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...
Mina’i wares were unknown prior to the late nineteenth century, but by 1940 numerous seemingly complete vessels had been published, displayed, and collected across Europe, North American, and beyond. These wares mark the birth of Persian miniature painting, and...
BIPS is very pleased to announce its award for best paper to Dr Julia Hartley (University of Warwick) for her work titled “Making (Ancient) History: Women and Power in Jane Dieulafoy’s Parysatis (1890)”. She won a cash prize of £100. (c) Symposia Iranica Parysatis was...