Noh and Kyogen Masks Demonstration Talk with Kitazawa Hideta with Jannette Cheong
Royal Asiatic Society 14 Stephenson Way, London, United Kingdom9 June 2024
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*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
Dr Donna Brunero (NUS): Visiting the ‘Liverpool of the East’: Singapore’s place in tours of Empire
Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre 14 Stephenson Way, London, United KingdomAlice Casalini: The art of crossing over: Gandhāran pathways to nirvāṇa
Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre 14 Stephenson Way, London, United KingdomThe 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…
Dr Liz Driver: Reasons for Tod’s dismissal as Political Agent in the Western Rajput States 1818-1822
Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre 14 Stephenson Way, London, United KingdomThis 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…
*Cancelled* Prof Mark Liechty (Winner of the 2023 Surya P. Subedi Prize): Building Capacity, Not Infrastructure: Lessons from Hydropower Development in Nepal
Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre 14 Stephenson Way, London, United Kingdom*PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED*
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Royal Asiatic Society Council Room 14 Stephenson Way, London, United KingdomCouncil Meeting
Royal Asiatic Society Council Room 14 Stephenson Way, London, United Kingdom