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Publicity Posters for 2010-2011. These are all held electronically.

RAS Lecture Series:

• 7 October 2010: Dr Barbara Brend and Mr Jerry Losty, the Norah M. Titley Memorial Lecture, 'Norah Titley: Tributes and Memories'.
• 14 October 2010: Dr Weipin Tsai, 'Breaking the Ice: the Modern Chinese Postal Service in the Winter Season in the Late Qing period'.
• 11 November 2010: Dr Jennifer Howes, 'Colin Mackenzie's Adventures in India (1784-1821)'.
• 6 January 2011: Dr Caroline Finkel, 'Travelling the Evliya Çelebi Way: Equestrian and Pedestrian Adventures in Northwest Anatolia'.
• 13 January 2011: Dr Andrew Robinson, 'The Apu Trilogy: Satyajit Ray and the Making of an Epic'.
• 10 February 2011: Dr Benedek Péri, 'He has an Excellent Command of Turki since it is the Language of his Forefathers: Turki in Mughal India'.
• 4 April 2011: Nadhra Khan, 'Wall Paintings in a Special Room of the Sikh Prince Kharak Singh's Haveli'.
• 14 April 2011: Mrs Lesley Pullen, 'Naga Material Culture: Mid 19th to Early 21st Century'.
• 9 June 2011: Mr Robert Skelton, 'Some evidence of Material Culture during the Sultanate Period in India'.
• 17 June 2011: Professor Robert Dankoff, 'Explorations of an Ottoman Traveller: The Travels of Evliya Çelebi'.

Student Lecture Series:

• 13 October 2010: Yuthika Sharma, 'Ghulam Ali Khan and the Delhi School of Painters, 1770-1857'.
  *24 November 2011: Alyson Wharton, 'The Balyan Family and the Building Operations in the Tanzimat Period; and James Kimball, 'The Soteriological Role and the rsi Kapila according to the Yuktidipika'.
• 8 December 2010: How Wee Ng presented the film, 'Zheng hun qi shi (The Personals)' directed by Chen Kuo-fu, 1998.
• 26 January 2011: Doreen Muller, 'Narrative, Fiction, Documentary - Images of Conflagrations in the City of Edo'; and Tommaso Bobbio, 'Migrants, Slums and the Construction of Citizenship in Gandhi's Ahmedabad (1915-1930)'.
• 23 February 2011: Taka Oshikiri, 'Gathering for Tea in Meiji Japan'; and Martyn Smith, 'Nation and Nutrition in Japan: Food, Physique and Independence'.
• 16 March 2011: Hyunseok Lee, an art performance entitled, 'Exploring Korean Sacred Architectural Aesthetics and their Spiritual Principles using a 3D Animated Documentary Installation'.
• 20 April 2011: Sushma Jansari, 'Megasthenes and Mauryan-Seleucid Relations: Fact or Fiction?'; and Husam al-Mallak, 'Interpreting Nietzsche's Death of God as the Shift of Ethical Foundations from the Religious to the Secular'.
• 18 May 2011: Farouk Yahya, 'Malay Magic and Divination Manuscripts'.
• 15 June 2011: Film, 'Shugendō Now' by Jean-Marc Abela and Mark Patrick McGuire.

Publicity Posters for 2011-2012. These are all held electronically.

• 13 October 2011: Richard Bowring, 'Bushidō: Yet another invented tradition'.
• 10 November 2011: Briony Llewellyn, 'Painted Embroideries: Interwoven Threads in the Orientalist Images of John Frederick Lewis'.
• 23 November 2011: Dr Fiona Kerlogue, 'Revisiting dance and drama in Bali: interpreting a photo archive for exhibition'.
• 8 December 2011: Dr Randolf G. S. Cooper, 'Afghanistan's Future as Viewed from Hindustan's Military Past'.
• 12 December 2011: Robert Ousterhout, 'Three Intersecting Lives: Archaeologists and Travellers in Ottoman Lands'.
• 12 January 2012: Ming Wilson, 'Dressed to Rule – The Chinese Emperor's Wardrobe'.
• 24 January 2012: Book launch for Rosane and Ludo Rocher, 'The Making of Western Indology'; and Michael J. Franklin, 'Orientalist Jones'.
• 7 February 2012: Dr Monika Bincsik, 'The Japanese Incense Culture and its Lacquer Implements'.
• 16 February 2012: Peng Wenlan, 'The Chinese in Bengal'.
• 8 March 2012: Dr Joya Chatterji, 'An Alternative History of India-Pakistan Relations'.
• 3 May 2012: Lady Julia Boyd, 'A Dance with the Dragon: Peking's foreign community, 1860-1949'.
• 14 June 2012: Dr Rogério Miguel Puga, 'The British Presence in Macao and Representations of the Enclave in British Travel Writing'.
• 18 June 2012: Colin Heywood, Book launch for 'The Rise of the Ottoman Empire'.
• 6 July 2012: Paul French, 'The Haunted Last Days of Old China'.

