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Prof. Susan Whitfield guest blog – Nara to Norwich: Expanding our Silk Road Horizons
Nara to Norwich is a multi-year international research and exhibition project that aims to explore the Silk Roads beyond their current emphases on the Chinese and post-Roman worlds. Focussing primarily on the…
16 March 2023 -
Now available on YouTube: Launch of Derek Davis translation of Pushkin’s ‘A Journey to Arzrum during the Campaign of 1829’
“There was a Poet whose untimely tomb…” Shelley Alastor Much has happened since the launch of my translation of Pushkin’s Arzrum [Erzurum] on 25 October. At RAS,…
3 March 2023 -
Cultural Worlds at the Jaipur Court
To celebrate the publication of Masterpieces at the Jaipur Court, edited by Mrinalini Venkateswaran and Giles Tillotson, the Society hosted a study day on the topic of Cultural Worlds at the Jaipur…
24 February 2023 -
Member Profile: Rosane Rocher
Rosane Rocher is a Sanskritist and a historian of Indology, and a Professor Emerita of South Asia Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, where she served as department chair, director of the…
3 February 2023 -
Guest post: Olly Akkerman – A Neo-Fatimid Treasury of Books
Given the highly digitalized world we find ourselves in, it may be hard to imagine that handwritten manuscripts continue to play a central role among communities today, not only as books that…
27 January 2023 -
Collected Works of Sir William Jones donated to the Society
Yesterday, Thursday 12th January marked the start of events to celebrate the Society’s bicentenary. As part of the celebrations Professor Michael Loewe has donated a set of the first edition of the Collected…
13 January 2023 -
Bayly Prize 2022 Finalists
This year’s Bayly Prize had 20 entrants from across the UK, with thesis topics ranging from Himalayan agriculture to Medieval Mongol conquest. The 2022 Prize will be awarded, from a shortlist of…
6 January 2023 -
William Jones
William Jones, one of the greatest linguistic prodigies of the eighteenth-century, thoroughly fluent in English, Welsh, Greek, Latin, Persian, Arabic, Hebrew, and Sanskrit, was through the influence of his patron, the Earl…
12 December 2022 -
Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton: A short biographical sketch by Archie Phillpotts
Next Tuesday we will host the first of three Burton Medal award lectures. To coincide with this occasion we are delighted to publish the following essay by Archie Phillpotts comprising a biographical…
4 November 2022 -
Happy birthday Michael Loewe!
Professor Michael Loewe was born a hundred years ago, on 2 November 1922. He has been a Fellow of the Society since 1959, and at various times during the past sixty-three years…
2 November 2022
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- Cultural Worlds at the Jaipur Court