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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
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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:20260419T124721
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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:20260419T124721
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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:20260419T124721
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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:20260419T124721
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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:20260419T124721
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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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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240711T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240711T210000
DTSTAMP:20260419T124721
CREATED:20240625T123556Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240626T130325Z
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SUMMARY:Dr Awad Ibn Nahee: DARAH project for Arabian History:  Syriac Sources for the History and Civilizations of Arabs and Arabia
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URL:https://royalasiaticsociety.org/event/dr-awad-ibn-nahee-darah-project-for-arabian-history-syriac-sources-for-the-history-and-civilizations-of-arabs-and-arabia/
LOCATION:Royal Asiatic Society\, 14 Stephenson Way\, London\, NW1 2HD\, United Kingdom
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240705T093000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240705T173000
DTSTAMP:20260419T124721
CREATED:20240507T133004Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250908T141627Z
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SUMMARY:Conference: New Worlds of the East India Company SOLD OUT
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=””]New Worlds of the East India Company \n  \nPlease note that this event has now sold out. \n  \n5 July 2024 \nRoyal Asiatic Society\, 14 Stephenson Way\, London\, NW1 2HD \n  \n  \n9.30. Coffee \n  \n9:45. Introduction: John McAleer (Southampton) and Joshua Ehrlich (Macau) \n  \n10:00. Panel 1: Beginnings\, Ends\, and Legacies \n\nRupali Mishra (Auburn): ‘The “Idea” of Government and Authority in the Early East India Company’\nGuido van Meersbergen (Warwick): ‘Revisiting East India Company Diplomacy: The William Norris Embassy to Mughal India (1699–1702)’\nGiorgio Riello (EUI) and Guillemette Crouzet (EUI): ‘Rethinking “French” and “British” India: The “Diary” of Ananda Ranga Pillai’\nJohn McAleer (Southampton): ‘“In the spacious times of old”: The Afterlife of the East India Company\, 1899–1909’\n\n  \n11:30. Panel 2: Labour\, Knowledge\, and Networks \n\nMargaret Makepeace (British Library): ‘The World of the East India Company London Warehouse Labourers\, 1800–1858’\nJessica Hanser (Copenhagen): ‘Slavery\, Servitude\, and the East India Company in China’\nAnna Winterbottom (McGill): ‘Politics of Medicine and Natural Knowledge in Madras\, c. 1789–1809’\nJoshua Ehrlich (Macau): ‘Two Muttiahs and the Making of Company Power in South India’\n\n  \n13:00. Lunch \n  \n \n  \n14:00. Panel 3: Art and Visual Culture \n\nRishad Choudhury (Oberlin): ‘A Portrait of the Mercenary as a Nobleman: Persianate Prosopography and Colonial Portraiture in Company School Art’\nJennifer Howes (Independent): ‘“A Needless Profusion”: The East India Company’s unwitting Patronage of the Arts under Richard Wellesley (1800–1805)’\nTom Young (Courtauld): ‘Amateur Art and the East India Company’s Civil Service\, c. 1800–58’\nBrooke Krancer (Yale Center for British Art\, New Haven) and Anita Dey (Yale Center for British Art\, New Haven)\, ‘Chromatic Confluence: The East India Company and the Materiality of British Art’\n\n  \n15.30. Tea \n  \n16:00. Panel 4: Protest and Scandal \n\nCheryl Fury (University of New Brunswick): ‘“I willed no more peas to be given the company”: Provisioning\, Protest and “ApPEASement” in Early East India Company Voyages’\nCallie Wilkinson (LMU Munich): ‘Bearing Witness in Wartime: Unauthorized Disclosures in the East India Company’s Armies\, 1780–1850’\nNicholas Hoover Wilson (Stony Brook): ‘“To operate upon the root of the evil”: Charles Trevelyan and the Arc of Company Corruption’\nAndrea Major (Leeds): ‘Critics of the Company: Challenging East India Company Colonialism in Manchester\, Calcutta\, and Delhi\, 1838–1843’\n\n  \n17:30. Conclusion. \n  \n \n  \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://royalasiaticsociety.org/event/20376/
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:20240626T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240626T203000
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SUMMARY:Dr Andrew Hillier - The Alcock Album: Scenes of China Consular Life\, 1843-1853
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URL:https://royalasiaticsociety.org/event/dr-andrew-hillier-the-alcock-album-scenes-of-china-consular-life-1843-1853/
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:20240618T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240618T203000
DTSTAMP:20260419T124721
CREATED:20240524T140829Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240524T140829Z
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SUMMARY:Prof Lydia Walker in conversation with Dr Ria Kapoor - States-in-Waiting: A Counternarrative of Global Decolonization
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URL:https://royalasiaticsociety.org/event/prof-lydia-walker-in-conversation-with-dr-ria-kapoor-states-in-waiting-a-counternarrative-of-global-decolonization/
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:20240606T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240606T203000
DTSTAMP:20260419T124721
CREATED:20240509T144525Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240524T140653Z
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SUMMARY:Professor Ruby Lal - Vagabond Princess: The Great Adventures of Gulbadan (Book launch)
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for the book launch of Vagabond Princess: The Great Adventures of Gulbadan with author Professor Ruby Lal. \nFree and open to all at the Royal Asiatic Society\, 14 Stephenson Way\, NW1 2HD. \nTo join online please email Matty at mb@royalasiaticsociety.org \n  \n \n  \n \n  \n \n 
URL:https://royalasiaticsociety.org/event/professor-ruby-lal-vagabond-princess-the-great-adventures-of-gulbadan-book-launch/
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:20240606T163000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240606T173000
DTSTAMP:20260419T124721
CREATED:20240311T154127Z
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SUMMARY:Council
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URL:https://royalasiaticsociety.org/event/council-3/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240530T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240530T203000
DTSTAMP:20260419T124721
CREATED:20240402T112329Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240402T112329Z
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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
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240516T203000
DTSTAMP:20260419T124721
CREATED:20240311T154056Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240508T135141Z
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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:20260419T124721
CREATED:20240416T152105Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240416T154724Z
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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:20260419T124721
CREATED:20240402T111903Z
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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:20260419T124721
CREATED:20240415T091133Z
LAST-MODIFIED: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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SUMMARY:Events and House
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URL:https://royalasiaticsociety.org/event/events-and-house/
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SUMMARY:Finance  Committee
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URL:https://royalasiaticsociety.org/event/finance-committee-2/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240425T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240425T203000
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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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SUMMARY:Council
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URL:https://royalasiaticsociety.org/event/council/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240425T153000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240425T163000
DTSTAMP:20260419T124721
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SUMMARY:Publications Committee
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URL:https://royalasiaticsociety.org/event/library-committee-6/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240425T143000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240425T153000
DTSTAMP:20260419T124721
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SUMMARY:Library Committee
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URL:https://royalasiaticsociety.org/event/library-committee-7/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240418T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240418T203000
DTSTAMP:20260419T124721
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SUMMARY:Look at the Coins! Papers in Honour of Joe Cribb on his 75th Birthday
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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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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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DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240411T173000
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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
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SUMMARY:JRAS Editorial Board
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URL:https://royalasiaticsociety.org/event/jras-editorial-board/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240321T183000
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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)
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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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