Friday 5 June, 5.30pm, Rosemary Crill on ‘The Fabric of India’ This illustrated talk is a preview of the major exhibition of the same name to be held at the Victoria and Albert Museum this autumn. It is the first exhibition to give an overview of the whole spectrum of Indian textiles, including their materials and techniques, their use and patronage, their global trade and their place in India today. Dr Rosemary Crill is Senior Curator (South Asia) in the Asian Department of the Victoria & Albert Museum, and specialises in …

Friday 8th May, 5.30pm, John Falconer, Curator of Visual Arts, British Library, ‘Photography and the Archaeological Survey of India 1855–1900’ The Ancient India and Iran Trust 23 Brooklands Avenue, Cambridge CB2 8BG tel: 01223 356841  e-mail: info@indiran.org All welcome.  Refreshments from 5pm.

Friday 24th April, 5.30pm Dr. Margaret Cone The Joys and Sorrows of Pali Margaret Cone has been writing a Dictionary of Pali for the last 30 years. With two volumes published and further parts in preparation, it has been described as “a truly significant publication for both Pali studies and Buddhist studies more generally” and is likely to remain the principle lexical resource for scholars working with Pali texts for some generations to come. In this talk Dr. Cone will discuss this remarkable project and some of its most significant …

The Cambridge Shorts scheme allows University of Cambridge researchers to work with artists and filmmakers to make films that are creative, accessible and engaging. Charles Li, researcher at the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Cambridge, has collaborated with film-maker Eleonora Mignoli to make Bodhisatta vs the Big Stick, a short film looking at one of most popular of the Jātaka tales: a  story about one of the past lives of the Buddha as a bodhisatta, named Mahosadha.  The film, part of which is filmed at the Ancient India …