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SUMMARY:Professor Jane Ohlmeyer - Making Empire: Ireland and India
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://royalasiaticsociety.org/event/professor-jane-ohlmeyer-making-empire-ireland-and-india/
LOCATION:Trinity Long Room Hub\, Trinity College Dublin\, Trinity College Dublin\, College Green\, Dublin\, Ireland
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240516T183000
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DTSTAMP:20260422T020843
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SUMMARY:AGM Lecture: Prof Dr Julia Hegewald: Jambūdvīpa and other Jaina Cosmological Representations from India
DESCRIPTION:Free and open to all. To join us online please contact Matty at mb@royalasiaticsociety.org \n 
URL:https://royalasiaticsociety.org/event/agm-3/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240514T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240514T203000
DTSTAMP:20260422T020843
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SUMMARY:Henry Barlow: The Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society: The Past and the Future
DESCRIPTION:To join online please email Matty at mb@royalasiaticsociety.org \n 
URL:https://royalasiaticsociety.org/event/henry-barlow-the-malaysian-branch-of-the-royal-asiatic-society-the-past-and-the-future/
LOCATION:Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre\, 14 Stephenson Way\, London\, NW1 2HD\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:RAS Lecture Series 2023 - 24
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240509T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240509T200000
DTSTAMP:20260422T020843
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SUMMARY:Rustaveli Day 2024
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URL:https://royalasiaticsociety.org/event/rustaveli-day-2024/
LOCATION:Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre\, 14 Stephenson Way\, London\, NW1 2HD\, United Kingdom
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240502T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240502T203000
DTSTAMP:20260422T020843
CREATED:20240415T091133Z
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SUMMARY:Dr Paul Bevan & Dr Susan Daruvala - One Man Talking: Selected Essays of Shao Xunmei\, 1929–1939
DESCRIPTION:To join online please email Matty at mb@royalasiaticsociety.org
URL:https://royalasiaticsociety.org/event/dr-paul-bevan-dr-susan-daruvala-one-man-talking-selected-essays-of-shao-xunmei-1929-1939/
LOCATION:Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre\, 14 Stephenson Way\, London\, NW1 2HD\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:RAS Lecture Series 2023 - 24
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240502T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240502T170000
DTSTAMP:20260422T020844
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SUMMARY:Events and House
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://royalasiaticsociety.org/event/events-and-house/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240502T150000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240502T160000
DTSTAMP:20260422T020844
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SUMMARY:Finance  Committee
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URL:https://royalasiaticsociety.org/event/finance-committee-2/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240425T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240425T203000
DTSTAMP:20260422T020844
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SUMMARY:Bayly Prize 2023 prizegiving ceremony
DESCRIPTION:We are pleased to announce that Dr. Thomas Barrett has been awarded the Bayly Prize. The finalists included Dr.Mariano Errichiello\, Dr. Kelsey Granger and Dr. Yui Lo. \n  \n \nDr. Thomas P. Barrett is currently a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Faculty of Asian and Middle East Studies and a Junior Research Fellow at Wolfson College\, Cambridge\, who specialises in the international and diplomatic history of pre-modern and modern East Asia. Prior to taking up his current post at Cambridge\, Thomas was trained in the Japanese Sinological tradition\, completing his BA at Aichi University (the successor to the Shanghai-based Tōa Dōbun Shoin) and his MA at the University of Tokyo. In 2016\, he began his PhD at the University of Tokyo as a Japan Society for the Promotion of Science DC Research Fellow. In 2019\, he moved to the University of Oxford\, where he completed his doctoral project under the supervision of Professor Henrietta Harrison. \n  \nThomas’ current book project explores the development of the professional Chinese diplomat through the lens of the foreign presence who worked in Qing and Republican China’s legations and consulates. Portions of the project have hitherto been published as articles in Japanese in Shigaku Zasshi and Tōyō Gakuhō\, and also as a chapter in a French-language volume published with the École française