Photographs from:

• 12 October 2017: Russell Harris, 'A Journal of Three Months' Walk in Persia in 1884 by Captain John Compton Pyne', 4 images.
• 26 October 2017: Dr Yuka Kadoi, 'Arthur Upham Pope and A New Survey of Persian Art', book launch, 6 images.
• 2 November 2017: Charles Allen, 'Coromandel: A Personal history of South India', book launch, 4 images.
• 9 November 2017: Dr Andrew Arsan, 'Beyond Formal and Informal Imperialism: Beirut, Hong Kong, and the Growth of European Power, c.1830-1870', 4 images.
• 16 November 2017: Professor David Park, 'Preserving the Buddhist Wall Paintings of Bhutan', 7 images.
• 23 November 2017: Dr Elaine Wright, 'Lapis and Gold: Exploring Chester Beatty's Ruzbihan Qur'an', 8 images.
• 7 December 2017: Dr Diana Lange, 'Exploring Tibet in the Mid 19th Century: The British Library's Wise Collection', 4 images .
• 7 December 2017: David Leffman, 'William Mesny: How a British Adventurer Became a General in Qing-Dynasty China', 6 images.
• 11 January 2018: Professor Christopher Fuller, 'European Science and Colonial Anthropology in British India, c.1871-1911', 5 images.
• 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 launch with introduction by Professor Francis Robinson, 7 images.
• 18 January 2017: Dr Mark Condos, 'Anarchists, Revolutionaries, and Franco-British Imperial Policing in French Chandernagore, 1905-1930', 4 images.
• 23 January 2018: Dr Alban von Stockhausen, 'Images and (Post)colonial Encounters: A History of the Visual Representation of the Nagas of Northeast India', 3 images.
• 8 February 2018: Dr Annabel Gallop, 'The Great Seal of Aceh', 5 images.
• 20 February 2018: Amy Matthewson, 'Mr Punch and Chinamania: Blue Willow China and Consumer Consumption in 'Punch' Magazine, 1874-1880', 4 images.
• 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', 4 images.
• 8 March 2018: Dr Peter Webb, 'Arab Origins: Identity, History and Islam', 9 images.
• 15 March 2018: Robert Irwin, 'Ibn Khaldun', book launch, 3 images.
• 20 March 2018: Dr Zeynep Yürekli-Görkay, 'An Ottoman Sense of Place: Topographical illustration between Europe and Iran', 5 images.
• 27 March 2018: Drs George Michell and Gethin Rees 'Buddhist Rock-Cut Monasteries of the Western Ghats', 6 images.
• 10 April 2018: Ezra Rashkow, Sanjukta Ghosh and Upal Chakrabarti (editors), 'Memory, Identity and the Colonial Encounter in India: Essays in Honour of Peter Robb', book launch, 13 images.
• 12 April 2018: Dr Omniya Abdel-Barr, 'K.A.C. Creswell's Photographic Archive at the V&A Museum', 8 images.
• 17 April 2018: Professor Francis Robinson, 'Jamal Mian', book launch, 9 images.
• 19 April 2018: John Falconer, 'A Glorious Galaxy of Monuments: Photography and Archaeology in India in the 19th Century', 2 images.
• 26 April 2018: Dr Alex McKay, 'The View from the Palace: The Sikkim Royal Archives', 4 images.
• 3 May 2018: Professor Anthony Stockwell, 'Plunder and Restitution: Britain and the Mandalay Regalia', 6 images.
• 15 May 2018: Dr Deniz Tuerker, 'The Yildiz Kiosk and the Queen Mothers of the Tanzimat Era: Gender, Landscape and Visibility'; and 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)' , 9 images.
• 29 May 2018: Dr Ashmita Khasnabish, 'Indian Imagination in a Postcolonial Context', 3 images.
• 31 May 2018: Nancy Charley, 'Feart', book launch, 5 images.
• 7 June 2018: Dr. Umberto Bongianino, 'Like Sweet-Smelling Blooms: Arabic Calligraphy in the Islamic West', 3 images.
• 14 June 2018, Professor Ornit Shani, 'How India became democratic', 8 images.
• 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, 8 images.
• 18 June 2018: Professor Robert Dankoff, 'Ottoman Explorations of the Nile', book launch, 14 images.

