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SUMMARY:(Japan Series) Benedetta Lomi - The Lives and Afterlives of Buddhist Icons: Deactivation and Reactivation Rituals in Medieval Japan
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URL:https://royalasiaticsociety.org/event/japan-series-benedetta-lomi-the-lives-and-afterlives-of-buddhist-icons-deactivation-and-reactivation-rituals-in-medieval-japan/
LOCATION:The Courtauld\, Vernon Square\, Penton Rise\, London\, WC1X 9EW\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:RAS Lectures & Events
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SUMMARY:Nicolas Revire - Charting Dvāravatī: The Making of an Early Buddhist Polity in Central Thailand
DESCRIPTION:This lecture explores the intellectual foundations of Dvāravatī studies and the making of an early Buddhist polity in central Thailand during the mid-to-late first millennium CE. It highlights the pivotal roles of Prince Damrong Rajanubhab (1862–1943) and Professor George Cœdès (1886–1969)\, whose historical and epigraphic work shaped modern understandings of Dvāravatī as a Theravāda Buddhist culture with Old Mon\, Sanskrit\, and Pali influences. Beginning with the 19th-century rediscovery of sites like Nakhon Pathom\, the talk traces how their scholarship framed Dvāravatī in both historical\, and cultural terms. It also considers the legacy of their work in the writings of later scholars and Orientalists such as Horace Geoffrey Quaritch Wales (1900–1981)\, Pierre Dupont (1908–1955)\, Jean Boisselier (1912–1996)\, or Piriya Krairiksh (b. 1942)\, whose contributions continue to shape debates on early Southeast Asian religion\, language\, and state formation. \nBorn in France\, Nicolas Revire holds a doctoral degree from Paris\, specializing in Hindu-Buddhist art of early Southeast Asia\, particularly pre-modern Thailand. As a senior research fellow at the Art Institute of Chicago\, he brings expertise from two decades of teaching and research in Bangkok. The speaker has published extensively on the subject and is currently the managing editor of the Journal of the Siam Society.
URL:https://royalasiaticsociety.org/event/nicolas-revire-charting-dvaravati-the-making-of-an-early-buddhist-polity-in-central-thailand/
LOCATION:Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre\, 14 Stephenson Way\, London\, NW1 2HD\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:RAS Lectures & Events
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SUMMARY:Japan Series: Professor Jennifer Coates - Studying Japan from the UK: New Challenges and Historical Precedents
DESCRIPTION:This illustrated talk reflects on the past\, present and future of Japanese Studies in the UK; the antecedents of the field\, its strengths and challenges\, and its place in our fast-changing globalised world. As many countries around the world turn inwards to prioritise national concerns and domestic politics\, Japan remains an object of fascination for students\, researchers\, and the general public. From the mystical ‘Japan’ located just west of Laputa in Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels (1726) to the ‘Japan’ of geisha in rickshaws captured by the Lumière brothers’ cameramen (1897)\, and from the opponent of World War II to the exciting exoticism of ‘Japan’ as holiday destination\, our engagement with ideas about ‘Japan’ has shaped not only the UK understanding of Japan\, but also the UK itself. Connecting the history of the study of Japan to contemporary research on its impact on the UK\, this talk demonstrates the value of learning about Japan. \n  \nAbout the Speaker \nJennifer Coates is Professor of Japanese Studies at the School of East Asian Studies\, University of Sheffield and Honorary Secretary of the British Association of Japanese Studies. Her books include Making Icons: Repetition and the Female Image in Japanese Cinema\, 1945-1964 (2016)\, Film Viewing in Postwar Japan\, 1945-1968: An Ethnographic Study (2022)\, and co-edited volumes War Memory and East Asian Conflicts\, 1930–1945\, Japanese Visual Media: Politicizing the Screen and The Routledge Companion to Gender and Japanese Culture.
