Sustainable Water Management: Learning from the Past to Inform the Future Call for Papers 15th-16th March 2024 - The British Academy, London Background and Context The world is facing an unprecedented water crisis due to increasingly extreme weather patterns,...
International Medieval Conference 2023 Leeds, 3-6 July 2023 The Roman and Sasanian Empires: Networks and Entanglements in the Late Antique Near East Interaction, Identities, and Networks were important ideas and concepts the Roman and Sasanian Empires needed to...
Registrations are open for the conference "Iran and Persianate Culture in the Indian Ocean World", 7-8 September 2022, University of St Andrews. The conference is organised by BIPS, with additional support from the Honeyman Trust and the Institute of Iranian Studies,...
The Coalescence of Arabic, Turkic, and Persian Spheres (900–1900) CALL FOR PAPERS DEADLINE EXTENDED UNTIL 31 DECEMBER 2021 The symbiosis of cultural traditions in Arabic, Turkic, and Persian, was one of the striking features of the Islamic world for almost a...
Prince Baysunghur, Before and After: Timurid Manuscripts in Context ONLINE SYMPOSIUM This two-day international symposium, to be held in early November 2021, celebrates the 600-year anniversary of the first manuscript produced in the Timurid prince’s Herati...
The Coalescence of Arabic, Turkic, and Persian Spheres (900–1900) CALL FOR PAPERS The symbiosis of cultural traditions in Arabic, Turkic, and Persian, was one of the striking features of the Islamic world for almost a millennium, beginning with the influx of...
Persian Arts of the Book About the event 'Persian Arts of the Book' gathers scholars from around the world with expert curators from Oxford and beyond to reflect on the Persian manuscript tradition. In a series of short presentations and thematic panel discussions we...