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RAS Lecture Series 2022 – 2023
We are delighted to announce the start of the 2022 – 23 lecture series at the Royal Asiatic Society. Lectures will continue to be held as ‘hybrid events’ meaning that they will…
16 September 2022 -
Derek Davis: Pushkin’s Journey to Arzrum
This month the JRAS published a special supplement consisting of Derek Davis’ translation and commentary on Pushkin’s A Journey to Arzrum during the 1829 Campaign. In today’s blog Mr Davis writes about…
2 September 2022 -
Robert Skelton OBE (1929-2022) / A Summer Sojourn in Italy: Making a Chinese Qur’an
ROBERT SKELTON OBE (1929-2022) We were very sorry to learn that Robert Skelton, the distinguished art historian and former Keeper of the Indian Department at the Victoria and Albert Museum, died on…
26 August 2022 -
Reginald Campbell Thompson and the Nineveh Project
This Sunday marks the birth of Assyriologist and RAS member Reginald Campbell Thompson (21st August 1876). Campbell Thompson donated two canisters of film to the RAS. The footage dates from the…
19 August 2022 -
RAS Collections Evening 2022
Dr Philip Jagessar The Society was very pleased to host a Collections Evening last week (24 March). In addition to giving people a chance to see some of our collections at…
1 April 2022 -
Call for applications: JRAS Book review editor
Book Review Editor: Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society The Royal Asiatic Society seeks a book review editor for its distinguished international Journal. The Society is committed to developing the book…18 March 2022 -
Submissions open for the 2022 Bayly Prize
The Society is pleased to announce that we are now accepting submissions for the 2022 Bayly Prize. £2500 award for a distinguished thesis in an Asian subject falling within the scope of…
25 February 2022 -
Introducing the new JRAS Editor Professor Daud Ali / Bicentenary of the Société Asiatique
Professor Daud Ali Last year we were pleased to announce the appointment of Professor Daud Ali to Editor of the journal following the end of Professor Ansari’s tenure. Journal submissions, which had…
4 February 2022