URL:https://royalasiaticsociety.org/event/japan-series-professor-jennifer-coates-studying-japan-from-the-uk-new-challenges-and-historical-precedents/
LOCATION:Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre\, 14 Stephenson Way\, London\, NW1 2HD\, United Kingdom
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250804T183000
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SUMMARY:Book Launch: The Medieval Mediterranean between Islam and Christianity (With co-editor Sami De Giosa\, introduced by Dr Mariam Rosser-Owen)
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URL:https://royalasiaticsociety.org/event/book-launch-the-medieval-mediterranean-between-islam-and-christianity-with-co-editor-sami-de-giosa/
LOCATION:Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre\, 14 Stephenson Way\, London\, NW1 2HD\, United Kingdom
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250711T140000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250711T173000
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SUMMARY:(Joint event) Japanese architectural history in action: reconstruction\, conservation\, restoration
DESCRIPTION:To join this event online please email Matty at mb@royalasiaticsociety.org
URL:https://royalasiaticsociety.org/event/joint-event-japanese-architectural-history-in-action-reconstruction-conservation-restoration/
LOCATION:Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre\, 14 Stephenson Way\, London\, NW1 2HD\, United Kingdom
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250704T093000
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SUMMARY:The Futures of Travel Editing - Hakluyt Society - Linschoten Vereeniging Workshop
DESCRIPTION:The Hakluyt Society (1846) and Linschoten-Vereeniging (1908) have long spearheaded the editing and publication of historical accounts of travel\, in line with their respective missions first formulated well over a century ago. Since the late twentieth century\, academic and lay interest in historical travel has both reflected and responded to political and social transformations\, inviting critical scrutiny of traditional narratives and increasing calls for alternative perspectives. This changing context raises urgent questions about the future(s) of travel editing. \nThe one-day “Futures of Travel Editing” workshop aims to foster a broad discussion on the challenges\, possibilities\, and new directions in editing and publishing travelogues\, in line with the core mission of the Hakluyt and Linschoten societies. It will be advertised to members of both societies as well as opened to the public. Sessions focus on new sources and methods\, the specifics of editing accounts of non-Western travel\, and attracting a more global and diverse set of proposals. \n  \n Attendance is free of charge\, and anyone interested can attend either in-person or online after registering via Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-futures-of-travel-editing-hakluyt-linschoten-workshop-tickets-1355389589749?aff=oddtdtcreator \n  \n  \n  \nProgramme \n09.30-10:00: Coffee and welcome \n10.00-11:15: Keynote Address: Siobhan Lambert-Hurley\, University of Sheffield\nReorienting the Canon: Editing Muslim Women’s Accounts of Global Travel over Three Centuries \n11:15-11:30: Break \n11:30-13:00: Panel 1: Sources \nLadan Niayesh\, Université Paris Cité\nEditing Travel Writing Dialogically: The Example of Thomas Herbert’s Persian Glossary (1634-1677) \nMingqing Yuan\, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen\nWriters\, Reporters and Travellers: Chinese Travelogues about Africa in the 1960s \nGábor Gelléri\, Aberystwyth University\nBeyond the Printed Travelogue: Sources for a Decentred History of Travel  \n13:00-14:00: Lunch \n14:00-15:30: Panel 2: Methods \nCarl Thompson\, University of Surrey\nReading Between the Lines and Beyond the Page: Editing Pre-1900 Travel Writing by Women \nManjusha Kuruppath\, Huygens Institute\, Amsterdam\nTravelling Others: The GLOBALISE Project and Seeking Out Non-European Travel in the Dutch East India Company Archives \nTristan Mostert\, Leiden University/Linschoten-Vereeniging\nDigitizing Colonial Texts and Images: Promises and Pitfalls \n15:30-16:00: Coffee/tea \n16:00-18:00 Roundtable: Institutional Challenges & New Directions \nKatie Parker (Royal Geographical Society); Carolien Stolte (Leiden University/ Linschoten Society); Alison Ohta (Royal Asiatic Society); Zoltán Biedermann (UCL/ Hakluyt Society); John McAleer (Southampton) \n  \n  \n  \nAbstracts \nKeynote \nReorienting the Canon: Editing Muslim Women’s Accounts of Global Travel over Three Centuries (Keynote) \nSiobhan Lambert-Hurley\, University of Sheffield \n  \nWhen imagining intrepid global travellers from