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...
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...