POSTPONED Dr Simon Kaner Virtual Lecture
ZoomWe regret to announce that this event has been postponed to later this year, date tbc The Rehabilitation of Myth in the Archaeology of Ancient Japan and Korea
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RAS Lecture Series 2020-21
Dr Hannah Theaker Virtual Lecture
ZoomChina’s Little Mecca: Changing Islamic Landscapes of China’s Northwest in the Late Qing, 1860-1911 The events often known as the Great Northwestern Muslim Rebellion, 1860-1874, devastated the Islamic communities of the interior northwestern provinces of Shaanxi and Gansu. Long-established Islamic communities were wiped off the map, whilst the resettlement of refugees and post-war bans on…
Dr. Suna Cagaptay Virtual Book Launch
ZoomDownload PDF The First Capital of the Ottoman Empire flyer
Dr Weipin Tsai Virtual Lecture
ZoomThe courier firms that knitted the Qing Empire together: A brief account of China’s private letter hongs from late 18th century to early 20th century Weipin Tsai Royal Holloway, University of London Long before the Imperial Chinese Post Office was set up in 1896, a postal system had existed for centuries. This was made up…
Dr. Itay Noy Lecture
ZoomStephen Martin Lecture
ZoomGeorge Chinnery's portrait of Thomas Richardson Colledge at the Macau Eye Hospital Thomas Richardson Colledge was the founder of modern ophthalmology in Canton. The most revealing sources on him and his medicine are a biography by his daughter Frances and a painting by George Chinnery. Behind these are some remarkable insights about Colledge’s relationships, his…
Prof. Luca M. Olivieri Lecture
ZoomTemples of Swat. The Shahi archaeological landscape. The talk will report on the recent research at Barikot, Swat, Pakistan, where excavations continued also in 2020. The ancient urban site, known in Greek and Latin sources as Bazira/Beira, between 700 and 1000 CE, became a major Śāhi centre with palatial and cultic structures, known as Vajira…
Dr. Elizabeth Lambourn Lecture
ZoomIslam's Forgotten Frontier - the Indian Ocean world 600-1000 CE This paper presents work in progress, part of a monograph project aiming to integrate several forgotten (or at best neglected) frontiers of the early Islamic world into mainstream Islamic history. Currently when one speaks of an "eastern" frontier in the early Islamic world it is to…