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  • Dr. Simon Wolfgang Fuchs (Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg) – When Tehran was the Brightest Star: A Global History of the 1979 Iranian Revolution

    Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre 14 Stephenson Way, London, United Kingdom

    Dr. Simon Wolfgang Fuchs is a Lecturer in Islamic and Middle East Studies at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Germany. He is interested in how the Islamic scholarly tradition is debated and negotiated in modern and contemporary Muslim societies. Hisresearch revolves around the travel of ideas between West, Central, and South Asia, with a focus on religious…

  • Philip Davies (Author) – Lost Warriors- Seagrim and Pagani of Burma – The Last Great Untold Story of WWII

    Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre 14 Stephenson Way, London, United Kingdom

    Published on 15th August to commemorate Victory Over Japan day, Lost Warriors: Seagrim and Pagani of Burma uncovers one of the last great unknown stories of World War II. The book has received a wonderful publication week, with a serialisation in the Daily Mail and interviews with the author and members of the Pagani family on Radio 4, Today programme and ITV News.  Respected historian Philip…

  • Professor Jonathan Phillips (Royal Holloway) – ‘Saladin, we have returned!’: The Myriad Memories of the Crusades in the Near East during the Modern Era

    Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre 14 Stephenson Way, London, United Kingdom

    Jonathan Phillips was educated at the University of Keele (BA, 1987) and Royal Holloway, University of London (Ph.D, 1992). He worked at the Universities of Southampton and York before returning to Royal Holloway in 1994. He became Professor of Crusading History in 2005. He is the author of numerous books on the crusades, most recently (2014)…

  • Special Event (ticketed): Nawal Nasrallah: Treasure Trove of Benefits and Variety at the Table: A Fourteenth-Century Egyptian Cookbook

    Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre 14 Stephenson Way, London, United Kingdom

    Doors at 6.00 for a 6.30pm start.   Award-winning researcher and food writer Nawal Nasrallah will give an exclusive talk at the Royal Asiatic Society on the subject of her translation of Kanz al-fawāʾid fī tanwīʿ al-mawāʾid, a fourteenth-century Egyptian cookbook, entitled Treasure Trove of Benefits and Variety at the Table. It is the only surviving…

  • RASHKB Friends lectures Spring 2019 – Barbara Anslow

    Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre 14 Stephenson Way, London, United Kingdom

    The Friends AGM will be held on 18th May, followed by an not-to-be-missed lecture given by Barbara Anslow, age 100, based on her diaries that she kept during her internment in Stanley Prisoner of War Camp in Hong Kong with her mother in WWII.  I have heard her speak and she is the most delightful…

  • *CANCELLED* “A Grandmother’s Legacy” Indus Experiences Lecture by Jenny Mallin

    Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre 14 Stephenson Way, London, United Kingdom

    *CANCELLED AT THE REQUEST OF ORGANISER* A Grandmother's Legacy "Five generations of a British family in India seen through the eyes of their granddaughter" Jenny Mallin inherited a cookbook from her great grandmother Wilhelmina and much to her delight, discovered recipe manuscripts going back five generations of her ‘Memsahib Grandmothers’. Those recipes, published in her…

  • Lecture and Book Launch – Dominic Faulder (Author): Anand Panyarachun and the Making of Modern Thailand

    Anand Panyarachun and the Making of Modern Thailand The long career of Anand Panyarachun, Thailand's former prime minister and elder statesman, is one of distinguished public service that sweeps across diplomacy, business, politics, social reform, and philanthropy; he is widely regarded as a progressive figure dedicated to the betterment of his compatriots, improving global understanding,…

  • Edward Weech (Royal Asiatic Society) – Systems of Religion and Morality in the Collections of the Royal Asiatic Society

    Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre 14 Stephenson Way, London, United Kingdom

    The Royal Asiatic Society was founded in 1823, inspired by the model of Sir William Jones’s Asiatic Society of Bengal.  From its earliest days, one of the chief ways the Society sought to promote research and interest into the histories and cultures of Asia was by establishing and making available its historic collection of rare…

  • Book Launch: The Living Alphabet

    Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre 14 Stephenson Way, London, United Kingdom

    Mrs Tsira Kemularia in partnership with the Embassy of Georgia to the United Kingdom and the Royal Asiatic Society presents book Launch: The Living Alphabet   The book presents a unique Georgian manuscript, Sulkhan- Saba Orbeliani’s Georgian dictionary, which was rewritten at the end of 18th Century by a famous calligrapher Petre Laradze. The original…