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Siebold’s Japan and Cataloguing the Elephant Volumes
One of the Society’s major long-term projects is the retrospective cataloguing of its printed collections. The Society’s library contains over 50,000 books, journals, and pamphlets, most of which were acquired in the…
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A Season of Success: The Royal Asiatic Society of Georgia’s Summer Highlights
Recently Professor Giorgi Kalandia, President, and Tamar Latsabidze, Vice-President, of the Royal Asiatic Society of Georgia, have been in touch to provide the latest news about the activities of the Society. Since…
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September 2024 – Lectures and Events
The Society is programming an interesting lecture series for 2024-2025, the start of which will soon be upon us. So this week the blogpost will highlight the lectures and events coming up…
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Council Member, Lionel Knight, shares memories of the Society
As part of our bicentenary celebrations we asked some members of the Society to share their memories. This week long-serving Council member, Lionel Knight, gives us a few insights. He writes: “After…
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Upcoming Events
On 5th July, the Royal Asiatic Society, in collaboration with Southampton University, will host the conference New Worlds of the East India Company. The conference will draw together many scholars working in…
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Re-establishing relationships : The Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland
Our Director, Dr. Alison Ohta, again provides the majority of this week’s blogpost: As part of the bicentenary celebrations, one of the primary aims was the revival of the Society’s links with…
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A Visit to Royal Asiatic Society Korea
This week’s blog post is provided by RAS Council member, Professor Susan Whitfield. We would like to thank her for sharing about her visit and the current exhibition in Norwich: We were…
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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…
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King Charles III remains our Patron
We are pleased to be able to announce King Charles III has agreed to continue to be the Society’s Patron. We are grateful to be able to continue our royal patronage, first…
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Joe Cribb, recently honoured at the Society, has an article in the latest Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society
We are delighted to announce that the latest edition of the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society is now available online Cambridge University Press. All Fellows of the Society can access the…
