'Revisiting dance and drama in Bali: interpreting a photo archive for exhibition'.
• 8 December 2011: Dr Randolf G. S. Cooper, 'Afghanistan's Future as Viewed from Hindustan's Military Past'.
• 12 December 2011: Robert Ousterhout, 'Three Intersecting Lives: Archaeologists and Travellers in Ottoman Lands'.
• 12 January 2012: Ming Wilson, 'Dressed to Rule – The Chinese Emperor's Wardrobe'.
• 24 January 2012: Book launch for Rosane and Ludo Rocher, 'The Making of Western Indology'; and Michael J. Franklin, 'Orientalist Jones'.
• 7 February 2012: Dr Monika Bincsik, 'The Japanese Incense Culture and its Lacquer Implements'.
• 16 February 2012: Peng Wenlan, 'The Chinese in Bengal'.
• 8 March 2012: Dr Joya Chatterji, 'An Alternative History of India-Pakistan Relations'.
• 3 May 2012: Lady Julia Boyd, 'A Dance with the Dragon: Peking's foreign community, 1860-1949'.
• 14 June 2012: Dr Rogério Miguel Puga, 'The British Presence in Macao and Representations of the Enclave in British Travel Writing'.
• 18 June 2012: Colin Heywood, Book launch for 'The Rise of the Ottoman Empire'.
• 6 July 2012: Paul French, 'The Haunted Last Days of Old China'.

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.)

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'.

Information regarding conferences and study events held in the 1990s. These are:

1997
19-21 May: 'Persianate Sufism in the Safavid & Mughal Period', School of Oriental and African Studies. This was not a RAS event but they provided significant sponsorship.

• Programme for the event, 1 item, printed.
• Correspondence between Professor David O. Morgan, a convenor of the conference, and Lydia Collins, Secretary, Royal Asiatic Society, concerning the request for funds for the conference, 3 pieces, dated 21 February-3 March 1997.

22 September 1997: 'Symposium on South Asian Art: Transfers of Power and Perception: South Asian Art 1920-1960', in conjunction with the Royal Asiatic Society and the Centre for South Asian Studies, SOAS, and held at the Royal Asiatic Society.

• Advertising leaflet, 1 item.
• Advertising leaflet with draft programme, 1 item.
• Programme listing speakers and the papers they presented, 1 item.
• Correspondence concerning the organisation of the event and subsequent publication of one of the papers, 7 items, dated 3 January-2 December 1997.

1998
22 September: Proposed seminar on 'Sri Lankan Art'. This was eventually postponed.

• Correspondence concerning the seminar and the necessity of it being postponed, 16 pieces, dated 27 December 1997-18 June 1998.

1999
17 September: 'Meeting of the Texts in Translation Project: Portuguese Encounters with the World in the Age of the Discoveries', run by the Department of Portuguese and Brazilian Studies, King's College, London and held at the Royal Asiatic Society's premises.

• Programme for the event, 1 item.
• Correspondence concerning the organisation of the event, 10 pieces, dated 1 April-26 July 1999.

24 September: ''Symposium on Indian Architectural Drawings in the Collections of the Royal Asiatic Society'', with display of the drawings, held at the Royal Asiatic Society's premises.

• Proposal for the Symposium by Giles Tillotson, Acting Director, Royal Asiatic Society, 1 item.
• Registration form for the Symposium, 1 item.
• Programme for the day's events listing speakers and the papers they presented, 1 item.
• Correspondence concerning attendance at the symposium, 4 items, dated, 18 February - 26 May 1999.

Information regarding conferences and study events held from 2005-2006. These are:

2005
18 March: 'The Uighurs: 1500 years of cultural diversity and development', a study day organised by the Royal Asiatic Society and held at Goodenough College, Mecklenburgh Square, London.

• 'Proposal: Royal Academy and Royal Asiatic Society Joint Study day - The Uyghers' - a proposal prepared for the Council Meeting of 14 October 2004.
• Publicity leaflet for the event, 2 pieces.

