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  • 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
    About the Society, Blog Update
  • 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
    About the Society
  • Bayly Prize and Biblical Archaeology

    Yesterday evening, Thursday 19 January, the Society was delighted to host the prize giving for the 2022 Bayly Prize. The prize was initiated in 2018 to mark the outstanding contribution of Professor…

    20 January 2023
    About the Society, Archives, Bayly Prize, festschrift, RAS Awards and Medals, RAS Collections
  • 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
    About the Society, Acquisitions, Recent, Royal Asiatic Society
  • 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
    About the Society, Bayly Prize, Royal Asiatic Society
  • 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
    About the Society, RAS Collections, RAS Lecture Series, Recent
  • Events and Awards

    Through November and into the beginning of December the Society has been busy with lectures, book launches and the award of the Richard Burton Medal and the RAS Medal for 2019 (delayed…

    9 December 2022
    About the Society, Bayly Prize, Book Launches, RAS Awards and Medals, RAS Lecture Series, Recent, Richard Burton Memorial Medal
  • Celebration [in] Style: A Comparison of Anniversaries at the Royal Asiatic Society

    Earlier this month, I, Nancy Charley, presented a paper at the conference for the International Council of Archives’ Section for University and Research Institution Archives. The theme of the conference was Commemoration,…

    23 September 2022
    2023, About the Society, RAS Collections, RAS History, RAS Patronage
  • The Society’s 100th Anniversary in 1923

    As well as researching the Society’s past, and its collections for the forthcoming exhibition at the Brunei Gallery, I am also researching the past anniversaries of the Society to present a paper…

    12 August 2022
    About the Society, Anniversary General Meeting, Archives, Council Minutes, RAS Collections, RAS History
  • The Approach of the Royal Asiatic Society’s Anniversary

    Often when I, Nancy Charley, write the blog post I include information of some anniversary – either commemorating the birth or death of a person who has been involved with the Royal…

    29 July 2022
    About the Society, Chinese dictionaries, RAS Collections
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