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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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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20190628T180000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20190606T183000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20190529T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20190529T210000
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SUMMARY:Lecture and Book Launch - Dominic Faulder (Author): Anand Panyarachun and the Making of Modern Thailand
DESCRIPTION:Anand Panyarachun and the Making of Modern Thailand \nThe 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\, and the development of Thailand. Anand’s life also contains moments of significant drama and numerous situations that put his mettle to the test. \n\nDominic Faulder’s 600-page book recounts the key events in the elderly statesman’s long life – from his childhood in Bangkok during the Second World War through to the derailment of his diplomatic career in 1976\, his two unexpected tenures as an appointed prime minister\, his role in the drafting the ‘People’s Constitution’ of 1997\, and much more. This authorised biography is based on six years of in-depth research\, over 60 interviews with Anand himself\, and with more than 100 others who have encountered or worked closely alongside him. \n  \nAbout the Author \nOriginally from London\, Dominic Faulder has been based in Bangkok since the early 1980s and has worked for numerous news organisations and publications. He was previously a special correspondent with the Hong Kong newsweekly Asiaweek\, and had particular involvement in the coverage of Burma/Myanmar and Cambodia in the 1980s and 1990s. He has been an associate editor with the Tokyo-based Nikkei Asian Review since 2014. \n \nREVIEW EXTRACTS \n“This splendid book … Dominic Faulder has given us a remarkably broad and deep view of one of Thailand’s great political figures.” Chris Baker\, Bangkok Post. \n“Dominic Faulder’s new biography is a very welcome addition to the rather sparse English-language offerings on former Thai political leaders … the book is highly recommended.” Dr Greg Raymond\, New Mandala. \n“Anand is the proverbial lens through which the reader views Thailand’s development … Faulder took an ambitious approach to his bio-history of Anand and his times\, and his efforts paid off. Those interested in Thailand should make room on the shelf.” Benjamin Zawacki\, Kyoto Review of Southeast Asia. \n“All said\, this important work will set the standard for biographies of many other significant figures in contemporary Thai history that are long overdue.” Paul Wedel\, Mekong Review. \n“Faulder has done a thorough job researching and writing this book … [it] is insightful and accessible to experts on Thailand and laypeople alike.” Dr Paul Chambers\, Asia Sentinel. \n“A weighty biography … As Faulder writes\, the former prime minister’s two shortlived administrations in the early 1990s are judged to have been the least corrupt and\, in many respects\, the most effective in Thai history [earning him] a reputation as ‘the best prime minister Thailand never elected’.” Victor Mallet\, Financial Times.
URL:https://royalasiaticsociety.org/lectures-event/book-launch-dominic-faulder-author-anand-panyarachun-and-the-making-of-modern-thailand/
CATEGORIES:Book Launch
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20190522T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20190522T203000
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SUMMARY:*CANCELLED* “A Grandmother's Legacy” Indus Experiences Lecture by Jenny Mallin
DESCRIPTION:*CANCELLED AT THE REQUEST OF ORGANISER*\n\nA Grandmother’s Legacy\n\n“Five generations of a British family in India seen through the eyes of their granddaughter”\n \n\n\nJenny 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 award-winning book ‘A Grandmother’s Legacy’ are an enthralling glimpse into the lives of these ladies. \nThis talk is peppered with insights about the life and times of Jenny’s ancestors\, painting a broad brushstroke of their personal life\, rather than the official message of the British Raj. It also explores their husbands’ work in Education\, on the Railways and in the Military. \nJenny Mallin\nWith her passions for cooking\, India\, research and writing\, Jenny’s award-winning cookbook “A Grandmother’s Legacy” has been a labour of love – a memoir that mingles the history of her family when they lived in India\, with her grandmothers’ recipes that were prudently passed down through the generations. Each recipe has been lovingly researched\, leading Jenny on a road of discovery about her ancestors\, with her grandmothers’ legacy continuing to assist in providing clues to their rich and eventful past. \nJenny has traveled extensively throughout India for thirty years\, and has also visited many other countries\, including Hong Kong\, Japan\, Australia\, and America. Her travelogues and written anecdotes of her journeys are much enjoyed by her family and friends. \nNow a writer\, Jenny has had a colourful career as a Travel Buyer (which spawned her passion for travel and meeting people) and before that she was in television production at the BBC in London. Any spare time that she has is spent doing painting\, home decorating\, listening to music\, photography and enjoying nature.
