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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20200319T183000
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SUMMARY:CANCELLED / POSTPONED Olivia Cox-Fill Book Launch - Walking a Tightrope
DESCRIPTION:THIS BOOK LAUNCH HAS BEEN CANCELLED DUE TO COVID-19. WE HOPE TO RESCHEDULE AT A FUTURE DATE. SORRY FOR THE INCONVENIENCE. \n  \n  \nWhen Dr Wu Jieping was selected by Chinese Premier Zhou En lai as his personal physician\, he had little choice in the matter though it transformed his life\, not always in a positive way. \nOlivia Cox-Fill got to know Dr Wu Jieping following the death of Zhou En Lai and while Mao’s wife was still in prison. He had attended several of China’s leaders\, including Premier Zhou En Lai\, Chairman Mao\, Liu Shao Chi and Madame Mao. Over a period of three years\, Olivia Cox-Fill interviewed Dr Wu and gathered vivid and unique recollections of his contacts with the Chinese leadership. But Wu specified that none of these memories should be published until after his death\, which occurred in 2011\, since its frank revelations would lead to state repercussions. The memoir reveals the appalling conditions in China as experienced by one of its most famous doctors\, who carried out research into TB and kidney cancer while attending to the health of the country’s leaders. It also shows what it took to survive in Communist China at a time when most leading intellectuals were expelled to the countryside\, imprisoned or beaten to death. \n \n \n  \n 
URL:https://royalasiaticsociety.org/lectures-event/olivia-cox-hoare-book-launch-walking-a-tightrope/
LOCATION:Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre\, 14 Stephenson Way\, London\, NW1 2HD\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Book Launch
ORGANIZER;CN="Amy Riach":MAILTO:ar at royalasiaticsociety.org
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20200317T183000
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SUMMARY:CANCELLED RAS Collections Open Evening
DESCRIPTION:THE COLLECTIONS EVENING HAS BEEN CANCELLED DUE TO THE PANDEMIC. WE HOPE TO RESCHEDULE AT A FUTURE DATE. \nAs with similar occasions in the past\, the evening will feature a series of short talks about items from the collection. It will also provide a rare opportunity to get “up close and personal” with rarely seen artworks\, manuscripts\, archives\, photographs\, and early printed books from the Society’s collections. \nWe are delighted to welcome three speakers to discuss their experiences working with the Society’s collections: \n\nRebekah Harbord will talk about the conservation of fragile Indo-Persian miniature paintings of Laylá and Majnūn\, believed to date from the mid-sixteenth to mid-seventeenth century\nArantza Dobbels will discuss the conservation of several maps\, drawn by Indian artists in the 1830s\, depicting the sacred island of Sivasamudram and the bridge over the Kaveri river\nSonetra Seng will describe her work cataloguing and arranging photographs and other materials from the Society’s H.G. Quaritch Wales collections\, which document Hindu and Buddhist antiquities from South East Asia\n\nAs well as enjoying a presentation from each of our speakers\, attendees will have the opportunity to view the objects featured in the talks\, in addition to some other rarely-seen treasures from the collections. We will also welcome attendees with a reception including a glass of wine and light refreshments. \nWe hope you will be able to join us for what promises to be a very enjoyable and stimulating occasion. The event is free and open to all\, but we would be grateful if attendees could RSVP to Amy Riach at ar at royalasiaticsociety.org.
URL:https://royalasiaticsociety.org/lectures-event/ras-collections-open-evening-2/
LOCATION:Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre\, 14 Stephenson Way\, London\, NW1 2HD\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:RAS Lecture Series 2019-20
ORGANIZER;CN="Amy Riach":MAILTO:ar at royalasiaticsociety.org
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20200312T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20200312T210000
DTSTAMP:20191007T142026Z
CREATED:20191007T142026Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191007T142026Z
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SUMMARY:Free London Lecture: Christopher de Bellaigue on The Islamic Enlightenment
DESCRIPTION:This lecture is going ahead! \nLecture followed by book signing with the author. Books available from a Daunt Books stall on the night. \nAll welcome\, please rsvp to Amy Riach ar at royalasiaticsociety.org \nThe Muslim world has often been accused of a failure to modernize\, reform and adapt. In fact\, from the beginning of the nineteenth century to the present day\, Islamic society in its Middle Eastern heartlands hasbeen transformed by modern ideals and practices\, including the adoption of modern medicine\, the emergence of women from seclusion\, and the development of democracy. Islamic civilization has been undergoing an anguished transformation\, and the violence of an infinitesimally small minority is the blowback from this process. Christopher de Bellaigue tells the story of the scholars and scientists\, writers and statesmen who brought about these remarkable changes across society\, politics\, and the arts. Structuring his groundbreaking history around Istanbul\, Cairo\, and Tehran\, the three main loci of Islamic culture\, de Bellaigue introduces us to key figures and reformers\, from Egypt’s visionary ruler Muhammad Ali to radicals like Iran’s first feminist Qurrat al-Ayn and the writer Ibrahim Sinasi\, who transformed Ottoman Turkey’s language and literature. In doing so\, he challenges the ossified perceptions in Western culture that selfrighteously condemn the Muslim world as hopelessly benighted.\nThe Islamic Enlightenment shows the folly of Westerners demanding modernity from people whose lives are already drenched in it. It also demonstrates that we must look beyond sensationalist headlines if we are to arrive at a genuine understanding of modern Islam and Muslim culture. \n \nLLE813111 View from the Galata Bridge\, Constantinople\, Turkey (coloured photo) by French School\, (20th century); Private Collection;© Look and Learn / Elgar Collection; French.
