Cambridge University Library will be the venue for our summer meeting this year, and we will be viewing South Asian material from the Royal Commonwealth Society's Fisher and COVIC archives, as well as rare maps and plans from the University Library's Map Department.
Follow links for information on the Fisher photograph collection, and the Papers of the Colonial Office Visual Instruction Committee.
Sabrina Meneghini will share some of her research. Do read her blog posts of 19 January 2018 and 12 April 2018.
We will be hosting a larger exhibition of work from this archive entitled 'Classroom Photographic Journeys' in the Alison Richard Building, West Road, Cambridge 20 April - 29 May 2020. Please make a note in your 2020 diary!
Our summer meeting on 25th July will commence at 2 pm, and finish around 5pm.
Spaces will be limited, so if you haven't yet confirmed your attendance, please contact Rachel Rowe (rcs @ lib.cam.ac.uk with the subject line: 'SAALG 25 July 2019') if you plan to attend.
Looking forward to seeing you on Thursday 25th July.
Rachel Rowe
Smuts Librarian for South Asian & Commonwealth Studies
University of Cambridge
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Friday, 21 June 2019
Monday, 17 October 2011
The Flamboyant Mr Chinnery
4 November 2011 - 21 January 2012.
The exhibition is accompanied by a programme of events, for which tickets cost £8 per event, (£5 to Asia House Friends). Booking: 020 7307 5454 or email: enquiries@asiahouse.co.uk
Events include:
Dr Patrick Conner, (Curator of the exhibition) on The Magic and the Myths : George Chinnery in India and China - Wednesday 9th November 2011, 18.45-19.45
Dr Frances Wood on China before Chinnery - Thursday 24th November 2011, 18.45-1945
John Keay on George Chinnery's India - Thursday 1st December 2011, 1845-19.45
Panel discussion on the relationship between China and India in the present day - Monday 16th January 2012, 18.45-19.45
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