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Lectures and Opportunities
This week saw the latest event in the Japan Series of Lectures in collaboration with the Courtauld Institute and the Sainsbury Institute for Japanese Studies at the University of East Anglia. The…
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RAS Collections Evening 2026
On Thursday 7 May, the Society will host its annual Collections Evening. This year, we are delighted to host three talks exploring manuscript and art collections from Malaysia, India, and Japan. Dr…
Digitization Sponsorship for RAS Bicentenary
Over the past several years, the Society has digitized some of the most important parts of its collection, and has made digital facsimiles of manuscripts, archives, and artworks freely available via the…
Reflecting on 2021
For the last blog post of 2021, we wanted to reflect on some of the work that has taken place across the Society over the last year. Before we mention these achievements,…Society News and Events
Jeremiah Patrick Losty (21 May 1945 – 29 September 2021) It is with great sadness that we share the news of Jerry’s passing. Jeremiah Losty was for 34 years an outstanding curator…
Professor Henrietta Harrison (Oxford University)
George Thomas Staunton and the Perils of being a China Expert in early nineteenth-century London
Hippisley Collection of Chinese classics now on loan at the RAS
The Society is delighted to have received a collection of Chinese books on long-term loan from the London Library. The books were collected by Alfred Hippisley (1848-1939), who worked for the Imperial…
Missing Malayalam Manuscripts
We are delighted to feature another blog post from previous RAS Librarian Kathy Lazenbatt, who recently finished cataloguing the RAS Whish Collection of South Indian Manuscripts. When I was re-boxing the RAS…
NACIRA conference shines light on resources for Science in Asia
This week saw the annual conference of NACIRA (National Committee for Information Resources on Asia). Titled Science in Asia: Shining a light on resources, the conference was appropriately hosted by the Science Museum, on…
SOAS and Kütahya ceramics bring 2016-17 lecture series to a close
The RAS lecture series for 2016-2017 is now drawing to a close, and we have been fortunate to round things off with not one but two marvellous lectures this week. On Tuesday…
