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Julie Chun – RAS China: Shifts and Transformations of the past decade, 2013-2023
As part of our 2023 celebrations the Society is inviting its sister Societies from around the world to give presentations at the RAS. In June we welcomed Julie Chun from the Shanghai…
11 August 2023Book launch of The East India Company and the Politics of Knowledge by Dr Joshua Ehrlich
On Monday 17th July the Society hosted the book launch of The East India Company and the Politics of Knowledge by Dr Joshua Ehrlich. Joshua is a historian of knowledge, political…
4 August 2023Professor Wayne Patterson – William Nelson Lovatt in Late Qing China
Last month the Society was delighted to welcome Professor Wayne Patterson to give a talk on William Nelson Lovatt. Dr Weipin Tsai, an associate editor for the Society’s journal and member of…
28 July 2023Chinese Tiger Lore through Folk Prints (David Leffman guest post)
This weeks blog post comes courtesy of David Leffman who gave a presentation on Chinese wood blocks to the Society in June, the recording of which is now available on YouTube: For…
24 July 2023Dr Elizabeth Driver – A Bicentenary Tour of the Royal Asiatic Society (Part 2)
Two important Rajput forts Tod was greatly moved by the great Rajput forts of Kumbalgarh and Chittorgarh, which he visited under very different circumstances. Kumbalgarh Kumbalgarh had been…
6 July 2023Dr Elizabeth Driver – A Bicentenary Tour of the Royal Asiatic Society (Part 1)
Visiting some of the places described by Tod in the Personal Narratives of the Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan. Introduction Col James Tod is, of course, important to us as the…
30 June 2023In the footsteps of James Tod
As part of the Anniversary celebrations the RAS welcomed a proposal from Dr Elizabeth Driver that a visit to India in the Spring of 2023 be undertaken to trace James Tod’s journeys…
19 June 2023The RAS Anniversary Meeting 2023
The annual Anniversary Meeting of the Society was held on Thursday 18 May at 5.30pm. Fellows received and considered the Report and Accounts for 2022 (Access Here). The meeting was well…
12 June 2023Dr Jennifer Griggs: Medieval Mysticism in Syriac
On Tuesday 10th January the Society was happy to host a lecture by Dr Jennifer Griggs entitled Medieval Mysticism in Syriac, based on her research for her recently published book Gregory Barhebraeus’…
2 June 2023Prof Yael Rice – The Brush of Insight (Book Launch)
This week we were delighted to join with the Indian Art Circle at SOAS in hosting the book launch of Professor Yael Rice’s The Brush of Insight. In the illustrated…
26 May 2023