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Free London Lecture: Christopher de Bellaigue on The Islamic Enlightenment

This lecture is going ahead! Lecture followed by book signing with the author. Books available from a Daunt Books stall on the night. All welcome, please rsvp to Amy Riach ar at…

7 October 2019
Free London Lecture ‘Travelling and Collecting in the Dutch East Indies in the 1930s: the collections of Růžena Charlota Urbanová in the National Musuem, Prague’

The speaker will be Dr Fiona Kerlogue (Former Deputy Keeper of Anthropology at the Horniman Musuem) In March 1938 the Czech author and painter Růžena Urbanová set off from Marseilles on a…

7 October 2019
FREE London Lecture: The Ka’ba of Mecca as Axis and Matrix Mundi

The Ka’ba of Mecca as axis and matrix mundi, Dr Simon O’Meara (SOAS) Mappa mundi with the ‘Dome of the earth’ (Qubbat al-arḍ) at the centre, the Kaʿba next to it, and…

7 October 2019
Dr Ed Pulford (University of Cambridge)

Time and History across China’s Northeastern Borders

7 October 2019
Dr George Mak (Hong Kong Baptist University)

The Mandarin Union Version after One Hundred Years: A Reflection on the History and Impact of a Classic Chinese Biblical Translation

7 October 2019