URL:https://royalasiaticsociety.org/lectures-event/christopher-de-bellaigue/
LOCATION:Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre\, 14 Stephenson Way\, London\, NW1 2HD\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Open Evening,RAS Lecture Series 2019-20
ORGANIZER;CN="Amy Riach":MAILTO:ar at royalasiaticsociety.org
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SUMMARY:Studying Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia at University
DESCRIPTION:A Conference for Sixth Formers Interested in Studying Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia at University\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout this Event\n\n\nEgypt and Mesopotamia (modern Iraq; ancient Sumer\, Assyria and Babylon) bequeathed to posterity some of the most fascinating remains from all of the ancient world. Today it is possible to learn the languages\, study the artefacts\, and reconstruct the most varied aspects of these ancient civilisations in astonishing detail. \nBut since these subjects are not offered at A level\, few sixth-formers are aware that they exist as University subjects; indeed\, many A level students might never have had the opportunity to learn about these cultures. \nThe purpose of this one-day conference is to give sixth formers an opportunity to explore what it is like to study Egypt and Mesopotamia at British Universities: to see what makes the subject area so intellectually and culturally exciting\, learn about the various degree courses\, and understand what admissions tutors are looking for. \n*****Official Information Page ***** \nSCHEDULE \nTime Speaker University Topic \n10:00-10:10 Nancy Highcock Cambridge Introduction \n10:10-10:25 Jana Matuszak SOAS Sumerian Women \n10:25-10:40 Christina Geisen Oxford Naming Practices in Ancient Eygpt \n10:40-10:55 Monica Palmero Fernandez Reading/Glasgow Studying Ancient Near Eastern Archaeology at University \n10:55-11:10 Christian Knoblauch Swansea TBC \n11:10-11:30 TEA/COFFEE BREAK \n11:30-11:45 Martin Worthington Cambridge A question of questions in the Epic of Gilgamesh \n11:45-12:00 Paul Nicholson Cardiff Excavation and Experiment in Egyptian Archaeology:The Case of Akhenaten’s Glass \n12:00-12:15 Louise Steel UW-TSD Enchanting Objects from the Royal Tombs of Ur \n12:15-1:00 LUNCH \n1:05-1:20 Silvia Zago Liverpool Death and the Afterlife in Ancient Egypt \n1:20-1:35 Selena Wisnom Leicester Asking the entrails: Babylonian answers to modern political questions \n1:35-1:50 Katharina Zinn UW-TSD Being hands-on: Ancient Egypt\, material culture and heritage \n1:50-2:15 CAREERS PANEL \n3:00-5:00 BRITISH MUSEUM GALLERY TOURS AND TREASURE HUNT
URL:https://royalasiaticsociety.org/lectures-event/studying-ancient-egypt-and-mesopotamia-at-university/
LOCATION:Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre\, 14 Stephenson Way\, London\, NW1 2HD\, United Kingdom
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20200225T183000
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SUMMARY:Annabel Teh Gallop Book Launch on Malay Seals
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://royalasiaticsociety.org/lectures-event/annabel-teh-gallop-book-launch-on-malay-seals/
LOCATION:Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre\, 14 Stephenson Way\, London\, NW1 2HD\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Book Launch
ORGANIZER;CN="Amy Riach":MAILTO:ar at royalasiaticsociety.org
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20200218T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20200218T210000
DTSTAMP:20191007T141824Z
CREATED:20191007T141824Z
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SUMMARY:Free London Lecture 'Travelling and Collecting in the Dutch East Indies in the 1930s: the collections of Růžena Charlota Urbanová in the National Musuem\, Prague'
DESCRIPTION:The speaker will be Dr Fiona Kerlogue (Former Deputy Keeper of Anthropology at the Horniman Musuem) \nIn March 1938 the Czech author and painter Růžena Urbanová set off from Marseilles on a journey round the world. In the Dutch East Indies she made a substantial collection of objects\, now in the Náprstek Museum in Prague. Urbanová’s journey was abruptly ended when she was interned by the Japanese in 1942. She eventually returned to Europe in 1946. This talk\, illustrated with her photographs\, focusses on the kind of experiences which Urbanová\, and others travelling between the wars\, encountered. What kind of objects did she collect and what does this tell us about contacts and encounters between Indonesians and travellers? The talk is based on the book ‘Collecting Experience in the 1930s: Růžena Charltta Urbanová and her collection in the Náprstek Museum\, Prague’\, by Fiona Kerlogue and Dagmar Pospíšilová\, published in 2018 by the Prague National Museum. \nNo need to pre-book\, all welcome.
