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David Leffman – William Mesny: How a British Adventurer Became a General in Qing-Dynasty China
Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre 14 Stephenson Way, London, United KingdomGuest Lecture: Emilie Wellfelt, ‘Following the Feathers: Global History Along the Trails of the Bird of Paradise’
Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre 14 Stephenson Way, London, United Kingdom‘Following the Feathers’ is an investigation of global history and human-animal relations using a spectacular bird species as its focal point. It asks how the bird of paradise affects humans who encounter them, either in living form or as a prepared specimen. The specimen, often without wings, legs and scull bone, is the main form…
Professor Christopher Fuller -European Science and Colonial Anthropology in British India, c. 1871-1911
Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre 14 Stephenson Way, London, United KingdomBook Launch for Tommaso Bobbio, Uther Charlton-Stevens, and Elisabetta Iob
Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre 14 Stephenson Way, London, United KingdomThe RAS will host a joint book launch on Wednesday 17th January. Drinks from 6 and talks from 6.30pm. 14 Stephenson Way, London, NW1 2HD. Anglo-Indians and Minority Politics in South Asia: Race, Boundary Making and Communal Nationalism by Uther Charlton-Stevens Refugees and the Politics of the Everyday State in Pakistan: Resettlement in Punjab, 1947-1962…
Dr. Mark Condos – Anarchists, Revolutionaries, and Franco-British Imperial Policing in French Chandernagore, 1905-1930
Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre 14 Stephenson Way, London, United KingdomDr. Alban von Stockhausen – Images and (Post)colonial Encounters: A History of the Visual Representation of the Nagas of Northeast India
Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre 14 Stephenson Way, London, United KingdomDr. Annabel Gallop – The Great Seal of Aceh
Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre 14 Stephenson Way, London, United KingdomAmy Matthewson – Mr Punch and Chinamania: Blue Willow China and Consumer Consumption in ‘Punch’ Magazine, 1874-1880
Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre 14 Stephenson Way, London, United KingdomBook Launch and Discussion: Malarial Subjects by Rohan Deb Roy
Royal Asiatic Society Council Room 14 Stephenson Way, London, United KingdomSimon Layton (Chair). Speakers include Dr. Nayanika Mathur (Oxford), Professor Clare Anderson (Leicester), Professor Richard Drayton (King's College, London), Dr. Sujit Sivasundaram (Cambridge), Professor Simon Schaffer (Cambridge) Malaria was considered one of the most widespread disease-causing entities in the nineteenth century. It was associated with a variety of frailties far beyond fevers, ranging from idiocy…