d’Extrême-Orient. Thomas’ Shigaku Zasshi article was recently awarded the 10th Historical Society of Japan Prize\, which was established in 2014 to celebrate the work of scholars under the age of 40 who have made a critical contribution to historiography in the Japanese language. \n  \n \nDr.Mariano Errichiello is the Shapoorji Pallonji Lecturer of Zoroastrianism\, Co-Chair and Executive Director of the Shapoorji Pallonji Institute of Zoroastrian Studies at SOAS University of London\, where he earned his PhD in 2022. Mariano has presented his research on Zoroastrian social history\, esotericism and ritual performance in international conferences in Asia\, Europe\, and the US earning two Honourable mentions by the Ancient India & Iran Trust (AIIT) and the inaugural Early Career Prize by the Association for the Study of Persianate Societies and the Journal of Persianate Studies. Prior to his current appointment\, Mariano has been a Resident Fellow of the Centre for Comparative Studies of Civilisations and Spiritualities at Fondazione Giorgio Cini in Venice\, a Research Fellow of the Nordic Institute of Asian Studies at the University of Copenhagen\, and a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Centre for Advanced Studies in the Humanities and Social Sciences of the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg in Germany. \n  \n \nSince receiving her doctorate from the University of Cambridge in 2022\, Dr. Kelsey Granger has been an Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow affiliated with Ludwig-Maximilian University\, Munich. Working with Prof. Armin Selbitschka\, her current research focuses on first-century BC excavated records of postal horses housed at the Xuanquan relay station\, located on the fringes of China’s Han empire. As she is particularly interested in intersections between animal\, gender\, and commodities histories\, she hopes to expand her doctoral research on the exoticised and highly-feminised practice of lapdog-keeping in medieval China by exploring the stark commercialisation of pet-keeping in Song China. Related canine research has been published in the Bulletin of SOAS and the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society\, for which she received the 2023 Sir George Staunton Prize. \n  \n \nDr. Yui Lo is Lecturer in Modern Chinese and East Asian History at the University of Oxford\, where he teaches Chinese and global history. He is currently revising his doctoral thesis in preparation for its publication.  To this end\, he will conduct additional archival research in summer 2024.
URL:https://royalasiaticsociety.org/event/bayly-prize-2023-prizegiving-ceremony/
LOCATION:Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre\, 14 Stephenson Way\, London\, NW1 2HD\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Special Event
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240425T163000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240425T173000
DTSTAMP:20260422T020844
CREATED:20240311T153514Z
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SUMMARY:Council
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URL:https://royalasiaticsociety.org/event/council/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240425T153000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240425T163000
DTSTAMP:20260422T020844
CREATED:20240311T153409Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240311T153446Z
UID:20172-1714059000-1714062600@royalasiaticsociety.org
SUMMARY:Publications Committee
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URL:https://royalasiaticsociety.org/event/library-committee-6/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240425T143000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240425T153000
DTSTAMP:20260422T020844
CREATED:20240311T153843Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240311T153843Z
UID:20183-1714055400-1714059000@royalasiaticsociety.org
SUMMARY:Library Committee
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URL:https://royalasiaticsociety.org/event/library-committee-7/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240418T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240418T203000
DTSTAMP:20260422T020844
CREATED:20240402T111651Z
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SUMMARY:Look at the Coins! Papers in Honour of Joe Cribb on his 75th Birthday
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://royalasiaticsociety.org/event/look-at-the-coins-papers-in-honour-of-joe-cribb-on-his-75th-birthday/
LOCATION:Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre\, 14 Stephenson Way\, London\, NW1 2HD\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Book Launch
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240411T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240411T203000
DTSTAMP:20260422T020844
CREATED:20240115T103438Z
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SUMMARY:Dr James White: Community Formation and the Edges of Empire: Panegyric Poetry in Sanʿaʾ and Isfahan\, 1670-1690.
