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…
The Silk Roads: arts, history and exploration Buddha, 2nd c., National Museum New Delhi 68.187. Photographer Daniel Waugh A Royal Asiatic Society Summer School Monday July 8 – Thursday July 11, 2019 The influence of the interactions enabled by the Afro-Eurasian trade routes known as the Silk Roads are much in discussion today,…
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…
Lecture: Two Missionary Accounts of Southeast Asia in the Late Seventeenth Century
China-North Korea Economic Cooperation Bo 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.
Flute Lecture Concert: Surviving Asia, Sponsoring Mozart. The Polymathic Portrait of Dr Ferdinand Dejean