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...
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...
Bringing Wales and Iran together through academia and beyond with John Price This talk replaces Prof Llewellyn-Jones's webinar on Dylan Thomas which will be rescheduled at a later date. There is more that links Wales and Iran than you dare to imagine. Both...
Rescheduled: ‘An Ugly, Lovely Town’: Dylan Thomas in Tehran (and beyond) with Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones Due to unforeseen circumstances, the talk with Prof Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones will be rescheduled. More information on the day and time of the talk to follow. Iran/Persia...
Agreeable News from Persia: What 18th and early 19th century American newspaper readers knew about contemporary events in Iran with Daniel T. Potts Contrary to what most people imagine, 18th and early 19th century newspapers carried a considerable amount of...
Making and Unmaking Community: Urban Life in Persianate Rajasthan with Elizabeth Thelen How did diverse religious, occupational, and ethnic communities live side-by-side in precolonial Rajasthan’s cities? This talk presents several case studies from the city of...
Economic and Cultural Renaissance at Kartid Herat, 1251 to 1381 with Shivan Mahendrarajah The lecture expands on a theme from A History of Herat, from Chingiz Khan to Tamerlane, on Herat’s renaissance under the Kartid kings, an Iranian dynasty installed by the...
In this series of five lectures, speakers will discuss various aspects of the life and culture of Afghanistan between the 8th and 13th century. The series is organised by the Invisible East project with the support of BIPS. Participation is open to all, please...