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SUMMARY:Dr Vayu Naidu - The Evergreen Epic:  Ramayana as Forest Literature and its Reinventions
DESCRIPTION:Ramayana was told and sung in regional dialects and languages by itinerant storytellers travelling across India. Festivals created infrastructures for pageants\,  at rituals in temples and in  homes for celebrating Diwali\, and this story spread with interpolations. It also travelled across the seas with tradesmen and craftsmen across to south east Asia. Ramayana offers a complex matrix of statecraft\, relationships between parents\, siblings\, men and women through its predominantly linear narrative. More than any other epic\, the relationship between humans\, animals\, and plants in the forest is very marked in this exploration of Ramayana. It is the epic that travelled across land and sea\, as metaphor and with migrants. The Living Legend  draws  every being is connected\, sustaining the equilibrium of love as life between conflicting forces. \nDr Vayu Naidu has followed the different tellings of Ramayana in rural and urban location. Her transposition of the epic as Storytelling in English for theatre audiences began in 1988\, and her research methods experiment with Indian aesthetics and British Contemporary performance with the AHRC. She has completed more than 2000 performances of telling Ramayana. Sita’s Ascent is the sequel to this\, also published by Penguin. The Sari of Surya Vilas (Speaking Tiger books/Affirm Press: India – Australia) features the importance of oral tales in pre-independent India. Manimekalai is a new composition that the Chettinad Heritage Festival commissioned her to compose and perform in 2025\, featuring the Sangam Tamil literary epic. \nThis evening she will talk on her discovery of what makes the forest so significant in the epic and how oral traditions are the swiftest technology of keeping the philosophy alive and why it means so much now. Combining performance practice with a source from the Yoga Vasistha Sara for sadhana on Advaita philosophy\, The Living Legend is part of the oral tradition about the flora and the flaming spirit of this epic. It endeavours to bridge the original context of an epic age with the contemporary listener’s daily reality in the 21st century. \nShe was Founder and Artistic Director of Vayu Naidu Intercultural Storytelling Theatre funded by Arts Council England. She is a Royal Literary Fund Fellow and an Editorial Member of Writers Mosaic. She is Professor of Practice at SOAS. She teaches Indian Theatre Influences at RADA. On the Advisory Committee of the Chelsea Physic Garden\, and as a volunteer\, her research on plant life is owed to her work there. www.vayunaidu.com. As a Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society\, this is her first talk. \n  \nFree and open to all at 14 Stephenson Way\, NW1 2HD \nTo join us online email: mb@royalasiaticsociety.org
URL:https://royalasiaticsociety.org/event/dr-vayu-naidu-the-evergreen-epic-ramayana-as-forest-literature-and-its-reinventions/
LOCATION:Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre\, 14 Stephenson Way\, London\, NW1 2HD\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:RAS Lectures & Events
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SUMMARY:Joe Cribb\, Robert Bracey and Marzbeen Jila - The Third Side of the Coin
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a discussion on Marg’s recent volumes\, The Third Side of the Coin\, with Joe Cribb\, Robert Bracey and Marzbeen Jila\, moderated by Naman P. Ahuja. \n  \nFree and open to all at 14 Stephenson Way\, NW1 2HD \nTo join us online email: mb@royalasiaticsociety.org
URL:https://royalasiaticsociety.org/event/the-third-side-of-the-coin-book-launch-with-joe-cribb-robert-bracey-and-shailendra-bhandare-moderated-by-naman-p-ahuja/
LOCATION:Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre\, 14 Stephenson Way\, London\, NW1 2HD\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:RAS Lectures & Events
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SUMMARY:Prof Scott Redford - The Medieval Period:  Bilkent University Excavations at  Kinet Höyük\, Hatay\, Turkey
