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 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 place for publication of my...
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...
The proposed project has developed out of research that the applicant has carried out searching for the Middle Palaeolithic (MP) to Upper Palaeolithic (UP) transition in the Zagros Mountains of Iran, one of the key regions in south-western Asia. In 2016, I...
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Workshop Write Up By Dr James White, BIPS Grant recipient and postdoctoral Fellow in the Seminar für Arabistik at Freie Universität Berlin.On 25th October 2019, I am convening a workshop at Wadham College, Oxford, called ‘Migration, Circulation and Translation:...
INVESTIGATING HUMAN-ENVIRONMENTAL INTERACTIONS IN THE ZAGROS REGION (SOUTHWEST ASIA) DURING THE LATE GLACIAL, AND EARLY TO MID- HOLOCENE PERIOD The travel grant offered by the British Institute of Persian Studies was used in July 2019 to attend the International Union...
The Life of Persianate Music in South Asia: Tracing the History of Hindustani Music ca. 1250-1600 William Hofmann (SOAS)I travelled to India under a BIPS research grant during October 2017-July 2018 for my doctoral research at the School of Oriental and African...
The Potters of Iran: A Case Study for Contemporary Craft CultureJillian Echlin, University of York My primary motivation in undertaking this trip was to conduct in-person research for the completion of my PhD and subsequent publications and exhibitions. This...
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