URL:https://royalasiaticsociety.org/lectures-event/a-grandmothers-legacy-indus-experiences-lecture-by-jenny-mallin/
LOCATION:Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre\, 14 Stephenson Way\, London\, NW1 2HD\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Related Organisation's Event
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20190521T183000
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SUMMARY:Cheryl Porter (Director of the Montefiascione Project) - Painting Manuscripts with Metals and Insects: Grind or flatten\, catch and cook
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URL:https://royalasiaticsociety.org/lectures-event/cheryl-porter-director-of-the-montefiascione-project-painting-manuscripts-with-metals-and-insects-grind-or-flatten-catch-and-cook/
LOCATION:Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre\, 14 Stephenson Way\, London\, NW1 2HD\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Lecture Series 2018-2019
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20190518T143000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20190518T170000
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SUMMARY:RASHKB Friends lectures Spring 2019 - Barbara Anslow
DESCRIPTION: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 lady.  She gave the talk herself\, with her daughter by her side\, with just a few notes – she talked eloquently about their life in the camp and her memory is so clear and focused strongly on how they ‘made do’ with the little that they had.  Definitely not to be missed.  The publicity around the discovery of her diaries led to a book called ‘Tin Hats & Rice’\, published in 2018. \n  \nTo book for this lecture please email Paul Bolding at paul@paulbolding.org.uk.
URL:https://royalasiaticsociety.org/lectures-event/rashkb-friends-lectures-spring-2019-barbara-anslow/
LOCATION:Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre\, 14 Stephenson Way\, London\, NW1 2HD\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Related Organisation's Event
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20190513T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20190513T210000
DTSTAMP:20190417T160238Z
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SUMMARY:Special Event (ticketed): Nawal Nasrallah: Treasure Trove of Benefits and Variety at the Table: A Fourteenth-Century Egyptian Cookbook
DESCRIPTION:Doors at 6.00 for a 6.30pm start. \n  \nAward-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. \n \nIt is the only surviving cookbook from a period when Cairo was a flourishing metropolis and a cultural haven for people of diverse ethnicities and nationalities. Now available for the first time in English\, it has been meticulously translated and supplemented with a comprehensive introduction\, glossary\, and 117 color illustrations to initiate readers into the world of the Kanz al-fawāʾid. \nThis event will provide valuable insights for scholars of medieval material culture\, and for all lovers of good food and cookbooks. \nThe event will be introduced by Professor Doris Behrens-Abouseif. \nFollowing the event there will be a food and drinks reception\, where attendees can sample dishes made using recipes from the book \n  \n \n  \nTICKETS PURCHASE: \nTickets are £15 for members and £20 for non-members. \nYou may send a cheque to our address or pay via PayPal: \n[wp_paypal_payment_box email=”info@royalasiaticsociety.org” options=”Members:15.00|Non – Members:20.00″ reference =”Your Email Address” return=”the-return-url-page” currency=”GBP”]
URL:https://royalasiaticsociety.org/lectures-event/special-event-ticketed-nawal-nasrallah-treasure-trove-of-benefits-and-variety-at-the-table-a-fourteenth-century-egyptian-cookbook/
LOCATION:Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre\, 14 Stephenson Way\, London\, NW1 2HD\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Special Event
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SUMMARY:Professor Jonathan Phillips (Royal Holloway) - 'Saladin\, we have returned!': The Myriad Memories of the Crusades in the Near East during the Modern Era
DESCRIPTION: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. \nHe is the author of numerous books on the crusades\, most recently (2014) a second\, extended\, edition of The Crusades\, 1095-1204\, published by Routledge (formerly\, The Crusades\, 1095-1197\, Longman 2002). \nIn 2013\, with Martin Hall\, he produced Caffaro\, Genoa and the Twelfth Century Crusades\, Crusade Texts in Translation no. 24 (Ashgate\, Farnham\, 2013)\, a translation and commentary on the writings of Caffaro of Genoa. Caffaro was the first layman to produce a narrative of the First Crusade\, he was also responsible for the first urban history of the medieval age with his ‘Annals’ of Genoa.  A selection of charters\, mainly in the form of commercial privileges\, supplements these texts to give a rich insight into Genoese involvement in the Eastern Mediterranean during the twelfth century. \nIn 2009 Holy Warriors: A Modern History of the Crusades was published by Bodley Head to very positive reviews. It was selected as one of the ‘History Books of 2009’ by The Sunday Telegraph and by BBC History Magazine. Professor William Chester Jordan\, Chairman\, Department of History\, Princeton University\, wrote: ‘Jonathan Phillips’ Holy Warriors is a superb book\, one written with an elegant blend of clarity and zest. Its author demonstrates his mastery of all the relevant scholarship\, from the oldest to the most recent\, but he may be the most successful in his ability to capture the spirit of the various crusades through word portraits of some of their most memorable human characters. Readers will find it difficult to put this gripping book down’. Holy Warriors has also been translated into Dutch as In naam van God and published by Nieuw Amsterdam in 2009\, into French as Une histoire modern des croisades by Flammarion in 2010; into German as Heliger Kreig: Eine neue Geschichte der Kreuzzüge by DVA\, 2009 (with a student-price edition by Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung\, 2012)\, and into Italian as Sacri Guerrieri by Laterza 2012. \nPhillips’ previous monograph The Second Crusade: Extending the Frontiers of Christendom\, (Yale University Press\, 2007)\, was strongly praised by reviewers in\, for example\, Times Literary Supplement (Professor R.I.Moore\, 25/4/08)\, plus The Guardian\, The Sunday Telegraph. It was translated into Polish in 2013. His earlier The Fourth Crusade and the Sack of Constantinople (Jonathan Cape\, 2004) was also translated into Greek\, Spanish and Japanese and was shortlisted for the Hessell-Tiltman Literary Prize 2005. \nHis current research interests centre upon: 1. The life and legacy of the Sultan Saladin. 2. On a major history of the Third Crusade. 3. The Memory of the Crusades in western Europe and the Near East from the C18th to the present day. \nHe is also the General Editor of the forthcoming 2 volume Cambridge History of the Crusades.
