One element in this year’s University of York Festival of Ideas was the second event to be held in the Bruce Wannell Memorial series, on Thursday 8 June at the National Centre for Early Music, Walmgate. Alan Williams, former Chair of the BIPS research committee, and...
Applications for the Zoroastrian Summer School 2023 are now open. The week-long course is a collaboration between the SOAS Shapoorji Pallonji Institute of Zoroastrian Studies and the University of Bergen. It will take place from the 26th to 30th June at the...
2022 Ann Lambton Memorial Lecture Unequal Treaties and the Question of Sovereignty in Qajar and early Pahlavi Iran With Professor Ali Gheissari Hosted by Duraham University, the event is jointly organised by BIPS and IMeEIS (Durham University). This...
BIPS is delighted to be sponsoring an upcoming showcase of Zal and the Phoenix. This event is aimed at raising awareness and support for an ambitious multi-media theatrical work by Shohreh Shakoory, due for completion later this year. There will be a live performance...
BIPS: A Vision for the Future Professor Charles Melville, BIPS president, in discussion with Dr Judith Thomalsky, Director of the German Archaeological Institute in Tehran. 6 December 2021, 6:30pm After a year of celebrating the 60th anniversary of the British...
BIPS is delighted to announce the first two events celebrating the Institute's 60th Anniversary. The first event, Approaches to Iranian Art: In Conversation with Robert Hillenbrand and Bernard O'Kane, will take place on 29 July and it will be open to everyone...
Call for papers: BIPS Online Workshop ‘Iran and the International: Iranian Foreign Policy’, 8-10 June 2021 This workshop is part of the BIPS Modern Research Project. The overall aim of the project is to contextualise Iran’s engagement with the international. This is...
2 February 2021, 3PM GMT At this virtual event for all those with a professional or personal interest in Zoroastrian history and culture, we are delighted to welcome Dr Sarah Stewart, SOAS Shapoorji Pallonji Senior Lecturer in Zoroastrian Studies and co-chair of the...
Thursday 10 December 2020, 9.30am to 12 December 2020 This online colloquium hosted by York University aims to explore the range and depth of the exchanges and encounters that connect English- and Persian-speaking cultures across centuries of contact from antiquity to...
Student Poster Prize at BANEA Conference 2020 We are pleased to announce a Student Poster Competition at the next British Association of Near Eastern Archaeology (BANEA) conference. The competition is in collaboration with our sister BIRI institutes – the British...