URL:https://royalasiaticsociety.org/lectures-event/dr-fiona-kerlogue-former-deputy-keeper-of-anthropology-at-the-horniman-musuem/
LOCATION:Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre\, 14 Stephenson Way\, London\, NW1 2HD\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:RAS Lecture Series 2019-20
ORGANIZER;CN="Amy Riach":MAILTO:ar at royalasiaticsociety.org
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20200213T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20200213T210000
DTSTAMP:20191007T141247Z
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SUMMARY:FREE London Lecture: The Ka'ba of Mecca as Axis and Matrix Mundi
DESCRIPTION:The Ka’ba of Mecca as axis and matrix mundi\, Dr Simon O’Meara (SOAS) \nMappa mundi with the ‘Dome of the earth’ (Qubbat al-arḍ) at the centre\, the Kaʿba next to it\, and the Lighthouse of Alexandria at the perimeter. From an unidentified late medieval or pre-modern Persianate manuscript. Gouache and ink on paper.
URL:https://royalasiaticsociety.org/lectures-event/dr-simon-omeara-soas/
LOCATION:Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre\, 14 Stephenson Way\, London\, NW1 2HD\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:RAS Lecture Series 2019-20
ORGANIZER;CN="Amy Riach":MAILTO:ar at royalasiaticsociety.org
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20200121T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20200121T210000
DTSTAMP:20191007T141059Z
CREATED:20191007T141059Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191007T141059Z
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SUMMARY:Dr Ed Pulford (University of Cambridge)
DESCRIPTION:Time and History across China’s Northeastern Borders
URL:https://royalasiaticsociety.org/lectures-event/dr-edward-pulford-university-of-cambridge/
LOCATION:Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre\, 14 Stephenson Way\, London\, NW1 2HD\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:RAS Lecture Series 2019-20
ORGANIZER;CN="Amy Riach":MAILTO:ar at royalasiaticsociety.org
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20200116T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20200116T210000
DTSTAMP:20191007T140506Z
CREATED:20191007T140506Z
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SUMMARY:Professor Henrietta Harrison (Oxford University)
DESCRIPTION:George Thomas Staunton and the Perils of being a China Expert in early nineteenth-century London
URL:https://royalasiaticsociety.org/lectures-event/professor-henrietta-harrison-oxford-university/
LOCATION:Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre\, 14 Stephenson Way\, London\, NW1 2HD\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:RAS Lecture Series 2019-20
ORGANIZER;CN="Amy Riach":MAILTO:ar at royalasiaticsociety.org
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20191212T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20191212T210000
DTSTAMP:20191007T140129Z
CREATED:20191007T140129Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191007T140129Z
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SUMMARY:Dr Peter Coles (Morus Londinium and Goldsmiths University)
DESCRIPTION:Book Launch: Silk\, Syrup and Shade: 4000 years of Mulberry Migrations
URL:https://royalasiaticsociety.org/lectures-event/dr-peter-coles-morus-londinium-and-goldsmiths-university/
LOCATION:Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre\, 14 Stephenson Way\, London\, NW1 2HD\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Book Launch
ORGANIZER;CN="Amy Riach":MAILTO:ar at royalasiaticsociety.org
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20191210T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20191210T210000
DTSTAMP:20191007T135901Z
CREATED:20191007T135901Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191007T135901Z
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SUMMARY:Dr George Mak (Hong Kong Baptist University)
DESCRIPTION:The Mandarin Union Version after One Hundred Years: A Reflection on the History and Impact of a Classic Chinese Biblical Translation
URL:https://royalasiaticsociety.org/lectures-event/dr-george-mak-hong-kong-baptist-university/
LOCATION:Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre\, 14 Stephenson Way\, London\, NW1 2HD\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:RAS Lecture Series 2019-20
ORGANIZER;CN="Amy Riach":MAILTO:ar at royalasiaticsociety.org
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20191120T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20191120T210000
DTSTAMP:20191004T115817Z
CREATED:20191004T115817Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191004T115817Z
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SUMMARY:Lord Stephen Green
DESCRIPTION:Lecture and book presentation. The Human Odyssey – East\, West and the search for Universal Values.
URL:https://royalasiaticsociety.org/lectures-event/lord-stephen-green/
LOCATION:Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre\, 14 Stephenson Way\, London\, NW1 2HD\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:RAS Lecture Series 2019-20
ORGANIZER;CN="Amy Riach":MAILTO:ar at royalasiaticsociety.org
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20191119T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20191119T210000
DTSTAMP:20190927T120439Z
CREATED:20190927T120439Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190927T120439Z
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SUMMARY:Dr. Tilman Frasch (Manchester Metropolitan University)
DESCRIPTION:Bagan and the Theravada Buddhist Ecumene in the 12-13th Centuries CE
URL:https://royalasiaticsociety.org/lectures-event/dr-tilman-frasch-manchester-metropolitan-university/
LOCATION:Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre\, 14 Stephenson Way\, London\, NW1 2HD\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:RAS Lecture Series 2019-20
ORGANIZER;CN="Amy Riach":MAILTO:ar at royalasiaticsociety.org
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20191114T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20191114T210000
DTSTAMP:20190927T101049Z
CREATED:20190927T101049Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190927T101049Z
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SUMMARY:Professor Michael Franklin (Swansea University)
DESCRIPTION:Phebe Gibbs\, Our Calcutta Correspondent.