URL:https://royalasiaticsociety.org/lectures-event/professor-jonathan-phillips-royal-holloway-saladin-we-have-returned-the-myriad-memories-of-the-crusades-in-the-near-east-during-the-modern-era/
LOCATION:Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre\, 14 Stephenson Way\, London\, NW1 2HD\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Lecture Series 2018-2019
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SUMMARY:Philip Davies (Author) - Lost Warriors- Seagrim and Pagani of Burma - The Last Great Untold Story of WWII
DESCRIPTION: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. \n \nRespected historian Philip Davies researched the incredible story of these two forgotten war heroes\, culminating in this hugely enlightening read. Lost Warriors uncovers the remarkable story of two extraordinary British soldiers who remained behind enemy lines to fight in one of the most brutal and significant campaigns of WWII. Long overlooked in comparison with the war in Europe\, the Allied campaign against the Japanese in the jungles of Burma was the scene of some of the most important events to shape the outcome of the war in the Far East. \nUncovered in full for the first time\, this is the last great untold story of the Second World War\, an epic tale of two forgotten Englishmen\, who deserve to be remembered as among the most courageous heroes of the most savage conflict in human history.
URL:https://royalasiaticsociety.org/lectures-event/phillip-davies-author-lost-warriors-seagrim-and-pagani-of-burma-the-last-great-untold-story-of-wwii/
LOCATION:Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre\, 14 Stephenson Way\, London\, NW1 2HD\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Lecture Series 2018-2019
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SUMMARY:Dr. Simon Wolfgang Fuchs (Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg) - When Tehran was the Brightest Star: A Global History of the 1979 Iranian Revolution
DESCRIPTION: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 authority\, sectarianism\, the Islamic schools of law\, Islamic political thought\, and the relationship of Islam and science. Fieldwork over the last couple of years has led him to Egypt\, Pakistan\, India\, Iran\, Iraq\, Syria\, and Lebanon. His work draws on materials in Arabic\, Persian\, and Urdu. \nBefore coming to Freiburg in October 2017\, Wolfgang Fuchs was a Research Fellow in Islamic Studies at Gonville & Caius College\, University of Cambridge. He completed his PhD in September 2015 at Princeton University’s Department of Near Eastern Studies. His dissertation “Relocating the Centers of Shīʿī Islam: Religious Authority\, Reform\, and the Limits of the Transnational in Colonial India and Pakistan” was advised by Prof. Muhammad Qasim Zaman. \nHe is currently working on two new projects. The first is a global history of the Iranian Revolution and its intellectual impact. The second is a comparative study of the diverging fate of the Sunni Islamic schools of law during the 19th and 20th century in South Asia and the Middle East. Through the prism of internal discussions which involved religious scholars\, intellectuals\, and politicians\, he seeks to answer further-reaching questions of religion-state relations\, global Islam\, and Muslim modernities.
URL:https://royalasiaticsociety.org/lectures-event/dr-simon-wolfgang-fuchs-albert-ludwigs-universitat-freiburg-when-tehran-was-the-brightest-star-a-global-history-of-the-1979-iranian-revolution/
LOCATION:Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre\, 14 Stephenson Way\, London\, NW1 2HD\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Lecture Series 2018-2019
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SUMMARY:Dr. Talat Ahmed in conversation with Professor David Arnold - Mohandas Gandhi: Experiments in Civil Disobedience (Book Launch)
DESCRIPTION: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 the lecture. \n  \nMohandas Gandhi: Experiments in Civil Disobedience\n\n\n\n\nMohandas Gandhi\, icon of Indian liberation\, remains an inspiration for anti-capitalists and peace activists globally. His campaigns for national liberation based on non-violence and mass civil disobedience were critical to defeating the power of the British Empire. \nThis biography examines his campaigns from South Africa to India to evaluate the successes and failures of non-violent resistance. Seventy years after his death\, his legacy remains contested: was he a saint\, revolutionary\, class conciliator\, or self-obsessed spiritual zealot? \nThe contradictions of Gandhi’s politics are unpicked through an analysis of the social forces at play in the mass movement around him. Entrusted to liberate the oppressed of India\, his key support base were industrialists\, landlords and the rich peasantry. Gandhi’s moral imperatives often clashed with these vested material interests\, as well as with more radical currents to his left. \nToday\, our world is scarred by permanent wars\, racism and violence\, environmental destruction and economic crisis. Can non-violent resistance win against state and corporate power? This book explores Gandhi’s experiments in civil disobedience to assess their relevance for struggles today. