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SUMMARY:Andrew Laurie: "Gleaming-breasted residents of streams that don't freeze in winter": the Dippers of the Mongolian Altai
DESCRIPTION:  \nAndrew Laurie grew up in Shropshire\, spent a lot of his childhood watching animals\, and studied biology at the University of Cambridge\, doing research on hippos in Tanzania\, starfish in Sudan\, and rhinos in Nepal\, India and south-east Asia.   After a seven year research fellowship studying Marine Iguanas in the Galapagos Islands he worked on wildlife conservation projects\, including government planning and policy development\, mainly in China\, Mongolia\, Tanzania and Sri Lanka\, with shorter assignments in Vietnam\, the UK\, India\, Laos\, Cape Verde\, and the Cook Islands.   He is concerned about the rapid loss of wild species and their habitats around the world\, and is keen to help in establishing better behaviour patterns in humans\, through both governmental policy and implementation\, and actions taken by the general public and non-governmental organizations to protect the natural environment on which we all depend. \nAndrew once worked as an advisor to the Mongolian government on biodiversity conservation – and lived there on and off for several years.  In his spare time he followed up on a childhood fascination with Dippers after seeing  them gathering in winter on the outflow of a spring where the water flowed for up to a kilometre  before freezing.   On summer field trips he kept his eyes open for nests\, because none of the local ornithologists actually knew where they bred\, but he didn’t find any. \nSeveral years later\, in 2017\, following up on a clue sent to him by Prof. Gombobaatar of the National University of Mongolia\,  Andrew returned to Mongolia\, and soon found Dippers nesting.  He has been back several times since then to observe and film at different stages of the breeding season.  Although his four films focus on Dippers\, they also reflect in general on wildlife conservation in Mongolia\, and they were shown on Mongolian television in a series called  “Anyone can be an ecologist” – a title that  he tried not to take personally.   The idea behind the series was to encourage “citizen science”\, and the premise that you don’t have to have a huge research grant\, a Toyota Land Cruiser and a satellite tracking device \, or to concentrate on large charismatic endangered species\, in order to make useful contributions to science\, or conservation. \nThere are five species of Dippers in the world.   The White-throated Dipper ranges from Europe to Mongolia\, India and China\, but there are various subspecies that look quite different.    In the Altai there is further variation  within the local subspecies – some have lighter coloured heads and bellies than others. \nAndrew  is biologist\, cameraman\, director and editor\, and works with a small field crew in Mongolia –  non-specialists who are very enthusiastic\, and full of ideas and possible explanations for their observations.   Interesting differences in behaviour between the European and Altai Dippers have emerged.   For example\, in the Altai the males routinely feed the females on and off the nest during incubation whereas this has only very rarely been observed in Europe.  In 2022 Andrew and his team saw really extraordinary behaviour that has still not been explained: the parents stood on the backs of their chicks after they had left the nest\, and pecked at them repeatedly.  And one female cleared out the nest lining immediately after the last chick had left.  Clearing the nest is common in Europe but not at the intensity and single-mindedness observed and within just minutes of the last chick leaving. \nThe team talked with local people\, mainly livestock herders\, learning from them on the one hand\, and and showing  them things on the other.  Although familiar with seeing Dippers flying around none of the local people they talked with had seen a nest or sat and watched Dippers doing things like feeding their young or clearing out the lining from their nests. \nThe presence of a healthy population of Dippers is a good indicator that the water is unpolluted – or at least not badly polluted.  Threats to the Altai Dippers include overstocking of livestock\, mining\, and melting glaciers – a complex mix.  Eventually tourism might add to them. \nPride in local species could contribute to conservation action by residents – although the demands of everyday life in that difficult environment make it hard for many to find time to participate.  And climate change overshadows everything – many herders are already moving out of the Altai as they see no long term future there.