DESCRIPTION:Dr James White is Departmental Lecturer of Persian Studies at Oxford University. His research focuses on multilingualism and the social uses of poetry in the Middle East and South Asia during the late medieval and early modern periods. \n  \nTalk Abstract: \nDuring the latter half of the seventeenth century\, the question of who wielded – and ought to wield – political authority was hotly debated in polities across the western Indian Ocean. Smaller states\, and even exiled scions of large empires\, had their own visions of kingship which called the territorial ambitions of the Ottomans\, Safavids and Mughals into question. In this talk\, I explore political thought in early modern Yemen and Iran\, examining how the polythematic ode (qaṣīda) was used to mould the convictions of audiences. I will compare the writing of al-Ṣārim al-Hindī (d. 1689-90)\, a poet at the court of the Qāsimī Imamate in northern Yemen\, with the verse of Najīb Kāshānī (d. 1711-12)\, who wrote panegyrics to the Mughal prince Akbar during the latter’s exile in Isfahan. I aim to show how the circulation of poetry and transregional networks affected political discourse in communities that stood on the edges of empire.
URL:https://royalasiaticsociety.org/event/dr-james-white-community-formation-and-the-edges-of-empire-panegyric-poetry-in-san%ca%bfa%ca%be-and-isfahan-1670-1690/
LOCATION:Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre\, 14 Stephenson Way\, London\, NW1 2HD\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:RAS Lecture Series 2023 - 24
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240411T163000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240411T173000
DTSTAMP:20260422T020844
CREATED:20240311T153339Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240311T153339Z
UID:20170-1712853000-1712856600@royalasiaticsociety.org
SUMMARY:Monograph Editorial Board
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URL:https://royalasiaticsociety.org/event/monograph-editorial-board/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240411T153000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240411T163000
DTSTAMP:20260422T020844
CREATED:20240311T153300Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240311T153300Z
UID:20168-1712849400-1712853000@royalasiaticsociety.org
SUMMARY:JRAS Editorial Board
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URL:https://royalasiaticsociety.org/event/jras-editorial-board/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240321T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240321T203000
DTSTAMP:20260422T020844
CREATED:20231205T092344Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240221T120603Z
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SUMMARY:Dr David W. Kim - A South Asian Neutral Power: India of the United Nations on the Korean Peninsula (1947-1955)
DESCRIPTION: 
URL:https://royalasiaticsociety.org/event/david-kim-contemporary-buddhist-movements-in-korea-conflict-new-leadership-and-diversity/
LOCATION:Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre\, 14 Stephenson Way\, London\, NW1 2HD\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:RAS Lecture Series 2023 - 24
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240321T163000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240321T173000
DTSTAMP:20260422T020844
CREATED:20240311T153220Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240311T153220Z
UID:20165-1711038600-1711042200@royalasiaticsociety.org
SUMMARY:Events and House Committee
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://royalasiaticsociety.org/event/events-and-house-committee-2/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240314T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240314T203000
DTSTAMP:20260422T020844
CREATED:20240122T093214Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240307T154147Z
UID:19948-1710441000-1710448200@royalasiaticsociety.org
SUMMARY:Juan de Lara -  Qaryat al Fāw - An Emporium Between the Classical and Islamic World
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URL:https://royalasiaticsociety.org/event/juan-de-lara-qaryat-al-faw-an-emporium-between-the-classical-and-islamic-world/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240314T163000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240314T173000
DTSTAMP:20260422T020844
CREATED:20240311T153110Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240311T153110Z
UID:20163-1710433800-1710437400@royalasiaticsociety.org
SUMMARY:Finance Committee
