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Professor Anthony Stockwell (Royal Holloway) – Plunder and Restitution: Britain and the Mandalay Regalia
Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre 14 Stephenson Way, London, United KingdomAnnual General Meeting Lecture. Professor Charles Melville (University of Cambridge) – The Illustration of Mirkhwand’s Raudat al-safa in RAS Ms. P.38
Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre 14 Stephenson Way, London, United KingdomDr Deniz Tuerker (University of Cambridge) – The Yildiz Kiosk and the Queen Mothers of the Tanzimat Era: Gender, Landscape, and Visibility
Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre 14 Stephenson Way, London, United KingdomDr. Indira Viswanathan Peterson Guest Lecture
Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre 14 Stephenson Way, London, United KingdomColonial Networks, Indian Elites, and the New Orientalism of the Royal Asiatic Society (1823-1840) Indira Viswanathan Peterson Professor of Asian Studies Emerita, Mount Holyoke College, USA The establishment of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland in London in 1823 not only transferred the institutional center of British orientalism to the metropole…
Dr Susan Whitfield (Institute of Archaeology, UCL) – Silk, Slaves and Stupas: Material Culture of the Silk Road
Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre 14 Stephenson Way, London, United KingdomEdinburgh University Press Afghanistan journal launch at the Royal Asiatic Society
Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre 14 Stephenson Way, London, United KingdomEdinburgh University Press new journal launch at the Royal Asiatic Society Join us for the AFGHANISTAN journal launch (with wine and nibbles) at the Royal Asiatic Society, 14 Stephenson Way, NW1 2HD on Friday 25th May 6.30-8.30pm. RSVP by 21st May to ruth.campbell at eup.ed.ac.uk Afghanistan covers all subjects in the humanities including history,…
Dr. Ashmita Khasnabish Guest Lecture “Indian Imagination in a Postcolonial Context”
Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre 14 Stephenson Way, London, United KingdomThe talk "Indian Imagination in a Postcolonial Context" is based on Dr. Ashmita Khasnabish’s recent monograph Negotiating Capability and Diaspora: a Philosophical Politics which analyses how Indian philosophical imagination could bring transcendence and immanence or pragmatism together. It starts with the Amartya Sen's theory of "capability" which arose as a critique of the American philosopher…
Nancy Charley (RAS Archivist) – Book Launch “Feart”
Nancy Charley, RAS Archivist will launch her new poetry collection, Feart. This limited edition, hand-crafted book, explores childhood emotion through the externalisation of one such emotion, fear, who becomes the Feart, a girl’s companion in the trials and joys of growing up. “Part memoir, part fable, part poetry, part prose, all the everyday reality for a girl growing up…
Umberto Bongianino (Oxford University) – Like Sweet Smelling Blooms: Arabic Calligraphy in the Islamic West
Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre 14 Stephenson Way, London, United Kingdom