Lecture Series 2018-2019

Name: Susan Stronge (V&A Museum) – The Lapidary Arts of the Mughal empire in the 17th and 18th centuries
Start: 2019-06-18T18:30:00+01:00
End: 2019-06-18T20:30:00+01:00
Location: Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre

March 2019
7 March 2019 @ 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm GMT
Dr. Jharna Gourlay (University of Lucknow) – Forceps, Stethoscopes and Sisterhood: British Female Doctors in 19th Century India

Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre 14 Stephenson Way, London, United Kingdom
At the end of the nineteenth century a very special group of British women went to India. They were the doctors and nurses. Most of them were missionaries, but a significant number was secular, not associated with any specific denominations. They wanted to provide medical care to the respectable Indian women who lived in seclusion…
14 March 2019 @ 6:30 pm - 9:00 pm GMT
Dr. Yossef Rapoport (Queen Mary, UoL) – Lost Maps of the Caliphs: Drawing the World in Eleventh-Century Cairo – Lecture and Book Launch

Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre 14 Stephenson Way, London, United Kingdom
LOST MAPS OF THE CALIPHS Drawing the World in Eleventh-Century Cairo by Yossef Rapoport and Emilie Savage-Smith About a millennium ago, an unknown author in Cairo completed a large and richly illustrated book. In the course of thirty-five chapters, this book guided the reader on a journey from the outermost cosmos and planets to Earth…
19 March 2019 @ 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm GMT
Ursula Sims-Williams (British Library) – Tipu Sultan’s Library: Building a Collection

Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre 14 Stephenson Way, London, United Kingdom
Tipu Sultan of Mysore is one of the most colourful characters in the history of South Asia. On the one hand he is often castigated as a fanatic Muslim and brutal ruler, but at the same time he is regarded by many as a martyr whose wars against the British foreshadowed the historic uprising of…
April 2019
11 April 2019 @ 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm BST
Dr. Rayna Denison (University of East Anglia) – The Hidden History of Studio Ghibli: Short Films, Advertising and the Industrial Reality of Japanese Animation

Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre 14 Stephenson Way, London, United Kingdom
The Hidden History of Studio Ghibli: Short Films, Advertising and the Industrial Reality of Japanese Animation While Studio Ghibli’s films have become famous around the world, their animation production in other areas remains obscure. Ghibli, like most animation studios in Japan, has long supplemented its feature film production by doing animation-for-hire. These ancillary productions take…
25 April 2019 @ 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm BST
Dr. Simon Wolfgang Fuchs (Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg) – When Tehran was the Brightest Star: A Global History of the 1979 Iranian Revolution

Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre 14 Stephenson Way, London, United Kingdom
Dr. Simon Wolfgang Fuchs is a Lecturer in Islamic and Middle East Studies at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Germany. He is interested in how the Islamic scholarly tradition is debated and negotiated in modern and contemporary Muslim societies. Hisresearch revolves around the travel of ideas between West, Central, and South Asia, with a focus on religious…
May 2019
2 May 2019 @ 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm BST
Philip Davies (Author) – Lost Warriors- Seagrim and Pagani of Burma – The Last Great Untold Story of WWII

Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre 14 Stephenson Way, London, United Kingdom
Published on 15th August to commemorate Victory Over Japan day, Lost Warriors: Seagrim and Pagani of Burma uncovers one of the last great unknown stories of World War II. The book has received a wonderful publication week, with a serialisation in the Daily Mail and interviews with the author and members of the Pagani family on Radio 4, Today programme and ITV News. Respected historian Philip…
9 May 2019 @ 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm BST
Professor Jonathan Phillips (Royal Holloway) – ‘Saladin, we have returned!’: The Myriad Memories of the Crusades in the Near East during the Modern Era

Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre 14 Stephenson Way, London, United Kingdom
Jonathan Phillips was educated at the University of Keele (BA, 1987) and Royal Holloway, University of London (Ph.D, 1992). He worked at the Universities of Southampton and York before returning to Royal Holloway in 1994. He became Professor of Crusading History in 2005. He is the author of numerous books on the crusades, most recently (2014)…
21 May 2019 @ 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm BST
Cheryl Porter (Director of the Montefiascione Project) – Painting Manuscripts with Metals and Insects: Grind or flatten, catch and cook

Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre 14 Stephenson Way, London, United Kingdom
June 2019
6 June 2019 @ 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm BST
Edward Weech (Royal Asiatic Society) – Systems of Religion and Morality in the Collections of the Royal Asiatic Society

Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre 14 Stephenson Way, London, United Kingdom
The Royal Asiatic Society was founded in 1823, inspired by the model of Sir William Jones’s Asiatic Society of Bengal. From its earliest days, one of the chief ways the Society sought to promote research and interest into the histories and cultures of Asia was by establishing and making available its historic collection of rare…
18 June 2019 @ 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm BST
Susan Stronge (V&A Museum) – The Lapidary Arts of the Mughal empire in the 17th and 18th centuries

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

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