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SUMMARY:Dr. Elizabeth Lambourn Lecture
DESCRIPTION:Islam’s Forgotten Frontier – the Indian Ocean world 600-1000 CE \nThis 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 Khurasan that most Islamicists turn\, the aim of this project is to bring events and processes on Islam’s eastern maritime frontier – in effect the Indian Ocean – into the existing scholarship on the Arab conquests and their aftermath\, challenging some of the assumptions and methodologies that prevail in this field and enriching it in the process. \n  \n 
URL:https://royalasiaticsociety.org/lectures-event/dr-elizabeth-lambourn-lecture/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:RAS Lecture Series 2020-21
ORGANIZER;CN="Amy Riach":MAILTO:ar at royalasiaticsociety.org
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210615T183000
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SUMMARY:Prof. Luca M. Olivieri Lecture
DESCRIPTION:Temples of Swat. The Shahi archaeological landscape. \nThe 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 in epigraphic record of the end-10th century. Excavations on the acropolis revealed a large Brahmanical temple built by the Shahis of Kabul (c. 700 CE) and expanded under the so-called Hindu Shahis. The temple was demolished by the Ghaznavids in the 11th century\, when a military settlement was established at the site. Shahi temples were part of a complex landscape\, testified today by ruins of palaces\, castles\, and watchtowers. During our surface research three more Brahmanical temples were documented. The first temple was documented by Alfred Foucher at Zalamkot at the gates of the Swat valley along the ancient “Buddhist roads”. A second temple was identified by Harold Deane at Manyar (near Barikot). A third temple was found by Aurel Stein in the Talash valley not far from the junction between Swat and Panjkora rivers. The latter is not far from Afgahn Kunar\, where similar temples were documented by the German Hindukush Expedition in 1935. \nLuca M. Olivieri (PhD) \nUniversità Ca’ Foscari Venezia \nDipartimento di Studi sull’Asia e sull’Africa Mediterranea \nDirector \nISMEO Italian Archaeological Mission in Pakistan \n  \nLuca M. Olivieri is director of the ISMEO Italian Archaeological Mission in Pakistan. He has been working in Swat for more than thirty years. His principal interests include excavation\, survey\, and heritage management methodologies. In 2017 he was awarded with the Sitara-i-Imtiaz of Pakistan for his three decades of archaeological work in Swat. He has been Director of the ACT-Field School Project in Swat from 2011 to 2016\, which\, amongst other important achievements in the field of training\, archaeology and restoration\, managed to rebuild the Swat Museum\, as well as to restore the colossal Jahanabad Buddha\, both damaged during the insurgency. Dr. Olivieri has been working in Swat since 1987\, mainly focusing on the still on-going excavation project at the urban site of Bir-kot-ghwandai (Barikot)\, the ancient Bazira of Alexander the Great\, on rock-art field-research\, and on the Archaeological Map of the Swat Valley project.
URL:https://royalasiaticsociety.org/lectures-event/prof-luca-m-olivieri-lecture/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:RAS Lecture Series 2020-21
ORGANIZER;CN="Amy Riach":MAILTO:ar at royalasiaticsociety.org
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210608T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210608T203000
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SUMMARY:Stephen Martin Lecture
DESCRIPTION:George Chinnery’s portrait of Thomas Richardson Colledge at the Macau Eye Hospital \nThomas 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 ophthalmic practice and the mental state of a talented artist who spent most of his life in India and China. \nStephen Martin is a Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society and Honorary Professor at the University of Chiang Mai Medical School. \nImage: \nThomas Richardson Colledge in the Macau Ophthalmic Hospital\, with his assistant Afun and patients\, by George Chinnery\, 1833. Oil on canvas\, © Peabody Essex Museum\, Salem MA\, reproduced for this talk with their kind written permission. \n 
URL:https://royalasiaticsociety.org/lectures-event/stephen-martin-lecture/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:RAS Lecture Series 2020-21
ORGANIZER;CN="Amy Riach":MAILTO:ar at royalasiaticsociety.org
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210513T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210513T203000
DTSTAMP:20210820T143158Z
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SUMMARY:Dr. Itay Noy Lecture
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URL:https://royalasiaticsociety.org/lectures-event/dr-itay-noy-lecture/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:RAS Lecture Series 2020-21
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SUMMARY:Dr Weipin Tsai Virtual Lecture
