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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.)

Photographs from:

• 4 September 2015: Professor Sarah Moate, 'The Moon of the Fields: the Calligraphy and Poetry of the Japanese Jōdo-shū nun Ōtagaki Rengetsu', 3 images.
• 16 September 2015: Dr Fozia Bora, 'Did Salah al-Din destroy the Fatimids' books? An historiographical enquiry', 2 images.
• 8 October 2015: Professor Janice Stargardt: 'The Adoption of Buddhism in Burma (Myanmar)', 5 images.
• 20 October 2015: Dr Richard Williams, 'Songs from behind the curtain: the influence of palace women on Hindustani music', 5 images.
• 12 November 2015: Dr Ben Outhwaite, 'Lewis, Gibson and the Discovery of the Cairo Genizah', 4 images.
• 17 November 2015: 'Azadeh Fatehrad, 'An Evening with Nizami', 6 images.
• 10 December 2015: Dr Kaveh Bakhtiar, 'The British Mosque: Fragments of an alternative architecture', 8 images.
• 14 December 2015: George Bryan Souza and Jeffrey S. Turley, 'he Boxer Codex,' book launch, 7 images.
• 15 December 2015: John Earle, 'British Vice-Consul and Local hero: Nicholas Loney and a Sweeter Life on a 19th century Philippine Island', 4 images.
• 19 January 2016: Frederica Gigante, 'Collecting Islamic Art in Seventeenth-Century Italy: Ferdinando Cospi, the Medici Court and the Ottoman World', 4 images.
• 21 January 2016: Ashvin Kumar, 'Inshallah, football', film screening with discussion, 2 images.
• 26 January 2016: Amara Thornton and Michael McCluskey, 'Excavating the City: Reginald Campbell Thompson's Moving Images of Mosul', film screening plus lecture, 7 images.
• 11 February 2016: Dr Sir Jim Mallinson, 'A History of Yoga and Yoga Scholarship' 9 images.
• 23 February 2016: Benedict Leigh, 'C.R. Ashbee's Vision of Jerusalem, the English Arts and Crafts Movement in the Middle East', 5 images.
• 10 March 2016: Professor Emerita Doris Behrens-Abouseif, 'Scribes and Libraries in the Mamluk Period', 4 images.
• 15 March 2016: Nicholas Reese, 'Thieves, Cutthroats and Vagabonds, European Mercenaries in Eighteenth-Century India', 3 images.
• 18 March 2016: Dr John Whelpton, 'Jang Bahadur in Europe; the First Nepalese Mission to the West', 4 images.
• 31 March 2016: Thomas Bell, 'Kathmandu', book launch, 9 images.
• 6 April 2016: Florence D' Souza, 'Knowledge, mediation and empire', book launch, 5 images.
• 12 April 2016: Isabella Tree, 'The Living Goddess', book launch, 5 images.
• 14 April, 2016: Dr Jenny Balfour-Paul, Journeys in the Footsteps of Thomas Machell, Forgotten Explorer', 6 images.
• 19 April 2016: Charlotte de Blois, 'Hints of the Heterodox in Christian Images from China', 10 images.
• 17 May 2016: Cam Sharp Jones, 'Indian Tribal Ethnography in the 19th Century', 6 images.
• 25 May 2016: George Manginis, 'Mount Sinai: A History of travellers and Pilgrims', book launch, 6 images.
• 27 May 2016: 'Presentation of a Festschrift in honour of Professor David O. Morgan', 56 images.
• 1 June 2016: Professor William Lubenow, 'West to East/ East to West: The Royal Asiatic Society and Western Knowledge of Asia', 10 images.
• 9 June 2016: Professor Sarah Ansari: 'India at War: The Bombay presidency's 'Home Front', 1914-1918', 9 images.
• 13 June 2016: Konrad Hirschler,' Medieval Damascus: Plurality and Diversity in an Arabic Library', book launch with introduction by Doris Behrens-Abouseif, 2 images.
• 15 June 2016: Nile Green, 'The Love of Strangers - What Six Muslim Students Learned in Jane Austen's London', book launch, 1 image.
• 21 June 2016: Shireen El Kassem, 'Mamluk helmets (1250-1517): new perspectives', 3 images.
• 23 June 2016: Michael Loewe, 'Problems of Han Administration', book launch, 9 images.
• 29 June 2016: Ilker Evrim Binbaş, 'Intellectual Networks in Timurid Iran', book launch, 6 images.
• 24 August 2016: Dr Nassar Mansour, 'Muhaqqaq: Furthering the Aesthetic of Faith', 11 images.

