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Lecture Series 2017-18
Guest Lecture: Emilie Wellfelt, ‘Following the Feathers: Global History Along the Trails of the Bird of Paradise’
Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre 14 Stephenson Way, London, United Kingdom‘Following the Feathers’ is an investigation of global history and human-animal relations using a spectacular bird species as its focal point. It asks how the bird of paradise affects humans who encounter them, either in living form or as a prepared specimen. The specimen, often without wings, legs and scull bone, is the main form…
Professor Christopher Fuller -European Science and Colonial Anthropology in British India, c. 1871-1911
Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre 14 Stephenson Way, London, United KingdomDr. Mark Condos – Anarchists, Revolutionaries, and Franco-British Imperial Policing in French Chandernagore, 1905-1930
Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre 14 Stephenson Way, London, United KingdomDr. Alban von Stockhausen – Images and (Post)colonial Encounters: A History of the Visual Representation of the Nagas of Northeast India
Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre 14 Stephenson Way, London, United KingdomDr. Annabel Gallop – The Great Seal of Aceh
Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre 14 Stephenson Way, London, United KingdomAmy Matthewson – Mr Punch and Chinamania: Blue Willow China and Consumer Consumption in ‘Punch’ Magazine, 1874-1880
Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre 14 Stephenson Way, London, United KingdomProfessor Mercedes Volait (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique) – The Domestic Collecting of Islamic Artefacts in 19th Century Cairo: The Meymar Objects at the Victoria and Albert Museum
Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre 14 Stephenson Way, London, United KingdomDr Peter Webb (University of Leiden) – Arab Origins: Identity, History and Islam
Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre 14 Stephenson Way, London, United KingdomProfessor Zeynep Yürekli-Görkay – An Ottoman Sense of Place: Topographical Illustration between Europe and Iran
Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre 14 Stephenson Way, London, United Kingdom