Publicity Posters for 2012-2013. These are all held electronically.

RAS Lecture Series:

• 1 October 2012: Seemah Niaz, 'Mughal and Modernist Influences in Contemporary Pakistani Art'.
• 11 October 2012: Robert Dankoff, 'Explorations of an Ottoman Traveller: Evliya Çelebi'.
• 30 October 2012: 'A Georgian Evening of Talks, Film and Song to Celebrate Rustaveli', held in collaboration with the British Georgian Society.
• 1 November 2012: Garry Alder, 'The Moorcroft Mystery'. 8 November 2012: Jon Thompson, 'Some Thoughts on the Origins of the Artistic Style that emerged during the Reign of Suleyman 'the Magnificent''.
• 15 November: Lucy Anne Hunt, 'Observations on Some Byzantine and Other Christian Manuscripts and Book Covers from the Mediaeval Eastern Mediterranean'.
• 13 December 2012: Prof. Uta Lauer, 'Confluence: Arabic and Chinese Calligraphy'.
• 10 January 2013: Prof. Sanjoy Bhattacharya, 'Bhutan's smallpox eradication program: International health and the limits of global influence'.
• 23 January 2013: Dr Christopher Daily, 'Robert Morrison and the Protestant Plan for China', book launch.
• 24 January 2013: 'Sandy Morton Memorial Evening' with speakers Prof. Peter Robb, Mr William Morton, Prof. David Morgan and Prof. François de Blois.
• 14 February 2013: Stuart Laing, '"Unshook till the End of Time" : Relations between Britain and Oman, 1650 – 1975'.
• 19 February 2013: Dr Henk Vynckier, 'Men who loved books': The literary legacy of Robert Hart and the Chinese Maritime Customs Service'.
• 12 March 2013: Prof. Rudi Matthee, 'Safavid Iran and Georgia: How the Dominated Came to Dominate'.
• 14 March 2013: Ben Murtagh, 'Gender and Sexuality in Indonesian Cinema: New Order Constructions of gay, lesbi and waria Identities on Screen'.
• 11 April 2013: Shihan de Silva, 'African Soldiers, Governors, Nawabs and Cultural Brokers in South Asia'.

• 13 June 2013: Dr Norbert Peabody, 'On the Indian Origin of Nationalism'.

  Student Lecture Series:

• 17 October 2012: Cristina Castillo, 'Prehistoric Cuisine in Thailand: Rice, Beans and Spices'; and Matthew George Phillips, ''A Theatre with Two Stages': Jim Thompson and the Construction of Thainess during the Cold War'.
• 14 November 2012: Richard McClary, 'The Creation of a New Aesthetic: Early 12th Century Rum Saljuq Architecture in Anatolia'; and Juha Komppa, 'Tibet in Chinese Han Imaginings'.
• 16 January 2013: Tanmayee Banerjee, 'Nationalism and Internationalism in Indian English Fiction, 1909 – 1930'; and Ying Hwang, 'Chinese Visuality and Europe in the Modern Period'.
• 2- February 2013: Emily Hannam, 'Image and Essence in the Akbarnama'; and Sarah Ashraf, 'Understanding the education and training provided by madaris in the Afghanistan-Pakistan Region.
• 17 April 2013: Dhara D. Anjaria, 'Marginalised Colonials? Non-British European Powers in India vis-à-vis the British'; and Katherine Hughes, 'Birds and the Bevelled Style: Early Islamic Carved Wood from the Upper Zerafshan Valley'.
• 15 May 2013: Tanja Tolar, 'Early Islamic Enamelled Glass and its Iconography'; and Sami De Giosa, 'Being a Sultan in Style: Calligraphy and Decoration in The Arts of the Late Mamluk Period'.

