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...
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...