Empire, Sultanate, and the Boundaries of the Persianate World in South Asia with Roy Fischel This is an in-person only event, which will take place at the British Academy. Registrations for the event are currently closed: people booked on the lecture by Prof Frankopan...
CANCELLED: The Natural World and the Making of the Modern Middle East with Peter Frankopan We regret to inform you that due to unforeseen circumstances our speaker, Prof. Peter Frankopan, will not be able to deliver the lecture as planned. We apologise for any...
Open Sesame: Ancient Persia and the Greek Imagination with James Fraser & Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones To coincide with the British Museum’s current exhibition Luxury and Power: Persia to Greece, this BIPS seminar will explore how Achaemenid Persian luxury items...
Treasures of Herat: Two Timurid Khamsah of Nizami Manuscripts with Barbara Brend The Khamsah of Nizami is one of the most frequently illustrated works of Persian literature and the fifteenth century, under Timurid rule can be considered the most classic period...
Annual Bruce Wannell Memorial Lecture 2023 Rumi and the Masnavi: Talk and Recitation with Alan Williams and Seyed Ali Jaberi & the Hamdel Ensemble The event is part of the York Festival of Ideas and it is co-sponsored by BIPS and the University of York....
“You’re Fired”: A Comparison of Roman and Sasanian Military Careers with Sean Strong In Late Antiquity, the Roman and Sasanian Empires were actively engaged with one another in both conflict and collaboration. It would be on the battlefield however, that...
Feeling Mission Hospitals in Persia and British India with Sara Honarmand Ebrahimi In this talk, I will discuss my book titled Emotion, Mission, Architecture: Building Hospitals in Persia and British India, 1865-1914. The book argues that medical missions...
The Hunt as Erotic and Military Training in Early New Persian Poetry with Domenico Ingenito In the Early New Persian literary tradition, especially during the Ghaznavid period (11th c. CE), feasting and fighting (bazm-u razm) were two activities that poets...
2023 Ann Lambton Memorial Lecture Modern Iran: A global history "from below" With Dr Stephanie Cronin Hosted by Duraham University, the event is jointly organised by BIPS and IMeEIS (Durham University). The event will take place in person only and it will not be...
What have the Persians ever done for us? with Tom Holland & Ali Ansari This event is organised by The Iran Society. Join the historian Tom Holland in illustrated conversation with Ali Ansari discussing the role of the Persians in world civilisation, looking...