Lecture cards, Publicity posters, photographs and administrative documents for lectures held between 2000 and 2010. This included material for the main lecture series, as well as the Student Series which ran concurrently from 2006 forward.

There are two sets of Lecture Cards giving dates and names of speakers. Those for the Main Lecture Series also include a list of the Council Members and the dates of Committee Meetings. These cover the dates 2000-2001, 2001-2002, 2002-2003, 2003-2004, 2004-2005, 2005-2006, 2006-2007, 2007-2008, 2008-2009, 2009-2010.

The Student Series Lecture Cards cover the dates 2006-2007, 2007-2008, 2008-2009, 2009-2010.

Publicity material for lectures and book launches in the period 2000-2010:

2002-2003

• 24 October 2002: Invitation card to the launch of Dr Rupert Cox's book 'The Zen Arts', 2 copies. One copy is an invitation for Stuart & Mitsuko Tatlock.

  2003-2004

• 16 January 2003: Invitation card to the launch of Jennifer Howes' book 'The Courts pf Pre-Colonial South India'.
• 13 November 2003: Notice that the lecture, 'The Universe in Miniature: Tombs in Ancient China' by Professor Jessica Rawson, would be held at the Society of Antiquaries.

2004-2005

• 9 June 2005: Tim Mackintosh-Smith, 'The Hall of a Thousand Columns: Hindustan to Malabar with Ibn Battutah'. Various documents: Advertising leaflet, 2 copies; Book of tickets for the event, 1 printed book; administrative correspondence between the Royal Asiatic Society, The British-Yemeni Society, The Embassy of the Republic of Yemen, The Royal Geographical Society, and Clarence House, 11 pieces.

2005-2006
Notice of the April and May lectures for 2006:

• 6 April, the Dr Greville Freeman-Grenville Memorial Lecture by Professor Ulrike Freitag, 'Linking East Africa and the Middle East: Networks of Commerce and Culture;
• 10 May, Dr Ali Ansari, 'Persia in the World Imagination'.

2006-2007
Publicity posters for Student Series lectures:

• 12 December 2006: Chris Howard, 'Screening of "Gohatto" (Taboo) Japan, 1999, Director: Nagisa Oshima'.
• 16 January 2007: Mark Strange: 'Sima Guang on 4th Century Chinese foreign Policy'.
• 24 April 2007: Dr. Sophie Gordon, 'Visions of Asia: Photographs from the Royal Photograph Collection'.

2007-2008
Publicity posters for Lectures:

• 11 October 2007: Dr Kate Teltscher, 'The Scotsman, the Lama and the Gosain: the First British Expedition to Tibet 1774-5'.
• 8 November 2007: Professor Ebba Koch, 'Jahangir as Sir Francis Bacon's ideal of the king as an observer and investigator of nature'.
• 13 March 2008: François de Blois - the Professor Mary Boyce Memorial Lecture, 'Professor Mary Boyce and the Quest for Zoroaster'.
• 10 April 2008: Professor Shail Mayaram, 'James Tod and the trajectory of Indian nationalism: an assessment after two centuries'.
• 12 June 2008: Professor Zeren Tanindi, 'Illustrated and Illuminated Works of Mevlana Jalal ad-Din Rumi'.

Publicity posters for Student Series lectures:

• 25 October 2007: Abhishek Amar, 'Foundations of Buddhism: Investigating Bodhgaya and other Buddhist Monastic sites in Early Historic Gaya'; and Malini Roy, 'Provincial Mughal painting at the court of Nawab Shuja ud-Daula of Awadh (r.1754-75) and Asaf ud-Daula (r.1775-97)'.
• 15 November: Shino Ariswana, Keiko Kitamura, Michael Coxall, 'Sankyoku: Lyrical Music from the Edo period'. With the poster is a programme of the music played.
• 6 December 2007: Wing-Fai Leung introduces the film, 'Comrades, almost a Love Story' directed by Peter Chan, 1996.
• 17 January 2008: Benedetta Lomi, 'Bato Kannon: the Japanese Transformation of an Esoteric Deity'; and Tullio Lobetti, 'Memories of the Flesh: Body and Ascetic Practices in Contemporary Japanese Religious Contexts'.
• 21 February 2008: Bulat Tynybekov and Botagoz Tynybekova in a 'Concert: Kazakh Classical Music'. With the poster is the programme of music, biographies of the performers and an entrance ticket.
• 27 February 2008: Jonathan Black and Brenda Martin, 'Dora Gordine: Sculptor, Artist, Designer', book launch.
• 19 June 2008: the film, 'The Warrior, India', directed by Asaf Kapadia, 2001.