URL:https://royalasiaticsociety.org/event/andrew-laurie-gleaming-breasted-residents-of-streams-that-dont-freeze-in-winter-the-dippers-of-the-mongolian-altai/
LOCATION:Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre\, 14 Stephenson Way\, London\, NW1 2HD\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:RAS Lecture series 2024-25
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250213T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250213T203000
DTSTAMP:20260421T225257
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SUMMARY:Prof Kiri Paramore - A Global History of Confucianism: The Cambridge History of Confucianism Volume I (prehistory– 1400 ce)
DESCRIPTION:  \nThis talk will introduce The Cambridge History of Confucianism\, Volume I (pre-history-1400)\, the editing of which Prof Paramore is currently completing with publication expected in early 2026. \nConfucianism has been a major force in the cultural history of China\, Japan\, Korea and Vietnam for thousands of years\, affecting the art\, literature\, science and politics of all these countries. Confucianism was not only a major ideological and cultural determiner in East Asian premodernity\, but also played a crucial role in East Asia’s transition to modernity\, mediating the importation of scientific and medical thought and the re-creation of major political ideologies of modernity like liberalism. Beyond Asia\, Confucianism was also a major topic of intellectual discussion in early modern Europe – a foil for the political theories of thinkers from Voltaire to Montesquieu. This Cambridge History will introduce Confucianism through the entire long durée history of the tradition\, beginning with its pre-historic Chinese roots\, and extending through the entire history of imperial Chinese and broader Asian history into the contemporary period. \nKiri Paramore is Professor of Asian Studies in the National University of Ireland\, University College Cork\, where he directs the Irish Institute of Chinese Studies and the Irish Institute of Japanese Studies. He is the author of Japanese Confucianism: A Cultural History (Cambridge University Press\, 2016)\, (a CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Award winner\, 2016)\, Ideology and Christianity in Japan (Routledge\, 2009)\, and Religion and Orientalism in Asian Studies (Bloomsbury\, 2016). His articles have appeared in Modern Intellectual History\, the Journal of Asian Studies\, the Journal of Early Modern History\, Comparative Studies in Society and History\, the Journal of Japanese Studies\, and the Proceedings of the British Academy\, etc. He currently serves as chief editor of the Cambridge History of Confucianism\, and as one of the authors of the Cambridge History of Democracy\, and the New Cambridge History of Japan. \nTo join online please email Matty at mb@royalasiaticsociety.org
URL:https://royalasiaticsociety.org/event/prof-kiri-paramore/
LOCATION:Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre\, 14 Stephenson Way\, London\, NW1 2HD\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:RAS Lecture series 2024-25
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DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250213T173000
DTSTAMP:20260421T225257
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SUMMARY:Council Meeting
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URL:https://royalasiaticsociety.org/event/council-meeting-11/
LOCATION:Royal Asiatic Society Council Room\, 14 Stephenson Way\, London\, NW1 2HD\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Council meetings
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250213T150000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250213T160000
DTSTAMP:20260421T225257
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SUMMARY:Library Committee
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URL:https://royalasiaticsociety.org/event/library-committee-8/
LOCATION:Royal Asiatic Society Council Room\, 14 Stephenson Way\, London\, NW1 2HD\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Council meetings
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250206T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250206T200000
DTSTAMP:20260421T225257
CREATED:20250116T121417Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250116T121417Z
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SUMMARY:Silk Roads at the British Museum and British Library: Objects in Focus
DESCRIPTION:  \nFrom September 2024 to February 2025\, the Silk Roads get a spotlight in London\, with two concurrent exhibitions on this topic at the British Museum and the British Library. The British Museum exhibition Silk Roads takes audiences on a journey across Asia\, Africa and Europe\, exploring the movement of people\, objects and ideas in the period 500 to 1000 CE. The British Library exhibition A Silk Road Oasis: Life in Ancient Dunhuang transports visitors to the vibrant town of Dunhuang—a hub of trade\, culture\, and religion in present-day Northwest China—highlighting the experiences of those who lived\, passed through\, or left their mark there. In this event\, curators of the two exhibitions will introduce the thinking behind their respective shows\, and share insights into a few of the highlight objects on display. \n  \nImages (clockwise from top left): \nOctagonal cup with musicians and a dancer\, c. 830s. Found in the Belitung shipwreck. Probably made in Yangzhou\, China. Tang Shipwreck Collection\, Asian Civilisations Museum\, Singapore. \nString of cloves\, c. 400–600. Originating from Maluku Islands\, present-day Indonesia\, found at Qaw el-Kebir\, Egypt. British Museum. \nBilingual vertical scroll linked to the Khotanese envoy Ca Kima-Sana. \nGold and garnet sword-scabbard button\, early 600s. Found in the Sutton Hoo Ship Burial\, Suffolk\, UK. British Museum.
