Persia’s Greek Campaigns: Kingship, War, & Spectacle with John Hyland The wars between the Achaemenid Persian empire and the Greek city-states are among the most famous conflicts in world history – above all Xerxes’ expedition of 480-479 BCE, which...
Material Networks: The Chehel Sotun Carpet Between Iran and the Deccan with Margaret Squires This talk traces the little-known history of a massive carpet woven in the Deccan for the Chehel Sotun palace in seventeenth-century Isfahan. Dismantled and...
Jane Dieulafoy’s Persia: Gender, Empire, and Archaeology in fin-de-siècle France with Julia Hartley The archaeologist, photographer, and writer Jane Dieulafoy (1851–1916) worked at the intersection of nineteenth-century power structures. They served...
Beyond the Botanical with Persian collections at Kew Gardens’ Library and Archives with Shabnam Balouch & Isabel Lauterjung This talk explores Persian materials in the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, focusing on the unexpected cultural and social...
Iran and Afghanistan: Toward a Connected (Literary) History with Aria Fani Contrary to the presumption that literary nationalism in the Global South emerged solely through contact with Europe, Reading across Borders shows how the cultural forms of Iran...
Fulayj: A Sasanian Persian Fort on the Batinah in Oman  with Eve MacDonald Fulayj fort was discovered in an area of exceptional landscape preservation on the mid-Batinah Plain of Oman 12km inland from the Indian Ocean coast and 30km south of the major...
The Connected Histories of James Baillie Fraser’s The Kuzzilbash: A Tale of Khorasan with Brenden Benjamin This presentation focuses on James Baillie Fraser’s novel The Kuzzilbash: A Tale of Khorasan (1828). This relatively neglected work of historical...
The amazing technicolor Yusuf u Zulaykha manuscript from Bukhara in the Sissinghurst collection with Jaimee Comstock-Skipp Jaimee Comstock-Skipp will give a lecture on a recently conserved illustrated Persian manuscript belonging to Vita Sackville-West...
CANCELLED: Class Relations and Religious Hybridization in Urban sites in (post-)Hellenistic Bactria and Gandhara with Christos Nikolaou We regret to inform you that due to unforeseen circumstances, our speaker, Christos Nikolaou, will not be able to...
Book Launch: Karbala in the Ta'ziyeh Episode, Shi'i Devotional Drama in Iran with Lucy Deacon In this webinar, Dr. Lucy Deacon presents on her new book Karbala in the Taʿziyeh Episode: Shiʿi Devotional Drama in Iran (2024). Verisimilitude is not the...