Publicity Posters for 2013-2014. These are all held electronically.
RAS Lecture Series:

• 10 October 2013: Prof. Charles Schencking, 'The Great Kantō Earthquake and the Chimera of National Reconstruction in Japan'.
• 14 November 2013: Dr. Christoph Baumer, 'The Bronze Age Culture of Ayala Mazar-Xiaohe: Recent Archaeological Discoveries in the Taklamakan Desert, China'.
• 12 December 2013: Dr Ladan Akbarnia, 'Cathay at Court: Far Eastern Inspirations in Some Post-Mongol Persianate Drawings'.
• 16 January 2014: Prof. Hans van de Ven, 'The Chinese Maritime Customs Service, the 1911 Revolution, and the Bond Markets'.
• 14 February 2014: Dr Bilha Moor, 'Mosque and Church: Arabic Inscriptions at Shivta in the Early Islamic Period'.
• 13 March 2014: Presentation of the RAS Medal 2014 to Professor Bridget Allchin with a lecture in her honour: Prof Robin Coningham, 'From Oxus to Mysore: the Story of the Allchin Partnership in South East Asian Archaeology'.
• 26 March 2014: Jamie Bunchuk and Matthew Traver, 'Down the Post Roads: On Horseback across East Kazakhstan'
• 6 May 2014: Dame Caroline Humphrey, 'Intellectual Currents across North Asian Borders in the 20th Century-, with presentation of the Richard Burton Memorial Medal.

• 27 May 2014: S. Frederick Starr, 'The Lost Enlightenment: central Asia's Golden age from the Arab conquest to Tamerlane', book launch.

  Student Lecture Series:

• 13 November 2013: David Beamish, 'Answering Back to Europe: Ottoman and North African Journalists in Paris'; and Shivan Mahendrarajah, 'Balance of Power: Re-examining the Relationship between the Kart Dynasty of Herat and the Mystics of Turbat-I Jam, 1307 to 1381'.
• 11 December 2013: Francesca Fuoli, 'The role of ethnography and the study of Pashto in the construction of the Pashtun race in nineteenth century British colonial discourses on Afghanistan'; and Barakatullo Ashurov, 'Material Culture Objects and Structures: on the Social Representations of the Church of the East in Sogdiana'.
• 15 January 2014: Massimiliano Fusari, 'Representing the Visual in Anthropology'; and Azadeh Fatehrad, 'Persian Paintings and Representations of Women during the Timurid Dynasty 1370-1507'.
• 2 April 2014: In-Sung Kim Han, 'Islamic Cultural Presence in Medieval Korea'.
• 7 May 2014: Matteo Miele, 'Mongolian Independence and the British'; and Dr Brainerd Prince, ' Sri Aurobindo and the Question of God'.
• 12 June 2014: Dr Jan-Peter Hartung, 'Of 'Creeds' and 'Guidances': Tradition, Commentary and Canon in the Early Modern Persianate World'.

Publicity posters for Lectures and Book Launches from 2014-2015. These are held electronically.

• 14 October 2014: Dr Sharmina Mawani and Dr Anjum Mukadam, 'Researching Gujarati Identities: Current Perspectives'.
• 19 November 2014: Alexander Monro, 'The Paper Trail: An Unexpected History of the Wolrd's Greatest Invention', book launch.
• 4 June 2015: Melissa Dale: 'Discovering the Real Lives of China's Emasculated Servants: Chinese Eunuch History Revisited'.

Publicity posters for Lectures and Book Launches from 2015-2016. These are a mixture of physical and electronic documents.

RAS Lectures and Book Launches:

