10 events found.
Guest Lecture – Dr. Ravinder Reddy – Numinous Imagery on Arms and Armour of the Indian Subcontinent
Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre 14 Stephenson Way, London, United KingdomNuminous Imagery on Arms and Armour of the Indian Subcontinent Dr. Ravinder Reddy (Adjunct Professor of Psychiatry, Univ of California San Diego; Board Member, South Asian Arts Council of the San Diego Museum of Art) Indian arms and armour are frequently adorned with auspicious and sacred imagery to induce shakti – divine power -…
Joint Book Launch and Discussion: From Stone to Paper: Architecture as History in the Late Mughal Empire and Ottoman Baroque: The Architectural Refashioning of Eighteenth-Century Istanbul
Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre 14 Stephenson Way, London, United KingdomFrom Stone to Paper: Architecture as History in the Late Mughal Empire and Ottoman Baroque: The Architectural Refashioning of Eighteenth-Century Istanbul Discussion and Book Launch On Friday June 28th The Royal Asiatic Society will host a joint book launch of Chanchal B. Dadlani's From Stone to Paper: Architecture as History in the Late Mughal Empire…
The Silk Roads: arts, history and exploration
Royal Asiatic Society 14 Stephenson Way, London, United KingdomThe Silk Roads: arts, history and exploration Buddha, 2nd c., National Museum New Delhi 68.187. Photographer Daniel Waugh A Royal Asiatic Society Summer School Monday July 8 – Thursday July 11, 2019 The influence of the interactions enabled by the Afro-Eurasian trade routes known as the Silk Roads are much in discussion today,…
Dr Sarah Tiffin (Author): Raffles and the Course of Empire: Decoding Ruin Imagery in The History of Java
Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre 14 Stephenson Way, London, United KingdomWhen Raffles wrote his landmark publication The History of Java in 1817, ruin sentiment was a fashionable if rather wistful turn of mind that had a considerable influence on British art and literature. The ruin was a popular motif in picturesque imagery, serving as the stimulus for melancholic musings that ranged from deeply felt personal…
Dr. Stefan Halikowski-Smith (Swansea University)
Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre 14 Stephenson Way, London, United KingdomLecture: Two Missionary Accounts of Southeast Asia in the Late Seventeenth Century
Dr Bo Gao Lecture
Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre 14 Stephenson Way, London, United KingdomChina-North Korea Economic Cooperation Bo Gao is Lecturer at the College of Marxism, Ningbo University of Finance and Economics, China, having gained his PhD at the University of Nottingham Ningbo. His research interests include regional affairs of Northeast Asia especially Korea Peninsular, China's foreign policy and its non-traditional security problems.
Professor Stephen Martin (University of Chiang Mai)
Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre 14 Stephenson Way, London, United KingdomFlute Lecture Concert: Surviving Asia, Sponsoring Mozart. The Polymathic Portrait of Dr Ferdinand Dejean
Dr. Philip Mansel (Author)
Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre 14 Stephenson Way, London, United KingdomThe Sun King and the Sultan: Louis XIV and the Ottoman Empire. Using unpublished archives and drawings, Dr Philip Mansel shows that the traditional alliance between France and the Ottoman Empire became a corner-stone of French foreign policy under Louis XIV. In 1688 Louis XIV sent French armies across the Rhine in order to reduce…
Bayly Prize Award 2019
Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre 14 Stephenson Way, London, United KingdomTHE BAYLY PRIZE The Bayly Prize is established by the Royal Asiatic Society to celebrate the distinguished contributions of Professor Sir Christopher Bayly to global history, especially to the study of Asia. It is awarded for an outstanding PhD dissertation on an Asian topic completed at a British university in the year prior to the…