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEndorsements\n\n\n\n\n\n‘Cuts through the extensive literature on Gandhi to produce a vibrant portrait of a world historical figure … avoiding a simplistic judgement on this vastly important man for India’s national struggle’ – Vijay Prashad\, Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research \n‘Considering all the biographies that glorify Gandhi\, this concise book adopts a refreshing and consistently critical approach’ – Dr Yasmin Khan\, author of ‘The Raj at War: A People’s History of India’s Second World War’ \n‘This is an outstanding book on Gandhi’s life. Ahmed relates Gandhi to the struggles of anti-imperialist forces and illuminates his innovations in tactics of political resistance’ – Meghnad Desai\, author of ‘The Rediscovery of India’ \n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAuthor Biography\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTalat Ahmed is Lecturer in South Asian History at the University of Edinburgh. She is a Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society and the author of Mohandas Gandhi: Experiments in Civil Disobedience (Pluto\, 2018) and of a study of the All-India Progressive Writers’ Association entitled Literature and Politics in the Age of Nationalism: The Progressive Episode in South Asia\, 1932-56 (Routledge\, 2009). \n  \n\n\nProfessor David Arnold\n\n\n\nSince his early research\, on nationalist politics in south India in the 1920s and 1930s\, his work has ranged widely over the history of modern South Asia\, and beyond\, and has included social and environmental history and the history of science\, technology and medicine. Along with David Hardiman he was a founder member of the Subaltern Studies group of historians of South Asia. \nHe is currently writing a history of South Asia and developing research on food and ‘everyday technology’ in South and Southeast Asia. \nDavid Arnold’s work has been translated into several languages (including Portugese\, Spanish\, Russian\, Chinese\, Japanese and Korean). \nHis publications include: \n\nColonizing the Body: State Medicine and Epidemic Disease in Nineteenth-Century India (1993)\nThe Problem of Nature (1996)\nScience\, Technology and Medicine in Colonial India (2000)\nGandhi (2001)\nThe Tropics and the Traveling Gaze (2006)
URL:https://royalasiaticsociety.org/lectures-event/dr-talat-ahmed-mohandas-gandhi-experiments-in-civil-disobedience/
LOCATION:Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre\, 14 Stephenson Way\, London\, NW1 2HD\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Book Launch
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SUMMARY:Dr. Rayna Denison (University of East Anglia) - The Hidden History of Studio Ghibli: Short Films\, Advertising and the Industrial Reality of Japanese Animation
DESCRIPTION:The Hidden History of Studio Ghibli: Short Films\, Advertising and the Industrial Reality of Japanese Animation \nWhile 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 some unusual and varied forms at Ghibli. On the one hand\, they have produced high profile advertisements for clients\, and even animated music videos for Japanese bands\, while on the other they have produced animation shorts\, exclusively shown at the Studio Ghibli Art Museum in Mitaka\, Tokyo. This chapter examines the different economic\, aesthetic and corporate influences that can be traced across these shorts in order to think about how Studio Ghibli’s famous house style of animation is impacted by the industrial realities of Japanese animation production. \n 
URL:https://royalasiaticsociety.org/lectures-event/dr-rayna-denison-university-of-east-anglia-the-hidden-history-of-studio-ghibli-short-films-advertising-and-the-industrial-reality-of-japanese-animation/
LOCATION:Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre\, 14 Stephenson Way\, London\, NW1 2HD\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Lecture Series 2018-2019
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SUMMARY:RASHKB Friends lectures Spring 2019 - David Bellis: Old Hong Kong Photos and The Tales They Tell: Volume 2
DESCRIPTION: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 Photos and The Tales They Tell: Volume 2”. It will be his fourth talk to the friends. \nThe photos for this talk are grouped around four themes:- \n  \n\nThe ubiquitous shoulder pole\nA selection of Hong Kong views from 1902\nOff the beaten track – less commonly seen parts of Hong Kong\nPhotos of Kowloon\n\n  \nDavid runs the popular local-history website\, Gwulo.com. It hosts over 30\,000 pages about old Hong Kong\, including over 15\,000 photos. In 2014 David won the SCMP’s Heritage Preservation Award\, one of their “The Spirit of Hong Kong Awards”\, for his work on Gwulo.com.
URL:https://royalasiaticsociety.org/lectures-event/rashkb-friends-lectures-spring-2019-david-bellis-old-hong-kong-photos-and-the-tales-they-tell-volume-2/
LOCATION:Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre\, 14 Stephenson Way\, London\, NW1 2HD\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Related Organisation's Event
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SUMMARY:The Royal Asiatic Society Collections Open Evening
DESCRIPTION: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\, archives\, art works\, and photographs. \nWe are delighted to welcome three speakers to discuss their experiences working with the Society’s collections: \n  \n• Mathilde Renauld will give a cultural overview of a nineteenth-century Shia Islamic pilgrimage scroll and describe its condition and conservation \n• Laurent Cruveillier will discuss what was involved in conserving Sir Alexander Cunningham’s 1850s ink rubbing and inked squeeze of a stone inscription from Visvanatha temple in Khajuraho\, India \n• Amy Matthewson will share reflections on her time volunteering at the Society and researching its glass lantern slides of China\, discussing their brief history and the value of these fascinating objects \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. As usual\, we will also welcome attendees with a reception featuring wine and light refreshments. We 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 Matty Bradley at mb@royalasiaticsociety.org.