URL:https://royalasiaticsociety.org/event/silk-roads-at-the-british-museum-and-british-library-objects-in-focus/
LOCATION:Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre\, 14 Stephenson Way\, London\, NW1 2HD\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:RAS Lecture series 2024-25
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250116T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250116T203000
DTSTAMP:20260421T225257
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LAST-MODIFIED:20250107T155123Z
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SUMMARY:POSTPONED -Sanjeev Kumar - The Age of the Guptas: The Evolution of Art and Iconography during the 4th-6th Century CE
DESCRIPTION:Please note that this event has been postponed. We will let you know when a new date has been scheduled. \n 
URL:https://royalasiaticsociety.org/event/sanjeev-kumar-the-age-of-the-guptas-the-evolution-of-art-and-iconography-during-the-4th-6th-century-ce/
LOCATION:Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre\, 14 Stephenson Way\, London\, NW1 2HD\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:RAS Lecture series 2024-25
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250109T170000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250109T180000
DTSTAMP:20260421T225257
CREATED:20241004T111258Z
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SUMMARY:Finance & Investments Committee
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://royalasiaticsociety.org/event/finance-investments-committee-10/
LOCATION:Royal Asiatic Society Council Room\, 14 Stephenson Way\, London\, NW1 2HD\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Council meetings
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250109T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250109T170000
DTSTAMP:20260421T225257
CREATED:20241004T111221Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241004T111221Z
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SUMMARY:Events & House Committee
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://royalasiaticsociety.org/event/events-house-committee-6/
LOCATION:Royal Asiatic Society Council Room\, 14 Stephenson Way\, London\, NW1 2HD\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Council meetings
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20241212T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20241212T203000
DTSTAMP:20260421T225257
CREATED:20241003T133811Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241125T105213Z
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SUMMARY:Prof Prem Poddar - China in India: from Shangri-La to Kalimpong
DESCRIPTION:The talk will go though some of the pivotal moments in my book just released from Cambridge University Press. Through the India-China Border: Kalimpong in the Himalayas mobilizes rarely used documentary material from British\, Chinese and Indian archives to shed new light on our understanding of the ‘Tibet Question’ in China-India relations. Focused on the Himalayan border town of Kalimpong from the 1920s to 1962\, it unearths a history of espionage and political intrigue that challenges the way that remote peripheries are seen from the ‘centres’ of nations. The use of postcolonial and transcultural theory demonstrates how a multidisciplinary framework augments our reading of imperial histories\, postwar politics and frontier cultures. Kalimpong emerges from this analysis as a key node in Himalayan history and in the mid-century fashioning of India-China relations.
URL:https://royalasiaticsociety.org/event/prof-prem-poddar-china-in-india-from-shangri-la-to-kalimpong/
LOCATION:Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre\, 14 Stephenson Way\, London\, NW1 2HD\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:RAS Lecture series 2024-25
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20241205T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20241205T203000
DTSTAMP:20260421T225257
CREATED:20240724T114726Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241105T140421Z
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SUMMARY:Dr Tom Young: British Art and the East India Company\, c.1813–58
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URL:https://royalasiaticsociety.org/event/dr-tom-young-title-tba/
LOCATION:Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre\, 14 Stephenson Way\, London\, NW1 2HD\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:RAS Lecture series 2024-25
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20241205T163000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20241205T173000
DTSTAMP:20260421T225257
CREATED:20241004T111139Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241004T111139Z
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SUMMARY:Council Meeting
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://royalasiaticsociety.org/event/council-meeting-10/
LOCATION:Royal Asiatic Society Council Room\, 14 Stephenson Way\, London\, NW1 2HD\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Council meetings
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20241128T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20241128T203000
DTSTAMP:20260421T225257
CREATED:20240724T114549Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241105T122148Z
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SUMMARY:Mansi Rao: Dining tables on streets and carpets on floors - A study of vernacular furniture in north-west India
DESCRIPTION:  \nThe South Asia Collection Museum in Norwich\,UK has over 250 vernacular furniture items and related objects from north-west India. When it came to representing these objects\, available research was scarce. Emerging from this museological need of contextualising the collection\, a collaborative project\, ‘Vernacular Furniture of North-West India’ was conducted with the Design Innovation and Craft Resource Centre (DICRC)\, CEPT University\, India. The project was carried out in three phases between 2015 and 2021 with the aim to identify\, map\, document and study vernacular furniture that has traditionally been\, and continues to be an inherent part of day-to-day life in an Indian household. The project is the first of its kind. It not only provides extensive documentation of diverse furniture types that are used in the region\, but also challenges inherited narratives about what furniture is in an Indian context. It makes an important contribution to museological discourses and highlights the need for this important form of material culture to be regarded in the same light as other forms of cultural heritage such as architecture and