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URL:https://royalasiaticsociety.org/event/finance-committee/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240312T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240312T203000
DTSTAMP:20260422T020844
CREATED:20240123T095623Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240123T095623Z
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SUMMARY:Ann Wilks (CBE) - Britain’s Man on the Spot in Iraq and Afghanistan
DESCRIPTION:  \n\n\nThe newly discovered papers and colourfully-written letters of Anglo-Irish Sir Henry Dobbs\, which form the backbone of this book\, reveal his importance in the development of the modern Middle East. \nAn influential civil servant and Britain’s longest serving High Commissioner in Iraq at a time when the British empire was facing increasing challenges to its once dominant position\, he describes the difficulties of governing first in India then in the formerly Ottoman Mesopotamia during WW1. Here\, Dobbs had to devise administrative systems while often at odds with his superior\, Sir Percy Cox. In the discussions that followed the Third Afghan War\, Dobbs manoeuvred between the different views in London and Delhi with great dexterity to negotiate alone with the Amir of Afghanistan the enduring 1921 Anglo-Afghan treaty. \nHaving accepted from the League of Nations the responsibility for taking the newly-created Iraq to sustainable independence in the aftermath of WW1\, the cash-strapped British government came under great domestic pressure to abandon it. Key to British support continuing was Iraqi acceptance of the controversial 1922 treaty with Britain. This Dobbs achieved by disregarding the unhelpful approach recommended by London and\, risking his career\, he pressed on with his own wholly unauthorised tactics. In other initiatives\, Dobbs ensured that Mosul province remained within Iraq. Dobbs consistently pressed for Iraq’s early independence – granted in 1932\, the first territory in the former Ottoman Empire to gain it. \nAn early advocate of self-determination Dobbs was frequently at odds with the more traditional imperial approach of his superiors. He always endeavoured to balance the aspirations and needs of overseas communities for whom he was responsible with the interests of Britain which he represented.
URL:https://royalasiaticsociety.org/event/ann-wilks-cbe-britains-man-on-the-spot-in-iraq-and-afghanistan/
LOCATION:Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre\, 14 Stephenson Way\, London\, NW1 2HD\, United Kingdom
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240311T080000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240311T170000
DTSTAMP:20260422T020844
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SUMMARY:Council
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URL:https://royalasiaticsociety.org/event/council-2/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240307T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240307T203000
DTSTAMP:20260422T020844
CREATED:20240209T111645Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240209T111645Z
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SUMMARY:Robin Masefield - The World Administered by Irishmen: The Life and Times of Robert Hart and Irish Contemporaries in East Asia
DESCRIPTION:Robin Masefield’s latest book\, published by Queen’s University Belfast\, is entitled The World Administered by Irishmen: The Life and Times of Robert Hart and Irish Contemporaries in East Asia. \nWhile\, the initial focus is on the Chinese Maritime Customs Service\, and the Ulsterman Sir Robert Hart who led it for 45 years\, the book brings together a treasure trove of other Irish people in East Asia – men from Ulster in the Customs Service; a nurse from Roscommon; a doctor from Cork; a diplomat from Meath; Hong Kong governors from Dublin; and many more. Using first-hand accounts where possible\, the book vividly brings to life the special contribution that Irish men and women made to developing relations with China\, Japan and Korea in the 19th century. It is illustrated with three hundred images. \nRobin Masefield worked in Hong Kong in the 1980s\, and this is his third book with an Asian focus. He was awarded the CBE in 2003. \nSince retiring in Belfast in 2010\, he has written a number of books\, including three on aspects of local history in North Down. \nHe and his wife\, Rosemary\, moved to Surrey in autumn 2023. He is a Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society. \nThe book can be obtained online at www.blackstaffpress.com\, or email specialcollections@qub.ac.uk.
