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Edward Weech (Royal Asiatic Society) – Systems of Religion and Morality in the Collections of the Royal Asiatic Society
The Royal Asiatic Society was founded in 1823, inspired by the model of Sir William Jones’s Asiatic Society of Bengal. From its earliest days, one of the chief ways the Society sought…
17 September 2018New RAS events series underway
We are very excited to hold the next RAS Collections Open Evening on Tuesday 21 November. Like our previous Open Evening earlier this year, the event will feature several talks highlighting different…
13 October 2017A Positive Impression: Conservation Students’ Work With RAS Collections
Last year, we were delighted to work with students from the Camberwell College of Arts MA in Conservation, who conserved items from our collections as part of their final projects. The conservators,…
11 August 2017RAS receives ‘Conversation piece’, a gift from Professor Francis Robinson
On 16 June, the Society was pleased to host a celebration to mark the acquisition of a new painting, a gift to the Society from Professor Francis Robinson. The painting, Conversation piece…
30 June 2017Join us for RAS Open Evening on Tuesday 23 May
The RAS is delighted to be hosting a collections-based Open Evening on Tuesday 23 May, from 6.30pm. The evening will feature a series of short talks about items from the collection, and…
11 May 2017Goldsmid and Gordine at the RAS
Goldsmid and Gordine may sound like a firm of solicitors, estate agents or jewellers but in fact, they are the surnames of the creators of the latest sets of Personal Papers whose…
7 March 2017From Mamluk Helmets to Timurid Iran via Han Administration
The title of this blog reflects the range of topics covered in recent events at the RAS. On Tuesday 21st June Shireen El Kassem gave a Guest Lecture in which she elucidated…
1 July 2016William Lubenow and Celia Washington lecture at the RAS
We have been delighted to host a number of outstanding lectures at the Society over the past several weeks. On Wednesday 1 June, the Society hosted a guest lecture which saw Professor…
3 June 2016Denis Sinor Medal and more lectures at the RAS
On Thursday, 12 May 2016, the Royal Asiatic Society presented Professor Nicholas Sims-Williams (SOAS) with the Denis Sinor Gold Medal for Inner Asian Studies. The Sinor Medal was inaugurated in 1993 with…
18 May 2016