Book Launch: 'The Zoroastrian World'   with co-editors Jenny Rose, Sarah Stewart and Albert de Jong.   Online via Zoom and in-person event.   This event will celebrate the launching of the book together with a brief introduction from the three...

Literature in the Service of Monolingualism: Turkophobia in Modernist Persian Poetry   with Leila Rahimi Bahmany   The published monograph Azeri Turkish Narratives in 20th-Century Iran: Resisting Monolingualism, exposes how modern Iranian intellectuals,...

Mehmandari: Hosting and Minding Foreign Visitors in Safavid and Qajar Iran   with Rudi Matthee   Mehmandari, the practice of having foreigners visiting in an official capacity welcomed, accompanied, and provided for by the host country, is very old in Iran....

Peering Through the Cracks. Polish Musicians in Tehran 1942 to 1945: The Case of Irena Valdi-Gołębiowska   with Laudan Nooshin   In the spring and summer of 1942, an estimated 300,000 Poles arrived in Iran, having travelled thousands of miles from recently...

An Archaeological Perspective on the Mongol Conquest of Central Asia   with Katie Campbell   Persian historians describe the Mongol conquest of the Khwarzmian Empire in the early thirteenth century as catastrophic, with cities razed and populations...

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...