As the new academic year is fast approaching, the Society is programming an exciting line-up of lectures for the 2025-26 Lecture Series, which will commence in September. We are delighted to announce that one of the first lectures that opens the series will be delivered on Thursday, 18th September at 6.30pm BST by Nicolas Revire,…| Royal Asiatic Society
Recently catalogued artworks This week I have spent some time cataloguing our visual material. Those who have visited our Reading Room would probably have consulted our physical catalogue entitled Catalogue of Paintings, Drawings, Engravings and Busts in the Collection of the Royal Asiatic Society by Raymond Head. The illustrated catalogue was published in 1991 and…| Royal Asiatic Society
The Royal Asiatic Society is pleased to award the 2025 James J. Busuttil Prize and Medal for Human Rights jointly to Dr Lydia Walker for States-in-Waiting: A Counternarrative of Global Decolonization (Cambridge University Press, 2024) and Dr Sandhya Fuchs for Fragile Hope: Seeking Justice for Hate Crimes in India, (Stanford University Press, 2024). Both books are exemplary works of early…| Royal Asiatic Society