past centuries\, Muslim women rarely top the list. And yet the roster of queens and captives\, pilgrims and provocateurs\, who travelled the world before the mid-twentieth century was surprisingly broad and diverse. Some elites and a few others also wrote about their experiences in multiple languages and forms as they criss-crossed between Asia\, Africa\, Europe and the Americas. Editing these unfamiliar women authors into a canon of travel writing expands our archive\, while also inspiring a theoretical rethink: In what ways are our understandings of travel\, traveller and travel writing embedded in specific cultural contexts? Are there specific geographies influencing our perceptions of travel and travel writing? How does narration and recording vary across cultures and time? And what restrictions and possibilities have determined how a subject writes their stories within their own life-worlds? \n  \nPanel 1: Sources \nEditing Travel Writing Dialogically: The Example of Thomas Herbert’s Persian Glossary (1634-1677) \nLadan Niayesh\, Université Paris Cité \n  \nTravel editing is among the areas which in recent years have been most subjected to calls to decolonize the canon. Encouraging the editing of non-Western material has been part of efforts to reach more diversity in the field. Yet\, obstacles to this desired opening have included the scarcity of surviving material\, their marginalization in the records\, or their invisibilisation in past editions\, forcing us to think also of alternative methods for re-editing existing archives. This paper attempts one such experiment to restore audibility to local interpreters and mediators by editing dialogically a glossary in a 17th-century male-authored European account of a travel to Persia. As a double-voiced text putting side by side two languages and two world views going with them\, a glossary is an ideal testing ground for a dialogic method in the Bakhtinian sense of the term. Mine would involve an English-speaking and a Persian-speaking editor shedding light together on the experience of a contact across languages\, rather than having one linguistic pole reducing the other to the status of a curiosity viewed from outside\, which is what happens in the currently existing editions of this travel account by monologic English-speaking editors. \n  \n  \nWriters\, Reporters and Travellers: Chinese Travelogues about Africa in the 1960s \nMingqing Yuan\, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg \n  \nEven though China’s direct contacts with Africa could be traced back to the early 15th century during Zhenghe’s voyages (1405-1433)\, Chinese travel writings about Africa in the modern era mainly appeared in the 1950s. These travels\, mostly as part of the cultural diplomacy of the newly independent People’s Republic of China\, were carried out by writers/journalists/editors who have multiple identities and got educated both in the Chinese literati tradition and western higher education system. Their travel writings about Africa combine the traditional Chinese travel writing “youji”\, especially its prose or poetry style\, with the socialist aesthetics and morality of reportage. By first giving a general overview of Chinese travelogues during that era and then zooming in onto Gao Liang and Wang Ye’s Records of Tanzania (坦桑尼亚散记\, 1965)\, this presentation focuses on the writing and publishing mechanism of Chinese travelogues about Africa and its lasting impacts on the current Chinese writings. It reads both texts and photos in the travelogue together with related (auto)biographies and historical archives to show how Chinese travelogue produces geographical and socio-political knowledge about Africa from a Chinese perspective that reflects China’s self-positioning and ideological world-mapping in the 1960s. \n  \nBeyond the Printed Travelogue: Sources for a Decentred History of Travel \nGábor Gelléri\, Department of Modern Languages\, Aberystwyth University \n  \nTravelogues\, especially printed travelogues\, have often been the sole focus in travel studies; however\, they represent a one-sided vision of travel\, centred on the traveller. This case study investigates other sources to possibly complement\, or even replace travelogues\, to offer a more balanced\, decentred approach of travel phenomena. In 1924\, colonial lobby groups sent elite French students to various parts of the Empire\, to witness the results of the mission civilisatrice and the joys of colonial tourism\, and to ‘evangelise’ for the colonizing oeuvre. However\, none of the participants penned travelogues or reports. Even archival traces are limited: only one of the four missions\, to Indochina\, has an extensive folder in the French Overseas Archives. In