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SUMMARY:Charlotte Horlyck: The Emergence of the Korean Art Collector and the Korean Art Market
DESCRIPTION:  \nArticulating the shifting interests in Korean art and offering new ways of conceiving the biases that initiated and impacted its collecting\, this book traces the rise of the modern Korean art market from its formative period in the 1870s through to its peak and subsequent decline in the 1930s. \nThe discussion centres on the collecting of Koryŏ celadon ceramics as they formed the focal point of commercial exchanges of Korean artefacts and explores how their acquisition and ownership formed part of the complex power relationship that played out between the Koreans\, Japanese\, Americans\, and Europeans. Drawing on a wide range of primary sources\, the volume analyses collectors’ acquisition practices\, arguing that their fascination with ceramics from the Koryŏ kingdom (918–1392) was shaped not only by the aesthetic appeal of the objects but also by biased perceptions of the Korean peninsula\, its history\, and people. \nThe book will be of interest to scholars working in art history\, social history\, cultural history\, Korean studies\, collection studies\, museum studies\, Korean history\, and Asian studies.
URL:https://royalasiaticsociety.org/lectures-event/charlotte-horlyck-the-emergence-of-the-korean-art-collector-and-the-korean-art-market/
LOCATION:Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre\, 14 Stephenson Way\, London\, NW1 2HD\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:Anabel Loyd: The Dervish Bowl (Book Launch)
DESCRIPTION:The Dervish Bowl\n\n\n\nThe Many Lives of Arminius Vambéry\n\n  \n \n  \n\n\n‘A compelling portrait of one of the 19th century’s most characteristic heroes’\nAsian Review of Books \n‘Arminius Vambéry was one of the shadier characters to travel the fabled Silk Roads through Persia to Central Asia. His mostly forgotten story is vividly told in Anabel Loyd’s lively and entertaining biography.’\nAnthony Sattin\, author of Nomads: The Wanderers Who Shaped Our World \n‘There have been many hagiographies written about Arminius Vambery – mainly by Arminius himself – so it’s refreshing to read of his life in unvarnished detail. Anabel Loyd captures the different facets and flaws of this complex traveller\, who seemed to fit everywhere and nowhere.’\nChris Aslan\, author of Unravelling the Silk Road: Travels and Textiles in Central Asia \n‘Anabel Loyd’s biography of Arminius Vambéry is a fascinating book and a masterly study. It is both a mine of so far unknown information as well as a thrilling read which will benefit both the scholar and the general reader.’\nChristoph Baumer\, author of The History of Central Asia in Four Volumes \nWho was Arminius Vambéry? A poverty-stricken\, Jewish autodidact; a linguist; traveller\, and writer; or a sometime Zionist\, inspiration for Dracula’s nemesis\, and British secret agent? \nVambéry wrote his own story many times over. And it was these often highly embroidered accounts of journeys through Persia and Central Asia that saw him acclaimed in Victorian England as an intrepid explorer and daring adventurer. Against the backdrop of the ‘Great Game’\, in which Russia and Britain jostled for territory\, influence\, and control of the borders and gateways to India and its wealth\, Vambréy played the roles of hero and double-dealer\, of fascinated witness and Imperial charlatan. \nThe Dervish Bowl is the story of these competing narratives\, a compelling investigation of the ever-changing persona Vambréy created for himself\, and of the man who emerges from his private correspondence and the accounts of both his friends and his enemies\, many of whom were themselves major players in the geopolitical adventures of the volatile nineteenth-century – a time when Britain’s ambitions for her empire were at their height\, yet nothing and no one was quite as they seemed. \nANABEL LOYD has been a regular columnist for the Indian Telegraph for many years. She has lived and worked in India and has a particular interest in the Indian history of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. \nRead Anabel’s blog piece\, ‘No Change for Turkmenistan’ on the RSAA blog here.
URL:https://royalasiaticsociety.org/lectures-event/anabel-loyd-the-dervish-bowl-book-launch/
LOCATION:Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre\, 14 Stephenson Way\, London\, NW1 2HD\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Book Launch
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SUMMARY:Prof Nick White - The decolonisation of Malaysia and Singapore: a maritime perspective (Lecture in honour of Prof Tony Stockwell)
DESCRIPTION:In the late-1960s\, Malaysia and Singapore established their own national\, ocean-going shipping lines. This outcome was unexpected by the leading British shipowners serving Southeast Asia. P&O\, Blue Funnel and Ben Line had hoped to form a locally registered consortium to protect their own interests and satisfy national aspirations. Honouring the work of Tony Stockwell on the decolonisation of Malaya/Malaysia\, this lecture discusses how the best laid imperial plans – in this case\, commercial rather than official – were scuppered by the twists and turns of local politics at the end of empire. Not least\, that involved the creation of Malaysia in 1963 and the separation of Singapore two years later\, but also reflected a growing economic nationalism in Kuala Lumpur. Following the Stockwell method\, moreover\, the story of Malaysia’s and Singapore’s bid for maritime independence demonstrates how the close reading of British archives\, combined with the memoirs of key local actors\, can substitute for the absence of the local record. \n  \nNick White is Professor of Imperial & Commonwealth History at Liverpool John Moores University and Co-Director of Liverpool’s Centre for Port & Maritime History. Between 1986 and 1989\, Nick read for an undergraduate degree in History at Royal Holloway\, University of London where he was taught imperial history by Tony Stockwell. With Charles Harvey\, Tony subsequently served as supervisor for Nick’s PhD on business-government relations during the end-of-empire epoch in Malaya. In honouring Tony’s work\, this lecture combines Nick’s research interests in the decolonisation of Southeast Asia and ocean-going shipping.