DESCRIPTION:The courier firms that knitted the Qing Empire together: A brief account of China’s\nprivate letter hongs from late 18th century to early 20th century \nWeipin Tsai \nRoyal Holloway\, University of London \nLong before the Imperial Chinese Post Office was set up in 1896\, a postal system had existed for centuries. This was made up of a myriad of local\, privately-owned courier firms\, known collectively as ‘letter hongs’.  These firms were rooted in their home areas\, but collaborated extensively and by their peak in the late 19th century were able to provide services across the whole of China\, and indeed beyond its borders to the Chinese diaspora across the region. \nWhile there has been a huge amount of scholarship around China’s modernisation in this period – largely focused on institutionally directed or foreign-influenced developments – one area now only receiving attention is the network of communications that knitted the Qing Empire together. The letter hongs formed the largest and most significant element of that network\, a web of family-owned companies that established vital supply lines for information\, money and goods\, with a reach more fluid\, adaptable and extensive than even the government’s owned military information relay service. \nBeing mainly small\, privately-held organisations\, source materials are quite scarce. Decoding the covers of letters sent across network – quite literally\, the journeys taken are recorded in code on the covers themselves – provides a very useful source of material on how the hongs operated\, including routes taken\, transit times\, charges and so on\, while the letters themselves are fascinating social documents recording the intricacies of family and business life.
URL:https://royalasiaticsociety.org/lectures-event/dr-weipin-tsai-virtual-lecture/
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CATEGORIES:RAS Lecture Series 2020-21
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210426T183000
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SUMMARY:Dr. Suna Cagaptay Virtual Book Launch
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URL:https://royalasiaticsociety.org/lectures-event/dr-suna-cagaptay-book-launch/
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CATEGORIES:RAS Lecture Series 2020-21
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210407T130000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210407T140000
DTSTAMP:20210326T143243Z
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SUMMARY:Dr. Emma Flatt Virtual Lecture
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URL:https://royalasiaticsociety.org/lectures-event/dr-emma-flatt-virtual-lecture/
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CATEGORIES:RAS Lecture Series 2020-21
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210316T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210316T200000
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SUMMARY:Dr Hannah Theaker Virtual Lecture
DESCRIPTION:China’s Little Mecca: Changing Islamic Landscapes of China’s Northwest in the Late Qing\, 1860-1911 \nThe 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 Muslim movement and residence reconfigured the contours of the religious landscapes of late Qing China. Hezhou\, now known as Linxia\, is famous in the present as ‘China’s Little Mecca’\, was the only major Islamic religious centre in the two provinces left standing. The result was a transformation of the ecumenical scene of the northwest. As Shaanxi Muslims rebuilt from scratch in their new communities\, the Hezhou Muslim military leadership used their close relationships to the local establishment and prestige to usher in a religious revival in their localities: building mosques and inviting preachers and educators and constructing a safe space for Islam within the ambiguous spaces of late Qing empire. This presentation explores this brief efflorescence in the Hezhou scene\, the significance of the 1895 He-Huang Rebellion as an event in the construction of a Chinese Islamic reformism and the legacies of the late 19th century for the modern Islamic landscape of the northwest. \nDr. Hannah Theaker is a Visiting Fellow at the University of Oxford China Centre\, whose research explores religion\, ethnicity and migration in late imperial China.
URL:https://royalasiaticsociety.org/lectures-event/dr-hannah-theaker-virtual-lecture/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:RAS Lecture Series 2020-21
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210309T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210309T200000
DTSTAMP:20210326T125952Z
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SUMMARY:POSTPONED Dr Simon Kaner Virtual Lecture
DESCRIPTION:We regret to announce that this event has been postponed to later this year\, date tbc \nThe Rehabilitation of Myth in the Archaeology of Ancient Japan and Korea
URL:https://royalasiaticsociety.org/lectures-event/postponed-dr-simon-kaner-virtual-lecture/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:RAS Lecture Series 2020-21
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