URL:https://royalasiaticsociety.org/lectures-event/professor-michael-franklin-swansea-university/
LOCATION:Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre\, 14 Stephenson Way\, London\, NW1 2HD\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:RAS Lecture Series 2019-20
ORGANIZER;CN="Amy Riach":MAILTO:ar at royalasiaticsociety.org
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20191112T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20191112T210000
DTSTAMP:20190927T100743Z
CREATED:20190927T100743Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190927T100743Z
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SUMMARY:Dr Giles Tillotson (DAG\, New Delhi)
DESCRIPTION:Vision and Landscape: New Perspectives on Oriental Scenery by Thomas and William Daniell
URL:https://royalasiaticsociety.org/lectures-event/dr-giles-tillotson-dag-new-delhi/
LOCATION:Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre\, 14 Stephenson Way\, London\, NW1 2HD\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:RAS Lecture Series 2019-20
ORGANIZER;CN="Amy Riach":MAILTO:ar at royalasiaticsociety.org
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20191111T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20191111T210000
DTSTAMP:20190927T100444Z
CREATED:20190927T100444Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190927T100444Z
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SUMMARY:Annual Rustaveli Day 2019
DESCRIPTION:The Anglo-Georgian Connection Series: Episode 2
URL:https://royalasiaticsociety.org/lectures-event/annual-rustaveli-day-2019/
LOCATION:Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre\, 14 Stephenson Way\, London\, NW1 2HD\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:RAS Lecture Series 2019-20
ORGANIZER;CN="Amy Riach":MAILTO:ar at royalasiaticsociety.org
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20191106T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20191106T210000
DTSTAMP:20190927T095356Z
CREATED:20190927T095356Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190927T095356Z
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SUMMARY:Paul Bromberg Lecture
DESCRIPTION:Thai Silverware: \nPaul Bromberg will present a talk on “Thai Silver and Nielloware”\, which display exquisite craftsmanship and design to rival better-known genres of silver from Asia. However\, there has to date been little research undertaken about this fascinating subject. Bromberg will examine the history and scope of specified Thai silver and nielloware production dating from the early 19th century to the present\, as well as the various forms and designs utilised. \nPaul Bromberg is the serving editor of the Journal of the Siam Society and a contributing editor to Arts of Asia magazine. He is a Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society\, a lifetime member of both the Siam Society and the Southeast Asian Ceramics Society\, and writes and lectures regularly about Thai art and antiques. He has been living in Asia since 1985\, and resident in Bangkok since 1997. He read Modern Chinese Studies at the University of Leeds\, and also studied at Fudan University\, Shanghai\, and Xiamen University\, Fujian province. He was an editorial advisor to Bencharong & Chinaware  in the Court of Siam (2011)\, a contributing author to Royal Porcelain from Siam: Unpacking the Ring Collection (2013) and the author of THAI SILVER and Nielloware (2019).
URL:https://royalasiaticsociety.org/lectures-event/paul-bromberg-lecture/
LOCATION:Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre\, 14 Stephenson Way\, London\, NW1 2HD\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:RAS Lecture Series 2019-20
ORGANIZER;CN="Amy Riach":MAILTO:ar at royalasiaticsociety.org
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20191031T173000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20191031T210000
DTSTAMP:20191007T133105Z
CREATED:20191007T133105Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191007T133105Z
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SUMMARY:Bicentenary Brainstorming Session
DESCRIPTION: 
URL:https://royalasiaticsociety.org/lectures-event/bicentenary-brainstorming-session/
LOCATION:Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre\, 14 Stephenson Way\, London\, NW1 2HD\, United Kingdom
ORGANIZER;CN="Amy Riach":MAILTO:ar at royalasiaticsociety.org
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20191029T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20191029T210000
DTSTAMP:20190927T100057Z
CREATED:20190927T100057Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190927T100057Z
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SUMMARY:Bayly Prize Award 2019
DESCRIPTION:THE BAYLY PRIZE\nThe 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 award. Endowment for the Prize has been funded by over fifty friends and colleagues of Professor Bayly and by generous contributions from The Past & Present Society\, The Wolfson Foundation\, The Thriplow Charitable Trust\, Cambridge University Press and Wiley-Blackwell.\nThe prize was awarded for the first time in 2018.\nIn 2019 the Society received 26 submissions from 11 universities in the United Kingdom which were considered by the panel of adjudicators consisting of Professor Taylor Sherman (LSE)\, Professor Sunil Amrith (Harvard)\, Professor James Laidlaw (Cambridge)\, Professor Rebecca Empson (UCL) and Professor Naoko Shimizu (Yale-NUS). The panel drew up a short list of four. The finalists are (in alphabetical order): \n\nDr. Radha Kapuria (KCL)\, Music in Colonial Punjab: A Social History\nDr. Ahmad Moradi (Manchester)\, Politics of Persuasion: Making and Unmaking Revolution in Iran\nDr. Sahil Nijhawan (UCL)\, Human-animal relations and the role of cultural norms in tiger conservation in the Idu Mishmi of Arunachal Pradesh\, India\nLexi (Alexandra) Stadlen (LSE)\, Weaving lives from Violence: Possibility and Change for Muslim Women in West Bengal\n\nThe winner will be announced by Lyndal Roper\, Regius Professor of Modern History at the University of Oxford\, at a reception held at the Royal Asiatic Society on Tuesday 29th October at 6.30pm. Open to Fellows of the Royal Asiatic Society and invited guests. RSVP by 12th October to Amy Riach ar at royalasiaticsociety.org \nThe Appeal for funds remains open to enable the Prize to be put on a sustainable long-term footing. Contributions can be made through the Royal Asiatic Society’s website at following page: \nhttps://royalasiaticsociety.org/about-us/the-bayly-prize/
