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Celebration of Historic Photographs
The RAS hosted a couple of events this week. The first, though not a celebration of photographs, was certainly a celebration. Tuesday 10th April marked the launch of Memory, Identity and the Colonial…
13 April 2018An Ottoman Sense of Place
Earlier this week, the Society was delighted to host a lecture by Professor Zeynep Yürekli-Görkay, titled “An Ottoman Sense of Place: Topographical Illustration between Europe and Iran”. Zeynep’s fascinating lecture highlighted the…
22 March 2018Royal Asiatic Society at 195 years old
This week marks the 195th anniversary of the Royal Asiatic Society, which held its inaugural meeting on 15th March 1823. We are creeping towards our 200th anniversary in 2023 which we hope…
16 March 2018RAS Events – Lectures and Book Launch
On Tuesday 6 March, we were delighted to welcome Professor Mercedes Volait (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique) who delivered a lecture titled, “The Domestic Collecting of Islamic Artefacts in 19th Century…
9 March 2018Chinamania in the 1870s
On Tuesday 20th February, Amy Matthewson (SOAS) lectured on “Mr Punch and Chinamania: Blue Willow China and Consumer Consumption in ‘Punch’ Magazine, 1874-1880”. In that period Punch had run a series of…
22 February 2018The Great Seal of Aceh
Last night, the Society was delighted to host a lecture by Dr Annabel Teh Gallop, Lead Curator for Southeast Asia at the British Library, on “The Great Seal of Aceh”. Before moving…
9 February 2018Imaging the Nagas
On Tuesday 23rd January, we welcomed Dr Alban von Stockhausen, from the Bernisches Historiches Museum in Bern, to lecture on “Images and (Post)colonial Encounters: A History of the Visual Representation of the…
25 January 2018Source Detection, Book Launches, and Imperial Policing
Following Professor Christopher Fuller’s recent lecture at the Society, “European Science and Colonial Anthropology in British India, c. 1871-1911”, we’re on the hunt for a source used by Herbert Risley (1851-1911) in…
19 January 2018Indian Anthropology
Last night (11th January) Professor Christopher Fuller gave the first RAS lecture in 2018, speaking on the history of anthropology in India and how research on the Indian sub-continent interacted with ideas…
12 January 2018Happy New Year
May I start this blogpost by wishing all its readers a very happy New Year. A new year is often a time of looking back and looking forward. Coming back to work,…
5 January 2018