URL:https://royalasiaticsociety.org/event/robin-masefield-the-world-administered-by-irishmen-the-life-and-times-of-robert-hart-and-irish-contemporaries-in-east-asia/
LOCATION:Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre\, 14 Stephenson Way\, London\, NW1 2HD\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Book Launch
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240305T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240305T203000
DTSTAMP:20260422T020844
CREATED:20240122T124336Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240122T124402Z
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SUMMARY:Professor Dame Jessica Rawson - Gold\, Horses and the Rise of the Silk Roads
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://royalasiaticsociety.org/event/dame-jessica-rawson-gold-horses-and-the-rise-of-the-silk-roads/
LOCATION:Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre\, 14 Stephenson Way\, London\, NW1 2HD\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:RAS Lecture Series 2023 - 24
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240222T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240222T203000
DTSTAMP:20260422T020844
CREATED:20231205T091630Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231205T091630Z
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SUMMARY:Jennifer Howes: The Art of a Corporation: The East India Company as Patron and Collector
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://royalasiaticsociety.org/event/jennifer-howes-the-art-of-a-corporation-the-east-india-company-as-patron-and-collector/
LOCATION:Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre\, 14 Stephenson Way\, London\, NW1 2HD\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:RAS Lecture Series 2023 - 24
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240220T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240220T203000
DTSTAMP:20260422T020844
CREATED:20240207T114401Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240207T114401Z
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SUMMARY:Dr Neil Schmid (Dunhuang Academy) King of Kings: Vestiges of Sasanian Sacral Kingship in 10th Century Dunhuang
DESCRIPTION:  \nDating from the fifth to the fourteenth century\, the Mogao Caves near the oasis of Dunhuang in northwestern China contain a wealth of information charting the flows and interactions of diverse cultures across Eurasia. Donor portraits in particular furnish a remarkable range of data on the ethnicity\, interregional relations\, politics\, and the social and religious status of the caves’ patrons. Of the thousands of donor portraits painted on the walls of the Mogao Caves\, one in particular stands out for its size\, meticulously painted details\, and unique iconography\, that in Mogao Cave 98 of Viśa‘ Saṃbhava (Li Shengtian 李聖天)\, the King of Khotan (r. 912–c.966) and ally of the ruling élites of Dunhuang.  Scholars typically consider his royal regalia to be Chinese in origin and style\, and the king the representative of a Buddhist kingdom. However\, a detailed analysis of the portrait demonstrates neither is the case. Instead\, his garb and adjacent symbols reveal a richly coherent network of iconography and accoutrements Iranian in origin and Sasanian at heart\, foregrounding core concepts of divine kingship as predicated on xwarrah\, ‘divine glory.’ Drawing on a wide array of visual and material resources such as sculpture\, metalware\, and numismatic evidence from Iran and Central Asia\, this talk presents for the first time a thoroughly revised analysis of Viśa‘ Saṃbhava’s portrait. I demonstrate how the royal costume and associate ornamental motifs belong to a shared visual culture of imperial legitimacy grounded in symbols of investiture that span a vast geographical and temporal range\, here still very much authoritative during the 10th century in a largely Chinese context. Given our lack of knowledge about non-Buddhist aspects of Khotan\, this portrait and its sacral imagery are invaluable for reevaluating fundamental notions of sovereignty in the Kingdom of Khotan. \n  \nDr. Neil Schmid is Research Professor at the Dunhuang Academy in the Centre for Silk Road and Dunhuang Comparative Research. His research centers on Dunhuang and the Silk Road covering variety of topics: the role of Buddhist literature in ritual and art\, medieval economic development\, esoteric Buddhism\, and transcultural flow of religious objects and ideas across Eurasia. \n  \nTo join over zoom please email Matty Bradley at mb@royalasiaticsociety.org \n 
URL:https://royalasiaticsociety.org/event/dr-neil-schmid-dunhuang-academy-king-of-kings-vestiges-of-sasanian-sacral-kingship-in-10th-century-dunhuang/