URL:https://royalasiaticsociety.org/lectures-event/bayly-prize-award-2019/
LOCATION:Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre\, 14 Stephenson Way\, London\, NW1 2HD\, United Kingdom
ORGANIZER;CN="Amy Riach":MAILTO:ar at royalasiaticsociety.org
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20191022T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20191022T210000
DTSTAMP:20190906T113616Z
CREATED:20190906T113616Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190906T113616Z
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SUMMARY:Dr. Philip Mansel (Author)
DESCRIPTION:The Sun King and the Sultan: Louis XIV and the Ottoman Empire. \n \nUsing 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 Imperial pressure on the Ottoman Empire. In 1709-10\, the French ambassador in Constantinople arranged grain shipments from throughout the Ottoman empire to save France from starvation. Meanwhile French artists and writers spread the fashion for turqueries in Europe: Antoine Galland translated the 1001 Nights into French\, Jean Baptiste Vanmour painted the costumes and professions of the Levant\, as well as the reception of the French ambassador by the Sultan. At the same time\, pursuing a double policy\,  Louis XIV was in contact with discontented Christian leaders in Aleppo and other provinces\, and sent French engineers to survey Ottoman ports\, from Constantinople to Alexandria\, to facilitate French conquests in case the Ottoman Empire collapsed. \n  \nDr. Philip Mansel’s books include Sultans in Splendour: Monarchs of the Middle East 1869-1945 (1988); Constantinople\, City of the World’s Desire (1995); and Levant: Splendour and Catastrophe on the Mediterranean (2010).  King of the World: the life of Louis XIV\, published by Penguin in July 2019 is his latest book. \n 
URL:https://royalasiaticsociety.org/lectures-event/philip-mansel-author/
LOCATION:Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre\, 14 Stephenson Way\, London\, NW1 2HD\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:RAS Lecture Series 2019-20
ORGANIZER;CN="Amy Riach":MAILTO:ar at royalasiaticsociety.org
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SUMMARY:Professor Stephen Martin (University of Chiang Mai)
DESCRIPTION:Flute Lecture Concert: Surviving Asia\, Sponsoring Mozart.\nThe Polymathic Portrait of Dr Ferdinand Dejean
URL:https://royalasiaticsociety.org/lectures-event/professor-stephen-martin-university-of-chiang-mai/
LOCATION:Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre\, 14 Stephenson Way\, London\, NW1 2HD\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:RAS Lecture Series 2019-20
ORGANIZER;CN="Amy Riach":MAILTO:ar at royalasiaticsociety.org
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SUMMARY:Dr Bo Gao Lecture
DESCRIPTION:China-North Korea Economic Cooperation \nBo 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.
URL:https://royalasiaticsociety.org/lectures-event/dr-bo-gao-lecture/
LOCATION:Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre\, 14 Stephenson Way\, London\, NW1 2HD\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Guest Lecture
ORGANIZER;CN="Amy Riach":MAILTO:ar at royalasiaticsociety.org
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SUMMARY:Dr. Stefan Halikowski-Smith (Swansea University)
DESCRIPTION:Lecture: Two Missionary Accounts of Southeast Asia in the Late Seventeenth Century
URL:https://royalasiaticsociety.org/lectures-event/dr-stefan-halikowski-smith-swansea-university/
LOCATION:Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre\, 14 Stephenson Way\, London\, NW1 2HD\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:RAS Lecture Series 2019-20
ORGANIZER;CN="Amy Riach":MAILTO:ar at royalasiaticsociety.org
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SUMMARY:Dr Sarah Tiffin (Author): Raffles and the Course of Empire: Decoding Ruin Imagery in The History of Java
DESCRIPTION:When 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 reflections on the brevity of life to grander meditations on the decline and fall of empire. It is not surprising\, then\, that with the establishment of the British interregnum government on Java in 1811\, the island’s Hindu and Buddhist architectural remains were brought into the lexicon of ruin appreciation. Nor is it surprising that Raffles devoted a whole chapter to the subject in his publication. This paper focusses on a number of archaeological drawings that were the basis for the plates and vignettes in The History of Java. In tracing how the images were transformed for publication\, it ponders the means by which British pictorial conventions associated with ruin appreciation influenced not only how artists depicted Java’s ruined candi\, but also how Raffles’s readers would have understood the illustrations and their wider implications for the state of Javanese civilisation\, both past and present.
