Persian Poetry on the High Seas: Migration and the Making of an Early Modern World Literature with James White Over the course of the seventeenth century, many hundreds of professional poets active in Persian travelled across the western Indian Ocean, moving...
The Reunification of Iran and the Reign of Aqa Muhammad Shah Qajar with Maziar Behrooz After a difficult century of civil wars and foreign intervention, population loss and economic contraction, Iran was finally reunified under the Qajar and the unique...
Uncovering Dr Hans E. Wulff Collection: A Life Contribution to the Study of Iran and Iranian Studies with Pedram Khosronejad In 1936, twenty-nine-year-old Johannes Eberhard Wulff (1907-1967) was given an official position to go to Iran at the request of Reza...
Excavating the Archives: David Stronach’s fieldwork in Iran with the British Institute of Persian Studies with Gareth Brereton David Stronach OBE FSA (1931 - 2020) was a leading figure in the field of Iranian archaeology and founding Director of the British...
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...