Name: Dr. Talat Ahmed in conversation with Professor David Arnold – Mohandas Gandhi: Experiments in Civil Disobedience (Book Launch)
Start: 2019-04-23T18:30:00+01:00
End: 2019-04-23T21:00:00+01:00
Location: Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre

February 2019
19 February 2019 @ 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm GMT
Dr. Oliver Crawford (University of Cambridge) – The Languages of Indonesian Socialism

Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre 14 Stephenson Way, London, United Kingdom
The Languages of Indonesian Socialism In the interwar years, Marxism exercised a powerful influence on Indonesian intellectual and political life. The most conspicuous proof of the spread of Marxism was the formation of the Partai Komunis Indonesia (PKI), which was founded in 1920 and openly acknowledged its fidelity to Marx’s principles. Even non-Communist nationalists, such…
26 February 2019 @ 6:30 pm - 9:00 pm GMT
Deborah Freeman Fahid (Independent Scholar) – The Àger Rock Crystal Chessmen: Some Early Medieval Imports from the Iranian World?
*Please Note: This event was previously listed as taking place on the 22nd of January but had to be postponed at the request of the speaker.* The talk will focus on a group of Islamic rock crystal chessmen from the early medieval period in The al-Sabah Collection, Kuwait. These fifteen chess pieces have long…
March 2019
2 March 2019 @ 10:00 am - 5:00 pm GMT
Studying Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia at University: A Conference for Sixth-Formers
http://tinyurl.com/EgMesConf
7 March 2019 @ 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm GMT
Dr. Jharna Gourlay (University of Lucknow) – Forceps, Stethoscopes and Sisterhood: British Female Doctors in 19th Century India

Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre 14 Stephenson Way, London, United Kingdom
At the end of the nineteenth century a very special group of British women went to India. They were the doctors and nurses. Most of them were missionaries, but a significant number was secular, not associated with any specific denominations. They wanted to provide medical care to the respectable Indian women who lived in seclusion…
14 March 2019 @ 6:30 pm - 9:00 pm GMT
Dr. Yossef Rapoport (Queen Mary, UoL) – Lost Maps of the Caliphs: Drawing the World in Eleventh-Century Cairo – Lecture and Book Launch

Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre 14 Stephenson Way, London, United Kingdom
LOST MAPS OF THE CALIPHS Drawing the World in Eleventh-Century Cairo by Yossef Rapoport and Emilie Savage-Smith About a millennium ago, an unknown author in Cairo completed a large and richly illustrated book. In the course of thirty-five chapters, this book guided the reader on a journey from the outermost cosmos and planets to Earth…
19 March 2019 @ 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm GMT
Ursula Sims-Williams (British Library) – Tipu Sultan’s Library: Building a Collection

Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre 14 Stephenson Way, London, United Kingdom
Tipu Sultan of Mysore is one of the most colourful characters in the history of South Asia. On the one hand he is often castigated as a fanatic Muslim and brutal ruler, but at the same time he is regarded by many as a martyr whose wars against the British foreshadowed the historic uprising of…
26 March 2019 @ 6:30 pm - 9:00 pm GMT
The Royal Asiatic Society Collections Open Evening

Royal Asiatic Society 14 Stephenson Way, London, United Kingdom
On Tuesday 26 March 2019, at 6.30pm, the Royal Asiatic Society will host a Collections Open Evening. As with similar occasions in the past, the evening will feature a series of short talks about items from the collection, and should provide a great opportunity to get “up close and personal” with rarely seen books, manuscripts,…
30 March 2019 @ 2:30 pm - 5:00 pm GMT
RASHKB Friends lectures Spring 2019 – David Bellis: Old Hong Kong Photos and The Tales They Tell: Volume 2

Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre 14 Stephenson Way, London, United Kingdom
Our friend David Bellis has kindly offered to come and talk to us again on his collection of photographs of old Hong Kong. David will share some more of his favourite photos and stories from his growing archive of historic Hong Kong images. The talk follows recent publication of his latest book “Old Hong Kong…
April 2019
11 April 2019 @ 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm BST
Dr. Rayna Denison (University of East Anglia) – The Hidden History of Studio Ghibli: Short Films, Advertising and the Industrial Reality of Japanese Animation

Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre 14 Stephenson Way, London, United Kingdom
The Hidden History of Studio Ghibli: Short Films, Advertising and the Industrial Reality of Japanese Animation While Studio Ghibli’s films have become famous around the world, their animation production in other areas remains obscure. Ghibli, like most animation studios in Japan, has long supplemented its feature film production by doing animation-for-hire. These ancillary productions take…
23 April 2019 @ 6:30 pm - 9:00 pm BST
Dr. Talat Ahmed in conversation with Professor David Arnold – Mohandas Gandhi: Experiments in Civil Disobedience (Book Launch)

Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre 14 Stephenson Way, London, United Kingdom
The Royal Asiatic Society will host a book launch of Talat Ahmed's new critical biography Mohandas Gandhi: Experiments in Civil Disobedience, which highlights the contradictions in Gandhi's non-violent philosophy. Dr Ahmed will discuss the book with Professor David Arnold followed by a question and answer session, with copies of the book available for purchase after…

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