| 2008 |
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Wednesday
1 October
1.15 pm |
Mr Michael Rutland OBE
Honorary Consul of Bhutan to the UK |
Bhutan: 100 Years of Monarchy; a New King Crowned; its First Constitution and Democracy
Illustrated |
Wednesday
15 October
1.15 pm |
Dr Christopher Hughes
Reader in International Relations, LSE |
China: Current Cultural Politics: What makes the Chinese Tick?
Illustrated |
Wednesday
29 October
1.15 pm |
Mr Bijan Omrani |
Pakistan/Afghanistan : The Durand Line |
Wednesday
12 November
1.15 pm |
Dr Sally Cummings
Senior Lecturer, InternationalRelations, St Andrews University |
Monuments and Memory in Kyrgyzstan
Illustrated |
Wednesday
26 November
6.30 pm |
Professor John Carswell |
The Excavation of Mantai: Sri Lanka, Civil War and
Pre-History
Slides |
Wednesday
10 December
1.15 pm |
Brigadier Bill Woodburn |
Afghanistan: The Bala Hissar of Kabul
Illustrated |
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| 2009 |
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Wednesday
7 January
6.30 pm |
Dr Susan Whitfield
Head of the International Dunhuang Project, The British Library |
New Perspectives on the Silk Road |
Wednesday
28 January
1.15pm |
Dr Alex Duncan |
Afghanistan: A Doctor’s Life in the Wakhan Corridor
(2003 -2008)
Illustrated |
Wednesday
11 February
1.15 pm |
Mr Christopher Thomas |
Tajikistan: Tajiks, Mountains and Survival in the Modern Age
Illustrated |
Wednesday
25 February
6.30 pm |
a) Miss Sonal Barot
A Recipient of the Sir Peter Holmes Memorial Award for travel in 2008 |
An Indian Dance Tradition in Japan |
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b) Mr Max Lovell-Hoare |
India/Central Asia:
Testing A Tea-Route by Tuk-tuk |
Wednesday
11 March
1.15 pm |
Mr Jonathan Mirsky
Writer, East Asia Editor of the Times 1993-1998 |
Tibet: China’s West Bank? |
Wednesday
25 March
1.15 pm |
Brigadier Ian Gardiner, Royal Marines |
Oman: The Insurgency in Dhofar, (1965- 1975) |
Tuesday
7 April
6.30 pm |
Mr John Hare
Recipient of the Lawrence of Arabia Memorial Medal in 2004, |
NW China: The Mysteries of the Gobi – Searching for Camels and Lost Cities in the Heart of Asia |
