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The Photography Collection at the RAS – Dr Amy Matthewson
If you have not yet had the opportunity to visit the Extraordinary Endeavours exhibition at the Brunei Gallery, do please come before it closes on the 15th of December 2023. The…
10 November 2023Professor Waleed Ziad – The Extraordinary, Enchanted Journey of a Female Scholar Saint in the Afghan Empire
In a recent lecture at the Royal Asiatic Society, Professor Waleed Ziad, an Associate Professor in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, explored the…
27 October 2023Dr Philip Jagessar on Orientalists and their maps: cartographic views from the Royal Asiatic Society collection
In the annals of history, maps have often been celebrated as windows to the world, offering glimpses of uncharted territories and serving as tools of exploration, documentation, and navigation. Yet, their role…
20 October 2023Risāla i-Shaṭranj or Chess Treatise – by Dr Amy Matthewson
Risāla i-Shaṭranj or Chess Treatise One of the more fascinating objects that is on display at the Royal Asiatic Society’s Extraordinary Endeavours: Celebrating 200 years of Communication, Collaboration and Dissemination exhibition…
13 October 2023Extraordinary Endeavours Opens next week!
This week we have been putting the finishing touches on our exhibition at the Brunei Gallery, SOAS, which will pay homage to 200 years of Extraordinary Endeavours at the Royal Asiatic Society.…
6 October 2023Professor Mark Liechty: Winner of the Subedi Prize 2023
The Society is delighted to announce the winner of the first Surya P. Subedi Prize which is awarded to Professor Mark Liechty for his book “What Went Right” (Amazon link), subtitled: “sustainability…
29 September 2023The History of (Lap)dogs in China – post by 2023 Staunton Prize winner Dr Kelsey Granger
The Society is delighted to award the 2023 Sir George Staunton Prize for outstanding article to Dr Kelsey Granger for her submission entitled From Tomb-Keeper to Tomb-Occupant: The Changing Conceptualisation of Dogs…
15 September 2023New Histories of the East India Company
On the 4th August the Society was host to a panel on New Histories of the East India Company chaired by RAS Vice President Dr Gordon Johnson. The talk is now available…
8 September 2023Can understanding history and the past help us navigate the present — and the future? by Alan Babington-Smith and Melinda Liu
Our thanks to Melinda Liu and Alan Babington-Smith for this guest post on the RASBJ. You can find out more about RASBJ at their website: rasbj.org And watch some of their talks…
1 September 2023Shadows at Noon – review by Dr Gordon Johnson
This week we’re pleased to present a review of Dr Joya Chatterji’s recently published Shadows at Noon by RAS Vice-President Dr Gordon Johnson. Dr Chatterji gave a talk at the Society…
25 August 2023