LOCATION:Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre\, 14 Stephenson Way\, London\, NW1 2HD\, United Kingdom
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240208T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240208T203000
DTSTAMP:20260422T020844
CREATED:20231205T091519Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240201T114549Z
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SUMMARY:Nandini Das: Courting India - England\, Mughal India and the Origins of Empire
DESCRIPTION:  \nCourting India: England\, Mughal India and the Origins of Empire: Nandini Das: Bloomsbury Publishing \nWINNER OF THE BRITISH ACADEMY BOOK PRIZE\nA SPECTATOR\, WATERSTONES\, BBC HISTORY MAGAZINE\, PROSPECT AND HISTORY TODAY BOOK OF THE YEAR \nA profound and ground-breaking new history of one of the most important encounters in the history of colonialism: the British arrival in India in the early seventeenth century. \n‘A triumph of writing and scholarship. It is hard to imagine anyone ever bettering Das’s account of this part of the story‘ – William Dalrymple\, Financial Times \n‘A fascinating glimpse of the origins of the British Empire . . . drawn in dazzling technicolour‘ – Spectator \n‘Beautifully written and masterfully researched\, this has the makings of a classic’ – Peter Frankopan \nLONGLISTED FOR THE CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZE\nSHORTLISTED FOR THE HWA CROWN AWARDS \nWhen Thomas Roe arrived in India in 1616 as James I’s first ambassador to the Mughal Empire\, the English barely had a toehold in the subcontinent. Their understanding of South Asian trade and India was sketchy at best\, and\, to the Mughals\, they were minor players on a very large stage. Roe was representing a kingdom that was beset by financial woes and deeply conflicted about its identity as a unified ‘Great Britain’ under the Stuart monarchy. Meanwhile\, the court he entered in India was wealthy and cultured\, its dominion widely considered to be one of the greatest and richest empires of the world. \nIn Nandini Das’s fascinating history of Roe’s four years in India\, she offers an insider’s view of a Britain in the making\, a country whose imperial seeds were just being sown. It is a story of palace intrigue and scandal\, lotteries and wagers that unfolds as global trade begins to stretch from Russia to Virginia\, from West Africa to the Spice Islands of Indonesia. \nA major debut that explores the art\, literature\, sights and sounds of Jacobean London and Imperial India\, Courting India reveals Thomas Roe’s time in the Mughal Empire to be a turning point in history – and offers a rich and radical challenge to our understanding of Britain and its early empire.
URL:https://royalasiaticsociety.org/event/nandini-das-courting-india/
LOCATION:Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre\, 14 Stephenson Way\, London\, NW1 2HD\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:RAS Lecture Series 2023 - 24
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SUMMARY:Dr Giles Tillotson: Ram Raz and William Hodges: Theorizing Indian Architecture
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URL:https://royalasiaticsociety.org/event/dr-giles-tillotson-ram-raz-and-william-hodges-theorizing-indian-architecture/
LOCATION:Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre\, 14 Stephenson Way\, London\, NW1 2HD\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:RAS Lecture Series 2023 - 24
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SUMMARY:Prof Francis Robinson Festschrift Launch
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URL:https://royalasiaticsociety.org/event/prof-francis-robinson-festschrift-launch/
LOCATION:Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre\, 14 Stephenson Way\, London\, NW1 2HD\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:RAS Lecture Series 2023 - 24,Special Event
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SUMMARY:Kelsey Granger (winner of the Staunton Prize)
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URL:https://royalasiaticsociety.org/event/kelsey-granger-winner-of-the-staunton-prize/
LOCATION:Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre\, 14 Stephenson Way\, London\, NW1 2HD\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:RAS Lecture Series 2023 - 24
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SUMMARY:Dr Paul Bevan: Fraternal Revenge – the Legends of Ma Suzhen and Ma Yongzhen
DESCRIPTION:Free and open to all at 14 Stephenson Way\, NW1 2HD \nTo join online email Matty: mb@royalasiaticsociety.org
URL:https://royalasiaticsociety.org/event/dr-paul-bevan-title-tba/
LOCATION:Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre\, 14 Stephenson Way\, London\, NW1 2HD\, United Kingdom
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