URL:https://royalasiaticsociety.org/lectures-event/the-royal-asiatic-society-collections-open-evening/
LOCATION:Royal Asiatic Society\, 14 Stephenson Way\, London\, NW1 2HD\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Open Evening
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SUMMARY:Ursula Sims-Williams (British Library) - Tipu Sultan's Library: Building a Collection
DESCRIPTION: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 1857 by around 50 years. \nMy current research focuses on Tipu Sultan’s Library collection\, which was estimated at the fall of Seringapatam in 1799 to consist of about 2000 volumes. Of these the British Library holds some 500 manuscripts while others are in the Asiatic Society\, Calcutta and scattered around the world. \nConflicting views as to the origins of the collection vary. Charles Stewart\, in his Descriptive Catalogue of the Oriental Library of the late Tippoo Sultan of Mysore (1809) – up to now the only published study of the collection – described it as largely comprising “plunder brought from Sanoor\, Cuddapah\, and the Carnatic.” By contrast Maya Jasanoff\, Edge of Empire (2006) writes “a study of the owners’ seals and price markings in Tipu’s manuscripts suggests that their provenances were varied\, and that Tipu was an active buyer on the book market.” \nBy examining the collection as it exists today in the British Library and with the discovery of additional sources in the India Office Records and elsewhere\, I attempt to give a more measured account of the collection and address the evidence as to whether Tipu Sultan was in fact a bibliophile and collector or not.
URL:https://royalasiaticsociety.org/lectures-event/ursula-sims-williams-british-library-tipu-sultans-library-building-a-collection/
LOCATION:Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre\, 14 Stephenson Way\, London\, NW1 2HD\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Lecture Series 2018-2019
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SUMMARY:Dr. Yossef Rapoport (Queen Mary\, UoL) - Lost Maps of the Caliphs: Drawing the World in Eleventh-Century Cairo - Lecture and Book Launch
DESCRIPTION:LOST MAPS OF THE CALIPHS \nDrawing the World in Eleventh-Century Cairo \nby Yossef Rapoport and Emilie Savage-Smith \nAbout 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 and its lands\, islands\, features and inhabitants. This treatise\, known as The Book of Curiosities\, was unknown to modern scholars until a remarkable manuscript copy was discovered in 2000. \nLOST MAPS OF THE CALIPHS opens with an account of the extraordinary discovery of the manuscript and its purchase by the Bodleian Library. The authors then use The Book of Curiosities to re-evaluate the development of astrology\, geography and cartography in the first four centuries of Islam. Their account assesses the transmission of Late Antique geography to the Islamic world\, unearths the logic behind abstract maritime diagrams\, and considers the palaces and walls that dominate medieval Islamic plans of towns and ports. Early astronomical maps and drawings demonstrate the medieval understanding of the structure of the cosmos and illustrate the pervasive assumption that almost any visible celestial event had an effect upon life on Earth. LOST MAPS OF THE CALIPHS also reconsiders the history of global communication networks at the turn of the previous millennium. It shows the Fatimid Empire\, and its capital Cairo\, as a global maritime power\, with tentacles spanning the eastern Mediterranean to the Indus Valley and the East African coast. \nAs LOST MAPS OF THE CALIPHS makes clear\, not only is The Book of Curiosities one of the greatest achievements of medieval mapmaking\, it is also a remarkable contribution to the story of Islamic civilization that opens an unexpected window to the medieval Islamic view of the world. \n“With its focus on eleventh-century Fatimid Cairo\, Lost Maps of the Caliphs reinterprets early Islamic apprehensions of the earth and the heavens\, while reorienting our modern understanding of medieval Arabic map-making and its part in the transmission of Late Antique cartographic knowledge. A remarkable and important book of dazzling scholarship.”  —Jerry Brotton\, author of A History of the World in Twelve Maps \n“The two authors\, Savage-Smith on the heavens and Rapoport on the earth\, explain The Book of Curiosities with exemplary scholarship and lucidity. Like the manuscript itself\, this companion volume vastly enhances our understanding of the classical Arabic worldview in all its rich complexity.” —Hugh N. Kennedy\, SOAS\, University of London \n“Lost Maps of the Caliphs is organized along the lines of the original manuscript\, and exceptionally well documented\, using a dazzling range of sources in an equally dazzling range of languages.  The result is totally fascinating\, with untold potential to illuminate any treatment of the medieval world on any continent in the Eastern Hemisphere.”—Ingrid Rowland\, University of Notre Dame \nYossef Rapoport is a Reader in Islamic History\, Queen Mary University of London \nEmilie Savage-Smith\, Fellow of the British Academy is recently retired as Professor the History of Islamic Science at the Oriental Institute\, University of Oxford.  She continues as Fellow Archivist of St Cross College. \nAbout Bodleian Library Publishing \nBodleian Publishing has a diverse list of gift\, general interest and scholarly books on a wide range of subjects drawn from or related to the Library’s rich collections of manuscripts\, rare books\, maps\, postcards and other printed ephemera. Details at www.bodleianshop.co.uk.
