Month / May 2016
Cataloguing and more on a work placement at the RAS
We are pleased to publish below a post by Jamie Stokes, who recently completed a work placement at the Society as part of his Master’s Degree in Library and Information Studies. Work Placement…
27 May 2016George Manginis Mount Sinai Book Launch
On Wednesday 25th May 2016 George Manginis gave a lecture on Mount Sinai, its travellers and its pilgrims, to introduce his new book which is published by Haus Publishing. A mountain peak above Saint Catherine’s…
26 May 2016The Ram Raz Collection and Vastu Shastra
We are pleased to introduce a guest post by Dr Jennifer Howes, an art historian specializing in South Asia and author of The Courts of Pre-Colonial South India. The Ram Raz Collection In the…
24 May 2016Denis Sinor Medal and more lectures at the RAS
On Thursday, 12 May 2016, the Royal Asiatic Society presented Professor Nicholas Sims-Williams (SOAS) with the Denis Sinor Gold Medal for Inner Asian Studies. The Sinor Medal was inaugurated in 1993 with…
18 May 2016Nineveh on Screen
We are grateful to Amara Thornton and Michael McCluskey from the UCL, Filming Antiquity project for this week’s blogpost: On Tuesday 26 January, the Director and staff of the Royal Asiatic Society welcomed…
12 May 2016The Mongol World
Subscribers to the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society will soon be receiving the spring issue. This edition is a festschrift created in honour of its former editor Professor David O. Morgan. Researchers…
6 May 2016