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RAS Lecture series 2024-25
Alice Casalini: The art of crossing over: Gandhāran pathways to nirvāṇa
Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre 14 Stephenson Way, London, United KingdomThe art of Gandhāra—a region stretching across modern-day Pakistan and Afghanistan—has often been heralded as prime example of proto-globalization: its rich and syncretic visual vocabulary that freely borrows from Hellenistic, Iranian and Indian models easily lends itself to this discourse in the early centuries of the first millennium. Aquatic imagery in Gandhāra is one…
Dr Liz Driver: Reasons for Tod’s dismissal as Political Agent in the Western Rajput States 1818-1822
Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre 14 Stephenson Way, London, United KingdomThis talk aims to re-assess Tod's role as Political Agent in the Western Rajput States for the brief period 1818-1822 and to determine what went wrong. It will address Tod's visit to Maharaja Man Singh in Jodhpur but the focus will be on the events in Kotah in 1820-21. It will draw on Tod's…
*Cancelled* Prof Mark Liechty (Winner of the 2023 Surya P. Subedi Prize): Building Capacity, Not Infrastructure: Lessons from Hydropower Development in Nepal
Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre 14 Stephenson Way, London, United Kingdom*PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED*
Marcus Milwright: Writing Art History as Fiction: A Story of Islamic Art
Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre 14 Stephenson Way, London, United KingdomIt is a sign of the growing maturity of the field of Islamic art history that there are already many introductory surveys. Some attempt to cover all regions and periods, though it is more common for these books to establish chronological and geographical boundaries. More recently, introductions to the study of Islamic material and visual…
Professor Suranjan Das: Revisiting the Nehru Years in India, 1947 – 1964
Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre 14 Stephenson Way, London, United KingdomIslamic Bookbinding revealed through the lens of the Montefiascone Conservation Project
Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre 14 Stephenson Way, London, United KingdomBook 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…