URL:https://royalasiaticsociety.org/lectures-event/dr-yossef-rapoport-queen-mary-uol-lost-maps-of-the-caliphs-drawing-the-world-in-eleventh-century-cairo-lecture-and-book-launch/
LOCATION:Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre\, 14 Stephenson Way\, London\, NW1 2HD\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Lecture Series 2018-2019
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SUMMARY:Dr. Jharna Gourlay (University of Lucknow) - Forceps\, Stethoscopes and Sisterhood: British Female Doctors in 19th Century India
DESCRIPTION: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 and were reluctant to see a male doctor\, European or Indian. There was a lot of unnecessary physical suffering among them\, particularly at child birth. The British women doctors wanted to alleviate their suffering by offering modern medicine and surgery to them and train them in medical skills so that they could look after themselves. They looked at Indian women as their ‘sisters’ and felt that it was their duty to help them. In history\, these women doctors were commonly referred to as ‘medical women.’ \n  \nThe scholarly explanation so far was that the British women doctors were looking for lucrative employment in India and the missionaries among them were sent to proselytize among indigenous women. They used the idea of suffering Indian women for their own advantage. \n  \nThis assumption I question and suggest an alternative explanation of why these medical women went to India. It can be argued that these medical women were a product of the first wave of feminism that emerged in Britain and America around 1850s. Their feminism had a global outlook. As they fought for their own civil rights\, they also looked at other women around the world who were in similar situations of control and exploitation. The medical women who went to India grew up in this climate of an awareness of social inequality. Some of them were active agitators for equal rights in the medical profession in Britain\, some fought for equal rights within the church\, others breathed the same air. \n  \nThe medical women’s achievement in establishing hospitals and training centres\, and in creating employment opportunities for Indian women from various strata of the society\, tells us a different story of a cross-cultural relationship between two groups of women\, who\, though poles apart\, empowered each other in a significant way.
URL:https://royalasiaticsociety.org/lectures-event/dr-jharna-gourlay-university-of-lucknow-forceps-stethoscopes-and-sisterhood-british-female-doctors-in-19th-century-india/
LOCATION:Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre\, 14 Stephenson Way\, London\, NW1 2HD\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Lecture Series 2018-2019
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SUMMARY:Studying Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia at University: A Conference for Sixth-Formers
DESCRIPTION:  \nhttp://tinyurl.com/EgMesConf
URL:https://royalasiaticsociety.org/lectures-event/studying-ancient-egypt-and-mesopotamia-at-university-a-conference-for-sixth-formers-2/
CATEGORIES:Courses
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SUMMARY:Deborah Freeman Fahid (Independent Scholar) - The Àger Rock Crystal Chessmen: Some Early Medieval Imports from the Iranian World?
DESCRIPTION:*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.* \n  \nThe 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 been recognised as masterpieces of early Islamic lapidary work. Like other Islamic objects made of rock crystal and ivory\, they were discovered in a European church and have generally been regarded as the products of an Egyptian workshop. This talk will outline their extraordinary history and suggest an origin further east in the Iranian world. \nDeborah Freeman Fahid is an Independent Scholar and former Assistant Curator at The al-Sabah Collection\, Dar al-Athar al-Islamiyyah\, Kuwait. \nShe is the editor of the following publications: ‘Splendors of the Ancient East: Antiquities from The al-Sabah Collection’ (Thames & Hudson 2013); co-editor ‘Persian Painting: The Arts of the Book and Portraiture’ (A. Adamova and M. Bayani\, Thames & Hudson 2015); ‘Arts of the Hellenized East: Precious Metalwork and Gems of the Pre-Islamic Era’ (M. L. Carter and P. Harper\, Thames & Hudson 2015).
