Monika Bincsik – The Japanese Incense Culture and its Lacquer Implements
Event Date; 7 February 2012
Royal Asiatic Society
Stephenson Way
London NW1 2HD
Dr Monika Bincsik (Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto): The Japanese Incense Culture and its Lacquer Implements
Briony Llewellyn – Painted Embroideries: interwoven threads in the Orientalist images of John Frederick Lewis
Event Date; 10 November 2011
Royal Asiatic Society
Stephenson Way
London NW1 2HD
Briony Llewellyn
Painted Embroideries: interwoven threads in the Orientalist images of John Frederick Lewis
John Frederick Lewis’s vivid and colourful scenes of oriental life were celebrated in his lifetime for the virtuosity of their execution and the perceived authenticity of their portrayal of Islamic society. Modern criticism, in the light of Saidian and post-Saidian discourse, has been less willing to accept his images at face value and his Orientalist subject matter has provoked extensive discussion. At the same time, more carefully considered critical analysis has recognised the multi-faceted complexities of his compositions and he has been acknowledged as one of the most
intriguing of all Orientalist artists. In fashioning his images, Lewis referenced a wealth of sources, both visual and textual. They drew on a decade of experience first in Istanbul and then Cairo, where he had lived a part Eastern, part Western existence, but they were painted in an English studio for a British audience imbued with the expectations and preconceptions of their time. This paper aims to unravel the cross-cultural threads that Lewis has skilfully woven together to create his images, with particular reference to one of his most successful watercolours, The Arab Scribe, of 1852, painted shortly after his return to England. An amalgam of many different elements, both Oriental and Occidental, it can be seen as a paradigm of the cultural interchange that characterises his work.
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Robert Skelton – Some Evidence of Material Culture during the Sultanate Period in India
Event Date 9 June 2011
Royal Asiatic Society
Stephenson Way
London NW1 2HD
The 2011 Simon Digby Lecture
Robert Skelton - Some Evidence of Material Culture during the Sultanate Period in India
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Benedek Peri – Turki in Mughal India
Event date: Thursday 10 February, 2011
Location:Royal Asiatic Society
Stephenson Way
London NW1 2HD
Dr Benedek Peri (University of Budapest, Hungary)
He has an Excellent Command of Turki since it is the Language of his Forefathers: Turki in Mughal India
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Robin du Boulay – Servants of Empire
Event date: Wednesday 9 February 2011
Location:Royal Asiatic Society
Stephenson Way
London NW1 2HD
BOOK LAUNCH
I.B. Tauris and the Royal Asiatic Society present:
Robin du Boulay – Servants of Empire: An Imperial Memoir of a British Family
Available here: Robin du Boulay – Servants of Empire: An Imperial Memoir of a British Family
Speaker: Profesor Francis Robinson (Royal Holloway)
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Caroline Finkel – Travelling the Evliya Çelebi Way: Equestrian and Pedestrian Adventures in Northwest Anatolia
Event date: 6 January 2010 (18:30-21:00)
Location:Royal Asiatic Society
Travelling the Evliya Çelebi Way: Equestrian and Pedestrian Adventures in Northwest Anatolia
A lecture to mark the 400th anniversary of the birth of Evliya Çelebi, the celebrated 17th century Ottoman Scholar and traveller.
Dr Caroline Finkel – Author of Osman’s Dream: the Story of the Ottoman Empire 1300-1923. Published by John Murray, 2005.
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