URL:https://royalasiaticsociety.org/lectures-event/dr-sarah-tiffin-author-raffles-and-the-course-of-empire-decoding-ruin-imagery-in-the-history-of-java/
LOCATION:Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre\, 14 Stephenson Way\, London\, NW1 2HD\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Guest Lecture
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SUMMARY:The Silk Roads: arts\, history and exploration
DESCRIPTION:The Silk Roads: arts\, history and exploration\n  \nBuddha\, 2nd c.\, National Museum New Delhi 68.187.\nPhotographer Daniel Waugh\nA Royal Asiatic Society Summer School\nMonday July 8 – Thursday July 11\, 2019\n \nThe influence of the interactions enabled by the Afro-Eurasian trade routes known as the Silk Roads are much in discussion today\, especially with China’s Belt Road Initiative. But what is the story of the Silk Road? Does such a concept make sense? What does it mean in terms of the history and arts of pre-modern Afro-Eurasia? \nIn this 4 day course\, leading scholars on the historical Silk Road will introduce the term\, its history and the 20th century explorations which brought the role of central Asia to the fore. The course will then look in some details at aspects of Silk Road art and technologies: silk production\, books and printing\, glass\, ceramics and metalware. The participants will have the chance to see original manuscripts and books at the British Library and the Royal Asiatic Society\, introduced by their curators. \nThis is a course intended for a general audience. No prior knowledge is required\, although a short bibliography will be supplied for those wishing to do some reading in advance. The group will be limited to 12-15 people and therefore there will be ample opportunity for questions and group discussion. \n  \nThe Silk Roads: arts\, history and exploration \n  \nDETAILS \nVenue:           The Royal Asiatic Society\, 14 Stephenson Way\, London NW1 2HD \nDuration:      4 days Monday-Thursday non residential \nCost:               £600 Non-residential including 3 lunches and tea and coffee (Fellows receive a 12% discount). \n  \nCOURSE ORGANISERS AND LEAD TUTORS \n  \nDr. Susan Whitfield   Honorary Senior Lecturer\, University College London \nDr. Alison Ohta          Director\, Royal Asiatic Society \nDr. Peter Coles          Morus Londinium and Goldsmiths’ College London \nMélodie Doumy         IDP\, The British Library \n  \nFor further information: ao@royalasiaticsociety.org; \n  \nPhotographer: John Falconer \n  \nPROGRAMME  \n  \nMonday: 8 July The Silk Road: History\, Art and Exploration \n  \n09.30-10.30: Welcome\, introductions and practical matters over coffee \n10.30-12.30: The Silk Road: Introduction to its History and Art \n12.30-14.00: Sandwich lunch \n14.00-17.00: The Silk Road: Exploration and Discovery (2 lectures with break) \n  \n  \nThe Silk Roads: arts\, history and exploration \n  \nTuesday 9 July: Silks and Sericulture on the Silk Road  \n  \n10.00-11.30: Sericulture and its Spread \n11.30-13.00: Silks in Buddhism \n13.00-14.30: Lunch \n14.30-16.00: Silks in Christianity \n16.30-19.00: England’s Early Silk Industry: Walk and lecture in St James led by Dr. Peter Coles \nFollowed by early evening drinks \n  \n  \nWednesday 10 July: Books\, paper and printing on the Silk Road \n  \n10.00-11.00:  Lecture on development of books\, paper and printing in East Asia (SW) \n11.00-13.00:  Visit to British Library to view Silk Road manuscripts (MD) \n13.00-14.30:  Lunch \n14.30-16.00: ‘Judging Books by their Covers’\, Islamic Book bindings (AO) followed by session in RAS Library \n  \nThursday 11 July: Glass\, Ceramics and Metalware \n  \nThree lectures telling the stories of particular Silk Road objects. \n10.00-11.30: A Roman glass bowl (SW) \n11.30-13.00: An Islamic ceramic dish (SW) \n13.00-14.30:  Lunch \n14.30-16.00:  A Bactrian ewer (SW) \nClosing Discussion
URL:https://royalasiaticsociety.org/lectures-event/the-silk-roads-arts-history-and-exploration/
LOCATION:Royal Asiatic Society\, 14 Stephenson Way\, London\, NW1 2HD\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Courses
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SUMMARY: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
DESCRIPTION: From Stone to Paper: Architecture as History in the Late Mughal Empire\nand\nOttoman Baroque: The Architectural Refashioning of Eighteenth-Century Istanbul\nDiscussion and Book Launch\nOn 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 and Ünver Rüstem’s Ottoman Baroque: The Architectural Refashioning of Eighteenth-Century Istanbul. Chairing the discussion will be Dr. Sussan Babaie (Andrew W. Mellon Reader in the Arts of Iran and Islam\, The Courtauld Institute of Art). \n \nBy the 18th century\, the Mughal Empire was well beyond its so-called golden age. Its control of the Indian subcontinent was increasingly threatened by regional Indian states\, as well as by the encroaching British Empire. In response to a rapidly changing sociopolitical landscape\, the Mughal emperors used architecture to harness their illustrious past and stage cultural authority for contemporary audiences. Chanchal Dadlani provides the first in-depth look at this crucial period of architectural history. Discussing a rich array of built forms and urban spaces—from grand imperial mosques to Delhi’s bustling thoroughfares—the volume sheds light on long-overlooked buildings. It also explores representations of architectural monuments that circulated in the form of building plans\, manuscript paintings\, and postcards. Ultimately\, the book reveals how Mughal architects\, artists\, and patrons built on the cultural legacy of their imperial predecessors to create the very concept of a historical style identifiable as Mughal. \nReview Highlights \n“In a bold new cultural history\, Dadlani traces how Mughal architectural style was canonized over the 18th century\, just in time to become one with the very idea of India in the Western imagination.”