textiles. \n  \nThe talk draws on the knowledge gained through fieldwork experiences. It presents a variety of vernacular furniture and everyday objects and includes the voices of the people who continue to make and use such furniture and for whom such items are an integral part of their everyday life. \n  \n  \nMansi S Rao \nCollection Curator \nThe South Asia Collection\, Norwich\, UK \n  \nMansi S Rao is the Collection Curator at The South Asia Collection and the SADACC Trust\, Norwich\, UK. Her professional work has mainly included projects relating to craft practices that are living traditions in South Asia\, predominantly in India and Sri Lanka. Her curatorial practice and research are focused on bridging gaps that exist in the study of craft objects and their socio-cultural bearing within source communities. \n  \nIn her previous role as a Senior Research Associate at the Design Innovation and Craft Resource Centre (DICRC)\, CEPT University\, India\, an important project she worked on as a Principal Researcher was the Vernacular Furniture of North-West India project. Her talk today is based on this project. Having first graduated as an architect\, Mansi has previous experience of spatial design\, heritage listing and documentation projects with INTACH\, and architectural conservation projects. Mansi is also an advisor for the Ena de Silva Foundation in Sri Lanka to develop projects and methods for archiving and researching Ena’s textile and other craft works. She has an MA in Museums\, Heritage and Material Culture Studies from SOAS\, University of London. She was awarded the Chevening Scholarship (2017–18) and the Charles Wallace India Trust and Simon Digby Charitable Trust Scholarship (2017–18) to study and conduct research in the UK.
URL:https://royalasiaticsociety.org/event/mansi-rao-title-tba/
LOCATION:Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre\, 14 Stephenson Way\, London\, NW1 2HD\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:RAS Lecture series 2024-25
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20241107T170000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20241107T180000
DTSTAMP:20260421T225257
CREATED:20241004T110915Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241004T110915Z
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SUMMARY:Finance & Investments Committee
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URL:https://royalasiaticsociety.org/event/finance-investments-committee-9/
LOCATION:Royal Asiatic Society Council Room\, 14 Stephenson Way\, London\, NW1 2HD\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Council meetings
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20241107T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20241107T170000
DTSTAMP:20260421T225257
CREATED:20241004T110837Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241004T110837Z
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SUMMARY:Publications Committee
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URL:https://royalasiaticsociety.org/event/publications-committee-5/
LOCATION:Royal Asiatic Society Council Room\, 14 Stephenson Way\, London\, NW1 2HD\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Council meetings
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20241031T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20241031T203000
DTSTAMP:20260421T225257
CREATED:20240724T114304Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240724T114304Z
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SUMMARY:Dr Stephen Murphy: Buddhist Landscapes: Art and Archaeology of the Khorat Plateau\, 7th to 11th Centuries
DESCRIPTION:Detail of Buddha image in carved into the rock face in mahāparinibbāṇa on the Phu Wiang Mountain range\, Chaiyaphum province\, Thailand. Late 8th to early 9th century. Author’s photograph.\nThe Khorat Plateau is a landscape of some 155\,000 square kilometres of what is now northeast Thailand and central Laos. Despite the rich evidence for the region’s dynamism and development in the metal age\, knowledge of subsequent first millennium developments on the Khorat Plateau remains limited. The spread of Buddhism across the region has been overshadowed by the attention given the Dvāravatī culture of the Chao Phraya Basin to its west and the Zhenla and later Angkor civilisations to its south and southeast. \nIn this lecture\, I discuss my new book which\, built on extensive fieldwork and archaeological surveys\, reveals the Khorat Plateau as having a distinctive Buddhist culture\, including new forms of art and architecture\, and a characteristic aesthetic. Moreover\, by combining archaeological and art historical analysis with an historical ecology approach\, I trace the outlines of Buddhism’s spread into the region\, along its major river systems. In this lecture I will illustrate how I read this history into and against the Khorat landscape\, attending to the emergence of monumental architecture such as stūpas and Buddha images carved into the rockfaces of hills and mountainsides\, and the importance on the Khorat Plateau of the use of boundary markers\, or sīmā. The book provides a new picture of the region in the first and early second millennia\, adding to our understanding of the development of Buddhism in Southeast Asia. \nhttps://nuspress.nus.edu.sg/products/buddhist-landscapes-of-the-khorat-plateau \nAbout the speaker \nStephen A. Murphy is Pratapaditya Pal Senior Lecturer in Curating and Museology of Asian Art at SOAS\, University of London. He specializes in the art and archaeology of Buddhism and Hinduism in first millennium CE Southeast Asia with a focus on Thailand and Laos. He has a particular interest in the 7th to 9th centuries CE as well as maritime connectivity between Southeast Asian cultures\, Tang China\, and the Indian Ocean world in general. His museological focus engages with issues of restitution and curation of Asian art. \nHis book Buddhist Landscapes: Art and Archaeology of the Khorat Plateau\, 7th to 11th Centuries has just been published with NUS Press (May 2024) and explores the development of this religion in northeast Thailand and Central Laos. He is co-editor\, with Nicolas Revire of Before Siam: Essays in Art and Archaeology\, published by the Siam Society and River Books in 2014; co-editor with Alan Chong\, of The Tang Shipwreck: Art and exchange in the 9th century (2017) published by the Asian Civilisations Museum Singapore\, and has contributed papers to leading academic journals such as Antiquity\, Asian Perspectives\, The Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society and The Journal of Southeast Asian Studies amongst others.