URL:https://royalasiaticsociety.org/lectures-event/deborah-freeman-fahid-independent-scholar-the-ager-rock-crystal-chessmen-some-early-medieval-imports-from-the-iranian-world-2/
CATEGORIES:Lecture Series 2018-2019
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SUMMARY:Dr. Oliver Crawford (University of Cambridge) - The Languages of Indonesian Socialism
DESCRIPTION:The Languages of Indonesian Socialism\n\n\nIn 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 as Sukarno and Mohammad Hatta\, who would go on to become the first President and Vice-President of the Indonesian Republic respectively\, engaged extensively with Marx’s ideas in the 1920s and 1930s. This article is concerned less with why Marxism was appealing to Western-educated Indonesian nationalists than with how Marxist ideas were communicated to the Indonesian public. Specifically\, it is focused on how Marxist texts and concepts were translated into Malay\, the lingua franca of the Indonesian archipelago\, and expressed through an Islamic moral vocabulary.\n\n\nI argue that this process entailed a push and pull between international and local political registers\, between Dutch and Malay\, between transliteration and translation. Through the transliteration of Marxist terms such as proletariat (proletar)\, capitalism (kapitalisme) and Communism (Kommunisme)\, Indonesian Communists invited their readers to move away from indigenous categories and imagine themselves as part of the larger\, global groups and processes that Marxist terminology evoked. It was because Marxism was not considered to be essentially local that Communists believed it could be used to modernise Indonesian political thought. Members of the PKI presented Marxism as a universal science (ilmu or wetenschap)\, superior to older Indonesian and Islamic prophetic forms of political forecasting.\n\n\nAt the same time\, there was a process of ‘localization’\, whereby foreign Marxist materials were restated to bring them closer to local cultural norms. Feudalism\, for example\, was translated as kerajaan (‘the rule of the raja’)\, while the proletariat was equated with the Kromo (‘common people’). Arabic terms associated with Islam\, such as nafsu (‘greed’) and djahat (‘sin’)\, were woven into Communist writings to add a moral dimension to the Marxist critique of capitalism that would resonate with Indonesian Muslims. The style of Indonesian Marxism that emerged\, therefore\, was multilingual\, with different terms serving different purposes.
URL:https://royalasiaticsociety.org/lectures-event/dr-oliver-crawford-university-of-cambridge-the-languages-of-indonesian-socialism/
LOCATION:Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre\, 14 Stephenson Way\, London\, NW1 2HD\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Lecture Series 2018-2019
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SUMMARY:Dr. John Clarke (V&A Museum) - Collecting Tibet at the South Kensington Museum: the legacy of the 1904 expedition and beyond
DESCRIPTION:Dr. John Clarke is curator of Himalayan and South East Asian Art at the V&A Museum in London. He specialises in the arts of Tibet and of South East Asia\, in particular of Burma and Thailand. He is the Lead Curator for the Robert H .N. Ho Family Foundation Buddhist Art Galleries at the V&A.
URL:https://royalasiaticsociety.org/lectures-event/dr-john-clarke-va-museum-collecting-tibet-at-the-south-kensington-museum-the-legacy-of-the-1904-expedition-and-beyond/
LOCATION:Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre\, 14 Stephenson Way\, London\, NW1 2HD\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Lecture Series 2018-2019
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20190122T183000
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SUMMARY:***POSTPONED TO 26th FEBRUARY AT REQUEST OF SPEAKER***Deborah Freeman Fahid (Independent Scholar) - The Àger Rock Crystal Chessmen: Some Early Medieval Imports from the Iranian World?
DESCRIPTION:*** N.B. This event has been postponed at the request of the speaker. It will now take place on the 26th of February*** \n  \n  \nThe 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 been recognised as masterpieces of early Islamic lapidary work. Like other Islamic objects made of rock crystal and ivory\, they were discovered in a European church and have generally been regarded as the products of an Egyptian workshop. This talk will outline their extraordinary history and suggest an origin further east in the Iranian world. \nDeborah Freeman Fahid is an Independent Scholar and former Assistant Curator at The al-Sabah Collection\, Dar al-Athar al-Islamiyyah\, Kuwait. \nShe is the editor of the following publications: ‘Splendors of the Ancient East: Antiquities from The al-Sabah Collection’ (Thames & Hudson 2013); co-editor ‘Persian Painting: The Arts of the Book and Portraiture’ (A. Adamova and M. Bayani\, Thames & Hudson 2015); ‘Arts of the Hellenized East: Precious Metalwork and Gems of the Pre-Islamic Era’ (M. L. Carter and P. Harper\, Thames & Hudson 2015).
URL:https://royalasiaticsociety.org/lectures-event/deborah-freeman-fahid-independent-scholar-the-ager-rock-crystal-chessmen-some-early-medieval-imports-from-the-iranian-world/
LOCATION:Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre\, 14 Stephenson Way\, London\, NW1 2HD\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Lecture Series 2018-2019
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20190110T183000
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SUMMARY:Dr. Cailah Jackson (Oxford University) - The Arts of the Book in a Time of Conflict: Manuscripts of Late Medieval Konya
DESCRIPTION:This presentation will discuss several illuminated manuscripts produced in Konya between 1278 and 1332. Consisting mainly of works by Jalal al-Din Rumi and Sultan Walad\, most of this material has not been published in detail or studied within a broader cultural framework. The talk will outline the diverse decorative features of these manuscripts and demonstrate that Konya – despite frequent outbreaks of violence\, and the absence of an effective centralised governing structure in the region – possessed an active artistic scene that was populated by Seljuk bureaucrats\, Mevlevi dervishes\, converts from Christianity\, and Turkmen beys. \n 
URL:https://royalasiaticsociety.org/lectures-event/dr-cailah-jackson-oxford-university-the-arts-of-the-book-in-a-time-of-conflict-manuscripts-of-late-medieval-konya/
LOCATION:Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre\, 14 Stephenson Way\, London\, NW1 2HD\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Lecture Series 2018-2019
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20181213T183000
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SUMMARY:Dr. Alexandra Green (British Museum) - Sir Stamford Raffles: Civilised Views of Java
DESCRIPTION:Alexandra Green is Henry Ginsburg Curator for Southeast Asia at the British Museum. She has a PhD on the subject of 18th century Burmese wall paintings from the School of Oriental and African Studies\, University of London. She recently curated an exhibition entitled Pilgrims\, Healers\, and Wizards: Buddhism and Religious Practices in Burma and Thailand (2014) at the British Museum.