the absence of travelogues\, one of the paths was to turn towards private memories. The families of the participants kindly shared numerous materials: texts circulated within and between the families\, photographs\, objects\, as well as family lore transmitted orally. \nEven this wealth of material remains limited in its scope – it represents only the metropolitan\, ‘Hexagonal’ vision of the trip. Decentring our perspective requires including those who were travelled upon\, Mary Louise Pratt’s “travellees”. A systematic survey of French and colonial press revealed that the colony is very active in reacting to\, and shaping\, the travellers’ experience: both French settlers and the colonized leverage the student group’s arrival to fashion their “travellee identity”\, sketch expectation horizons for the travellers\, and express agendas beyond the trip itself. \n  \nPanel 2: Methods \nReading Between the Lines and Beyond the Page: Editing Pre-1900 Travel Writing by Women \nCarl Thompson\, University of Surrey \n  \nThis paper will discuss the editing of women’s historic travel writing in the light of the new contexts established for this branch of the genre by recent developments in both the history of science and the history of ‘predisciplinary’ intellectual culture more widely. It will emphasise the importance of an adjusted\, non-anachronistic understanding of travel writing’s role in the intellectual culture of earlier eras\, and the similar importance of a revised understanding of the opportunities available to women to participate in contemporary debate and research across a broad spectrum of disciplines and subject-areas. \n  \nTravelling Others: The GLOBALISE project and Seeking Out Non-European Travel in the Dutch East India Company Archives \nManjusha Kuruppath\, Post-Doctoral Team Lead – Historical Contextualization\, Huygens Institute\, Amsterdam  \n  \nTo say that travel was the life blood of the Dutch East India Company’s enterprise is stating the obvious. The Dutch East India Company (the VOC) created an empire\, an administration and trading zone that spanned three continents in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. This politico-economic enterprise was without doubt forged\, facilitated and sustained by the movement of people. Crucially\, the VOC’s administrative archives records the movement not just of Company personnel\, but also its subjects\, and commoners\, sailors\, traders and armies who did not bear necessarily strong associations with the Company. Yet\, the size and structure of the archive\, and the nature of its archival inventories and document descriptions have meant that only select stories of travel have often come to the fore. Furthermore\, it is the narratives of European led VOC embassies to royal Asian courts\, tales of shipwrecks and journeys undertaken by Europeans that have been celebrated and memorialized in print. This paper will introduce the GLOBALISE\, an infrastructural project based at the Huygens Institute and its agenda to revamp how the Company archives are accessed\, read and researched. It will describe the project’s aims to a) machine transcribe five million pages of written archives; b) apply natural language processing methods to this corpus and c) contextualize entities like persons and places in the archives. It will reflect on how the project can challenge the hegemony of tales of European travel by opening up the archive and enhancing its searchability\, and detail how users can bypass archival aids and negotiate the enormity of the archive. This paper will then probe how these efforts can help us reconceptualize travel\, and identify innumerable travel narratives that positively complicate our understanding of who travelled and for what purpose in the early modern world. \n  \nDigitizing Colonial Texts and Images: Promises and Pitfalls \nTristan Mostert\, Leiden University/Linschoten Society \n  \nDigitizing images and texts relating to early modern colonialism offers the promise of unlocking these sources for wider audiences\, yet it also presents its own particular challenges. This talk dives into two case studies: the online database Atlas of Mutual Heritage\, which unlocks visual material relating to early modern Dutch colonialism from various institutions\, and the works of the Linschoten-Vereeniging – published on paper since 1908\, but now also being prepared for online publication. This talk will go into the tremendous potential of making these sources publicly available online\, but will also explore its hurdles and risks – technical and financial issues\, publishing and copyright regulations\, as well as complexities of interpretation and the risk of reproducing outdated colonial perspectives.