URL:https://royalasiaticsociety.org/event/dr-stephen-murphy-buddhist-landscapes-art-and-archaeology-of-the-khorat-plateau-7th-to-11th-centuries/
LOCATION:Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre\, 14 Stephenson Way\, London\, NW1 2HD\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:RAS Lecture series 2024-25
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20241024T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20241024T203000
DTSTAMP:20260421T225257
CREATED:20240724T114018Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240918T114828Z
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SUMMARY:Book Launch: Goderdzi Chokheli’s ‘Human Sadness’ with talks by Professor Dan Healey\, Ms Lia Chokoshvili\, and Translators
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URL:https://royalasiaticsociety.org/event/lia-chokoshvili/
LOCATION:Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre\, 14 Stephenson Way\, London\, NW1 2HD\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:RAS Lecture series 2024-25
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20241017T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20241017T203000
DTSTAMP:20260421T225257
CREATED:20240724T113839Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240918T132441Z
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SUMMARY:Islamic Bookbinding revealed through the lens of the Montefiascone Conservation Project
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URL:https://royalasiaticsociety.org/event/cheryl-porter-title-tba/
LOCATION:Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre\, 14 Stephenson Way\, London\, NW1 2HD\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:RAS Lecture series 2024-25
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20241017T163000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20241017T173000
DTSTAMP:20260421T225257
CREATED:20241004T110725Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241004T110725Z
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SUMMARY:Monograph Series Editorial Board
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://royalasiaticsociety.org/event/monograph-series-editorial-board-5/
LOCATION:Royal Asiatic Society Council Room\, 14 Stephenson Way\, London\, NW1 2HD\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Council meetings
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20241016T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20241016T203000
DTSTAMP:20260421T225257
CREATED:20240912T113949Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240918T132408Z
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SUMMARY:Professor Suranjan Das: Revisiting the Nehru Years in India\, 1947 - 1964
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URL:https://royalasiaticsociety.org/event/professor-suranjan-das-revisiting-the-nehru-years-in-india-1947-1964/
LOCATION:Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre\, 14 Stephenson Way\, London\, NW1 2HD\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:RAS Lecture series 2024-25
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20241010T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20241010T203000
DTSTAMP:20260421T225257
CREATED:20240724T113607Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240724T113625Z
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SUMMARY:Marcus Milwright: Writing Art History as Fiction: A Story of Islamic Art
DESCRIPTION:It is a sign of the growing maturity of the field of Islamic art history that there are already many introductory surveys. Some attempt to cover all regions and periods\, though it is more common for these books to establish chronological and geographical boundaries. More recently\, introductions to the study of Islamic material and visual cultures have been offered in a variety of online formats. This talk discusses the value of a hybrid approach to the writing an introductory art-historical text\, combining narrative fiction and academic research. Published at the end of 2023\, A Story of Islamic Art charts the history of Islamic art and architecture through fifty case studies\, the first dating to 660 and the last to 2020. The chosen objects and buildings encompass a broad range of dynasties and regions\, with each chapter set in a different location. Art historical concepts are communicated to the reader through the interactions the four protagonists (two of whom are drawn from the Maqamat of al-Hariri) have with objects\, structures\, and people who made or commissioned them. The talk describes the diverse inspirations for the book and the decisions taken during the processes of research and writing. The conclusion offers reflections on the potential pitfalls of presenting speculative reconstructions of historical events and the motivations and attitudes of past cultures.
