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…
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…
*CANCELLED AT THE REQUEST OF ORGANISER* A Grandmother's Legacy "Five generations of a British family in India seen through the eyes of their granddaughter" Jenny 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…
Anand Panyarachun and the Making of Modern Thailand The 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,…
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…
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 The 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. The original…
Numinous Imagery on Arms and Armour of the Indian Subcontinent Dr. Ravinder Reddy (Adjunct Professor of Psychiatry, Univ of California San Diego; Board Member, South Asian Arts Council of the San Diego Museum of Art) Indian arms and armour are frequently adorned with auspicious and sacred imagery to induce shakti – divine power -…
From Stone to Paper: Architecture as History in the Late Mughal Empire and Ottoman Baroque: The Architectural Refashioning of Eighteenth-Century Istanbul Discussion and Book Launch On 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…