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...
RECOVERING ‘LOST VOICES’: THE ROLE AND DEPICTION OF IRANIAN/PERSIANATE SUBALTERNS FROM THE 13TH CENTURY TO THE MODERN PERIOD A multi-year research project funded by the British Institute of Persian Studies (BIPS). The third workshop on subalterns across the...
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...
2025 Ann Lambton Memorial Lecture A British Diplomatic Perspective on Iran’s Position & Policies in the Middle East Since 7 October 2023 With Nicholas Hopton The event will take place in person at Durham University, Mill Hill Lane, Room 452. The...
2025 BIPS AGM Lecture The Idea of Persia With Ramin Jahanbegloo The event will take place in person at the British Academy, London, and online on Zoom. The event is free to attend, but booking is necessary. In person bookings are currently closed and members...
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...
Iran and Afghanistan: Toward a Connected (Literary) History with Aria Fani Contrary to the presumption that literary nationalism in the Global South emerged solely through contact with Europe, Reading across Borders shows how the cultural forms of Iran...
Assyria in the 7th century BC with Karen Radner Delivered by the most outstanding academics in the UK and beyond, the British Academy’s flagship Lecture programme showcases the very best scholarship in the humanities and social sciences. This event is...
Fulayj: A Sasanian Persian Fort on the Batinah in Oman  with Eve MacDonald Fulayj fort was discovered in an area of exceptional landscape preservation on the mid-Batinah Plain of Oman 12km inland from the Indian Ocean coast and 30km south of the major...