URL:https://royalasiaticsociety.org/event/marcus-milwright-writing-art-history-as-fiction-a-story-of-islamic-art/
LOCATION:Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre\, 14 Stephenson Way\, London\, NW1 2HD\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:RAS Lecture series 2024-25
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SUMMARY:Council Meeting
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URL:https://royalasiaticsociety.org/event/council-meeting-9/
LOCATION:Royal Asiatic Society Council Room\, 14 Stephenson Way\, London\, NW1 2HD\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Council meetings
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20241010T153000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20241010T163000
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SUMMARY:Journal Editorial Board
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URL:https://royalasiaticsociety.org/event/journal-editorial-board-5/
LOCATION:Royal Asiatic Society Council Room\, 14 Stephenson Way\, London\, NW1 2HD\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Council meetings
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20241008T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20241008T203000
DTSTAMP:20260421T225257
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SUMMARY:*Cancelled* Prof Mark Liechty (Winner of the 2023 Surya P. Subedi Prize): Building Capacity\, Not Infrastructure:  Lessons from Hydropower Development in Nepal
DESCRIPTION:*PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED*\n 
URL:https://royalasiaticsociety.org/event/prof-mark-liechty-winner-of-the-2023-surya-p-subedi-prize-building-capacity-not-infrastructure-lessons-from-hydropower-development-in-nepal/
LOCATION:Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre\, 14 Stephenson Way\, London\, NW1 2HD\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:RAS Lecture series 2024-25
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20241004T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20241004T210000
DTSTAMP:20260421T225257
CREATED:20240815T112609Z
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SUMMARY:Dr Liz Driver: Reasons for Tod's dismissal as Political Agent in the Western Rajput States 1818-1822
DESCRIPTION:  \nThis talk aims to re-assess Tod’s role as Political Agent in the Western Rajput States for the brief period 1818-1822 and to determine what went wrong. It will address Tod’s visit to Maharaja Man Singh in Jodhpur but the focus will be on the events in Kotah in 1820-21. It will draw on Tod’s own account in the Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan and on the\, often vituperative\, correspondence between Tod and his immediate superior\, Sir David Ochterlony\, and with the government in Calcutta. \n 
URL:https://royalasiaticsociety.org/event/dr-liz-driver-reasons-for-tods-dismissal-as-political-agent-in-the-western-rajput-states-1818-1822/
LOCATION:Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre\, 14 Stephenson Way\, London\, NW1 2HD\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:RAS Lecture series 2024-25
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240926T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240926T203000
DTSTAMP:20260421T225257
CREATED:20240724T113311Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240918T160916Z
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SUMMARY:Alice Casalini: The art of crossing over: Gandhāran pathways to nirvāṇa
DESCRIPTION:  \nThe art of Gandhāra—a region stretching across modern-day Pakistan and Afghanistan—has often been heralded as prime example of proto-globalization: its rich and syncretic visual vocabulary that freely borrows from Hellenistic\, Iranian and Indian models easily lends itself to this discourse in the early centuries of the first millennium. Aquatic imagery in Gandhāra is one of the many lemmas in such vocabulary: nereids\, tritons\, and other sea monsters are commonly discussed as one of the figurative vehicles through which Hellenism reached Central and South Asia and took hold there. This talk\, however\, takes a different approach to this kind of images and explicitly asks what the role and function of aquatic imagery was within a Buddhist context. This talk demonstrates that the answer can be found in the Buddhist visual rhetoric of salvation. Through the careful analysis of several panels from the site of Andan Dheri\, in the Swat Valley\, and a series of preliminary reconstructions of the original architectural context of those panels depicting sea creatures\, I show that aquatic imagery was in fact a fundamental part of a specific iconographic program centered around metaphors of water-crossing—indeed\, one of the most enduring and popular metaphors of spiritual refinement meant to lead the devotee towards nirvāṇa. \nAlice Casalini received her MA in Chinese Studies from Ca’ Foscari University of Venice and trained as an archaeologist at the Department of Archaeology and Museology of Peking University and with the Italian Archaeological Mission in Pakistan. She is currently a PhD candidate in Art History at the University of Chicago.