The Agendas, Minutes and Papers for the Library Committee Meetings for 2015.

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'.

Photographs from:

• 9 October 2014: Professor Paul Brass, 'Criminalization of Politics in India, 2 images.
• 21 October 2014: Fan Yang, 'Fansub groups in China: When Independent translation meets the market'; and Sami Winton, 'Ritual and survival amongst the Malay community in Cape Town', 6 images.
• 13 November 2014: Professor Paul Bailey, 'Chinese Workers in World War One France', 6 images.
• 25 November 2014: Simon Denham, 'Identity and Power in Neolithic stamp seals from Greater Mesopotamia, 4 images.
• 3 December 2014: Angela Beecher, 'A Look Behind the façade: Critical Inquiries into China's Monumental Architecture in Contemporary Chinese Art'; and Cleo Roberts, 'Waterscapes in Indian Cities', 2 images.
• 11 December 2014: Dr Sussan Babaie, 'A nān-o halvā (Bread and Sweets) in the V&A: Thoughts on the Aesthetics of 'taste'', 1 image.
• 15 January 2015: Dr Santanu Das, 'British India and the First World War: Words, Objects and Images', 3 images.
• 23 January 2015: Michael Palin, lecture plus presentation of Honorary membership, 8 images.
• 12 February 2015: Professor Phiroze Vasunia, 'Sir William Jones and the Gods of Greece, Italy and India', 5 images.
• 17 February 2015: Ünver Rüstem, 'Justice Conquest and Victory: The Evolving Symbolism of Istanbul's Nusretiye Mosque', 5 images.
• 12 March 2015: Dr Chi-kwan mark, 'Not for (Re)turning: Margaret Thatcher and the Anglo-Chinese negotiations over the Future of Hong Kong', 4 images.
• 17 March 2015: Maurizia Onori, 'Turkish bath, Indian restaurant and funky bar: The fate of an oriental building in the East End of London'; and Aisa Martinez, 'Omani Costumes', 5 images.
• 9 April 2015: Dr Rosie Llewellyn-Jones, 'The Last King in India: Wajid Ali Shah', 12 images.
• 21 April 2015: Karin Warch, 'Humour and Eighteenth-Century Korean Art'; and Tara Desjardins, '18th century Indian-Mughal glass', 11 images.
• 19 May 2015: Professor John Baily and Veronica Baily, 'Live Afghan Music', 7 images.
• 26 May 2015, Professor Richard John Lynn, 'Early reception of the Zhuangzi in the West', 3 images.
• 27 May 2015: Professor Sonja Arntzen, 'The Sarashina Diary: A Woman's life in 7th century Japan', 4 images.
• 4 June 2015: Melissa Dale: 'Discovering the Real Lives of China's Emasculated Servants: Chinese Eunuch History Revisited', 3 images.

Recommendation, correspondence and photographs concerned with the conferment of the Burton Memorial Medal on Professor Caroline Humphrey.

The Agendas, Minutes and Papers for the Library Committee Meetings for 2014.

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'.

The Agendas, Minutes and Papers for the Library Committee Meetings for 2013.

Photographs for:

• 30 October 2012: 'A Georgian Evening of Talks, Film and Song to Celebrate Rustaveli', held in collaboration with the British Georgian Society, 2 images. 20 February 2014: lecture and celebration of the collaboration between the Royal Asiatic Society and Cambridge University Press, 14 images.
• 26 March 2014: Jamie Bunchuk and Matthew Traver, 'Down the Post Roads: On Horseback across East Kazakhstan', 33 images.
• 27 May 2014: S. Frederick Starr, 'The Lost Enlightenment: central Asia's Golden age from the Arab conquest to Tamerlane', book launch, 1 image.
• 12 June 2014: Dr Jan-Peter Hartung, 'Of 'Creeds' and 'Guidances': Tradition, Commentary and Canon in the Early Modern Persianate World', 14 images.