—A. Azfar Moin\, The University of Texas at Austin \n“Professor Chanchal Dadlani has produced the first full-length book on 18th-century Mughal architecture whose buildings are often dismissed as unworthy of study.  Her exciting and richly illustrated volume provides deep insight to this period\, making us rethink our fundamental understandings of the later Mughals.”—Catherine B. Asher\, University of Minnesota \nBio \nChanchal Dadlani is Associate Professor of Art History at Wake Forest University. Her first book\, From Stone to Paper: Architecture as History in the Late Mughal Empire (Yale University Press\, 2018)\, received a Mellon Author Award from the Society of Architectural Historians. Her research has been supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities\, the Getty Research Institute\, Fulbright-Hays\, and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. She has also lectured widely at universities\, museums and research institutes in the United States and Europe\, and delivered the annual Benjamin Zucker Lecture in Mughal Art at the Victoria & Albert Museum in 2017. Her work has been published in Ars Orientalis\, Artforum\, and Art History on topics including Mughal art\, exchanges between France and India\, and the global reception of contemporary South Asian art. Prior to coming to Wake Forest\, she was a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at Columbia University. She received her Ph.D. from Harvard University. \n  \n \nWith its idiosyncratic yet unmistakable adaptation of European Baroque models\, the eighteenth-century architecture of Istanbul has frequently been dismissed by modern observers as inauthentic and derivative\, a view reflecting broader unease with notions of Western influence on Islamic cultures. In Ottoman Baroque—the first English-language book on the topic—Ünver Rüstem provides a compelling reassessment of this building style and shows how between 1740 and 1800 the Ottomans consciously coopted European forms to craft a new\, politically charged\, and globally resonant image for their empire’s capital. \n  \nRüstem reclaims the label “Ottoman Baroque” as a productive framework for exploring the connectedness of Istanbul’s eighteenth-century buildings to other traditions of the period. Using a wealth of primary sources\, he demonstrates that this architecture was in its own day lauded by Ottomans and foreigners alike for its fresh\, cosmopolitan effect. Purposefully and creatively assimilated\, the style’s cross-cultural borrowings were combined with Byzantine references that asserted the Ottomans’ entitlement to the Classical artistic heritage of Europe. Such aesthetic rebranding was part of a larger endeavor to reaffirm the empire’s power at a time of intensified East-West contact\, taking its boldest shape in a series of imperial mosques built across the city as landmarks of a state-sponsored idiom. \n  \nCopiously illustrated and drawing on previously unpublished documents\, Ottoman Baroque breaks new ground in our understanding of Islamic visual culture in the modern era and offers a persuasive counterpoint to Eurocentric accounts of global art history. \n  \nReviews \n“Ottoman Baroque takes a reflective and fine-grained look at a major stylistic turn in Ottoman architecture that has previously been dismissed and misunderstood in modern scholarship. Ünver Rüstem boldly reclaims the topic with an alternative and highly original critical perspective.”—Ahmet Ersoy\, Boğaziçi University \n“Ünver Rüstem’s book offers a highly original mapping of local and foreign perceptions of the Ottoman Baroque’s aesthetic syncretism. By attending to the changing architectural ambitions of imperial mosque construction in the Ottoman capital\, Istanbul\, Rüstem’s study deftly navigates this period of robust artistic dialogue and cross-cultural transfer. Historiographically attuned\, visually compelling\, and thoughtfully written\, this is a must-read for anyone engaged with the global Baroque.”—Mary Roberts\, The University of Sydney \n  \nBio \nÜnver Rüstem is Assistant Professor of Islamic Art and Architecture at Johns Hopkins University. His research centers on the Ottoman Empire in its later centuries and on questions of cross-cultural exchange and interaction. He received his PhD from Harvard University and has held fellowships at Columbia University\, the University of Cambridge\, and Harvard University. In addition to his new book\, he has published articles and chapters on subjects ranging from the reception of illustrated Islamic manuscripts to the symbolic deployment of ceremonial in the context of Ottoman architecture. At present\, he is working on a new book project that explores the role of costume in Ottoman interactions with Western Europe during the early modern and modern periods.