• 4 September 2015: Professor Sarah Moate, 'The Moon of the Fileds: the Calligraphy and Poetry of the Japanese Jōdo-shū nun Ōtagaki Rengetsu'.
• 8 October 2015: Professor Janice Stargardt: 'The Adoption of Buddhism in Burma (Myanmar)'.
• 12 November 2015: Dr Ben Outhwaite, 'Lewis, Gibson and the Discovery of the Cairo Genizah'.
• 18 November 2015: Liana Siaf, 'The Arabic Influences on Early Modern Occult Philosophy', book launch.
• 10 December 2015: Dr Kaveh Bakhtiar, 'The British Mosque: Fragments of an alternative architecture'.
• 21 January 2016: Ashvin Kumar, 'Inshallah football', film an ddiscussion.
• 11 February 2016: Dr Sir Jim Mallinson, 'A History of Yoga and Yoga Scholarship'.
• 10 March 2016: Professor Emerita Doris Behrens-Abouseif, 'Scribes and Libraries in the Mamluk Period'.
• 16 March 2016: John Whelpton, 'Jang Bahadur in Europe; the First Nepalese Mission to the West', celebrating the bicentenary of Britain and Nepal, 1816-2016.
• 31 March 2016: Thomas Bell, 'Kathmandu', book launch.
• 12 April 2016: Isabella Tree, 'The Living Goddess', book launch.
• 14 April, 2016: Dr Jenny Balfour-Paul, 'Journeys in the Footsteps of Thomas Machell, Forgotten Explorer'.
• 25 May 2016: George Manginis, 'Mount Sinai: A History of travellers and Pilgrims', book launch. (Electronic document.)
• 26 May 2016: Celia Washington, 'Artist in Residence: Celia Washington and the Kathmandu Contemporary Arts Centre'. (Electronic document.)
• 1 June 2016: Professor William Lubenow, 'West to East/ East to West: The Royal Asiatic Society and Western Knowledge of Asia'.
• 9 June 2016: Professor Sarah Ansari: 'India at War: The Bombay presidency's 'Home Front', 1914-1918' (Electronic document).
• 13 June 2016: Konrad Hirschler,' Medieval Damascus: Plurality and Diversity in an Arabic Library', book launch with introduction by Doris Behrens-Abouseif. (Electronic document.)
• 15 June 2016: Nile Green, 'The Love of Strangers - What Six Muslim Students Learned in Jane Austen's London' book launch. (Electronic document.)
• 21 June 2016: Shireen El Kassem, 'Mamluk helmets (1250-1517): new perspectives'. (Electronic document.)
• 23 June 2016: Michael Loewe, 'Problems of Han Administration', book launch. (Electronic document.)
• 29 June 2016: Ilker Evrim Binbaş, 'Intellectual Networks in Timurid Iran', book launch. (Electronic document.)

• 24 August 2016: Dr Nassar Mansour, 'Muhaqqaq: Furthering the Aesthetic of Faith'. (Electronic document.)

  Fresh Perspectives Series:

• 16 September 2015: Dr Fozia Bora, 'Did Salah al-Din destroy the Fatimids' books? An historiographical enquiry'. (Electronic document.)
• 20 October 2015: Dr Richard Williams, 'Songs from behind the curtain: The influence of palace women on Hindustani music'.
• 17 November 2015: Azadeh Fatehrad, 'An Evening with Nizami'.
• 8 December 2105: John Earle, 'British Vice-Consul and Local hero: Nicholas Loney and a Sweeter Life on a 19th-Century Philippine Island'.
• 19 January 2016: Frederica Gigante, 'Collecting Islamic Art in Seventeenth-Century Italy: Ferdinando Cospi, the Medici Court and the Ottoman World'.
• 23 February 2016: Benedict Leigh, 'C.R. Ashbee's Vision of Jerusalem, the English Arts and Crafts Movement in the Middle East'.
• 15 March 2016: Nicholas Reese, 'Thieves, Cutthroats and Vagabonds, European Mercenaries in Eighteenth-Century India'.
• 19 April 2016: Charlotte de Blois, 'Hints of the Heterodox in Christian Images from China'. (Electronic document.)
• 17 May 2016: Cam Sharp Jones, 'Indian Tribal Ethnography in the 19th Century'.(Electronic document.)

Publicity posters for Lectures and Book Launches from 2016-2017. These are a mixture of physical and electronic documents.