DESCRIPTION:This study\, focusing on the Rum Seljuk dynasty in thirteenth-century Anatolia\, combines local history\, geography\, art history\, and archaeology to examine instances of an only partially understood garden tradition in one corner of the medieval Mediterranean. Gardens\, and their architecture\, have been neglected\, not only because of the paucity of remains\, the architecture they inspired was not monumental and relied strongly on a sense of place\, and a sensitivity to the landscape. This book attempts to recover a measure of that sense and that landscape\, as well as the activities that endowed them with meaning for those that enjoyed them. \n  \nFree and open to all at 14 Stephenson Way\, NW1 2HD \nTo join us online email: mb@royalasiaticsociety.org
URL:https://royalasiaticsociety.org/event/professor-scott-redford-book-launch-landscape-and-the-state-in-medieval-anatolia-seljuk-gardens-and-pavilions-of-alanya/
LOCATION:Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre\, 14 Stephenson Way\, London\, NW1 2HD\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:RAS Lectures & Events
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SUMMARY:Jochen Sokoly: Textiles of the Early Islamic Caliphates
DESCRIPTION:A collection of precious inscribed or decorated Islamic textiles produced before the thirteenth century CE\, many published here for the first time. \nThe al-Sabah Collection\, Kuwait\, includes a remarkable array of textiles from the Islamic world\, ranging widely in form\, function\, and place of origin. Textiles of the Early Islamic Caliphates focuses on a group of tiraz and tiraz-style textiles produced before the thirteenth century CE\, mainly in the central Islamic lands. \nTiraz textiles—the word tiraz can be traced back to the Persian word for “embroidery”—were highly valued in the early Islamic world. Inscribed with sacred invocations and the name of the ruling caliph\, together with information relating to their year of manufacture\, these textiles provide an invaluable window into the political\, administrative\, and religious life of early Islam\, as well as various traditions of textile production. The large majority of the surviving fragments of tiraz textiles\, which were originally given as robes of honor to courtiers and ambassadors\, have been found in Egyptian tombs: most of the textiles examined in this book once belonged to burial outfits from the diverse religious communities in Egypt during the early Islamic period. \nFeaturing more than 180 textiles from The al-Sabah Collection\, some never published before\, this book provides authoritative analysis not only of the textiles themselves\, but also of the historical and cultural context in which they were produced. With hundreds of illustrations\, including specially commissioned macrophotography\, Textiles of the Early Islamic Caliphates is a landmark publication that will appeal to scholars and general readers alike. \nJochen Sokoly is associate professor of art history of the Islamic world at Virginia Commonwealth University School of the Arts in Qatar. He has published on early Islamic inscribed textiles\, served as cochair of the Hamad bin Khalifa Symposium\, and curated exhibitions on contemporary Middle Eastern art. \n  \n\nFree and open to all at 14 Stephenson Way\, NW1 2HD \nTo join us online email: mb@royalasiaticsociety.org
URL:https://royalasiaticsociety.org/event/jochen-sokoly-textiles-of-the-early-islamic-caliphates/
CATEGORIES:RAS Lectures & Events
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SUMMARY:Conference: New Worlds of the East India Company SOLD OUT
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=””]New Worlds of the East India Company \n  \nPlease note that this event has now sold out. \n  \n5 July 2024 \nRoyal Asiatic Society\, 14 Stephenson Way\, London\, NW1 2HD \n  \n  \n9.30. Coffee \n  \n9:45. Introduction: John McAleer (Southampton) and Joshua Ehrlich (Macau) \n  \n10:00. Panel 1: Beginnings\, Ends\, and Legacies \n\nRupali Mishra (Auburn): ‘The “Idea” of Government and Authority in the Early East India Company’\nGuido van Meersbergen (Warwick): ‘Revisiting East India Company Diplomacy: The William Norris Embassy to Mughal India (1699–1702)’\nGiorgio Riello (EUI) and Guillemette Crouzet (EUI): ‘Rethinking “French” and “British” India: The “Diary” of Ananda Ranga Pillai’\nJohn McAleer (Southampton): ‘“In the spacious times of old”: The Afterlife of the East India Company\, 1899–1909’\n\n  \n11:30. Panel 2: Labour\, Knowledge\, and Networks \n\nMargaret Makepeace (British Library): ‘The World of the East India Company London Warehouse Labourers\, 1800–1858’\nJessica Hanser (Copenhagen): ‘Slavery\, Servitude\, and the East India Company in China’\nAnna