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This online event is hosted by the Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures. To register for the event, please visit this page<\/a>. This event is part of the Japanese Studies series<\/a> organised in collaboration with the Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures (SISJAC) and The Courtauld Institute of Art.<\/p>\n

—<\/p>\n

About the Talk<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Recent disasters are often remembered as moments of sudden and total destruction\u2014cities buried, societies erased, and lives swept away in an instant. Yet a longer view of human history reveals more complex stories, in which survival, adaptation, and recovery play central roles. How have people lived with repeated disasters over long periods of time? Did catastrophes bring only ruin, or did they also foster new forms of creativity, culture, and community?<\/p>\n

This public lecture explores these questions through archaeology and history, using the Japanese archipelago as a long-term case study. Drawing on ongoing collaborative research within the Nordic\u2013Japan research programme CALDERA, it examines how societies have responded to earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, and tsunamis across deep time. Marking the 15th anniversary of the 2011 T\u014dhoku earthquake and tsunami, the lecture focuses on three case studies: Mount Fuji and its long history of human engagement with volcanic risk; the Kikai-Akahoya super-eruption 7,300 years ago, which reshaped regional networks rather than causing total societal collapse; and the 2011 disaster, which prompted both profound loss and remarkable efforts at community rebuilding.<\/p>\n

By placing these cases in comparative perspective, the lecture invites a broad audience to reflect on disasters not only as moments of tragedy, but also as forces that can reshape social networks, cultural practices, and future possibilities.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

About the Speaker<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Junzo Uchiyama\u00a0was a former Handa Japanese Archaeology Fellow at SISJAC from 2018 to 2020. He is Affiliated Researcher of the Department of Archaeology and Ancient History at Lund University, Sweden, and Visiting Professor at Kanazawa University, Japan. Together with colleagues in Nordic countries and Japan, he launched a new research programme called \u201cCALDERA<\/a>\u201d for \u201ccatastrophe archaeology\u201d in 2021, aiming to investigate long-term cultural responses to major natural disasters and to understand processes of survival, adjustment and eventual recovery. In June 2024 he was awarded the Ben Cullen Prize for \u201coutstanding contributions\u201d to World Archaeology. In November 2024, the project \u201cSurviving the Apocalypse: multidimensional modelling of the impact of a prehistoric megadisaster on people\u2019s lifeworlds, technologies and demography\u201d was approved and got funded by Swedish Research Council (VR), in which he is working as a co-project leader with Professor Peter D. Jordan at Lund University.<\/p>\n

—<\/p>\n

Image:\u00a0Sanriku coast (Minamisanriku Town, NE Honshu) taken two months after the 2011 earthquake and tsunami, where the harbour was destroyed and parts of the land subsided below sea level as a result of the earthquake and tsunami. Photograph: Junzo Uchiyama.<\/p>","excerpt":"

19 March 2026 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This talk is connected to Dr <\/span>Melanie Gibson’s recent publication <\/span>The Arab Hall – Frederick Leighton: Traveller and Collector<\/em><\/a> (Gingko, 2026).<\/p>\n

\u2014<\/p>\n

About the Talk<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n

Before becoming President of London’s Royal Academy in 1878, the artist Frederick Leighton made trips to southern Spain, Egypt, Turkey and Syria. During this period, he started putting together a collection of ceramics and carpets. After his death in 1896 his art collection was entirely dispersed, and his reputation as an Islamophile rests solely on his construction of the \u2018Arab Hall\u2019, the lavish tiled and domed room that he added to his studio home in Kensington.<\/span><\/p>\n

In this talk Dr Melanie Gibson will discuss Leighton\u2019s interest in Islamic architecture and design. Her research has shown that Leighton had a discerning eye and that some of his prize pieces are now held in museums worldwide.<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

About the Speaker<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n

Dr Melanie Gibson writes and lectures on the ceramics of the Middle East. Having studied Arabic at Oxford University, where her interest in the history of the ceramics of the Islamic world began, she gained her doctorate at SOAS, University of London. She is Editor of the Gingko Art Series, and a Trustee of the Friends of Leighton House, where she first became fascinated by the history behind the creation of <\/span>The Arab Hall<\/span><\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2014<\/p>\n

