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Event date: 14 April 2011
Location:Royal Asiatic Society
Stephenson Way

London NW1 2HD

Mrs Lesley Pullen, MA (School of Oriental and African Studies)
Naga Material Culture: 1826-2008

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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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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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Event date: 13 January 2010 (18:00-21:00)
Location:Royal Asiatic Society

Dr Andrew Robinson (University of Cambridge) – The Apu Trilogy: Satyajit Ray and the Making of an Epic

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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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Event date: 9 December 2010 14
Stephenson Way
London NW1 2HD

Mr James Mather (Barrister and Historian):
From Cairo to Constantinople: Three Centuries of British Trade and Travel in the Ottoman Empire

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Event date: 11 November 2010 18:00
14 Stephenson Way
London NW1 2HD

Dr Jennifer Howes (British Library) – Colin MacKenzie’s Adventures in India (1784-1821)

Between 1784 and 1821, Colin Mackenzie, India’s first Surveyor General, collected a notoriously complex archive of manuscripts and drawings. Gathered by both European and Indian draftsmen, the drawings give a fascinating account of India’s monuments, people and landscapes during the Early Colonial Period.

Jennifer Howes, Illustrating India (OUP, 2010)

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Event date: 14 October 2010 18:00
14 Stephenson Way
London NW1 2HD

Dr. Weipin Tsai
Breaking the Ice: the Modern Chinese Postal Service in the Winter Season in the Late Qing Period

The story of the modern Chinese postal service is highly instructive in understanding modern Chinese history. It particularly reveals how the Qing Government and later governments in the Republican period managed to reform, extend, unify and bring under state control China’s postal service, through lengthy and often energetic negotiations with both foreign and local powers, providing us with many insightful stories that illuminate politics and international relations. Meanwhile the arrival of the national postal service itself had significant effects across the whole of society, including impacts on trading patterns and the transmission of information and knowledge. Beyond institutional history and politics, the story of the postal service leads us into the heart of the communities it touched, and the changes in people’s daily lives.

Efforts to nationalise and unify the postal service were formally launched in March 1896, but in many ways this was a culmination of work initiated in previous decades. Beginning in 1878, a series of winter overland postal routes was established by the Chinese Maritime Customs Service. Gustav Detring (1842-1913), the Commissioner of Tianjin Port at that time, under the order of the Inspector General of the Chinese Maritime Customs Service, Robert Hart (1835-1911), was assigned to manage this project. This article will focus on the period 1878 to 1882, and will examine several fundamental challenges encountered during this short four-year project, which set the scene for subsequent unification, reform and expansion.

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Event Date: 7 October 2010 18:00

Norah Titley: Tributes and Memories

Norah M. Titley Memorial Lecture
Dr Barbara Brend and Mr Jerry Losty

This lecture commemorates the life and achievements of Norah Titley, the noted Islamic art historian who died on the 21st March 2010 at the age of 89. She was known, in particular, for her work on the Persian, Turkish and Mughal manuscripts in the British Museum, later the British Library. Her major contribution to the field was the publication of detailed catalogues and subject indexes of the manuscripts which remain a fundamental tool for scholars working on these collections. Miniatures from Persian Manuscripts: Catalogue and Subject Index of Paintings from Persia, India and Turkey was published in 1977, and the catalogue and subject index for the Turkish manuscripts in 1982.

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Event Date: 13 May 2010

Professor Emilie Savage-Smith (University of Oxford)
The ‘Book of Curiosities’: A Medieval Egyptian Guide to the Universe

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* Due to copyright restrictions, we cannot host the images accompanying the talk on this webpage. You can, however view the images on the Bodleian Library’s ‘Medieval view of the Cosmos’ pages HERE. These will open in a new window. We suggest you click on ’Manuscript’ and then start the images on chapter 0.1, fol. 1a. Pages go from right to left, so the next page is on the left.

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