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RAS Lecture series 2024-25
Book Launch: Goderdzi Chokheli’s ‘Human Sadness’ with talks by Professor Dan Healey, Ms Lia Chokoshvili, and Translators
Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre 14 Stephenson Way, London, United KingdomDr Stephen Murphy: Buddhist Landscapes: Art and Archaeology of the Khorat Plateau, 7th to 11th Centuries
Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre 14 Stephenson Way, London, United KingdomDetail of Buddha image in carved into the rock face in mahāparinibbāṇa on the Phu Wiang Mountain range, Chaiyaphum province, Thailand. Late 8th to early 9th century. Author’s photograph. The Khorat Plateau is a landscape of some 155,000 square kilometres of what is now northeast Thailand and central Laos. Despite the rich evidence for the…
Mansi Rao: Dining tables on streets and carpets on floors – A study of vernacular furniture in north-west India
Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre 14 Stephenson Way, London, United KingdomThe South Asia Collection Museum in Norwich,UK has over 250 vernacular furniture items and related objects from north-west India. When it came to representing these objects, available research was scarce. Emerging from this museological need of contextualising the collection, a collaborative project, ‘Vernacular Furniture of North-West India’ was conducted with the Design Innovation and…
Dr Tom Young: British Art and the East India Company, c.1813–58
Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre 14 Stephenson Way, London, United KingdomProf Prem Poddar – China in India: from Shangri-La to Kalimpong
Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre 14 Stephenson Way, London, United KingdomThe talk will go though some of the pivotal moments in my book just released from Cambridge University Press. Through the India-China Border: Kalimpong in the Himalayas mobilizes rarely used documentary material from British, Chinese and Indian archives to shed new light on our understanding of the 'Tibet Question' in China-India relations. Focused on the Himalayan…
POSTPONED -Sanjeev Kumar – The Age of the Guptas: The Evolution of Art and Iconography during the 4th-6th Century CE
Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre 14 Stephenson Way, London, United KingdomPlease note that this event has been postponed. We will let you know when a new date has been scheduled.
Silk Roads at the British Museum and British Library: Objects in Focus
Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre 14 Stephenson Way, London, United KingdomFrom September 2024 to February 2025, the Silk Roads get a spotlight in London, with two concurrent exhibitions on this topic at the British Museum and the British Library. The British Museum exhibition Silk Roads takes audiences on a journey across Asia, Africa and Europe, exploring the movement of people, objects and ideas in…
Prof Kiri Paramore – A Global History of Confucianism: The Cambridge History of Confucianism Volume I (prehistory– 1400 ce)
Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre 14 Stephenson Way, London, United KingdomThis talk will introduce The Cambridge History of Confucianism, Volume I (pre-history-1400), the editing of which Prof Paramore is currently completing with publication expected in early 2026. Confucianism has been a major force in the cultural history of China, Japan, Korea and Vietnam for thousands of years, affecting the art, literature, science and politics…
Andrew Laurie: “Gleaming-breasted residents of streams that don’t freeze in winter”: the Dippers of the Mongolian Altai
Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre 14 Stephenson Way, London, United KingdomAndrew Laurie grew up in Shropshire, spent a lot of his childhood watching animals, and studied biology at the University of Cambridge, doing research on hippos in Tanzania, starfish in Sudan, and rhinos in Nepal, India and south-east Asia. After a seven year research fellowship studying Marine Iguanas in the Galapagos Islands he…