Winterbottom (McGill): ‘Politics of Medicine and Natural Knowledge in Madras\, c. 1789–1809’\nJoshua Ehrlich (Macau): ‘Two Muttiahs and the Making of Company Power in South India’\n\n  \n13:00. Lunch \n  \n \n  \n14:00. Panel 3: Art and Visual Culture \n\nRishad Choudhury (Oberlin): ‘A Portrait of the Mercenary as a Nobleman: Persianate Prosopography and Colonial Portraiture in Company School Art’\nJennifer Howes (Independent): ‘“A Needless Profusion”: The East India Company’s unwitting Patronage of the Arts under Richard Wellesley (1800–1805)’\nTom Young (Courtauld): ‘Amateur Art and the East India Company’s Civil Service\, c. 1800–58’\nBrooke Krancer (Yale Center for British Art\, New Haven) and Anita Dey (Yale Center for British Art\, New Haven)\, ‘Chromatic Confluence: The East India Company and the Materiality of British Art’\n\n  \n15.30. Tea \n  \n16:00. Panel 4: Protest and Scandal \n\nCheryl Fury (University of New Brunswick): ‘“I willed no more peas to be given the company”: Provisioning\, Protest and “ApPEASement” in Early East India Company Voyages’\nCallie Wilkinson (LMU Munich): ‘Bearing Witness in Wartime: Unauthorized Disclosures in the East India Company’s Armies\, 1780–1850’\nNicholas Hoover Wilson (Stony Brook): ‘“To operate upon the root of the evil”: Charles Trevelyan and the Arc of Company Corruption’\nAndrea Major (Leeds): ‘Critics of the Company: Challenging East India Company Colonialism in Manchester\, Calcutta\, and Delhi\, 1838–1843’\n\n  \n17:30. Conclusion. \n  \n \n  \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://royalasiaticsociety.org/event/20376/
LOCATION:Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre\, 14 Stephenson Way\, London\, NW1 2HD\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Special Event
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20231206T183000
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SUMMARY:Launch Of The Reissue Of Tod's Annals And Antiquities
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URL:https://royalasiaticsociety.org/event/launch-of-the-reissue-of-tods-annals-and-antiquities/
LOCATION:Brunei Gallery\, SOAS\, Thornhaugh Street\, Russell Square\, London\, England\, WC1H 0XG\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Special Event
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SUMMARY:Dr. Olly Akkerman Book Launch: A Neo-Fatimid Treasury of Books in Gujarat. Arabic Manuscripts among the Alawi Bohras of Baroda
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://royalasiaticsociety.org/event/dr-olly-akkerman-book-launch-a-neo-fatimid-treasury-of-books-in-gujarat-arabic-manuscripts-among-the-alawi-bohras-of-baroda/
LOCATION:Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre\, 14 Stephenson Way\, London\, NW1 2HD\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:RAS Lecture Series 2022-23
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SUMMARY:Moin Mir Book Launch: The Lost Fragrance of Infinity - A novel on Sufism
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URL:https://royalasiaticsociety.org/event/moin-mir-book-launch-the-lost-fragrance-of-infinity/
LOCATION:Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre\, 14 Stephenson Way\, London\, NW1 2HD\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:RAS Lecture Series 2022-23
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220712T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220712T210000
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SUMMARY:Professor Robert Arnott Book Launch: Crossing Continents
DESCRIPTION: 
URL:https://royalasiaticsociety.org/event/professor-robert-arnott-book-launch-crossing-continents/
CATEGORIES:Book Launch
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220708T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220708T210000
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SUMMARY:Dr Hannah K. Bartos Book Launch: Modern Transnational Yoga: The Transmission of Posture Practice
DESCRIPTION:Please join us at 6.30pm on Friday July 8th for the book launch of Modern Transnational Yoga: The Transmission of Posture Practice by Dr Hannah Bartos. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWhen you register\, please specify whether you plan to attend at the Society ‘in person’ or ‘online only’. \nYou can register by emailing Matty Bradley at mb@royalasiaticsociety.org \nFree and open to all at Royal Asiatic Society\, 14 Stephenson Way\, London NW1 2HD.
