April 2022 | BIPS Travel Grant Documenting the disappearing archaeological heritage of Seeb (Muscat, Oman) The aims of the project are to explore the threatened archaeological heritage of Seeb (a suburb of Muscat in Oman) and to build on the existing community...
October 2022 | BIPS Travel Grant The Iconography of War and Violence in Persia and the Near East The travel grant offered by the British Institute of Persian Studies (BIPS) was used to enable me to present an in-person paper for the Lyceum Classics Community Seminar...
April 2022 | BIPS Travel Grant Persianate legacies in post-Soviet Central Asia and on contemporary Iran-Uzbekistan relations The three-week-long—travel days included—fieldwork in Tashkent, Uzbekistan has been a culmination of some two years of travel-planning and...
September 2022 | BIPS Travel Grant The BIPS travel grant received in May 2021 allowed me to undertake visits to the Staatsbibliotek in Berlin and to the Jewish Theological Seminary (JTS) library in New York, to examine ‘in the flesh’ some manuscripts of...
September 2022 | BIPS Research Grant The Department of Coins, Medals et Antiquities of the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF) holds a collection of over 1,000 coins struck by the Hellenistic kings of Bactria, descendants of the Greeks who arrived in the...
August 2022 | BIPS Travel Grant 24th International Congress of Byzantine Studies, Venice and Padua (22nd -27th August 2022) The travel grant offered by the British Institute of Persian Studies (BIPS) was used for my attendance to the 24th International Congress...
March 2022 | BIPS Travel Grant I am in the final year of PhD studies and the core of my project is a detailed re-evaluation of the Vank Cathedral (Surb Amenaprkič) in Isfahan (1655-1664/1065-1074) in the context of Safavid art. The art and architecture...
Report on the conference “Hormuz 1622: Connected Histories and Transcultural Receptions” Online and in person at Cohen Quad, Exeter College, Oxford, 11 March 2022 Organisers: Edmund Herzig (Oriental Studies, Oxford Nizami Ganjavi Centre), Ladan Niayesh (Early Modern...
December 2021 | BIPS Travel Grant I had the good fortune of receiving a travel grant from the British Institute of Persian Studies to travel to Iran, visiting the Takkiyya Mu’avin al-Mulk in Kermanshah, with the view to taking professional photographs of the...
Congress Report: International Medieval Congress (IMC), Leeds, 5th – 9th July 2021 Panel Strand – ‘Byzantium and Sasanian Persia: The Climate of the Near East in Late Antiquity.’ British Institute of Persian Studies Grant Report Domiziana Rossi and Sean Strong...