![]()
Anniversary General Meeting 2024
The Anniversary General Meeting for the Society was held yesterday evening, Thursday 16 May. The meeting was opened by the outgoing President, Sarah Ansari who asked the gathered Fellows to agree to…
![]()
Honouring Joe Cribb
Last evening, April 18th, a special event was held at the Society to honour Joe Cribb, the eminent numismatist. Arranged by his colleagues, Helen Wang and Robert Bracey, the lecture theatre was…
![]()
The Royal Asiatic Society, Trinity College, Dublin, and the Chester Beatty Lecture
Further to the information in last week’s blog we are now pleased to give full details of the lecture to be held in Dublin. As part of its continuing bi-centenary celebrations, the…
![]()
Honouring Professor Francis Robinson
On Thursday 18th January, the Society celebrated the release of a special edition of its Journal – a festschrift in honour of Professor Francis Robinson. Professor Robinson has worked within the field…
![]()
Kelsey Granger – Winner of the George Staunton Prize
Last evening (Thursday 11 January) Dr. Kelsey Granger lectured on “A Tomb of One’s Own: The Changing Role of Dogs in Early Chinese Tomb Assemblages”, the topic of her article on the social…
![The Bayly Prize]()
Bayly Prize 2023 Shortlist Announced
The Society is delighted to announce the shortlist for the 2023 Bayly Prize for a distinguished thesis on an Asian subject from a British or Irish University. The prize was established…
The Ottoman Sultan, Ali Raja Bibi of Kannur, and Compass Bearings
The three titles in the heading do not seem to have a lot in common. Two are people but from different parts of the world, and the other is a generic term.…
Gertrude Caton-Thompson
As we prepare to bestow the Burton Memorial Medal on new recipients this year, I thought I would take a look back at the recipient of just under seventy years ago. In…
