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...
World Zoroastrian Organisation Annual Seminar The World Zoroastrian Organisation globally supports Zoroastrianism, its people and traditions. It's annual seminal will take place in-person at: World...
The Connected Histories of James Baillie Fraser’s The Kuzzilbash: A Tale of Khorasan with Brenden Benjamin This presentation focuses on James Baillie Fraser’s novel The Kuzzilbash: A Tale of Khorasan (1828). This relatively neglected work of historical...
The amazing technicolor Yusuf u Zulaykha manuscript from Bukhara in the Sissinghurst collection with Jaimee Comstock-Skipp Jaimee Comstock-Skipp will give a lecture on a recently conserved illustrated Persian manuscript belonging to Vita Sackville-West...
CANCELLED: Class Relations and Religious Hybridization in Urban sites in (post-)Hellenistic Bactria and Gandhara with Christos Nikolaou We regret to inform you that due to unforeseen circumstances, our speaker, Christos Nikolaou, will not be able to...
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: Karbala in the Ta'ziyeh Episode, Shi'i Devotional Drama in Iran with Lucy Deacon In this webinar, Dr. Lucy Deacon presents on her new book Karbala in the Taʿziyeh Episode: Shiʿi Devotional Drama in Iran (2024). Verisimilitude is not the...
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...
CANCELLED: Fulayj: A Sasanian Persian Fort on the Batinah in Oman  with Eve MacDonald We regret to inform you that due to unforeseen circumstances, our speaker, Eve MacDonald, will not be able to deliver the lecture as planned. The event will be rescheduled...
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...