URL:https://royalasiaticsociety.org/event/the-futures-of-travel-editing-hakluyt-society-linschoten-vereeniging-workshop/
LOCATION:Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre\, 14 Stephenson Way\, London\, NW1 2HD\, United Kingdom
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DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250626T203000
DTSTAMP:20260417T172529
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SUMMARY:Anna McSweeney and Mariam Rosser-Owen: From Storage to Storehouse: Crafting Medieval Spain and The Torrijos Ceiling
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URL:https://royalasiaticsociety.org/event/anna-mcsweeney-and-mariam-rosser-owen/
LOCATION:Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre\, 14 Stephenson Way\, London\, NW1 2HD\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:RAS Lecture series 2024-25
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250623T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250623T200000
DTSTAMP:20260417T172529
CREATED:20250506T110432Z
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SUMMARY:Herald Van der Linde - Majapahit: Intrigue and betrayal in Indonesia's greatest empire
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URL:https://royalasiaticsociety.org/event/herald-van-der-linde/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250619T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250619T200000
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SUMMARY:*CANCELLED* Caste Away - Documentary Screening
DESCRIPTION:This event has been cancelled.
URL:https://royalasiaticsociety.org/event/caste-away-documentary-screening/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250612T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250612T200000
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SUMMARY:Norchi Prize Award Ceremony
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URL:https://royalasiaticsociety.org/event/norchi-prize-award-ceremony/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250612T163000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250612T173000
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CREATED:20241004T112621Z
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SUMMARY:Council Meeting
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URL:https://royalasiaticsociety.org/event/council-meeting-13/
LOCATION:Royal Asiatic Society Council Room\, 14 Stephenson Way\, London\, NW1 2HD\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Council meetings
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250605T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250605T200000
DTSTAMP:20260417T172529
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SUMMARY:Johan Van Mechelen (postponed)
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URL:https://royalasiaticsociety.org/event/johan-van-mechelen-title-tba/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250603T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250603T200000
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SUMMARY:Olivia Cox-Fill: Walking a Tightrope: Memories of Wu Jieping\, Personal Physician to China's Leaders
DESCRIPTION:Olivia Cox-Fill  \nWalking a Tightrope Memories of Wu Jieping\, Personal Physician to China’s Leaders  \nOlivia Cox-Fill reveals the compelling story of Dr. Wu Jieping (1917 – 2011)\, selected as personal physician to China’s leaders by Premier Zhou Enlai. \n‘All dissident scholars\, protected by those in power\, following the capitalist road\, must be eliminated.’ Chairman Mao  \nThe memoir shows what exceptional talent it took to survive and provides rare insight into life in communist China at a time when most leading intellectuals were expelled to the countryside\, imprisoned\, or beaten to death.  \nWalking A Tightrope takes us behind the Bamboo Curtain and rice paper walls to reveal the secret facts poisoning relationships between Mao Zedong and his Premier\, Zhou Enlai\, manoeuvred by Mao’s wife\, Jiang Qing. It shows how she tried to seduce and entrap Dr. Wu in order to bring Zhou Enlai down. \nIt is the only first-hand account by a trusted witness\, who was their personal physician. \nAs one of China’s most prestigious physicians\, Dr. Wu developed from an intellectual into a national leader of New China and became a vice chairman of the National People’s Congress Standing Committee. He established his global reputation in the field of urology\, (acknowledged as gifted during his post-doc studies at the University of Chicago).  This book goes behind the scenes during China’s most destructive and turbulent period\, the devastating Cultural Revolution\, characterized by Dr Wu as cultural extinction. \nDr. Wu entrusted the inside story to his friend\, Olivia Cox-Fill\, on condition that she not reveal it until he was dead. It illustrates the lavish lifestyle and demands of some of the hierarchy against a background of the appalling conditions experienced by the populace. The new edition\, with illustrative maps and photographs\, considers the repressions of the past decade and invites readers to consider what they can do now to revitalise the embers of hope and promise\, kindled during the period of “reform and opening-up” of China. It concludes with the author’s reflections on the experiences of Dr. Wu and considers parallels with life in China today. \nAuthor website: https://oliviacoxfill.com \nAuthor’s biographical note: Olivia Cox-Fill studied Medicine at University College Dublin and subsequently studied Chinese Literature and Journalism at Columbia University. She later took a two-year course in Mandarin at SOAS\, University of London. Previous Publications:  \nFor Our Daughters: How Outstanding Women Worldwide\nHave Balanced Home and Career\, Praeger 1996.\nISBN: 9780275951993 (hardback)\nChinese Edition: Nan Ren Neng Zuo de\, Nu Ren Neng Zuo de Geng Hao\, Tsinghua University Press\, 2012. \nConsultancy:  \nOlivia Cox-Fill was the Cultural Advisor for Zhuang Zi Tests His Wife by Su Liqun. [Experimental Theatre\, Yadu Enterprise Group\, 20 – 25 April 1995.] \n 