Photographs from:

• 18 September 2018: Dr Rose Kerr, 'Arrow Vase: From Ritual to Game', 6 images.
• 20 September 2018: Dr Gulfishan Khan, 'The Indo-Persian elite and the Formation of Orientalist Tradition', 5 images.
• 4 October 2018: Dr Rosie Llewellyn-Jones, 'My Dear Schonberg: Letters from Sir Aurel Stein', 5 images.
• 11 October 2018: Dr Mehreen Chida-Razvi, 'The Mughal Madonna: Representations of the Virgin in Jahangiri-era Architecture', 2 images.
• 25 October 2018: Professor Anna Contadini, 'The Pisa Griffin and the Mari-Cha Lion: Metalwork, Art, and Technology in the Medieval Islamicate Mediterranean', 23 images.
• 2 November 2018: Dr George Michell and Dr Helen Philon, 'Islamic Architecture of Deccan India', book launch, 7 images.
• 6 November 2018: Professor Donald Rayfield, Dr. Gillian Evison and Ms. Lia Chokoshvili, 'Unlocking the Door: Writing from Georgia', 16 images.
• 7 November 2018: Omar Khan, 'Paper Jewels: Postcards from the Raj', book launch, 6 images.
• 15 November 2018: Moin Mir with Dr Rosie Llewellyn-Jones, 'The Prince who Beat the Empire', book launch, 6 images.
• 20 November 2019: Dr Jacob Ghazarian, 'The Ancient Silk Road: Its enduring impact on China and renewed objectives', 5 images.
• 11 December 2018: Professor Ian Gow, 'The Scottish Sinologist Alexander Wylie (1815-1887): Missionary, Man of Letters, Mathematician', 5 images.
• 10 January 2019: Dr Cailah Jackson, 'The Arts of the Book in a Time of Conflict: Manuscripts of Late Medieval Konya', 6 images.
• 7 February 2019: Dr John Clarke, 'Collecting Tibet at the South Kensington Museum: the legacy of the 1904 expedition and beyond', 4 images.
• 19 February 2019: Dr Oliver Crawford, 'The Languages of Indonesian Socialism', 5 images.
• 26 February 2019: Deborah Freeman Fahid, 'The Ager Rock Crystal Chessmen: Some Early Medieval Imports from the Iranian World?', 3 images.
• 7 March 2019: Dr Jharna Gourlay, 'Forceps, Stethoscopes and Sisterhood: British Female Doctors in 19th Century India', 3 images.
• 14 March 2019: Dr Yossef Rapoport, 'Lost Maps of the Caliphs: Drawing the World in Eleventh-Century Cairo', 3 images.
• 19 March 2019: Ursula Sims-Williams, 'Tipu Sultan's Library: Building a Collection', 4 images.
• 11 April 2019: Dr Rayna Denison, 'The Hidden History of Studio Ghibli: Short Films, Advertising and the Industrial Reality of Japanese Animation', 2 images.
• 23 April 2019: Dr Talat Ahmed in conversation with Professor David Arnold. 'Mohandas Gandhi: Experiments in Civil Disobedience', book launch, 2 images.
• 25 April 2019: Dr Simon Wolfgang Fuchs, 'When Tehran was the Brightest Star: A Global History of the 1979 Iranian Revolution', 3 images.
• 2 May 2019: Philip Davies, 'Lost Warriors - Seagrim and Pagani of Burma - The Last Great Untold Story of WWII', 3 images.
• 9 May 2019: Professor Jonathan Phillips, ''Saladin, we have returned!': The Myriad Memories of the Crusades in the Near East during the Modern Era', 11 images.
• 13 May 2019: Nawal Nasrallah, 'Treasure Trove of Benefits and Variety at the Table: A Fourteenth-Century Egyptian Cookbook', book launch, 9 images.
• 21 May 2019: Cheryl Porter, 'Painting Manuscripts with Metal and Insects: Grind or flatten, catch and cook', 8 images.
• 29 May 2019: Dominic Faulder, 'Anand Panyarachun and the Making of Modern Thailand', book launch, 6 images.
• 6 June 2019: Edward Weech, 'Systems of Religion and Morality in the Collections of the Royal Asiatic Society', 3 images.
• 18 June 2019: Susan Stronge, 'The Lapidary Arts of the Mughal Empire in the 17th and 18th centuries', 5 images.
• 27 June 2019: Dr Ravinder Reddy, 'Numinous Imagery on Arms and Armour of the Indian Subcontinent', 4 images.
• 30 July 2019: Dr Sarah Tiffin, 'Raffles and the Course of Empire: Decoding Ruin Imagery in the History of Java' 5 images.

