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The Moorcroft Mystery - Additional Lecture Thursday 1st November
The astonishing William Moorcroft - gifted surgeon, England's first qualified vet, horse breeder, plant collector, information gatherer, pioneering Asiatic traveller and amateur spy. And if that were...
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A Georgian evening of talks, film and song to celebrate Rustaveli
The RAS is delighted to announce, in association with the British Georgian Society, an evening of talks, film and song on October 30th to mark 100 years since the publication of the first English...
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RAS Lecture Series: Thursday 8th November 6pm
We are delighted to welcome Dr Jon Thomspson to the Society on Thursday 8th November to present Some Thoughts on the Origins of the Artistic Style that emerged during the Reign of Suleyman 'the...
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Next RAS Student Series - Wednesday 14th November
The student series at the RAS returns on Wednesday 14th November with what looks to be another fascinating double lecture evening.In the first lecture Richard McClary from Edinburgh University will...
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Byzantine Bookbinding Lecture and Exhibition at the RAS
This evening, 15th November, the Society is delighted to welcome Professor Lucy-Anne Hunt (Professor Emerita, Manchester Metropolitan University) to present "Observations on some Byzantine and other...
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Next RAS Lecture: Confluence: Arabic and Chinese Calligraphy - Thursday 13th...
The Society's main lecture series continues on Thursday 13th December at 6.00pm, with a lecture by Professor Uta Lauer from University of Stockholm who will be speaking on 'Confluence: Arabic and...
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British Library Exhibition: Mughal India: Art, Culture and Empire
The Royal Asiatic Society is very pleased that folios from its Persian manuscript 'Muhammad Juki's Shahnamah of Firdausi' are on display in the British Library's current major exhibition Mughal India:...
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Royal Asiatic Society on Flickr
The RAS is excited to announce that it is now using Flickr to create online exhibitions of material from our collections. The first of which presents highlights of the pre-1820 printed book collection...
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First Royal Asiatic Society lecture of 2013 - Thursday 10th January, 6.00pm
The Royal Asiatic Society is very pleased to welcome Prof. Sanjoy Bhattacharya (University of York) to deliver the first lecture of 2013 on Thursday 10th January - 'Bhutan's Smallpox Eradication...
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Next RAS Student Series Lecture - Wednesday January 16th
The first student series event of the new year will take place on Wednesday January 16th at 6.30pm with a double lecture evening. We will welcome Yin Hwang from SOAS to speak about 'Chinese visuality...
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Next RAS Lecture - Thursday 14th February
We are delighted to welcome Stuart Laing, Master of Corpus Christi College, to deliver the next lecture of our main series "Unshook till the end of time": Relations between Britain and Oman, 1650 -...
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If you have missed any of the Royal Asiatic lectures then please visit the Backdoor Broadcasting website where you can find recordings of many of recent lectures including - 'Bhutan's smallpox...
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Additional Lecture at the RAS - Tuesday 19th February 6.30pm
We are pleased to announce an additional lecture will take place at the RAS on Tuesday February 19th at 6.30pm, when Dr Henk Vynckier will present 'Men who loved books: the literary legacy of Robert...
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Next Student Series Lecture at the RAS - Wednesday 20th February
The next Student Series event at the RAS will take place on Wednesday 20th February at 6.30pm when Sarah Ashraf will be presenting the paper 'Understanding the education and training provided by...
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The Jiv Daya Foundation awards funding to the RAS for its Jain collection
The Royal Asiatic Society is very grateful to the Jiv Daya Foundation in the US for awarding funding for the conservation and digitization of selected items from the Society's collection of Jain...
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Seetha's Tamil Recipes - Book Launch and Food Tasting - Thursday 7th March
There will be an exciting opportunity to come and taste some Tamil dishes at the Society on Thursday 7th March from 6 to 8pm as we celebrate the recent publication of Seetha's Tamil Recipes which was...
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Next RAS Lecture - Gender and Sexuality in Indonesian Cinema - Thursday March...
The main RAS lecture series continues on Thursday March 14th with Dr. Ben Murtagh, Senior Lecturer in Indonesian and Malay at SOAS, speaking on 'Gender and Sexuality in Indonesian Cinema: New Order...
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British Georgian Society - Annual Rustaveli Lecture at the RAS - Tuesday 12th...
The Royal Asiatic Society is delighted to host the British Georgian Society's first annual Rustaveli lecture on Tuesday 12th March at 7pm. Prof. Rudi Matthee, from the Department of History,...
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Next RAS Lecture - Thursday April 11th 6pm 'African Soldiers, Governors,...
We look forward to welcoming Dr Shihan de Silva from the Institute of Commonwealth Studies (University of London) to the RAS to deliver the next lecture of our main series on Thursday 11th April...
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Next Student Series Evening Wednesday April 17th
Wednesday April 17th sees the continuation of our student series with a double lecture evening starting at 6.30pm. Dhara Anjaria from Royal Holloway will be speaking on 'Marginalised colonials?...
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