• 12 September 2016: Hasan Ali Khan, 'Constructing Islam on the Indus', book launch.
• 27 September 2016: Dr Rose Kerr, 'Statue of Zhenwu, the Dark Warrior'.
• 13 October 2016: Dr Chandrika Kaul, 'The BBC and India: Mediating Empire, War and Decolonisation'.
• 18 October 2016: Marion Molteno, 'Ralph Russell's The Famous Ghalib: The Sound of My Moving Pen'.
• 24 October 2016: Professor Karel Werner, 'Pure Yoga in its Historical Context and Today'.
• 26 October 2016: David Waterhouse, 'Brian Hodgson and the RAS - Fresh Perspectives'.
• 2 November 2016: Dr Mark Watson, 'Nepal: The Early years of Natural History Exploration and the Role of Learned Societies'.
• 7 November 2016: Francis Gooding and Noah Angell, 'Lux Imperium, Colonial Film at Home: Amateur Movies of the British Empire taken from the Bristol Records Office Collection', film and talk.
• 8 November 2016: John Baily, 'War, Exile and the Music of Afghanistan: The Ethnographer's Tale', book launch. (Physical document.)
• 10 November 2016: Dr Imma Ramos, 'From Akbar to Ambedkar: Retelling of the Story of South Asia at the British Museum'.
• 21 November 2016: H.J. Noltie, ' "Indian Forester, Scottish Laird: the Botanical Lives of Hugh Cleghorn of Stravithie' and 'The Cleghorn Collection: South Indian Botanical Drawings, 1845-1860', book launches. (Physical document.)
• 6 December 2016: Professor Jordan Goodman, 'Pictures, Texts and Plants: Joseph Banks and Chine, 1780-1820'.
• 8 December 2016: Arthur Milner, 'Damascus Tiles: Some Enduring Questions'.
• 12 December 2016: Frances Wood and Christopher Arnander. 'Betrayed Ally: China in the Great War', book launch. (Physical document.)
• 14 December 2016: Professor Nile Green, 'The Afghan Discovery of Buddha: Archaeology and Nationalism in Pre-Taliban Afghanistan'.
• 12 January 2017: Dr Edward Anderson, 'Hindu Nationalism Abroad: The Indian Diaspora and Hindutva's Early Transnational Development (1946-77)'.
• 18 January 2017: The Hon. James Stourton, 'Reflections on Chinese Porcelain Collectors'.
• 26 January 2017: Elisabeth Leake, 'The Defiant Border', book launch.
• 9 February 2017: Stéphane Pradines, 'The Swahili, a Muslim Culture of the Indian Ocean World: New evidence from archaeological excavations'.
• 14 February 2017: Dr Arthur Dudney, 'The Literature of Decline under the Late Mughals'.
• 16 February 2017:, Richard P. McClary, 'Rum Seljuq Architecture, 1170-1220', book launch.
• 23 February 2017: Nancy Charley, 'Little Blue Hut', book launch.
• 2 March 2017: Bérénice Guyot-Réchard, 'Shadow States: India, China and the Himalayas, 1910-1962', book launch.
• 2 March 2017: Joint lecture with the Armenian Institute, Patrick Donabedian.
• 7 March 2017: Professor Sheila Blair, 'Monumentalizing the Grave: Muslim-style Mausolea across Mongol Eurasia'.
• 9 March 2017: Dr Roy Fischel, 'Sultans of Many Idioms: Kingship, Ideology and Locality in Bijapur and Golkonda, ca. 1600'.
• 14 March 2017: Edward Weech and Nancy Charley, 'Exploring the Royal Asiatic Society Archives: In the Footsteps of Thomas Manning and Sir Richard Burton'. (Physical document.)
• 28 March 2017: Prof Robert Ousterhout, 'Palmyra through the lens of John Henry Haynes: Legendary City, forgotten photographer, and monuments in peril', with Cornucopia. (Physical document.)
• 7 April 2017: Dr Giles Tillotson, Architecture and Landscape in Marwar'.
• 18 April 2017: Dr Martin Bayly, 'Taming the Imperial Imagination: The Genesis of Colonial Knowledge on Afghanistan, 1808-1878'.
• 27 April 2017: Tara Purnima, 'Tales of the Tribes: Connecting to Cultures through Animation'.
• 28 April 2017: Dr Bruno de Nicola, 'Women in Mongol Iran: The Khatuns, 1206 - 1335', book launch.
• 4 May 2017: Armenian Institute lecture, Dr Claude Mutafian, 'The Magic of Writing: A Survey from Stone Inscriptions, Illuminated Manuscripts to Printing'.
• 8 May 2017: Professor Nobuaki Kondo, 'Islamic Law and Society in Iran'.
• 15 May 2017: George Kam Wah Mak, 'Protestant Bible Translation and Mandarin as the National Language of China', book launch.
• 16 May 2017: Dr Simon Layton, 'Piracy and Politics in the Indian Ocean World'.
• 22 May 2017: Professor Jonathan Bloom, 'Silk Road or Paper Road?'.
• 23 May 2017: Collections Evening.
• 8 June 2017: Dr Peter Frankopan, 'Asia and the Formation of Early Modern Europe'.
• 13 June 2017: Burzine Waghmar, 'The East is a Career: A Centennial Appreciation of SOAS'.
• 15 June 2017: Armenian Institute Lecture, Dr Yolande Crowe, 'Armenian Merchants and Kϋtahaya Potters in the 18th Century'.

