‘The Defiant Border ‘ by Elisabeth Leake – Book Launch
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- Royal Asiatic Society 14 Stephenson Way, London, United Kingdom
Botanical Indian Miniature Painting Course with Sam Buckley of PSTA
Royal Asiatic Society 14 Stephenson Way, London, United KingdomEvery Saturday in February 2017, 10AM to 4.30PM Please book directly with The Prince's School of Traditional Arts https://psta.org.uk/open-programme/botanical-indian-miniature-painting This course will encapsulate both the Indian Miniature technique and the western art of botanical painting. Based on a beautiful collection of 51 flower paintings from Bengal in the 19th Century , this course will guide…
Professor Stéphane Pradines (The Aga Khan University). The Swahili, a Muslim Culture of the Indian Ocean World: New Evidence from Archaeological Excavations
Royal Asiatic Society 14 Stephenson Way, London, United KingdomDr Arthur Dudney (Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, University of Cambridge). The Literature of Decline Under the Late Mughals
Royal Asiatic Society 14 Stephenson Way, London, United KingdomBook Launch – Rum Seljuq Architecture, 1170-1220: The Patronage of Sultans, by Richard P McClary
Royal Asiatic Society 14 Stephenson Way, London, United KingdomStudies the key monuments built for the Rum Seljuq sultans, 1170-1220 This lavishly illustrated volume presents the major surviving monuments of the early period of the Rum Seljuqs, the first major Muslim dynasty to rule Anatolia. A much-needed overview of the political history of the dynasty provides the context for the study of the built…
Nancy Charley Poetry Collection Launch
Royal Asiatic Society 14 Stephenson Way, London, United KingdomBook Launch. Shadow States: India, China and the Himalayas, 1910–1962 (Bérénice Guyot-Réchard, King’s College London)
Royal Asiatic Society Council Room 14 Stephenson Way, London, United KingdomSince the mid-twentieth century China and India have entertained a difficult relationship, erupting into open war in 1962. Shadow States is the first book to unpack Sino-Indian tensions from the angle of competitive state-building - through a study of their simultaneous attempts to win the approval and support of the Himalayan people. When China and…
Patrick Donabedian Armenian Institute and RAS Lecture
Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre 14 Stephenson Way, London, United Kingdom£10Studying Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia at University : A Conference for Sixth-Formers
Royal Asiatic Society 14 Stephenson Way, London, United Kingdomhttp://www.arch.cam.ac.uk/prospective-students/undergraduates/OpenDaysAndOutreachEvents/EgyptandMesopotamiaConference2017
Sheila Blair Lecture ‘Monumentalising the Grave: Muslim-style Mausolea across Mongol Eurasia’
Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre 14 Stephenson Way, London, United Kingdom