2006
8 July: 'The Piprahwa Excavation: Fraud, Hoax or Buddhist Archaeology's Greatest Discovery?', held at the Harewood Courtyard Conference Centre, Harewood House, under the auspices of the Royal Asiatic Society.

• 'Piprawha Stupa Proposal' - a proposal prepared by Charles Allen for the Council Meeting of 14 October 2004.
• Introduction to, and programme of, the conference, 2 pieces.
• Correspondence concerning the administration of the event, 3 pieces, dated 15-21 March 2006.

Exhibitions were held almost monthly, at the Society's premises, between 1989 and 1994, usually in association with the lectures. The material associated with these exhibitions is:

• 'RAS Lecture Exhibitions' - list of dates and exhibitions to be held in 1989 and 1990.
• 'On the floor above', catalogue for an exhibition held 9 March 1989.
• 'Twenty Three Views of Kathmandu', catalogue for an exhibition held 13 April 1989.
• 'The Third Exhibition of Works in the Society's Collection: Sir William Jones', catalogue for an exhibition held 8 May 1989.
• 'The Fourth Exhibition of the Royal Asiatic Society: Ebru, or Turkish Marbled Paper', catalogue for an exhibition held 8 June 1989.
• 'The Fifth Exhibition of the Royal Asiatic Society', catalogue for an exhibition held 12 October 1989.
• 'The Sixth Exhibition of the Royal Asiatic Society Collection', catalogue for an exhibition held 9 November 1989.
• 'Seventh Exhibition from the Royal Asiatic Society Collection', catalogue for an exhibition held 14 December 1989.
• 'Eighth Exhibition from the Royal Asiatic Society Collections', catalogue for an exhibition held 11 January 1990.
• 'Ninth Exhibition of Works from the Collections of Royal Asiatic Society', catalogue for an exhibition held 8 February 1990.
• 'Tenth Exhibition of Works from the Collections of Royal Asiatic Society', catalogue for an exhibition held 8 March 1990.
• 'The Eleventh Exhibition from the Royal Asiatic Society Collections', catalogue for an exhibition held 12 April 1990.
• 'The Twelfth Exhibition from the Royal Asiatic Society Collections', catalogue for an exhibition held 12 May 1990.
• 'The Thirteenth Exhibition from the Royal Asiatic Society Collections', catalogue for an exhibition held 13 June 1990.
• 'The Fourteenth Exhibition from the Royal Asiatic Society Collections', catalogue for an exhibition held 11 October 1990.
• 'The Fifteenth Exhibition from the Royal Asiatic Society Collections', catalogue for an exhibition held 8 November 1990.
• 'The Sixteenth Exhibition of Works of Art from the Royal Asiatic Society Collection of Prints and Drawings', catalogue for an exhibition held 12 January 1991.
• 'The Eighteenth Exhibition of the Royal Asiatic Society: Eight drawings from the Hodgson Collection', catalogue for an exhibition held 11 April 1991.
• 'The Nineteenth Exhibition of the Royal Asiatic Society: A Selection from the Treasures of the Royal Asiatic Society', catalogue for an exhibition held 9 May 1991.
• 'The Nineteenth Exhibition of Works of Art from the Royal Asiatic Society Collection of Prints and Drawings', catalogue for an exhibition held 12 June 1991.
• 'The Twenty-First Exhibition of the Royal Asiatic Society Collection of Works of Art', catalogue for an exhibition held 10 October 1991.
• 'Royal Asiatic Society: The Twenty-Second Exhibition of Works of Art', catalogue for an exhibition held 14 November 1991.
• 'The Royal Asiatic Society: The Twenty-Third Exhibition of Works of Art', catalogue for an exhibition held 12 December 1991.
• 'The Royal Asiatic Society: The 24th Exhibition of Works of Art in the Collection of the Royal Asiatic Society', catalogue for an exhibition held 9 January 1992.
• 'The Royal Asiatic Society: The 25th Exhibition of Works of Art in the Collection of the Royal Asiatic Society: 19th Century photographs of Japan', catalogue for an exhibition held 13 February 1992.
• 'Royal Asiatic Society: The 26th Exhibition of Works of Art in the Collection of the Royal Asiatic Society', catalogue for an exhibition held 12 March 1992.