URL:https://royalasiaticsociety.org/event/olivia-cox-fill-walking-a-tightrope-memories-of-wu-jieping-personal-physician-to-chinas-leaders/
CATEGORIES:Book Launch
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250522T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250522T203000
DTSTAMP:20260417T172529
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SUMMARY:Dr Harshan Kumarasingham - A Glimpse into the Decline and Fall of the British Raj
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URL:https://royalasiaticsociety.org/event/dr-harshan-kumarasingham-a-glimpse-into-the-decline-and-fall-of-the-british-raj/
LOCATION:Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre\, 14 Stephenson Way\, London\, NW1 2HD\, United Kingdom
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250515T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250515T203000
DTSTAMP:20260417T172529
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SUMMARY:2025 AGM: Susan Stronge
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URL:https://royalasiaticsociety.org/event/2025-agm-susan-stronge/
LOCATION:Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre\, 14 Stephenson Way\, London\, NW1 2HD\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:RAS Lecture series 2024-25
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250508T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250508T183000
DTSTAMP:20260417T172529
CREATED:20250314T125943Z
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SUMMARY:Graham Jefcoate - Hutch: E. W. Hutchinson’s  Adventures in Siam 1904-1949
DESCRIPTION:  \nIn 1940\, the Royal Asiatic Society published Adventurers in Siam in the Seventeenth Century by Edward Walter Hutchinson (1881-1972)\, familiarly known as “Hutch”. If Hutch’s own experiences in Siam/Thailand (and especially in Chiang Mai and the north) in the years 1904 to 1949 were not quite as “adventurous” as those of the subjects of his book\, then they were rich\, varied and certainly not without incident. \n  \nIn 1972\, the RAS received the donation of two photograph albums Hutchinson had compiled in Chiang Mai during the 1930s and 40s. The albums have recently been restored. In this illustrated talk\, Graham Jefcoate (Chiang Mai/London) will place the albums and their contents in the context of Hutch’s extraordinary life\, work and research. \n  \nGraham Jefcoate is the editor of Enchanted Land: Foreign Writings about Chiang Mai in the Early 20th Century (River Books 2023) and In Bangkok: Siam’s Capital Through Foreign Eyes\, 1895-1935 (River Books 2024). He is currently working on a book provisionally entitled Tales of the Teak Forest about the image of north Siam in the early 20th century.
URL:https://royalasiaticsociety.org/event/graham-jefcoate-hutch-e-w-hutchinsons-adventures-in-siam-1904-1949/
LOCATION:Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre\, 14 Stephenson Way\, London\, NW1 2HD\, United Kingdom
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250506T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250506T203000
DTSTAMP:20260417T172529
CREATED:20250403T102543Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250403T102543Z
UID:21703-1746556200-1746563400@royalasiaticsociety.org
SUMMARY:Prof Hugh Kennedy - Land and Trade in Early Islam: The Economy of the Islamic Middle East 750-1050 CE (book launch)
DESCRIPTION: 
URL:https://royalasiaticsociety.org/event/prof-hugh-kennedy-land-and-trade-in-early-islam-the-economy-of-the-islamic-middle-east-750-1050-ce-book-launch/
LOCATION:Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre\, 14 Stephenson Way\, London\, NW1 2HD\, United Kingdom
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250501T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250501T203000
DTSTAMP:20260417T172529
CREATED:20250319T145526Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250409T145632Z
UID:21555-1746124200-1746131400@royalasiaticsociety.org
SUMMARY:Nuria de Castilla - A Moroccan International Library in Early Modern Period
DESCRIPTION:The library of the Saadian sultans\, in Spain (San Lorenzo de El Escorial) from the beginning of the 17th century\, is an invaluable source for the history of intellectual and cultural life in Morocco during the Saadian period. It also paves the way for a study of Morocco’s relations with its close neighbours: the Ottomans with their influence on the art of bookbinding and\, more generally\, on the art of the book; Timbuktu with its gold; Holland\, with their manufacture of colours exported to Morocco; and Spain\, with the Morisco communities serving as go-between.
