Material for events held between 2011-2021:

2011
6 June: Visit by a Turkish Group.

• Three digital photographs.

10 July: Lunch with Cambridge University Press.

• Four digital photographs.

August: Visit by Oriental Club.

• Letter of thanks for the visit, 1 piece, dated 1 September 2011.

17 September: Open House, held at the Royal Asiatic Society, as part of Open City.

• Correspondence regarding participation, 2 pieces, dated 9 June 2011.
• 24 digital photographs.

2012
16-18 May: 'O-fuda - The Material Culture of Japanese Religious Practice', workshop and exhibition co-hosted by SOAS Centre for the Study of Japanese Religions and the RAS

• Printed programme of the workshop.

2013
14 March: Dinner held in celebration of the 190th anniversary of the Society, at Sardo, Grafton Street, London.

• Publicity poster, electronic document.

29 May: Visit by the Royal Asiatic Society to Sezincote House.

• Publicity poster, 2 electronic documents. Booking form, electronic document.

6 June: Concert 'POCHAGI - A Tapestry of Korean Sounds'

• Leaflet, with details of the performers.

2014
20-21 September: Open House.

• Open House London, Architectural information for the Royal Asiatic Society, 1 piece.
• Open House London Map for Marylebone to Bloomsbury, 1 piece.

14 November: Display of Byzantine Bookbinding,

• 77 digital photographs.

2015
17 July: Visit of the Royal Asiatic Society to the South Asian Decorative Arts and Crafts Collection Trust, Norwich.

• Seven digital photographs.

25 September: Oud Concert by Joseph Tawadros.

• Publicity poster, 2 pieces.
• Five digital photographs.

20 November: 'Tea and Testimony', a creative writing workshop held as part of Explore your Archive Week, with tutor Emily Filtness.

• Publicity posters, 4 pieces.
• Report on the event by Nancy Charley, Archivist.

9 December: Sale of Kope Scarves.

• Publicity poster, electronic document.
• Four digital photographs.

2016
14 June: Oud Concert by Joseph Tawadros.

• Publicity poster, electronic document.
• Four digital photographs.

27 October: Oud concert by Baba Yetkin.

• Publicity poster, electronic document.
• Three digital photographs.

16 November: Diwali celebration at which Dr Menaka Bora performed Indian classical dance.

• Publicity poster, electronic document.

23 November: 'Writ in Water,' a creative writing workshop held as part of Explore your Archive Week, with tutor Emily Filtness.

• Publicity poster, electronic document.
• Creative writing prompts, electronic document.
• Report on the event by Nancy Charley, Archivist, electronic document.

2017
16 June: Celebration of 'Conversation Piece' a commissioned painting of five Presidents and the Director of the Society.

• Publicity poster, electronic document.
• Nine digital photographs.

16 October: Visit by Julie Chun, Royal Asiatic Society, China.

• Four digital photographs.

2018
9 October: A concert by Chalpasah, the only Japanese Afghan band.

• Publicity poster, electronic document.
• Three digital photographs.

2019
3 October: Evening to celebrate the conservation of the braid of a Burmese manuscript.

• Ten digital photographs.

2021
28 September: Visit to the Royal Asiatic Society by the Travellers Club with dinner.

• Menu card, 1 piece.
• Fifteen digital photographs.

Information regarding conferences and study events held from 2011-2020. There is little material for these events as yet available archivally. The documents within the archives are:

2015
26 September: 'Updating Hodgson: A Study day on the work of Brian Houghton Hodgson, 'Father of Himalayan Studies', held at the Royal Asiatic Society in association with the Bagri Foundation.

• Publicity poster with a programme containing speakers and their papers, and further background information, 3 pieces.

9-10 October: 'Muslim South Asia Graduate Conference 2015', convened by the Muslim South Asia Research Forum, Royal Asiatic Society, and SOAS; and held at SOAS.

• Publicity poster advertising the conference and the keynote speaker, Professor Michael Boivin, 1 piece.
• Conference programme listing panels, speakers and papers presented, 2 pieces.

Signed Minutes for the Meetings of the Events and House Committee from 2011 to 2020, with allied agendas and some appendices and correspondence. These cover the following meetings:

• 13 January 2011
• 28 April 2011
• 29 September 2011
• 12 January 2012
• 19 April 2012
• 20 September 2012
• 10 January 2013
• 18 April 2013
• 19 September 2013
• 16 January 2014
• 24 April 2014
• 2 October 2014
• 15 January 2015
• 23 April 2015
• 30 September 2015
• 14 January 2016
• 28 April 2016
• 22 September 2016
• 12 January 2017
• 27 April 2017
• 21 September 2017
• 11 January 2018
• 26 April 2018
• 27 September 2018
• 15 March 2019
• 26 September 2019
• 16 January 2020
• 12 March 2020
• 7 May 2020
• 1 October 2020

The Report and Financial Statements for the Society were no longer published in the Society's Journal after 2011. Therefore these have been included within the archives. The material available for the Anniversary General Meetings from 2011-2015 is:

2011

• Letter of Invitation and Application form for Reception Tickets for the Anniversary General Meeting, 12 May 2011, 1 piece.
• Agenda for the Anniversary General Meeting, 1 piece.
• 'Royal Asiatic Society: Election of Council Members 2011' - list of nominees, 2 pieces.
• Minutes for the Anniversary General Meeting, 1 piece.

