This evening, dedicated to the late Professor David Stronach, will focus on BIPS’s contribution to Iranian archaeology. First, there will be a short film about Professor Stronach’s major excavations in Iran during the 1960s and 1970s after which a panel comprising...
Please join us online for a roundtable discussion with Professor Ali Ansari, Dr Evaleila Pesaran, and Dr Robert Steel and chaired by Dr Shabnam Holliday. Based on their own research on the Pahlavi period, the panellists will reflect on the dynamics in Iran around the...
A webinar in celebration of BIPS 60th anniversary, centered around the Epic Iran exhibition at the V&A Please join us online for a webinar featuring Professors Robert Hillenbrand and Bernard O’Kane for a conversation. Moderated by Dr Richard McClary, the...
Craftland Magazine Launch Ceremony About the event We are pleased to invite you to join the launch event of Craftland international magazine published in London, UK. It is centred around the craft, culture & tourism of Iran. Within each issue, we introduce several...
Persian Arts of the Book About the event 'Persian Arts of the Book' gathers scholars from around the world with expert curators from Oxford and beyond to reflect on the Persian manuscript tradition. In a series of short presentations and thematic panel discussions we...
2021 Ann Lambton Memorial Lecture Political Thought in Medieval and Early-Modern Iran: Islamic or Persianate? With Professor Saïd Amir Arjomand The event is jointly organised by BIPS and IMeEIS, Durham University. After defining what can be meant...
Kings and Heroes, Lovers and Poets: the Shahnameh’s continuous appeal With Charles Melville & Ina Sarikhani Sandmann The Shahnameh, or Book of Kings, is arguably Iran’s most famous work of literature and one of the world’s greatest epic poems. It...
Iran as Empire: Nader Shah and the emergence of a new Iranian empire With Mohammad Amir Hakimi Parsa Nader Shah ruled Iran from 1736-1747. A military genius, he campaigned almost non-stop in the Caucasus, Ottoman Turkey, Central Asia, Afghanistan and the...
Arezou Azad talks about: THE UNHEARD VOICES FROM EASTERN IRAN AND THE EASTERN ISLAMICATE WORLD Chair: Professor Charles Melville, BIPS President Dr Arezou Azad, Director of the Invisible East programme at Oxford University, will reveal an unexpected richness of...
Reza Taher-Kermani talks about: THE PERSIAN PRESENCE IN VICTORIAN POETRY Chair: Professor Charles Melville, BIPS President The word Persia stood not just as the poetry of Hafiz or Omar Khayyam in the nineteenth century, but as a complex and paradoxical embodiment of...