URL:https://royalasiaticsociety.org/event/francois-deroche-and-nuria-de-castilla-title-tbc/
LOCATION:Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre\, 14 Stephenson Way\, London\, NW1 2HD\, United Kingdom
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250501T170000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250501T180000
DTSTAMP:20260417T172529
CREATED:20241004T112154Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241004T112154Z
UID:21012-1746118800-1746122400@royalasiaticsociety.org
SUMMARY:Finance & Investments Committee
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://royalasiaticsociety.org/event/finance-investments-committee-12/
LOCATION:Royal Asiatic Society Council Room\, 14 Stephenson Way\, London\, NW1 2HD\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Council meetings
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250501T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250501T170000
DTSTAMP:20260417T172529
CREATED:20241004T112118Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241004T112118Z
UID:21010-1746115200-1746118800@royalasiaticsociety.org
SUMMARY:Events & House Committee
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://royalasiaticsociety.org/event/events-house-committee-8/
LOCATION:Royal Asiatic Society Council Room\, 14 Stephenson Way\, London\, NW1 2HD\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Council meetings
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250501T150000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250501T160000
DTSTAMP:20260417T172529
CREATED:20241004T111931Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250318T113016Z
UID:21006-1746111600-1746115200@royalasiaticsociety.org
SUMMARY:Publications Committee
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://royalasiaticsociety.org/event/publications-committee-6/
LOCATION:Royal Asiatic Society Council Room\, 14 Stephenson Way\, London\, NW1 2HD\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Council meetings
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250430T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250430T210000
DTSTAMP:20260417T172529
CREATED:20250314T124859Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250416T100736Z
UID:21536-1746037800-1746046800@royalasiaticsociety.org
SUMMARY:Linda Jaivin: Bombard the Headquarters! From Mao to Musk
DESCRIPTION:This event is free and open to all and no registration is required. \nTo watch online over zoom email Matty (mb@royalasiaticsociety.org) \n  \nAbout the book:\nIn 1966\, with the words ‘Bombard the Headquarters!’ Mao Zedong unleashed the full\, violent force of a movement that he called the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution. By the time he died ten years later\, millions had perished\, China’s cultural heritage was in ruins\, its economic state was perilous\, its institutions of government were damaged and its society was bitterly divided. \nLinda Jaivin’s previous (and twelfth) book\, The Shortest History of China\, was named the No. 1 book on China for 2021 by fivebooks.com and has been published in about twenty-four editions worldwide. In this fascinating account\, Linda Jaivin focuses on the eventful start of the Cultural Revolution. She sheds light on the ideological quarrels that underpinned it and profiles the personalities involved. \nDiscussion of the Cultural Revolution is heavily censored in the People’s Republic\, and many young Chinese people know almost nothing about it. Even so\, it continues to cast a shadow over life in China. Current president Xi Jinping’s assumption of a third term in 2022\, his elimination of rival factions from the leadership and attempts to build a personality cult around himself discomfit many within and outside of the Chinese Communist Party. Bombard the Headquarters! helps us to understand why. \n  \n‘A beautifully concise account that makes sense of a hugely complex event in modern Chinese history. Linda Jaivin puts her formidable\, deep experience both of Chinese history and language to excellent use\, conveying in 100 pages what most would struggle to achieve in a thousand.’ \n—Kerry Brown\, Professor of Chinese Studies and Director of the Lau China Institute at King’s College\, London \n‘Excellent . . . a powerful account of a truly extraordinary period in recent Chinese history\, surefooted and perceptive\, enlivened by a wealth of vignettes and anecdotes which bring to life the dramatic and frequently horrific events that have played a seminal role in forming Chinese society as it exists today.’ \n—Philip Short\, author of Mao: A Life
URL:https://royalasiaticsociety.org/event/linda-jaivin-bombard-the-headquarters-from-mao-to-musk/
LOCATION:Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre\, 14 Stephenson Way\, London\, NW1 2HD\, United Kingdom
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250424T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250424T203000