2008-2009
Publicity posters for Lectures:

• 9 October 2008: Dr Ravinder Kaur, 'On Distinctions: Citizens, Refugees and Post-Colonial State in India's Partition'.
• 11 December 2008: Professor Edhem Eldem, 'The Ottoman Culture of Death: A Vision of Modernity and Change'.
• 12 March 2009: Professor Timon Screech, 'Power and Magic in the City Planning of Edo (Tokyo) 1590-1657'.
• 16 April 2009: Professor Huw Bowen, the Professor Cyril Philips Memorial Lecture, 'C.H. Philips and the East India Company'.

Publicity posters for Student Series lectures:

• 20 November 2008: Joint meeting with the Royal Society for Asian Affairs - Peter Cole, 'Exploring a Local Identity in Yemen'; Hannah Warren, 'Female Weavers in a Village in Madya Pradesh, North India: A Photographic Study'; and Dr Alasdair Pinkerton, 'Radio and the Raj: Broadcasting in British India'.
• 10 December 2008: Film, 'The Angry Monk', Director Luc Schaedler, 2005.
• 18 March 2009: Scheherazaad Cooper, 'Odissi - Indian Classical Dance', dance and talk.

Publicity posters for Book Launch:

• 12 November 2008: John O. Hunwick, Alida Jay Boye, and Joseph Hunwick, 'The Hidden Treasures of Timbuktu: Historic City of Islamic Africa', 2 copies.

2009-2010
Publicity posters for Lectures:

• 8 October 2009: Dr Andrew Peacock, 'End of Empires: the Turkish Conquest of the Middle East, 11th Century AD'.
• 11 February 2010: Professor Owen Wright, 'How French is Frenkçin?'.
• 15 April 2010: Dr Laura J. Newby, 'The Chinese Emperor's New Copper Plates: Art and Politics in the Late 18th Century'.

Publicity posters for Student Series lectures:

• 21 April 2010: Tara Mayer, 'Clothing the Imperial Image: Dress, Identity and Authority in later 18th to early 19th Century North India'; and Amanda Phillips, 'Ottoman Velvets and Imitations: Viral Style in the 17th and 18th Centuries'.

Book Launches:

• 7 July 2010: Invitation to the launch of 'Muhammad Juki's Shahnamah of Firdausi' by Barbara Brend, printed card, 2 copies.

Photographs from: 12 November 2008: Book launch for 'The Hidden Treasures of Timbuktu: Historic City of Islamic Africa' by Alida Jay Boye and John O. Hunwick, 6 images. 17 March 2010: Student Lecture Series, Kiku Day, a concert of the Shakuhachi (Japanese Bamboo Flute), 8 images.

A revised transcript of the Professor Ann Lambton Memorial Lecture, 'Ann K.S. Lambton (1912-2008) and Persian Studies' presented by Professor David Morgan, 15 October 2009. This is an electronic document.

A small amount of correspondence concerning the organisation of lectures. At present this is all closed.

Lecture cards, publicity posters, and photographs for lectures held between 2010 and 2020. This includes material for the main Lecture Series, Book Launches and the Student Series which ran until 2016 when the two series were combined.

There are two sets of Lecture Cards giving dates and names of speakers. Those for the Main Lecture Series also include a list of the Council Members and the dates of Committee Meetings. These cover the dates 2010-2011, 2011-2012, 2012-2013, 2013-2014, 2014-2015, 2015-2016, 2017-2018, 2018-2019, 2019-2020. The lecture card for 2016-2017 is absent.

The Student Series Lecture Cards cover the dates: 2010-2011, 2011-2012, 2012-2013, 2013-2014 (draft), 2014-2015, 2015-2016 when the Series was renamed as 'Fresh Perspectives'.

Publicity material for lectures and book launches in the period 2000-2010. Much of this material is held in digital format.

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'.