Image: Albumen print dated c.1895 showing some of Leighton\u2019s collection on display in the Arab Hall.<\/p>\n

\u2014<\/p>\n

Free and open to all. In person and online via Zoom.<\/p>\n

To attend online, email emd@royalasiaticsociety.org<\/a> for a link.<\/p>","excerpt":"

26 March 2026 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Renowned mask-carver Kitazawa Hideta will be joined by author and producer of English-language noh Jannette Cheong, to explore the process of designing, carving and working with noh masks. Kitazawa is unique in the noh world in making new masks for innovative and experimental noh pieces, including English-language noh, as well as producing classical noh and kyogen (nohgaku) masks. He will demonstrate the different stages of carving, offering a rare opportunity to understand how iconic noh masks are made for both traditional and contemporary noh.<\/p>\n

This event is part of the Japanese Studies series<\/a>\u00a0organised in collaboration with the Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures (SISJAC) and The Courtauld Institute of Art.<\/p>\n

KITAZAWA HIDETA<\/strong>\u00a0is a wood sculptor and noh mask maker based in Tokyo. He learned traditional wood carving of Buddhist and Shinto statuary from his father, Kitazawa Ikkyo, and later studied noh mask carving. He currently produces classical noh and kyogen masks and has been designated a master craftsman by the Tokyo Metropolitan government. Kitazawa has also created numerous shinsaku \u201cnew\u201d masks for foreign language noh productions, notably those of Theatre Nohgaku, as well as for other noh influenced plays.<\/p>\n

AUTHOR, JANNETTE CHEONG <\/strong>is a poet, playwright, designer and Theatre Nohgaku-affiliated artist. London born, she has been involved with education and artistic collaborations internationally for almost 40 years. She is the author of the English noh Pagoda<\/em>, and her ballet-noh-opera collaborative piece, Opposites-InVerse<\/em>, was performed for Matsui Akira\u2019s tribute programme: Noh Time Like the Present, <\/em>London (2017). Her English noh Between<\/em> the<\/em> Stones<\/em> (Europe, 2020) was again toured by Oshima Noh Theatre\/Theatre Nohgaku.<\/p>\n

AUTHOR, RICHARD EMMERT <\/strong>is professor emeritus at Musashino University, Tokyo, where he taught classical noh and Japanese and Asian traditional performing arts. Born in Ohio (USA), he is a certified Kita school noh instructor and led noh performance workshops worldwide. Founder of Theatre Nohgaku, he has composed noh music for numerous English noh productions. He is the co-author of a series of seven noh performance guides and author of the six-volume The Guide to Noh of the National Noh Theatre<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Dr MARGARET COLIDRON<\/strong>\u00a0is a theatre director, performer, teacher and a specialist in Asian performance and masks. She is the author of Trance and Transformation of the Masked Actor in Japanese Noh and Balinese Dance Drama (Mellen Press 2004) and has published widely on masks, Asian and intercultural performance and actor training.<\/p>","excerpt":"