The lecture series was foreshortened by the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic. Photographs from:

• 10 October 2019: Dr Bo Gao, 'China-North Korea Economic Cooperation', 6 images.
• 17 October 2019: Professor Stephen Martin, 'Flute Lecture Concert: Surviving Asia, Sponsoring Mozart, The Polymathic Portrait of Dr Ferdinand Dejean', 5 images.
• 22 October 2019: Dr Philip Mansel, 'The Sun King and the Sultan: Louis XIV and the Ottoman Empire', 3 images.
• 22 October 2019: Paul Bromberg, 'Thai Silver and Nielloware', 5 images.
• 14 November 2019: Professor Michael Franklin, 'Phebe Gibbes, Our Calcutta Correspondent', 4 images.
• 20 November 2019: Lord Stephen Green, 'The Human Odyssey - East, West and the Search for Universal Values', 4 images.
• 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', 4 images.
• 12 December 2019: Dr Peter Coles, 'Silk, Syrup and Shade: 4000 Years of Mulberry Migration', book launch, 3 images.
• 17 December 2019: Alan Tritton, 'Scotland and the Indian Empire, book launch, 5 images.
• 16 January 2020: Professor Henrietta Harrison, 'George Thomas Staunton and the Perils of being a China Expert in Early Nineteenth-Century London', 2 images.
• 13 February 2020: Dr Simon O'Meara, 'The Ka'ba of Mecca as axis and matrix mundi', 4 images.
• 18 February 2020: Dr Fiona Kerlogue, ''Travelling and Collecting in the Dutch East Indies in the 1930s: the collections of Růžena Charlota Urbanová in the National Musuem, Prague', 4 images.
• 12 March 2020: Christopher de Bellaigue, 'The Islamic Enlightenment', 5 images.

With the Covid pandemic, some lectures became virtual events. Zoom recordings were made for the following lectures:

• 13 July 2020: Jonathan Bloom, 'Architecture of the Islamic West'.
• 17 August 2020: Professor Sarah Ansari, 'Boundaries of Belonging'.
• 26 August 2020: Diana Darke, 'Stealing from the Saracens'.

Documentation concerned with Conferences, Symposia and Study days held by, or at, the Royal Asiatic Society. These include some events held in collaboration with other organisations, held either at the Society's premises or at other locations. Most of the early material can be found the Minutes of the Committees, the Oriental Congress catalogues and the catalogues for significant anniversaries. At present the material in this catalogue dates from the 1980s.

1989

• 23 February 1989: Seminar, 'India Towards the Year 2000', chaired by Professor Sir Cyril Philips, held at the lecture theatre, SOAS. Publicity poster giving details of the event and the contact details of Royal Asiatic Society to register attendance.

Information regarding conferences and study events held in the 1990s. These are:

1997
19-21 May: 'Persianate Sufism in the Safavid & Mughal Period', School of Oriental and African Studies. This was not a RAS event but they provided significant sponsorship.

• Programme for the event, 1 item, printed.
• Correspondence between Professor David O. Morgan, a convenor of the conference, and Lydia Collins, Secretary, Royal Asiatic Society, concerning the request for funds for the conference, 3 pieces, dated 21 February-3 March 1997.

22 September 1997: 'Symposium on South Asian Art: Transfers of Power and Perception: South Asian Art 1920-1960', in conjunction with the Royal Asiatic Society and the Centre for South Asian Studies, SOAS, and held at the Royal Asiatic Society.

• Advertising leaflet, 1 item.
• Advertising leaflet with draft programme, 1 item.
• Programme listing speakers and the papers they presented, 1 item.
• Correspondence concerning the organisation of the event and subsequent publication of one of the papers, 7 items, dated 3 January-2 December 1997.

1998
22 September: Proposed seminar on 'Sri Lankan Art'. This was eventually postponed.

• Correspondence concerning the seminar and the necessity of it being postponed, 16 pieces, dated 27 December 1997-18 June 1998.

1999
17 September: 'Meeting of the Texts in Translation Project: Portuguese Encounters with the World in the Age of the Discoveries', run by the Department of Portuguese and Brazilian Studies, King's College, London and held at the Royal Asiatic Society's premises.

• Programme for the event, 1 item.
• Correspondence concerning the organisation of the event, 10 pieces, dated 1 April-26 July 1999.

24 September: ''Symposium on Indian Architectural Drawings in the Collections of the Royal Asiatic Society'', with display of the drawings, held at the Royal Asiatic Society's premises.

• Proposal for the Symposium by Giles Tillotson, Acting Director, Royal Asiatic Society, 1 item.
• Registration form for the Symposium, 1 item.
• Programme for the day's events listing speakers and the papers they presented, 1 item.
• Correspondence concerning attendance at the symposium, 4 items, dated, 18 February - 26 May 1999.

Information regarding conferences and study events held from 2000-2001. These are:

2000
7 July: One-day symposium, 'Grand Narratives of Transformation and the Historiography of South Asia', held at the Royal Asiatic Society, with keynote speaker, Professor Peter van de Veer.

• Programme for the day including abstracts for the papers to be delivered, 8 pieces.
• Correspondence concerning expenditure, 3 pieces, dated 27 July-10 October 2000.