2012

• Letter of Invitation and Application form for Reception Tickets for the Anniversary General Meeting, 10 May 2012, 1 piece.
• Agenda for the Anniversary General Meeting, 1 piece.
• Presidential address by Gordon Johnson, 3 pieces and digital
• Signed Minutes for the AGM, 1 piece.
• Invitation for the Reception after the AGM, 1 piece.
• Royal Asiatic Society Report and Financial Statements for the year ending December 2011, 14 pieces.

2013

• Letter of Invitation for the Anniversary General Meeting, 9 May 2013, 1 piece.
• Agenda for the Anniversary General Meeting with Election of Council Members, 3 pieces.
• Minutes for the AGM, 1 piece.
• Invitation for the Reception after the AGM, 1 piece.
• Royal Asiatic Society Report and Financial Statements for the year ending December 2012, 13 pieces.

2014

• Letter of Invitation and Application form for Reception Tickets for the Anniversary General Meeting, 15 May 2014, 1 piece.
• Agenda for the Anniversary General Meeting with Election of Council Members, 4 pieces.
• Signed Minutes for the AGM, 1 piece.
• Invitation for the Reception after the AGM, 1 piece.
• Royal Asiatic Society Report and Financial Statements for the year ending December 2013, 13 pieces.
• Poster for the lecture given by Professor Dame Caroline Humphreys after receiving the Richard Burton Memorial Medal as part of the AGM. The lecture was entitled Empires and their Merchants: Communication and Incomprehension on the Russia-China Border in the 19th Century. Printed, 1 piece + digital version.
• Photographs from the presentation of the medal to Caroline Humphreys, 5 digital images.

2015

• Agenda for the Anniversary General Meeting, 14 May 2015, with Election of Council Members, 2 pieces.
• Minutes for the AGM, 1 piece.
• Invitation for the Reception after the AGM, 1 piece.
• Royal Asiatic Society Report and Financial Statements for the year ending December 2014, 13 pieces.
• Report for the blog post of the Anniversary General Meeting and subsequent lecture by Eugene Rogan. The lecture was entitled The Dardanelles Campaign viewed from both sides of the trenches, digital pdf.
• Photographs from the Anniversary General Meeting and subsequent lecture by Eugene Rogan. 7 digital images.

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'.

Photographs from:

• 24 January 2012: Book launch for Rosane and Ludo Rocher, 'The Making of Western Indology'; and Michael J. Franklin, 'Orientalist Jones', 21 images.
  *18 June 2012: Colin Heywood, Book launch for 'The Rise of the Ottoman Empire', 21 images.

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.

A Special General Meeting was held on 15 April 2010 to consider amendments to the current Byelaws of the Society. The associated material is:

• Notice of the Special General Meeting with Note from the President concerning the Bye Laws and Standing Orders, dated 1 March 2010.
• Signatures of Fellows attending the Special General Meeting.
• Minutes from the meeting.

Information regarding conferences and study events held from 2007-2010. These are:

2007
17-18 May: The International Seminar, 'Britain and the Malay World' , organised by the Royal Asiatic Society in collaboration with the Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society.

• Programme including abstracts for papers presented, spiral bound book, with 3 additional pages inserted regarding accommodation and Malaysian restaurants in London.
• Sample invitation for the reception to celebrate the symposium held in honour of the 50th anniversary of Malaysia's independence.
• Correspondence concerning the administration of the seminar, 10 pieces, dated 12 December 2006-11 September 2007.

27 July: A Workshop on ' Historiography, pedagogy and future histories of 1857', held at the Royal Asiatic Society with funding by the Society, the British Academy and the University of Edinburgh's 'Mutiny at the Margins' research project.

• Programme for the event with list of speakers and papers presented, 2 versions, 3 pieces.

2008
4 October: Study Day, 'A Journey through Kazakhstan', in association with The British Museum, the Royal Asiatic Society and the British-Kazakh Society, held at the BP Lecture Theatre, British Museum.

• Programmes for the study day, 4 versions of differing detail, the most detailed containing full abstracts for the papers, 21 pieces.
• Correspondence of congratulations on the success of the day, 1 piece, undated.
• CD-ROM produced by the British-Kazakh Society of the Kazakh Study Day.

Information regarding conferences and study events held from 2005-2006. These are:

2005
18 March: 'The Uighurs: 1500 years of cultural diversity and development', a study day organised by the Royal Asiatic Society and held at Goodenough College, Mecklenburgh Square, London.

• 'Proposal: Royal Academy and Royal Asiatic Society Joint Study day - The Uyghers' - a proposal prepared for the Council Meeting of 14 October 2004.
• Publicity leaflet for the event, 2 pieces.

2006
8 July: 'The Piprahwa Excavation: Fraud, Hoax or Buddhist Archaeology's Greatest Discovery?', held at the Harewood Courtyard Conference Centre, Harewood House, under the auspices of the Royal Asiatic Society.

• 'Piprawha Stupa Proposal' - a proposal prepared by Charles Allen for the Council Meeting of 14 October 2004.
• Introduction to, and programme of, the conference, 2 pieces.
• Correspondence concerning the administration of the event, 3 pieces, dated 15-21 March 2006.