URL:https://royalasiaticsociety.org/event/dr-hannah-k-bartos-book-launch-modern-transnational-yoga-the-transmission-of-posture-practice/
LOCATION:Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre\, 14 Stephenson Way\, London\, NW1 2HD\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Book Launch
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210129T183000
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SUMMARY:Book Launch of Arndt-Walter Emmerich’s Islamic Movements in India
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://royalasiaticsociety.org/event/book-launch-of-arndt-walter-emmerichs-islamic-movements-in-india/
CATEGORIES:Book Launch
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DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210119T203000
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SUMMARY:Ian Talbot’s The History of British Diplomacy in Pakistan Book Launch
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://royalasiaticsociety.org/event/ian-talbots-the-history-of-british-diplomacy-in-pakistan-book-launch/
CATEGORIES:Book Launch
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20191212T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20191212T210000
DTSTAMP:20260316T115940
CREATED:20191007T140129Z
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SUMMARY:Dr Peter Coles (Morus Londinium and Goldsmiths University)
DESCRIPTION:Book Launch: Silk\, Syrup and Shade: 4000 years of Mulberry Migrations
URL:https://royalasiaticsociety.org/event/dr-peter-coles-morus-londinium-and-goldsmiths-university/
LOCATION:Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre\, 14 Stephenson Way\, London\, NW1 2HD\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Book Launch
ORGANIZER;CN="Amy Riach":MAILTO:ar at royalasiaticsociety.org
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20190611T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20190611T210000
DTSTAMP:20260316T115941
CREATED:20190516T142403Z
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SUMMARY:Book Launch: The Living Alphabet
DESCRIPTION:Mrs Tsira Kemularia in partnership with the Embassy of Georgia to the United Kingdom and the Royal Asiatic Society presents book Launch: The Living Alphabet \n  \nThe book presents a unique Georgian manuscript\, Sulkhan- Saba Orbeliani’s Georgian dictionary\, which was rewritten at the end of 18th Century by a famous calligrapher Petre Laradze. \nThe original manuscript was kept in Mukhranbatoni Palace for many years but was taken to Paris at the start of 20th Century and then sold to an English antique dealer. It later made its way into the private collection of William Edward David Allen\, friend of Oliver Wardrop’s and was purchased by the Lilly Library (Indiana State University) at the Sotheby Auction in 1952. \n \n“The Living Alphabet” is published by the Art Palace of Georgia and offers not only a unique reproduction of 37 letters but fascinating research into the manuscript and its journey from Georgia to the United States. \n  \nProgramme \n18:30   Welcome remarks: Dr Alison Ohta\, Director of the Royal Asiatic Society \n18.35   Welcome remarks: HE Tamar Beruchashvili\, Ambassador of Georgia to the United Kingdom \n18.40   Mrs Tsira Kemularia\, publisher the Living Alphabet \n18:45   Video address by Dr Alexander Mikaberidze. Author the Living Alphabet\, Professor of History\, Ruth Herring Noel Endowed Chair for the Curatorship of the James Smith Noel Collection\, Louisiana State University \n19:00 The Living Alphabet\, book presentation by Professor George Kalandia\, Director of the Art Palace of Georgia \n19:20   Q&A \n19:30   The Living Alphabet – book exhibition followed by Georgian wine reception with canapés. \nTo register for the event please follow the link here.
URL:https://royalasiaticsociety.org/event/book-launch-the-living-alphabet/
LOCATION:Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre\, 14 Stephenson Way\, London\, NW1 2HD\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Book Launch
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20181108T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20181108T210000
DTSTAMP:20260316T115941
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SUMMARY:Dr. Christoph Baumer (Author) - The History of Central Asia: The Age of Decline and Revival
DESCRIPTION:*** N.B. This is a joint event with the RSAA and will take place at the Brunei Gallery at SOAS *** \nJoin us for the launch of Dr. Christoph Baumer’s The History of Central Asia: The Age of Decline and Revival. \nFor more than a hundred years\, Central Asia was the heartland of the mightiest military power on the planet. But after the fragmentation of the all-conquering Mongol polity\, the region began a steep decline which rendered this former domain of horse lords peripheral to world affairs. The process of deterioration reached its nadir in the second half of the nineteenth century\, when the former territories and sweeping steppes of the great khans were overrun by Tsarist Russia. In the concluding volume of his acclaimed Central Asia quartet\, Christoph Baumer shows how China in the east\, and Russia in the northwest\, succeeded in throwing off the Mongol yoke to become the masters of their own previous rulers. He suggests that\, as traditional transcontinental trade routes declined in importance\, it was the `Great Game’ – or cold war between Imperial Russia and Great Britain – which finally brought Central Asia back into play as a region of strategic importance. This epic history concludes with an assessment of the transition to modern independence of the Central Asian states and their struggle to contain radical Islamism.