Publicity posters for Lectures and Book Launches from 2017-2018. These are a mixture of physical and electronic documents.

• 26 October 2017: Dr Yuka Kadoi, 'Arthur Upham Pope and A New Survey of Persian Art', book launch. (Physical document.)
• 26 October 2017: Professor Francis Robinson, Marion Molteno and Dr Rakjshanda Jalil. 'A Thousand Yearnings: A Book of Urdu Poetry and Prose" A new edition of Ralph Russell's translations with introduction by Marion Molteno', book launch.
• 2 November 2017: Charles Allen, 'Coromandel: A Personal history of South India', book launch.
• 9 November 2017: Dr Andrew Arsan, 'Beyond Formal and Informal Imperialism: Beirut, Hong Kong, and the Growth of European Power, c.1830-1870'.
• 16 November 2017: Professor David Park, 'Preserving the Buddhist Wall Paintings of Bhutan'.
• 21 November 2107: RAS Collections Evening.
• 23 November 2017: Dr Elaine Wright, 'Lapis and Gold: Exploring Chester Beatty's Ruzbihan Qur'an'.
• 4 December 2017: Mark Condos, 'The Insecurity State', book launch.
• 7 December 2017: Dr Diana Lange, 'Exploring Tibet in the Mid 19th Century: The British Library's Wise Collection'.
• 13 December 2017: David Leffman, 'William Mesny: How a British Adventurer Became a General in Qing-Dynasty China'.
• 11 January 2018: Professor Christopher Fuller, 'European Science and Colonial Anthropology in British India, c.1871-1911'.
• 17 January 2018: "Anglo-Indian and Minority Politics in South Asia" by Uther Charlton-Stevens, 'Refugees and the Politics of the Everyday State in Pakistan Resettlement in Punjab, 1947-1962" by Elisabetta Iob, "Urbanisation, Citizenship and Conflict in India Ahmedabad 1900-2000" by Tommaso Bobbio; book launches with introduction by Professor Francis Robinson.
• 18 January 2017: Dr Mark Condos, 'Anarchists, Revolutionaries, and Franco-British Imperial Policing in French Chandernagore, 1905-1930'.
• 23 January 2018: Dr Alban von Stockhausen, 'Images and (Post)colonial Encounters: A History of the Visual Representation of the Nagas of Northeast India'.
• 8 February 2018: Dr Annabel Gallop, 'The Great Seal of Aceh'.
• 20 February 2018: Amy Matthewson, 'Mr Punch and Chinamania: Blue Willow China and Consumer Consumption in 'Punch' Magazine, 1874-1880'.
• 26 February 2018: Rohan Deb Roy, 'Malarial Subjects: Empire, Medicine and Nonhumans in British India, 1820-1909', book launch.
• 6 March 2018: Professor Mercedes Volait, 'The Domestic Collecting of Islamic Artefacts in 19th Century Cairo: The Meymar Objects at the Victoria and Albert Museum'.
• 8 March 2018: Dr Peter Webb, 'Arab Origins: Identity, History and Islam'.
• 15 March 2018: Robert Irwin, 'Ibn Khaldun', book launch.
• 20 March 2018: Dr Zeynep Yürekli-Görkay, 'An Ottoman Sense of Place: Topographical illustration between Europe and Iran'.
• 12 April 2018: Dr Omniya Abdel-Barr, 'K.A.C. Creswell's Photographic Archive at the V&A Museum'.
• 17 April 2018: Professor Francis Robinson, 'Jamal Mian', book launch.
• 19 April 2018: John Falconer, 'A Glorious Galaxy of Monuments: Photography and Archaeology in India in the 19th Century'.
• 26 April 2018: Dr Alex McKay, 'The View from the Palace: The Sikkim Royal Archives'.
• 3 May 2018: Professor Anthony Stockwell, 'Plunder and Restitution: Britain and the Mandalay Regalia'.
• 15 May 2018: Dr Deniz Tuerker, 'The Yildiz Kiosk and the Queen Mothers of the Tanzimat Era: Gender, Landscape and Visibility'.
• 17 May 2018: Dr. Indira Viswanathan Peterson, 'The Royal Asiatic Society's recruitment of elite Indians in its foundational years, making specific reference to the relationship between the RAS's VP Sir Alexander Johnston (1775-1849) and King Serfoji II of Tanjore (r. 1798-1832)'.
• 24 May 2018: Dr Susan Whitfield, 'Silk, Slaves and Stupas: Material Culture of the Silk Road'.
• 29 May 2018: Dr Ashmita Khasnabish, 'Indian Imagination in a Postcolonial Context'.
• 31 May 2018: Nancy Charley, 'Feart', book launch.
• 7 June 2018: Dr. Umberto Bongianino, 'Like Sweet-Smelling Blooms: Arabic Calligraphy in the Islamic West'.
• 14 June 2018, Professor Ornit Shani, 'How India became democratic'.
• 15 June 2018: John de Lucy, 'The Chinese Labour Corps 1917-1920 & their role in the First World War'; and Frances Wood, 'Essential but Unacknowledged: The Contribution of the CLC in WW1', lectures as part of the British Chinese Armed Forces Heritage Exhibition Roadshow at the Royal Asiatic Society, 22 May-18 June 2018.
• 18 June 2018: Professor Robert Dankoff, 'Ottoman Explorations of the Nile', book launch.
• 11 July 2018: Farrukh Husain & Victoria Schofield, 'Afghanistan in the Age of Empires'.