• 'The Royal Asiatic Society: The 27th Exhibition of Works of Art in the Collection of the Royal Asiatic Society', catalogue for an exhibition held 9 April 1992.
• 'The Royal Asiatic Society: The 28th Exhibition of Works of Art in the Collection of the Royal Asiatic Society', catalogue for an exhibition held 11 June 1992.
• 'The Royal Asiatic Society: The 29th Exhibition of Photographs and Works of Art in the Collection of the RAS', catalogue for an exhibition held 8 October 1992.
• 'The Royal Asiatic Society: The 30th Exhibition of Photographs and Works of Art in the Collection of the RAS', catalogue for an exhibition held 12 November 1992.
• 'The Royal Asiatic Society: The 31st Exhibition of Photographs and Works of Art in the Collection of the RAS', catalogue for an exhibition held 10 December 1992.
• 'The Royal Asiatic Society: The 32nd Exhibition of Photographs and Works of Art in the Collection of the RAS', catalogue for an exhibition held 14 December 1992.
• 'The Royal Asiatic Society: The 33rd Exhibition of Photographs and Works of Art in the Collection of the RAS', catalogue for an exhibition held 11 February 1993.
• 'The Royal Asiatic Society: The 34th Exhibition of Photographs and Works of Art in the Collection of the RAS', catalogue for an exhibition held 11 March 1993.
• 'The Royal Asiatic Society: The 36th Exhibition of Photographs and Works of Art in the Collection of the Royal Asiatic Society', catalogue for an exhibition held 14 October 1993.
• 'The Royal Asiatic Society: The 38th Exhibition of Photographs and Works of Art in the Collection of the Royal Asiatic Society', catalogue for an exhibition held 10 February 1994.
• 'The Royal Asiatic Society: The 39th Exhibition of Photographs and Works of Art in the Collection of the Royal Asiatic Society', catalogue for an exhibition held 10 March 1994.
• 'The Royal Asiatic Society: The 40th Exhibition of Photographs and Works of Art in the Collection of the Royal Asiatic Society', catalogue for an exhibition held 14 April 1994.
• 'The Royal Asiatic Society: The 41st Exhibition of Photographs and Works of Art in the Collection of the Royal Asiatic Society', catalogue for an exhibition held 12 May 1994.
• 'The Royal Asiatic Society: The 42nd Exhibition of Photographs and Works of Art in the Collection of the Royal Asiatic Society', catalogue for an exhibition held 9 June 1994.
• 'The Royal Asiatic Society: The 46th Exhibition of Photographs and Works of Art in the Collection of the Royal Asiatic Society', catalogue for an exhibition held 13 April 1994.(Please note the date is that cited on the catalogue.)
• 'The Royal Asiatic Society: The 47th Exhibition of Photographs and Works of Art in the Collection of the Royal Asiatic Society', catalogue for an exhibition held 8 June 1994.(Please note the date is that cited on the catalogue.)
• 'The Royal Asiatic Society: Works of Art in the Collection of the Royal Asiatic Society', catalogue for an exhibition held 10 November 1994.
• 'The Royal Asiatic Society: Annual General Meeting Exhibition', catalogue for an exhibition held 11 May 1995.

The Society's events are mainly centred on Lectures, Conferences and Exhibitions. However, they occasionally hold other types of events either at the premises, or making visits to other locations. Archival material associated with these events are found within this catalogue.

Congratulatory booklet from La Société Asiatique de Paris. Printed decorative material with soft cover, bound with red ribbon, dated 1923.

Letter from the Korea Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society to send their greetings on the occasion of the Centenary Celebrations. They regret that their President, Bishop Mark N. Trollope, is absent. Letter is signed by Dr Van Buskirk, Correspondence Secretary. Handwritten with printed letterhead for Severance Union Medical College, Seoul, Korea.

Letter from the American Oriental Society to offer congratulations on the Royal Asiatic Society Centenary. Accompanied by a further letter from E. Washam Hopkins concerning the delivery of the greetings. Both typed, Hopkins letter dated, 29 June 1923.