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Busuttil Prize Winner Lecture & Event Recordings
As November draws to a close and we welcome the final month of 2025, the Society is gently winding down its event programme ahead of the holiday break. But before we pause…
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More about Events…
Yesterday evening we hosted a vibrant conversation around Marg Magazine’s recent issue, The Third Side of the Coins. The panel brought together an impressive line-up: renowned numismatist Joe Cribb; Marzbeen Jila, Secretary…
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Reminder for Prize Submissions and Coin Catalogues Now Online
We begin this week’s blog post with a reminder to submit to two of the Society’s prizes, both currently accepting nominations. The first is the Charles H. Norchi Prize, awarded for the…
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New Book, Event Recap and Website Refresh
New Book We are delighted to announce the latest addition to our monograph series: The Picture Gallery (Nigaristan): A Persian Moral Miscellany. This new publication is the only known English translation of…
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Top RAS Recordings on YouTube
For this week’s blog post, we thought it would be nice to highlight some of our most-watched recordings on YouTube. As you may be aware, recordings of most of our public lectures…
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Japanese Studies, Ancient Buddhist Civilisation and Zoroastrianism—September Lectures Roundup
Since I wrote last week the Society has announced more details of the 2025-26 Lecture Series. We are now hosting three public lectures at the Society and online next month to kickstart…
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Upcoming Lecture on Dvāravatī and Associated Collections
As the new academic year is fast approaching, the Society is programming an exciting line-up of lectures for the 2025-26 Lecture Series, which will commence in September. We are delighted to announce…
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Artworks, Digitisation, Book Launch and Bayly Prize
Recently catalogued artworks This week I have spent some time cataloguing our visual material. Those who have visited our Reading Room would probably have consulted our physical catalogue entitled Catalogue of Paintings,…
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The James J. Busuttil Medal and Prize for Human Rights – Winners Announced
The Royal Asiatic Society is pleased to award the 2025 James J. Busuttil Prize and Medal for Human Rights jointly to Dr Lydia Walker for States-in-Waiting: A Counternarrative of Global Decolonization (Cambridge University Press, 2024) and…
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Anniversary General Meeting and Lecture 2025
The Society had its Anniversary General Meeting yesterday evening, 15 May. Open to all current Fellows of the Society, the meeting is convened annually to present a report and accounts of the…