URL:https://royalasiaticsociety.org/lectures-event/dr-alexandra-green-british-museum-sir-stamford-raffles-civilised-views-of-java/
LOCATION:Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre\, 14 Stephenson Way\, London\, NW1 2HD\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Lecture Series 2018-2019
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SUMMARY:Professor Ian Gow (University of Edinburgh) - The Scottish Sinologist Alexander Wylie 1815-1887: Missionary\, Man of Letters\, Mathemetician
DESCRIPTION:The Scottish Sinologist Alexander Wylie 1815-1887\,  \n: Missionary\, Man of Letters\, Mathematician \n\nAlexander Wylie was one of the leading members of a unique concentration of Missionary Scholars and who lived and worked in Shanghai in the second half of the 19th Century. He was one of the founders of the North China Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society (NCBRAS)\, later a Vice President and finally an Honorary Member. An avid bibliophile and bibliographer Wylie’s donations of books to the NCBRAS was the basis for one of the finest libraries  in Asia. In addition Wylie also provided a large number of books that doubled the Bodleian Library’s China Collection at Oxford. \nOriginally hired in 1847 as a Superintendent of Printing for the London Missionary Society Press in Shanghai\, Wylie developed into a major Missionary-scholar and one of the founding fathers of British sinology. He is still extensively cited today especially his major annotated bibliographic works on the history of Protestant Missionaries in China and on Chinese Literature. His seminal work Jottings ON Chinese arithmetic    He also\, by a series of remarkable articles\, showed\, that the conventional wisdom that China had no significant achievement in mathematics until after the Jesuits\, was wrong and that pre-modern Chinese mathematics was on a par and even developed certain mathematical techniques which preceded Europe by hundreds of years. These works qualify him as a Sinologist who made a major contribution to knowledge transfer from China  to the West. \nWylie also a major contribution to knowledge transfer to China from the West. He translated the first textbooks on symbolic algebra and calculus into Chinese as well as the first textbook on modern astronomy. He was also the first translator of the last nine volumes of Euclid’s Elements that had been left luntranslated by the Jesuits. He was also the first to translate parts of Newton’s Principia Mathematica into Chinese. \nDespite his considerable achievements Gow’s paper for the RAS China journal was the first academic study essay of Wylie in English of this pioneer british sinologist.There is however\, a significant and growing literature in Chinese where he is rightly regarded as one of the fathers of modern Chinese mathematics and the history of indigenous Chinese mathematics. \n  \nSONY DSC\nProfessor Ian Gow\, OBE MA PhD DUniv FRAS studied Politics History at the University of Edinburgh. He is an Emeritus Professor of East Asian Studies and is now an Honorary Professor (East Asian Studies) at the University of Edinburgh.  He was Director of the Confucius Institute at the University of Glasgow 2014-15.He is the former Executive President (2009-2014) of the Sino-British University College in Shanghai – a major joint venture between nine UK universities and the University of Shanghai for Science and Technology. He was the Founding Provost (2003-2007) of China’s first independent foreign university campus since the reopening of China\, the multi-award winning University of Nottingham\, Ningbo. Professor Gow is an internationally recognised Japan specialist. He was also  responsible for the establishment of centres for Chinese studies at the Universities of Sheffield and Nottingham.  He has held numerous senior executive positions in UK higher education and has served as a Deputy Principal/pro-Vice Chancellor) of four UK universities (Stirling\, Sheffield\, Nottingham and the West of England). He was awarded the OBE for his services to UK Higher Education in China and also holds awards from Ningbo City\, Zhejiang Provincial Government and the Shanghai Municipal for his contributions in education. He is now working on a book length study of Alexander Wylie. \n  \n“The Scottish Shanghailander Alexander Wylie (1815-1887): Missionary\, Man of Letters\, Mathematician” \nJournal of the Royal Asiatic Society China Vol 72 no 2 April 2013 pg77-102
URL:https://royalasiaticsociety.org/lectures-event/professor-ian-gow-university-of-edinburgh-the-scottish-sinologist-alexander-wylie-1815-1887-missionary-man-of-letters-mathemetician/
LOCATION:Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre\, 14 Stephenson Way\, London\, NW1 2HD\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Lecture Series 2018-2019
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