31 March 2026 (Tuesday)<\/p>","slug":"japan-series-kitazawa-hideta-no-theatre-masks-demonstration-and-discussion","image":{"url":"https:\/\/royalasiaticsociety.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/9783791377537.jpeg","id":20583,"extension":"jpeg","width":363,"height":450,"filesize":23019,"sizes":{"medium":{"width":242,"height":300,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","filesize":10758,"url":"https:\/\/royalasiaticsociety.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/9783791377537-242x300.jpeg"},"thumbnail":{"width":150,"height":150,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","filesize":3639,"url":"https:\/\/royalasiaticsociety.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/9783791377537-150x150.jpeg"},"blog-thumb-1":{"width":363,"height":328,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","filesize":11776,"url":"https:\/\/royalasiaticsociety.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/9783791377537-363x328.jpeg"},"medium_old_242x300":{"width":"242","height":"300","mime-type":"image\/jpeg","filesize":"9895","url":"https:\/\/royalasiaticsociety.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/9783791377537-242x300.jpeg"},"thumbnail_old_150x150":{"width":"150","height":"150","mime-type":"image\/jpeg","filesize":"3381","url":"https:\/\/royalasiaticsociety.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/9783791377537-150x150.jpeg"},"blog-thumb-1_old_363x328":{"width":"363","height":"328","mime-type":"image\/jpeg","filesize":"10618","url":"https:\/\/royalasiaticsociety.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/9783791377537-363x328.jpeg"},"266x266":{"width":266,"height":266,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","filesize":7719,"url":"https:\/\/royalasiaticsociety.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/9783791377537-266x266.jpeg"}}},"all_day":false,"start_date":"2026-03-31 18:30:00","start_date_details":{"year":"2026","month":"03","day":"31","hour":"18","minutes":"30","seconds":"00"},"end_date":"2026-03-31 20:00:00","end_date_details":{"year":"2026","month":"03","day":"31","hour":"20","minutes":"00","seconds":"00"},"utc_start_date":"2026-03-31 17:30:00","utc_start_date_details":{"year":"2026","month":"03","day":"31","hour":"17","minutes":"30","seconds":"00"},"utc_end_date":"2026-03-31 19:00:00","utc_end_date_details":{"year":"2026","month":"03","day":"31","hour":"19","minutes":"00","seconds":"00"},"timezone":"Europe\/London","timezone_abbr":"BST","cost":"","cost_details":{"currency_symbol":"\u00a3","currency_code":"GBP","currency_position":"prefix","values":[]},"website":"","show_map":true,"show_map_link":true,"hide_from_listings":false,"sticky":false,"featured":false,"categories":[{"name":"RAS Lectures & Events","slug":"ras-lectures-events","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":2976,"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","description":"","parent":0,"count":40,"filter":"raw","id":2976,"urls":{"self":"https:\/\/royalasiaticsociety.org\/wp-json\/tribe\/events\/v1\/categories\/2976","collection":"https:\/\/royalasiaticsociety.org\/wp-json\/tribe\/events\/v1\/categories"}}],"tags":[{"name":"Japan Series","slug":"japan-series","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":2984,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":17,"filter":"raw","id":2984,"urls":{"self":"https:\/\/royalasiaticsociety.org\/wp-json\/tribe\/events\/v1\/tags\/2984","collection":"https:\/\/royalasiaticsociety.org\/wp-json\/tribe\/events\/v1\/tags"}}],"venue":{"id":4194,"author":"1","status":"publish","date":"2017-02-23 12:03:46","date_utc":"2017-02-23 12:03:46","modified":"2017-02-23 12:03:46","modified_utc":"2017-02-23 12:03:46","url":"https:\/\/royalasiaticsociety.org\/venue\/royal-asiatic-society-lecture-theatre-2\/","venue":"Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre","slug":"royal-asiatic-society-lecture-theatre-2","address":"14 Stephenson Way","city":"London","country":"United Kingdom","zip":"NW1 2HD","phone":"02073884539","website":"www.royalasiaticsociety.org","show_map":true,"show_map_link":true,"global_id":"royalasiaticsociety.org?id=4194","global_id_lineage":["royalasiaticsociety.org?id=4194"]},"organizer":[],"custom_fields":[],"ticketed":false},{"id":24693,"global_id":"royalasiaticsociety.org?id=24693","global_id_lineage":["royalasiaticsociety.org?id=24693"],"author":"7635","status":"publish","date":"2025-11-11 16:31:11","date_utc":"2025-11-11 16:31:11","modified":"2026-03-12 10:15:18","modified_utc":"2026-03-12 10:15:18","url":"https:\/\/royalasiaticsociety.org\/event\/susan-bean-hidden-in-plain-sight-clay-sculpture-in-south-asia\/","rest_url":"https:\/\/royalasiaticsociety.org\/wp-json\/tribe\/events\/v1\/events\/24693","title":"Susan Bean – Hidden in Plain Sight: Clay Sculpture in South Asia","description":"

This talk is connected to Susan Bean’s recent publication Clay Works\u2014Earthen Sculpture in South Asia<\/em><\/a> (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2026). The event is hosted in collaboration with the Indian Art Circle lecture series, SOAS.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

