The Great Mughals: Art, Architecture, and Opulence A current exhibition at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London With Susan Stronge The event will take place in person in the Reading Room at the British Academy, London. The event is free to attend, but...
Book Launch: The I.B. Tauris Handbook of Iranian Cinema with Maryam Ghorbankarimi, Michelle Langford, Zahra Khosroshahi, Laudan Nooshin, Lindsey Moore, Kaveh Abbasian, Max Bledstein, and Matthias Wittmann The book is organised around eight broad themes...
BIRI Interdisciplinary Conference | Sustainable Water Management: Learning from the Past to Inform the Future The world is facing an unprecedented water crisis due to increasingly extreme weather patterns, unsustainable water management practices, overuse of available...
Using early plant remains to understand transmission of farming eastwards through Iran into Asia with Hannah Caroe The Middle Eastern Fertile Crescent, whose eastern arc extends along the Zagros Mountains of western Iran, is renowned as a key world...
Music Making in Iran from the 15th to the Early 20th Century with Amir Hosein Pourjavady This presentation focuses on Music Making in Iran from the 15th to the Early 20th Century, recently published by Edinburgh University Press in association with Aga...
Funding Opportunities for Researchers in Middle Eastern Studies at the British International Research Institutes (BIRI): BIAA, BIPS, BISI and CBRL Event co-organised by BRISMES, BIAA, BIPS, BISI and CBRL. The webinar is open to all but registration is required....
Parthian Art and the Graeco-Roman World External event, organised by the Classical Art Research Centre at the University of Oxford. We are now taking reservations for the CARC annual workshop on 3 and 4 October 2024, which this year turns to ancient Iran...
A Persian Paradise: Vita and Harold in Iran 1925-1927 with Nicci Obholzer Reflections on Sissinghurst’s exhibition “A Persian Paradise: Vita and Harold in Iran 1925-1927”, held between October 2023 and May 2024. Thanks to Royal Oak Foundation funding,...
Making and Remaking Empire in Early Qajar Iran with Assef Ashraf In 1722, the Safavid empire collapsed. An empire that ruled for over two centuries, and which in its heyday spanned parts of Central Asia, the Caucasus, and present-day Iran, came to a swift end....
2024 Ann Lambton Memorial Lecture & BIPS AGM Lecture Examining the origins of Iran's political and cultural ties with Africa under Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi With Dr Robert Steele The event will take place in person at the British Academy, London, and...