Publicity posters for Lectures and Book Launches from 2018-2019. These are mixed physical and electronic documents.

• 12 September 2018: Captain Jay Singh-Sohal, presentation of the film, 'Saragarhi: The True Story'.
• 18 September 2018: Dr Rose Kerr, 'Arrow Vase: From Ritual to Game'.
• 20 September 2018: Dr Gulfishan Khan, 'The Indo-Persian elite and the Formation of Orientalist Tradition'.
• 4 October 2018: Dr Rosie Llewellyn-Jones, 'My Dear Schonberg: Letters from Sir Aurel Stein'.
• 11 October 2018: Dr Mehreen Chida-Razvi, 'The Mughal Madonna: Representations of the Virgin in Jahangiri-era Architecture'.
• 23 October 2018: Peter Hibbard, 'More than a Stuffed Bird Show: The RAS Legacy in Shanghai'.
• 25 October 2018: Professor Anna Contadini, 'The Pisa Griffin and the Mari-Cha Lion: Metalwork, Art, and Technology in the Medieval Islamicate Mediterranean'.
• 2 November 2018: Dr George Michell and Dr Helen Philon, 'Islamic Architecture of Deccan India', book launch.
• 6 November 2018: the Georgian Embassy, 'Unlocking the Door,' an evening of Georgian literature.
• 7 November 2018: Omar Khan, 'Paper Jewels: Postcards from the Raj', book launch. (Physical document.)
• 8 November 2018: Dr Christoph Baumer, 'Central Asia in the 21st Century, lecture hosted by the Royal Society for Asian Affairs, Royal Asiatic Society, IB Tauris and the Centre for Contemporary Asia, and SOAS, held at Brunei gallery Lecture Theatre.
• 15 November 2018: Moin Mir with Dr Rosie Llewellyn-Jones, 'The Prince who Beat the Empire', book launch.
• 20 November 2019: Dr Jacob Ghazarian, 'The Ancient Silk Road: Its enduring impact on China and renewed objectives'.
• 11 December 2018: Professor Ian Gow, 'The Scottish Sinologist Alexander Wylie (1815-1887): Missionary, Man of Letters, Mathematician'.
• 13 December 2018: Dr Alexandra Green, 'Sir Stamford Raffles: Civilised Views of Java'.
• 10 January 2019: Dr Cailah Jackson, 'The Arts of the Book in a Time of Conflict: Manuscripts of Late Medieval Konya'.
• 7 February 2019: Dr John Clarke, 'Collecting Tibet at the South Kensington Museum: the legacy of the 1904 expedition and beyond'.
• 19 February 2019: Dr Oliver Crawford, 'The Languages of Indonesian Socialism'.
• 26 February 2019: Deborah Freeman Fahid, 'The Ager Rock Crystal Chessmen: Some Early Medieval Imports from the Iranian World?'.
• 7 March 2019: Dr Jharna Gourlay, 'Forceps, Stethoscopes and Sisterhood: British Female Doctors in 19th Century India'.
• 14 March 2019: Dr Yossef Rapoport, 'Lost Maps of the Caliphs: Drawing the World in Eleventh-Century Cairo'.
• 19 March 2019: Ursula Sims-Williams, 'Tipu Sultan's Library: Building a Collection'.
• 11 April 2019: Dr Rayna Denison, 'The Hidden History of Studio Ghibli: Short Films, Advertising and the Industrial Reality of Japanese Animation'.
• 23 April 2019: Dr Talat Ahmed in conversation with Professor David Arnold. 'Mohandas Gandhi: Experiments in Civil Disobedience', book launch.
• 25 April 2019: Dr Simon Wolfgang Fuchs, 'When Tehran was the Brightest Star: A Global History of the 1979 Iranian Revolution'.
• 2 May 2019: Philip Davies, 'Lost Warriors - Seagrim and Pagani of Burma - The Last Great Untold Story of WWII'.
• 9 May 2019: Jonathan Phillips, '"Saladin we have returned!": The Myriad Memories of the Crusades in the Near East during the Modern Era'.
• 13 May 2019: Nawal Nasrallah, 'Treasure Trove of Benefits and Variety at the Table: A Fourteenth-Century Egyptian Cookbook', special ticketed event.
• 21 May 2019: Cheryl Porter, 'Painting Manuscripts with Metal and Insects: Grind or flatten, catch and cook'.
• 6 June 2019: Edward Weech, 'Systems of Religion and Morality in the Collections of the Royal Asiatic Society'.
• 18 June 2019: Susan Stronge, 'The Lapidary Arts of the Mughal Empire in the 17th and 18th centuries'.
• 27 June 2019: Dr Ravinder Reddy, 'Numinous Imagery on Arms and Armour of the Indian Subcontinent'.
• 28 June 2019: Chanchal B. Dadlani, 'From Stone to Paper: Architecture as History in the Late Mughal Empire'; and Ünver Rüstem, 'Ottoman Baroque: The Architectural Refashioning of Eighteenth-Century Istanbul', in conversation with Dr Sussan Babaie, book launch.
• 30 July 2019: Dr Sarah Tiffin, 'Raffles and the Course of Empire: Decoding Ruin Imagery in the History of Java'.