URL:https://royalasiaticsociety.org/lectures-event/prof-nick-white-the-decolonisation-of-malaysia-and-singapore-a-maritime-perspective-lecture-in-honour-of-prof-tony-stockwell/
LOCATION:Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre\, 14 Stephenson Way\, London\, NW1 2HD\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:Events & House Committee
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URL:https://royalasiaticsociety.org/lectures-event/events-house-committee-7/
LOCATION:Royal Asiatic Society Council Room\, 14 Stephenson Way\, London\, NW1 2HD\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Council meetings
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SUMMARY:Finance & Investments Committee
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URL:https://royalasiaticsociety.org/lectures-event/finance-investments-committee-11/
LOCATION:Royal Asiatic Society Council Room\, 14 Stephenson Way\, London\, NW1 2HD\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Council meetings
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SUMMARY:Professor Doris Behrens-Abouseif: Men’s fashions in Medieval Cairo
DESCRIPTION:While dress code in medieval societies was largely defined by religious\, political\, and social rules\, personal preferences could still play a significant role in shaping dress culture. Focused on Mamluk Cairo\, this lecture documents the involvement of sultans and emirs in the design of uniforms and ceremonial outfits to convey their political image\, while at the same in pursue of a refined lifestyle\, individuals of the elite created fashions and designs that were named to them.  Commoners created fashions as well\, but they remained mostly nameless. Combined with social and economic developments over more than two and a half centuries\, such initiatives led eventually to significant transformations in the dress culture of medieval Cairo. \n  \nDoris Behrens-Abouseif (Research Professor at SOAS) is the former Nasser D Khalili professor at SOAS. She is an art and culture historian with numerous publications on Islamic architecture and culture\, urbanism\, aesthetics\, the decorative arts\, mainly in Egypt and Syria\, from the early period to the 19th century.
URL:https://royalasiaticsociety.org/lectures-event/professor-doris-behrens-abouseif-mens-fashions/
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:Dr Christopher Bahl (Book launch) - Mobile Manuscripts: Arabic Learning across the Early Modern Western Indian Ocean
DESCRIPTION:  \nIn this essential new work\, Christopher D. Bahl departs from the established historiography on trade\, shipping\, and pilgrimage to argue for the emergence of Arabic learning as a crucial form of transoceanic mobility from the ûfteenth to the seventeenth centuries. From Egypt to the Hijaz\, Yemen and further on to Gujarat and the Deccan\, networks of manuscript circulation created shared social and cultural spaces across the early modern western Indian Ocean\, in which South Asia was a key node of connection. Largely unstudied Arabic manuscripts from collections in eight different archives offer a new source base to explore the region as a hub of Arabic scholarly culture\, while marginalia and notes provide an empirical treasure trove for the study of social spaces and cultural practices. This is the ûrst book to trace these truly transoceanic encounters between scholars\, sultans\, scribes\, readers\, and librarians. \n  \nChristopher D. Bahl is Assistant Professor in South Asian History at Durham University.
URL:https://royalasiaticsociety.org/lectures-event/dr-christopher-bahl-mobile-manuscripts/
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:Madras Literary Society Zoom Presentation
DESCRIPTION:  \nThe RAS is delighted to announce a Zoom call with the Madras Literary Society on its history and collections on Friday\, 28th March at 11.30 am with \nMs. Jaya Mahbubani – Chairperson\, \nMs. Thirupurasundari Sevvel\, Secretary \nMr. Prabhu Vishwanathan \n  \n \nThe Madras Literary Society began as a small library in 1812 and in 1830 it became associated with the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland.  The library was initially located inside the Fort St George and moved to its current location in 1905. It was founded by Sir John Henry Newbolt\, Chief Justice of Madras with Benjamin Guy Babington as the founder secretary. It houses more than 55\,000 books. The oldest book in the impressive catalogue is a 1619 copy of Aristotle’s Opera Omnia.
URL:https://royalasiaticsociety.org/lectures-event/madras-literary-society-zoom-presentation/
LOCATION:Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre\, 14 Stephenson Way\, London\, NW1 2HD\, United Kingdom
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