Imagining A City: Moving Image, Architecture and the Urban Memory of Dushanbe
Anisa Sabiri and Oyat Shukurov, 29 October 2026 14:-00 GMT at the Royal Astronomical Society
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Japanese Wisdom for Export
Michael Neale was born in Kashmir, India and worked for Reuters in Asia and Africa This piece offers a reflective exploration of Wabi Sabi: The Wisdom in Imperfection by Nobuo Suzuki and Wabi Sabi: The Japanese Art of Impermanence by Andrew Juniper, drawing out their shared vision of wabi sabi as both philosophy and way…
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Kyrgyzstan and the Future of Tradition
Joe Luc Barnes is an author and journalist writing on the countries of the former Soviet Union Cholpon Melisbekova rests her komuz across her lap, the carved wooden instrument worn smooth by years of practice. “When I was little, in the 2000s, I was embarrassed to carry it with me,” she tells me. “Now I…
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Choosing Sides: Sports and Arts Bringing Iraqi Communities Together
Moe Saito, International Organization for Migration
From our series “Culture, Conflict and Recovery in Asia”
2 February 2022 14.00 -
Traditional Costumes and Heritage of Saudi Arabia
Richard Wilding, 2 June 2021, 14.00
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More-Than-Human Heritages of the Bhutanese Highlands
Jelle J P Wouters, Erik de Maaker, Chencho Dorji, Suraj Bhattarai, & Nithil Dennis Heritage studies and projects in Asia have overwhelmingly focused on sedentary populations, valley civilisations, ancient cities, and monumental religious and political sites. These have been affirmed as historical bearers of material and cultural order, progress, enlightenment, and civilisation, and therefore worthy…