URL:https://royalasiaticsociety.org/event/dr-christoph-baumer-author-the-history-of-central-asia-the-age-of-decline-and-revival/
LOCATION:Brunei Gallery\, SOAS\, Thornhaugh Street\, Russell Square\, London\, England\, WC1H 0XG\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Lecture Series 2018-2019
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SUMMARY:Omar Khan (Author) - Book Launch: Paper Jewels: Postcards from the Raj
DESCRIPTION:Paper Jewels Postcards from the Raj by Omar Khan\, a 518 Vintage Postcard Tour of India\, Pakistan and Sri Lanka\, is co-published by Mapin Publishing and the Alkazi Collection of Photography (August 2018). \nPostcards were to people in 1900 what the Internet was to the world in 2000. Postcards were the world’s first mass transfusion of color images. We went from thousands to billions of postcards in a handful of years. The finest painters and graphic artists from India\, Austria\, Britain\, France\, Italy and the US became involved. \nPaper Jewels is the story of postcards during the Raj and the first book on the subject. It uncovers such gems as the early postcards of the great Indian painter M. V. Dhurandhar and the Ravi Varma Press in Mumbai\, the exceptional work of an early Austrian lithographer in Kolkata\, a British photographer in Peshawar\, and Indian studios in Jaipur\, Kashmir\, Delhi\, Lahore\, Madras\, Karachi and elsewhere. \nIt is organized by place into a dozen chapters. The essays cover the key themes important to postcard publishing—religion\, dancers\, teas and soaps\, famines\, fakirs\, humour\, warfare and the role of postcards in the Independence movement. It tells the stories of the first postcard publishers of the subcontinent between 1892 and 1947\, most of whose images have not been seen since they were published a century ago. \nPaper Jewels relies almost entirely on new primary research in archives and private collections in India\, Pakistan\, Europe and the US\, and explores the many artistic\, business\, fashion\, political and technical developments that contributed to the rise of a medium – the postcard – that is still very much with us today. \nThe book is available on Amazon in India\, the US and is available for pre-order in the UK (release Oct. 1). \n 
URL:https://royalasiaticsociety.org/event/omar-khan-author-book-launch-paper-jewels-postcards-from-the-raj/
LOCATION:Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre\, 14 Stephenson Way\, London\, NW1 2HD\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Lecture Series 2018-2019
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SUMMARY:***NB DATE CHANGE*** Unlocking the Door: Writing from Georgia - With talks by Professor Donald Rayfield (Queen Mary)\, Dr. Gillian Evison (Bodleian Library) and Ms. Lia Chokoshvili (Oxford University)
DESCRIPTION:*** NB – the date of this event has been moved and will take place on Tuesday the 6th of November; \nNOT the 5th of November as previously advertised and printed in the Lecture Programme *** \n  \nWardrop Inheritance: a Journey through translation from Georgian \nThe Embassy of Georgia to the United Kingdom and the Royal Asiatic Society present a book launch:\, ‘Unlocking the Door: Writing from Georgia’. \nThe book is a pioneering new work that contains pieces of translation from Georgian by students of the University of Oxford\, supervised and edited by Ms. Lia Chokoshvili\, with editorial assistance by Professor Donald Rayfield and generous support from Marjory Wardrop Fund. \n‘Unlocking the Door’ brings together short stories\, fairy tales\, and plays by Aka Morchiladze (including two works that have never appeared in print before)\, Guram Rcheulishvili\, Lasha Tabukashvili\, Erlom Akhvlediani\, and Goderdzi Chokheli\, in a bilingual\, facing-page format. It has been published by Cezanne Printing House. \n  \nProgramme: \n18.00 Welcome remarks: Dr Alison Ohta\, Director of the Royal Asiatic Society \n18.05 Welcome and introduction: Ambassador of Georgia to the United Kingdom HE Tamar Beruchashvili; \n18.10 Georgian Literature: Professor Donald Rayfield\, Professor of Russian and Georgian at Queen Mary University of London; \n18.25 Wardrop Collection: Dr Gilian Evison\, Head of Bodleian libraries’ Oriental Section &Indian Institute Librarian and Chair of the Marjory Wardrop Fund; \n18.40 Journey through translation: Translators – students of the University of Oxford and Ms. Lia Chokoshvili\, Georgian language tutor at the Oxford University Language Centre). \nGeorgian wine reception \nBook sale
URL:https://royalasiaticsociety.org/event/unlocking-the-door-writing-from-georgia-with-talks-by-professor-donald-rayfield-queen-mary-dr-gillian-evison-bodleian-library-and-ms-lia-chokoshvili-oxford-university/
LOCATION:Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre\, 14 Stephenson Way\, London\, NW1 2HD\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Lecture Series 2018-2019
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