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  • Illustrated Lecture: Buddhist Rock-Cut Monasteries of the Western Ghats Drs. George Michell and Gethin Rees

    Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre 14 Stephenson Way, London, United Kingdom

    RAS Event Flyer Final 27 MARCH 2018 6.30PM; followed by wine reception ROYAL ASIATIC SOCIETY 14 STEPHENSON WAY LONDON, NW1 2HD Please rsvp to: ar@royalasiaticosciety.org This lecture marks the publication of an illustrated guidebook coauthored by the archaeologist Dr. Gethin Rees and the architectural historian Dr. George Michell, recently issued by the Deccan Heritage Foundation.…

  • Dr. Indira Viswanathan Peterson Guest Lecture

    Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre 14 Stephenson Way, London, United Kingdom

    Colonial Networks, Indian Elites, and the New Orientalism of the Royal Asiatic Society (1823-1840) Indira Viswanathan Peterson Professor of Asian Studies Emerita, Mount Holyoke College, USA   The establishment of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland in London in 1823 not only transferred the institutional center of British orientalism to the metropole…

  • Dr. Ashmita Khasnabish Guest Lecture “Indian Imagination in a Postcolonial Context”

    Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre 14 Stephenson Way, London, United Kingdom

    The talk "Indian Imagination in a Postcolonial Context" is based on Dr. Ashmita Khasnabish’s recent monograph Negotiating Capability and Diaspora: a Philosophical Politics which analyses how Indian philosophical imagination could bring transcendence and immanence or pragmatism together. It starts with the Amartya Sen's theory of "capability" which arose as a critique of the American philosopher…

  • British Chinese Armed Forces Heritage Double Lecture on Chinese Labour Corps

    Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre 14 Stephenson Way, London, United Kingdom

    Please register on eventbrite for this lecture https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-contribution-of-the-chinese-labour-corps-in-the-first-world-war-tickets-46229269991 John De Lucy (6pm) and Frances Wood (7.15pm) will each speak on the Chinese Labour Corps: 1. SPEAKER: John de Lucy (Grandson of WW1 CLC Officer W.J. Hawkings) TALK ABSTRACT: During the First World War Britian hired over 100,000 men from China to fill the labour shortage. In…

  • Guest Talk: ‘Afghanistan in the Age of Empires: Farrukh Husain in conversation with Victoria Schofield.’

    Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre 14 Stephenson Way, London, United Kingdom

    Farrukh Husain will be in conversation with Victoria Schofield discussing his acclaimed account of the first Afghan war entitled ‘Afghanistan in the Age of Empires’ detailing the role of Afghan women in combat, the respective merits of Afghan and British weaponry and how and why the Kabul uprising occurred on the anniversary of the battle…

  • Guest Lecture – Dr. Ravinder Reddy – Numinous Imagery on Arms and Armour of the Indian Subcontinent

    Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre 14 Stephenson Way, London, United Kingdom

    Numinous Imagery on Arms and Armour of the Indian Subcontinent Dr. Ravinder Reddy (Adjunct Professor of Psychiatry, Univ of California San Diego; Board Member, South Asian Arts Council of the San Diego Museum of Art)   Indian arms and armour are frequently adorned with auspicious and sacred imagery to induce shakti – divine power -…

  • Dr Sarah Tiffin (Author): Raffles and the Course of Empire: Decoding Ruin Imagery in The History of Java

    Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre 14 Stephenson Way, London, United Kingdom

    When Raffles wrote his landmark publication The History of Java in 1817, ruin sentiment was a fashionable if rather wistful turn of mind that had a considerable influence on British art and literature. The ruin was a popular motif in picturesque imagery, serving as the stimulus for melancholic musings that ranged from deeply felt personal…

  • Dr Bo Gao Lecture

    Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre 14 Stephenson Way, London, United Kingdom

    China-North Korea Economic Cooperation Bo Gao is Lecturer at the College of Marxism, Ningbo University of Finance and Economics, China, having gained his PhD at the University of Nottingham Ningbo. His research interests include regional affairs of Northeast Asia especially Korea Peninsular, China's foreign policy and its non-traditional security problems.