About the Talk<\/strong><\/h3>\n

This presentation introduces Clay Works\u2014Earthen Sculpture in South Asia<\/em>, recently released by Bloomsbury Publications, London. Air-dried clay (a.k.a. terracruda), along with stone, metal, wood, and fired clay, stands among South Asia\u2019s oldest and most widely used mediums for sculpture. Typically finished in vivid color, the medium has been largely overlooked in studies of the region\u2019s arts, often misidentified as stucco or terracotta, and sidelined as too fragile and exuberantly colored to be \u2018art.\u2019 The presentation brings together some of the most prominent practices across the region to consider why painted air-dried clay has been so valued as medium for figural sculpture, and what its sidelining reveals about the study of art and visual culture.<\/p>\n

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About the Speaker<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Susan S. Bean is an Independent Scholar and Former Senior Curator of South Asian Art at Peabody Essex Museum. She is Chair of the Advisory Committee for the Center for Art & Archaeology, American Institute of Indian Studies, India and USA.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Free and open to all. In person and online via Zoom.<\/p>\n

To attend online, email emd@royalasiaticsociety.org<\/a> for a link.<\/p>","excerpt":"

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The Society’s annual Collections Evening for 2026 will feature three talks exploring its manuscript and art collections from Malaysia, India, and Japan, complemented with a post-talk object viewing session. The event programme is as follows:<\/p>\n

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Talk 1: Dr Farouk Yahya – The Maxwell Collection and Local Private Libraries in the Malay Peninsula during the 19th Century<\/strong><\/h4>\n

The collection of Malay manuscripts and printed books of Sir William Maxwell (1846-1897), now held at the Society, is remarkable in terms of the quantity and variety of the material, many of which were acquired from local sources. This brief talk will explore some of the private libraries in the Malay peninsula that formed the basis of Maxwell\u2019s collection, providing a valuable insight into the acquisition and circulation of books in the region during the nineteenth century.<\/p>\n

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Talk 2: Niyu Lin – Listening to the Creek Beneath: The Palimpsest of the Faulds Album<\/strong><\/h4>\n

This presentation will explore the Society\u2019s Faulds Album (RAS 079<\/a>), an Edo-period concertina album that appears to contain fragments of Buddhist imagery. It focuses on the often-overlooked underlying layers of painting and calligraphy beneath the Buddhist drawings attributed to the Kanda S\u014dtei atelier, revealing the album as a palimpsest that records a shift from individual, literati practice to collective, institutional workshop production.<\/p>\n

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Talk 3: Professor Almut Hintze, Professor Peter Cornwell, and Dr Myriadne Wang – Title TBC<\/strong><\/h4>\n

This presentation will address different aspects of a major project which saw the digitisation and online display of 55 notebooks from the Society\u2019s Edward William West archive<\/a>. These largely comprise copies of Zoroastrian texts made in north-west India in the later nineteenth century. They were photographed by postdoctoral students working as part of the Multimedia Yasna project (MUYA<\/a>) and later made available online via an\u00a0online collections platform.<\/a><\/p>\n

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Free and open to all. In person and online via Zoom.<\/p>\n

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About the Lecture<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Philip John Nigohrus, known as Phillipo, was an Armenian merchant from the Ottoman Empire whose contributions to Anglo-Ottoman exchange in the eighteenth century have only recently been rediscovered. Long misidentified as an anonymous groom in George Stubbs\u2019s portrait of the Duke of Ancaster\u2019s Eastern horse, Phillipo was in fact a successful merchant whose trade extended across the Ottoman Empire and Europe.<\/p>\n

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Phillipo\u2019s presence was part of wider Armenian activity in London, which included figures such as the adventurer Joseph Emin, a friend of Edmund Burke, and the merchant Johannes Padre Rafael, who brought a case against East India Company officials in the London courts. Through their connections with the Levant and India, these individuals formed part of a diasporic network that connected the intellectual and commercial life of Enlightenment Britain to the wider world.<\/p>\n

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Theodore Mould read History at the University of Edinburgh and Art History at the Courtauld Institute. His work has been published in The Burlington Magazine and Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. He has worked at Artclear, a technology company digitising the transaction of physical works of art and Anthony Mould Ltd, a London art dealership specialising in British art. He is currently training to become a barrister.<\/p>","excerpt":"

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