DTSTAMP:20260417T172529
CREATED:20250319T144053Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250319T144053Z
UID:21550-1745519400-1745526600@royalasiaticsociety.org
SUMMARY:Dr Nil Palabıyık - Silent Teachers: Turkish Books and Oriental Learning in Early Modern Europe (Joint event with the LHF)
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://royalasiaticsociety.org/event/dr-nil-palabiyik-silent-teachers-turkish-books-and-oriental-learning-in-early-modern-europe-joint-event-with-the-lhf/
LOCATION:Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre\, 14 Stephenson Way\, London\, NW1 2HD\, United Kingdom
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250424T163000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250424T173000
DTSTAMP:20260417T172529
CREATED:20241004T112023Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241004T112023Z
UID:21008-1745512200-1745515800@royalasiaticsociety.org
SUMMARY:Council Meeting
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://royalasiaticsociety.org/event/council-meeting-12/
LOCATION:Royal Asiatic Society Council Room\, 14 Stephenson Way\, London\, NW1 2HD\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Council meetings
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250424T143000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250424T153000
DTSTAMP:20260417T172529
CREATED:20241004T111844Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241004T111844Z
UID:21004-1745505000-1745508600@royalasiaticsociety.org
SUMMARY:Library Committee
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://royalasiaticsociety.org/event/library-committee-9/
LOCATION:Royal Asiatic Society Council Room\, 14 Stephenson Way\, London\, NW1 2HD\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Council meetings
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250417T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250417T203000
DTSTAMP:20260417T172529
CREATED:20250319T143858Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250319T143858Z
UID:21546-1744914600-1744921800@royalasiaticsociety.org
SUMMARY:Stephen Martin: Was the VOC funding Mozart?
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://royalasiaticsociety.org/event/stephen-martin-was-the-voc-funding-mozart/
LOCATION:Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre\, 14 Stephenson Way\, London\, NW1 2HD\, United Kingdom
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250416T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250416T203000
DTSTAMP:20260417T172529
CREATED:20250319T143515Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250319T143515Z
UID:21542-1744828200-1744835400@royalasiaticsociety.org
SUMMARY:Dr Lubaaba Al-Azami - Travellers in the Golden Realm:  How Mughal India Connected England to the World
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://royalasiaticsociety.org/event/dr-lubaaba-al-azami-travellers-in-the-golden-realm-how-mughal-india-connected-england-to-the-world/
LOCATION:Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre\, 14 Stephenson Way\, London\, NW1 2HD\, United Kingdom
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250410T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250410T200000
DTSTAMP:20260417T172529
CREATED:20250225T152142Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250310T103840Z
UID:21472-1744309800-1744315200@royalasiaticsociety.org
SUMMARY:RAS Collections Evening 2025
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://royalasiaticsociety.org/event/ras-collections-evening-2025/
LOCATION:Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre\, 14 Stephenson Way\, London\, NW1 2HD\, United Kingdom
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250410T163000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250410T173000
DTSTAMP:20260417T172529
CREATED:20241004T111758Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241004T111758Z
UID:21002-1744302600-1744306200@royalasiaticsociety.org
SUMMARY:Monograph Series Editorial Board
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://royalasiaticsociety.org/event/monograph-series-editorial-board-6/
LOCATION:Royal Asiatic Society Council Room\, 14 Stephenson Way\, London\, NW1 2HD\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Council meetings
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250410T153000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250410T163000
DTSTAMP:20260417T172529
CREATED:20241004T111702Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241004T111702Z
UID:21000-1744299000-1744302600@royalasiaticsociety.org
SUMMARY:Journal Editorial Board
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://royalasiaticsociety.org/event/journal-editorial-board-6/
LOCATION:Royal Asiatic Society Council Room\, 14 Stephenson Way\, London\, NW1 2HD\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Council meetings
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