Author / Nancy Charley
New Books – New Catalogues
On Tuesday 29th May, Dr Ashmita Khasnabish (Lasel College, Massachusetts) lectured at the Royal Asiatic Society on “Indian Imagination in a Postcolonial Context”, a talk based on her new monograph, Negotiating Capability and Diaspora:…
1 June 2018Silk Road Culture and More Gold Medallists
Last night, 24 May, the Society was privileged to be able to host a launch event for a new publication by Dr Susan Whitfield (Institute of Archaeology, UCL), titled Silk, Slaves and Stupas:…
25 May 2018Hidden Histories
Dr.Deniz Türker of the University of Cambridge gave a very interesting lecture on Tuesday 15th May, entitled ‘The Yildiz Kiosk and the Queen Mothers of the Tanzimat Era: Gender, Landscape and Visibility’.…
21 May 2018Anniversary General Meeting and More Gold Medallists
In line with new Data Protection requirements, I start this blog post with a reminder to all of you who are signed up to receive notification of a new blog post, that…
11 May 2018Cataloguing Collections – Improving Accessibility
This week, Argula Rublack shares about her experience of working at the RAS. She is a student on placement from University College London, Library and Information Studies Masters course: “I was first…
27 April 2018The Triennial Gold Medal
The first catalogue of institutional records for the Royal Asiatic Society is now available on Archives Hub. These are for the Triennial Gold Medal which was awarded between 1897 and 1990. The…
20 April 2018Celebration 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 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 2018Happy Birthday Sir Henry Miers Elliot
March 1st marks the commemoration of the birth of Henry Miers Elliot, born this day in London, in 1808. I wonder if it was a similarly snowy day? He was educated at…
1 March 2018