The Royal Asiatic Society Blog
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New additions to the Digital Library
We are pleased to announce that the Society recently added eighteen manuscripts to its Digital Library. They include eleven manuscripts from the Malay collections, and a further seven from the Javanese collections.…
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Collections Evening and Bayly Prize
Collections Evening 2025 The Society held its annual Collections Evening last Friday (10 April). This year, we were pleased to host three presentations dedicated to different parts of the Society’s important manuscript…
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The Surya P. Subedi Prize – Winners Announced and Calling for Nominations
The Royal Asiatic Society is delighted to announce the winners of the Surya P. Subedi Prize 2024. The first prize has been awarded to Professor Sara Shneiderman (University of British Columbia) and…
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Latest Event Recordings now Available
We have now made available on YouTube, recordings of four of our lectures and book talks held in March. If you missed the opportunity to attend the event in-person or online last…
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Catalogue Updates and Society Events
This week some retrospective cataloguing work has been done to the Reginald Campbell Thompson collection – some of you may recall that the Society acquired his papers through the Griffith Institute, Oxford,…
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I Say Goodbye… and He Says Hello!
This will be the last blogpost that I write as the Society’s Archivist. After handing in my resignation at the beginning of the year, the process of finding my successor is now…
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Honouring Past and Present Council Members
Last night, Thursday 13th March, a special lecture was held in honour of Professor Tony Stockwell, who not only served as Royal Asiatic Society President for three terms but also served on…
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Honouring Professor Tony Stockwell, and RAS Collections Evening 2025
Next week, on Thursday 13 March, the Society will host a lecture in honour of Professor Tony Stockwell, a three-time President of the RAS and leading historian of the late British Empire…
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Remembering Joseph Ernest Renan
Friday 28 February marks 202 years since the birth of Joseph Ernest Renan in 1823 at Tréguier, Brittany. His father was involved in the fishing industry but died when Renan was just…
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Traditional Architecture in Arunachal Pradesh
We were delighted to recently receive news from the Adivasi Arts Trust, based in London, which has recently completed a project to survey traditional architecture in some of the Wancho villages in…
