Name: Special Event (ticketed): Nawal Nasrallah: Treasure Trove of Benefits and Variety at the Table: A Fourteenth-Century Egyptian Cookbook
Start: 2019-05-13T18:00:00+01:00
End: 2019-05-13T21:00:00+01:00
Location: Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre

March 2019
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…
25 April 2019 @ 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm BST
Dr. Simon Wolfgang Fuchs (Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg) – When Tehran was the Brightest Star: A Global History of the 1979 Iranian Revolution

Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre 14 Stephenson Way, London, United Kingdom
Dr. Simon Wolfgang Fuchs is a Lecturer in Islamic and Middle East Studies at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Germany. He is interested in how the Islamic scholarly tradition is debated and negotiated in modern and contemporary Muslim societies. Hisresearch revolves around the travel of ideas between West, Central, and South Asia, with a focus on religious…
May 2019
2 May 2019 @ 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm BST
Philip Davies (Author) – Lost Warriors- Seagrim and Pagani of Burma – The Last Great Untold Story of WWII

Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre 14 Stephenson Way, London, United Kingdom
Published on 15th August to commemorate Victory Over Japan day, Lost Warriors: Seagrim and Pagani of Burma uncovers one of the last great unknown stories of World War II. The book has received a wonderful publication week, with a serialisation in the Daily Mail and interviews with the author and members of the Pagani family on Radio 4, Today programme and ITV News. Respected historian Philip…
9 May 2019 @ 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm BST
Professor Jonathan Phillips (Royal Holloway) – ‘Saladin, we have returned!’: The Myriad Memories of the Crusades in the Near East during the Modern Era

Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre 14 Stephenson Way, London, United Kingdom
Jonathan Phillips was educated at the University of Keele (BA, 1987) and Royal Holloway, University of London (Ph.D, 1992). He worked at the Universities of Southampton and York before returning to Royal Holloway in 1994. He became Professor of Crusading History in 2005. He is the author of numerous books on the crusades, most recently (2014)…
13 May 2019 @ 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm BST
Special Event (ticketed): Nawal Nasrallah: Treasure Trove of Benefits and Variety at the Table: A Fourteenth-Century Egyptian Cookbook

Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre 14 Stephenson Way, London, United Kingdom
Doors at 6.00 for a 6.30pm start. Award-winning researcher and food writer Nawal Nasrallah will give an exclusive talk at the Royal Asiatic Society on the subject of her translation of Kanz al-fawāʾid fī tanwīʿ al-mawāʾid, a fourteenth-century Egyptian cookbook, entitled Treasure Trove of Benefits and Variety at the Table. It is the only surviving…

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