Prof Francis Robinson Festschrift Launch
18 January 2024
10 events found.
Events
- Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre 14 Stephenson Way, London, United Kingdom
Dr Giles Tillotson: Ram Raz and William Hodges: Theorizing Indian Architecture
Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre 14 Stephenson Way, London, United KingdomNandini Das: Courting India – England, Mughal India and the Origins of Empire
Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre 14 Stephenson Way, London, United KingdomCourting India: England, Mughal India and the Origins of Empire: Nandini Das: Bloomsbury Publishing WINNER OF THE BRITISH ACADEMY BOOK PRIZE A SPECTATOR, WATERSTONES, BBC HISTORY MAGAZINE, PROSPECT AND HISTORY TODAY BOOK OF THE YEAR A profound and ground-breaking new history of one of the most important encounters in the history of colonialism: the British arrival in India in…
Dr Neil Schmid (Dunhuang Academy) King of Kings: Vestiges of Sasanian Sacral Kingship in 10th Century Dunhuang
Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre 14 Stephenson Way, London, United KingdomDating from the fifth to the fourteenth century, the Mogao Caves near the oasis of Dunhuang in northwestern China contain a wealth of information charting the flows and interactions of diverse cultures across Eurasia. Donor portraits in particular furnish a remarkable range of data on the ethnicity, interregional relations, politics, and the social and…
Jennifer Howes: The Art of a Corporation: The East India Company as Patron and Collector
Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre 14 Stephenson Way, London, United KingdomProfessor Dame Jessica Rawson – Gold, Horses and the Rise of the Silk Roads
Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre 14 Stephenson Way, London, United KingdomRobin Masefield – The World Administered by Irishmen: The Life and Times of Robert Hart and Irish Contemporaries in East Asia
Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre 14 Stephenson Way, London, United KingdomRobin Masefield’s latest book, published by Queen’s University Belfast, is entitled The World Administered by Irishmen: The Life and Times of Robert Hart and Irish Contemporaries in East Asia. While, the initial focus is on the Chinese Maritime Customs Service, and the Ulsterman Sir Robert Hart who led it for 45 years, the book brings…
Ann Wilks (CBE) – Britain’s Man on the Spot in Iraq and Afghanistan
Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre 14 Stephenson Way, London, United KingdomThe newly discovered papers and colourfully-written letters of Anglo-Irish Sir Henry Dobbs, which form the backbone of this book, reveal his importance in the development of the modern Middle East. An influential civil servant and Britain's longest serving High Commissioner in Iraq at a time when the British empire was facing increasing challenges to…