Publicity posters for Lectures and Book Launches from 2019-2020. These are mixed electronic and physical documents. The lecture series was foreshortened by the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic.

• 26 September 2019: Dr Stefan Halikowski-Smith, 'Two Missionary Accounts of Southeast Asia in the Late Seventeenth Century'.
• 10 October 2019: Dr Bo Gao, 'China-North Korea Economic Cooperation'. (Physical document.)
• 17 October 2019: Professor Stephen Martin, 'Flute Lecture Concert: Surviving Asia, Sponsoring Mozart, The Polymathic Portrait of Dr Ferdinand Dejean'.
• 22 October 2019: Dr Philip Mansel, 'The Sun King and the Sultan: Louis XIV and the Ottoman Empire'.
• 6 November 2019: Paul Bromberg, 'Thai Silver and Nielloware'.
• 11 November 2019: 2019 Annual Rustaveli Day, Nino Strachey, 'Princess Tamara Imeretinsky' and Alec and Katya D'Janoeff, 'Michael Aramyants'.
• 12 November 2019: Dr Giles Tillotson, 'Vision and Landscape: New Perspectives on Oriental Scenery by Thomas and William Daniell'.
• 14 November 2019: Professor Michael Franklin, 'Phebe Gibbes, Our Calcutta Correspondent'.
• 19 November 2019: Dr Tilman Frasch, 'Bagan and the Theravada Buddhist Ecumene in the 12-13 Centuries CE'.
• 20 November 2019: Lord Stephen Green, 'The Human Odyssey - East, West and the Search for Universal Values'.
• 10 December 2019: Dr George Mak, 'The Mandarin Union Version after One Hundred Years: A Reflection on the History and Impact of a Classic Chinese Biblical Translation'.
• 12 December 2019: Dr Peter Coles, 'Silk, Syrup and Shade: 4000 Years of Mulberry Migration', book launch.
• 16 January 2020: Professor Henrietta Harrison, 'George Thomas Staunton and the Perils of being a China Expert in Early Nineteenth-Century London'.
• 21 January 2020: Dr Ed Pulford, 'Time and History across China's Northeastern Borders'.
• 25 February 2020: Annabel Teh Gallop, 'Malay Seais from the Islamic World of Southeast Asia'.
• 12 March 2020: Christopher de Bellaigue, 'The Islamic Enlightenment'.