Events
Professor Ruby Lal – Vagabond Princess: The Great Adventures of Gulbadan (Book launch)
Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre 14 Stephenson Way, London, United KingdomPlease join us for the book launch of Vagabond Princess: The Great Adventures of Gulbadan with author Professor Ruby Lal. Free and open to all at the Royal Asiatic Society, 14 Stephenson Way, NW1 2HD. To join online please email Matty at mb@royalasiaticsociety.org
Prof Lydia Walker in conversation with Dr Ria Kapoor – States-in-Waiting: A Counternarrative of Global Decolonization
Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre 14 Stephenson Way, London, United KingdomDr Andrew Hillier – The Alcock Album: Scenes of China Consular Life, 1843-1853
Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre 14 Stephenson Way, London, United Kingdom
Conference: New Worlds of the East India Company SOLD OUT
Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre 14 Stephenson Way, London, United Kingdom5 July 2024
Dr Awad Ibn Nahee: DARAH project for Arabian History: Syriac Sources for the History and Civilizations of Arabs and Arabia
Royal Asiatic Society 14 Stephenson Way, London, United Kingdom
Noh and Kyogen Masks Demonstration Talk with Kitazawa Hideta with Jannette Cheong
Royal Asiatic Society 14 Stephenson Way, London, United Kingdom9 June 2024
*Cancelled* Online Talk: Professor Robert Arnott (Oxford): A Century of the Harappans: Celebrating the Discovery of a Civilisation
Zoom*Please note that this event has been cancelled* The 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. …
Dr Robert Morton: Sir Rutherford Alcock: First British Minister to Japan (1859-1865), Consul (1844-1859) and Minister (1865-1870) to China
Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre 14 Stephenson Way, London, United KingdomThe 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…
The Life and Work of Noh Actor Akira Matsui (interviewed by Margaret Coldiron)
Royal Asiatic Society 14 Stephenson Way, London, United Kingdom18 September 2024