URL:https://royalasiaticsociety.org/lectures-event/joint-book-launch-and-discussion-ottoman-baroque-the-architectural-refashioning-of-eighteenth-century-istanbul-and-from-stone-to-paper-architecture-as-history-in-the-late-mughal-empire/
LOCATION:Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre\, 14 Stephenson Way\, London\, NW1 2HD\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Book Launch
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SUMMARY:Guest Lecture - Dr. Ravinder Reddy - Numinous Imagery on Arms and Armour of the Indian Subcontinent
DESCRIPTION:Numinous Imagery on Arms and Armour of the Indian Subcontinent \nDr. Ravinder Reddy \n(Adjunct Professor of Psychiatry\, Univ of California San Diego; Board Member\, South Asian Arts Council of the San Diego Museum of Art) \n  \nIndian arms and armour are frequently adorned with auspicious and sacred imagery to induce shakti – divine power – to enter them\, thus transforming functional objects into implements that hold within them the quality of numen – magical or divine power. In battle\, empowered arms and armour serve to protect the warrior\, and to assist in achieving victory in both physical and spiritual realms. In peacetime\, these pluripotent symbols are aimed at warding off evil\, and to attract luck and wealth. During rituals\, often accompanied by dance\, weapons served to recreate on earth the mythic battles between good and evil. \n \nThis presentation will survey the varieties of Hindu sacred images – Goddesses\, Gods\, Demigods\, mythological beasts\, symbols – that adorn arms and armour of the Indian subcontinent\, and to explore the underlying reasons why these specific images may have been chosen amongst the vast pantheon of Indian sacred imagery. \n  \n  \n \n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://royalasiaticsociety.org/lectures-event/guest-lecture-dr-ravinder-reddy-numinous-imagery-on-arms-and-armour-of-the-indian-subcontinent/
LOCATION:Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre\, 14 Stephenson Way\, London\, NW1 2HD\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Guest Lecture
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SUMMARY:Susan Stronge (V&A Museum) - The Lapidary Arts of the Mughal empire in the 17th and 18th centuries
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URL:https://royalasiaticsociety.org/lectures-event/dr-susan-stronge-va-museum-lecture-title-tbc/
LOCATION:Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre\, 14 Stephenson Way\, London\, NW1 2HD\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Lecture Series 2018-2019
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SUMMARY:Book Launch: The Living Alphabet
DESCRIPTION: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 \n  \nThe 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. \nThe original manuscript was kept in Mukhranbatoni Palace for many years but was taken to Paris at the start of 20th Century and then sold to an English antique dealer. It later made its way into the private collection of William Edward David Allen\, friend of Oliver Wardrop’s and was purchased by the Lilly Library (Indiana State University) at the Sotheby Auction in 1952. \n \n“The Living Alphabet” is published by the Art Palace of Georgia and offers not only a unique reproduction of 37 letters but fascinating research into the manuscript and its journey from Georgia to the United States. \n  \nProgramme \n18:30   Welcome remarks: Dr Alison Ohta\, Director of the Royal Asiatic Society \n18.35   Welcome remarks: HE Tamar Beruchashvili\, Ambassador of Georgia to the United Kingdom \n18.40   Mrs Tsira Kemularia\, publisher the Living Alphabet \n18:45   Video address by Dr Alexander Mikaberidze. Author the Living Alphabet\, Professor of History\, Ruth Herring Noel Endowed Chair for the Curatorship of the James Smith Noel Collection\, Louisiana State University \n19:00 The Living Alphabet\, book presentation by Professor George Kalandia\, Director of the Art Palace of Georgia \n19:20   Q&A \n19:30   The Living Alphabet – book exhibition followed by Georgian wine reception with canapés. \nTo register for the event please follow the link here.
URL:https://royalasiaticsociety.org/lectures-event/book-launch-the-living-alphabet/
LOCATION:Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre\, 14 Stephenson Way\, London\, NW1 2HD\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Book Launch
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SUMMARY:Edward Weech (Royal Asiatic Society) - Systems of Religion and Morality in the Collections of the Royal Asiatic Society
DESCRIPTION: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 books\, manuscripts\, and artworks. \nThe lecture will examine selected treasures from the Society’s collections to make some suggestions about the approach of British Orientalists to the study of religion; how this related to eighteenth-century Enlightenment historiography and philosophy; and how this approach may have developed over the course of the nineteenth century. Finally\, it will consider the Society’s collections in the wider context of British interest in foreign cultures and traditions\, and ideas about public morality and religious pluralism.
URL:https://royalasiaticsociety.org/lectures-event/edward-weech-royal-asiatic-society-systems-of-religion-and-moralit-in-the-collections-of-the-royal-asiatic-society/
LOCATION:Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre\, 14 Stephenson Way\, London\, NW1 2HD\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Lecture Series 2018-2019
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