URL:https://royalasiaticsociety.org/event/alice-casalini-the-art-of-crossing-over-gandharan-pathways-to-nirva%e1%b9%87a/
LOCATION:Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre\, 14 Stephenson Way\, London\, NW1 2HD\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:RAS Lecture series 2024-25
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240923T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240923T210000
DTSTAMP:20260421T225257
CREATED:20240815T112814Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240918T132237Z
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SUMMARY:Dr Donna Brunero (NUS): Visiting the ‘Liverpool of the East’:  Singapore’s place in tours of Empire
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URL:https://royalasiaticsociety.org/event/dr-donna-brunero-nus-visiting-the-liverpool-of-the-east-singapores-place-in-tours-of-empire/
LOCATION:Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre\, 14 Stephenson Way\, London\, NW1 2HD\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:RAS Lecture series 2024-25
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240918T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240918T200000
DTSTAMP:20260421T225257
CREATED:20240624T092543Z
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SUMMARY:The Life and Work of Noh Actor Akira Matsui (interviewed by Margaret Coldiron)
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=””]Akira Matsui is a master actor-teacher of the Kita School of Japanese classical noh theatre. Matsui was born in 1946 and began studying noh at the age of seven. He showed such talent that\, at age 12\, he became a “live-in apprentice” to Kita Minoru\, the 15th generation of noh masters of the Kita School (one of the five guilds of shite main role actors). From his firm foundation in tradition\, Matsui has experimented in intercultural fusions. He has acted in productions of plays by Shakespeare\, W.B. Yeats\, and Beckett\, and has written plays based on Rashoman and Hoichi. Together with American noh composer-performer Richard Emmert\, he has created a series of English Noh including St. Francis\, At the Hawk’s Well\, and Eliza. In addition\, he has choreographed noh-style dances to jazz ballads and to poetry by T.S. Eliot. In 1998\, he was designated an Important Intangible Cultural Asset by the Japanese government. In 2016\, Matsui was awarded an honorary doctorate by Royal Holloway\, University of London\, in recognition of his status as a Noh master and for his long record of achievement in bringing Noh to new international audiences. Join noh scholar Margaret Coldiron as Matsui reflects on his life\, his achievements\, and his belief that noh has much to offer contemporary international performance. \nDr Margaret Coldiron is a theatre director\, performer\, teacher and a specialist in Asian performance and masks. She is the author of Trance and Transformation of the Masked Actor in Japanese Noh and Balinese Dance Drama (Mellen Press 2004) and has published widely on masks\, Asian and intercultural performance and actor training. \nPart of the Nogaku education and outreach programme. Click here for the full programme. \nFeatured image: Matsui Akira performs Takasago at the Southbank Centre\, London\, January 2020. Photo: Clive Barda/ArenaPal[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://royalasiaticsociety.org/event/the-life-and-work-of-noh-actor-akira-matsui-interviewed-by-margaret-coldiron/
LOCATION:Royal Asiatic Society\, 14 Stephenson Way\, London\, NW1 2HD\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Special Event
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DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240916T203000
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SUMMARY:Dr Robert Morton: Sir Rutherford Alcock: First British Minister to Japan (1859-1865)\, Consul (1844-1859) and Minister (1865-1870) to China
DESCRIPTION:The son of a village doctor\, Rutherford Alcock trained in medicine and became a battlefield surgeon\, working in Portugal and Spain during the civil wars there in the 1830s. In a major career shift\, he entered the consular service\, went to China\, and ended up as British Minister (the equivalent of today’s ambassador) to Japan and then China. This progression was unique\, indeed bizarre\, especially as every senior position he got was one he specifically said he did not want. Nonetheless\, he was the man who commenced Britain’s relations with Japan and introduced Japan’s arts and crafts to the UK\, in addition to playing a central role in Britain’s relationship with China. He was no rampant imperialist and expressed ambivalence about Britain’s position in East Asia as he contended with intractable issues like the opium trade and how to punish attacks on British interests without starting a war. This book fills a major gap in the study of Japan’s opening to the West from a British perspective\, as well as Britain’s relationship with East Asia as a whole\, through the eyes of a brilliant\, but complicated and contradictory figure.