28 July: Fourth Annual Colloquium of The History of Christian Missions in Asia, 'Indigenous Clergies and Enculturation', held at the Royal Asiatic Society, chaired by Dr John Villiers.

• Application form for attendance at the Colloquium, 1 item.
• Programme for the day listing speakers and the papers they presented, 1 item.
• Correspondence concerned with the administration of the event, 4 pieces, dated 2 October 1998 - 16 August 2000.

2001
22-24 February: 'Asceticism and Power in the Asian Context', co-organised by the Royal Asiatic Society and the School of Oriental and African Studies, and supported by The British Academy.

• Conference Programme detailing events, speakers and papers presented, 3 pieces.

8 May: 'Royal Asiatic Society, Symposium on the Manuscript Collection', held at the Royal Asiatic Society.

• Application form for attendance at the Symposium, 1 item.
• Programme for the event listing speakers and the papers they presented, 1 item.

In 2001 and 2002 there was a bilateral Symposium on Anglo-Iranian Relations since 1800. This was arranged by the Royal Asiatic Society and the Centre for Documents and Diplomatic History of the Iranian Ministry for Foreign Affairs with sponsorship by the British Institute for Persian Studies and the Foreign & Commonwealth Office.

From 10-11 June 2001 the Round Table was held in Iran:

• Provisional Programme for the Conference panels, 1 item.
• Abstracts for some of the presented papers, 6 pieces.
• Opening address given by Professor Francis Robinson on behalf of the Royal Asiatic Society, 3 pieces.
• Report on the conference with the full programme by Francis Robinson, dated 12 June 2001, 8 pieces.
• Correspondence concerning the administration of the Round Table, 84 pieces.

From 24-25 June 2002 the Round Table was held at the Royal Asiatic Society, London:

• Application form for attendance at the symposium, 1 piece. Programme for the two days of the symposium, 3 pieces.
• Invitation from Charles Gray, Head of the Middle East Department, Foreign & Commonwealth Office to a Reception in the Foreign & Commonwealth Office on the evening of 24 June, 1 piece.
• List of Participants, 2 pieces.
• List of Iranian Speakers and the papers they presented, 1 piece.
• Opening address given by Seyed Ali Moujani on behalf of the Centre for Documents and Diplomatic History of the Iranian Ministry for Foreign Affairs, 5 pieces.
• Abstracts for some of the presented papers, 14 pieces.
• Correspondence concerning the administration of the event, 45 pieces.
• Photographs and negatives of the symposium, 13 colour images, 5 of which have been mounted on a piece of white cardboard, and 20 negatives.

Information regarding conferences and study events held from 2002-2004. These are: 2002
16-17 November: Farid Al-din 'Attar and the Persian Sufi Tradition Conference, held at the Brunei Gallery Auditorium, SOAS, organised by the Iran heritage Foundation, the centre for near and Middle Eastern Studies and the Institute of Ismaili Studies, with sponsorship from the British Academy, the British Council and the Royal Asiatic Society.

• Correspondence regarding the grant for the conference, 11 pieces, dated 18 March - 19 September 2002.

29 November: South Asia Archive and Library Group 68th Conference, held in the Royal Asiatic Society Library.

• Programme of events with list of speakers and the papers they presented, 1 piece.

2003
30 April: Photographs from the Royal Asiatic Collections held at the Royal Asiatic Society.

• Programme of events with list of speakers and the papers they presented, 1 piece.

2003-2004 Medieval Iraq Study Day to be held at the BP Lecture Theatre, British Museum, in association with the Royal Asiatic Society.

• Two drafts for the programme of a Medieval Iraq study day, dated 15 May 2003 and 7 February 2004, 3 pieces.
• Colour photographs from the event, 7 pieces, dated May 2004.
• 'Report to the Council: Medieval Iraq Study Day at the British Museum' - report prepared by Judith Kolbas, Honorary Secretary, Royal Asiatic Society, with accompanying letter from Nicholas Badcott, Arab World Education Officer, British Museum, for the Council meeting of 10 June 2004.

2004
10 September: Charles Boxer Centenary Conference. This conference was held at King's College, London, followed by a reception at the Royal Asiatic Society.

• Letter from Paula Ridley, Director, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, to Alison Ohta, Curator, Royal Asiatic Society, to inform that the Foundation have offered a grant to the Society to help with costs of the conference. Typed, 2 pieces, dated 8 July 2004.
• Letters from Catherine Melia, Executive Officer, Royal Asiatic Society, to Jeff Johnson, Redwing Coaches, concerning the hire of a coach to transport people from King's College to the Society. Typed, 2 pieces, dated 6 August and 6 September 2004.
• Estimate of costs and programme for the reception at the Society. Typed, undated.