URL:https://royalasiaticsociety.org/event/dr-robert-morton-sir-rutherford-alcock-first-british-minister-to-japan-1859-1865-consul-1844-1859-and-minister-1865-1870-to-china/
LOCATION:Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre\, 14 Stephenson Way\, London\, NW1 2HD\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:RAS Lecture series 2024-25
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240912T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240912T203000
DTSTAMP:20260421T225257
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SUMMARY:*Cancelled* Online Talk: Professor Robert Arnott (Oxford): A Century of the Harappans:  Celebrating the Discovery of a Civilisation
DESCRIPTION:*Please note that this event has been cancelled*\n  \n \n  \nThe existence of this complex urban society that was the Indus or Harappan Civilisation\, remained unknown until the 20 September 1924. It was then that Sir John Marshall\, Director-General of Archaeology in the Raj\, announced its discovery in the pages of the Illustrated London News.  He named it the Indus Civilisation\, because the finds came from two sites in the Upper and Lower Indus Valley\, Harappa\, near Lahore in The Punjab and Mohenjo-daro in Sindh\, six hundred kilometres to the south. This discovery was based on the fieldwork of the Indian archaeologists R. B. Daya Ram Sahni at Harappa in 1921 and from 1923 and Rakhal Das Banerjee and Madhu Sarup Vats at Mohenjo-daro from 1922. It was shortly to be dated to the middle and late third millennium and the early part of the second millennium BCE. \nWe are reminded of Marshall’s background. Following studying classics at King’s College\, Cambridge and before his appointment in India\, his archaeological career was with the British School at Athens in the early years of the discovery of Minoan Crete. He was strongly influenced by Sir Arthur Evans and his discoveries at Knossos\, where he had worked unearthing of the Minoan Civilisation. He wanted to find his own. \nSince a century ago\, archaeological research both in modern India and Pakistan and even farther afield in Afghanistan and the Persian Gulf has been constantly enlarging our knowledge. \n 
URL:https://royalasiaticsociety.org/event/professor-robert-arnott-oxford-a-century-of-the-harappans-celebrating-the-discovery-of-a-civilisation/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:RAS Lecture series 2024-25
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240906T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240906T203000
DTSTAMP:20260421T225257
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SUMMARY:Noh and Kyogen Masks Demonstration Talk with Kitazawa Hideta with Jannette Cheong
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=””]Mask-making Demonstration Talk \nRenowned mask-carver Kitazawa Hideta will be joined by author and producer of English-language noh Jannette Cheong\, to explore the process of designing\, carving and working with noh masks. Kitazawa is unique in the noh world in making new masks for innovative and experimental noh pieces\, including English-language noh\, as well as producing classical noh and kyogen (nohgaku) masks. He will demonstrate the different stages of carving\, offering a rare opportunity to understand how iconic noh masks are made for both traditional and contemporary noh. \nAt the end of this demonstration talk Kitazawa Hideta will undertake a book signing of his newly published book ‘Noh and Kyogen Masks: Tradition and Modernity in the Art of Kitazawa Hideta. \nKitazawa Hideta is a wood sculptor and noh mask maker based in Tokyo. He learned traditional wood carving of Buddhist and Shinto statuary from his father\, Kitazawa Ikkyo\, and later studied noh mask carving. He currently produces classical noh and kyogen masks and has been designated a master craftsman by the Tokyo Metropolitan government. Kitazawa has also created numerous shinsaku “new” masks for foreign language noh productions\, notably those of Theatre Nohgaku\, as well as for other noh influenced plays. He has given workshops and demonstrations in Japan and internationally and a book on his work entitled Noh and Kyogen Masks will be published by Prestel in Autumn 2024. \n  \n \n  \nJannette Cheong is a poet\, playwright\, designer and Theatre Nohgaku-affiliated artist. London born\, she has been involved with education and artistic collaborations\ninternationally for almost 40 years. She is the author of the English noh Pagoda\, the first English noh using traditional noh techniques written by a British person\, toured by the Oshima Noh Theatre/Theatre Nohgaku (Europe 2009\, Asia 2011). Her ballet-noh-opera collaborative piece\, Opposites-InVerse\, was performed for Matsui Akira’s tribute programme: Noh Time Like the Present\, London (2017). Her English noh Between the Stones (Europe\, 2020) was again toured by Oshima Noh Theatre/Theatre Nohgaku. \nTogether with Richard Emmert she co-authored (and designed) Noh and Kyogen Masks: Tradition and Modernity in the Art of Kitazawa Hideta. \nPart of the Nogaku education and outreach programme. Click here for the full programme. \nFeatured image: Oshima Kinue performs Pagoda at the National Noh Theatre\, Tokyo\, December 2009. Photo: Kitazawa Sohta[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://royalasiaticsociety.org/event/noh-and-kyogen-masks-demonstration-talk-with-kitazawa-hideta-with-jannette-cheong/
LOCATION:Royal Asiatic Society\, 14 Stephenson Way\, London\, NW1 2HD\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Special Event
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