2026 Ann Lambton Memorial Lecture The Modernity of Return: Fereydoun Tavallali (1917–1985) and the Contested Boundaries of Persian Modernist Poetry With Narguess Farzad Durham University’s Institute for Middle...
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Book Launch: ‘The Zoroastrian World’
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...
BIPS Second Grant Holders’ Workshop 2026
BIPS Grant Holders' Workshop 2026 27 November 2026. British Academy, London The Grant Holders’ Workshop showcases the latest research and projects funded by BIPS through its grant schemes. Covering a wide range of aspects of Iranian and Persianate Studies, the...
Tehran, Autumn 1977: The Piercing of Autocracy
Tehran, Autumn 1977: The Piercing of Autocracy with Siavush Randjbar-Daemi This talk will discuss several challenges to the ruling autocracy which occurred in the autumn of 1977 in Tehran and their impact in the emerging confrontation between the Iranian...
Literature in the Service of Monolingualism: Turkophobia in Modernist Persian Poetry
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
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....
Call for Papers | ‘Shi`i/Sunni Relations in the Persianate World’
Call for Papers | ‘Shi`i/Sunni Relations in the Persianate World’ 8-10 December 2026. The University of Edinburgh A research project funded by the British Institute of Persian Studies (BIPS). In the wake of the Iranian Revolution and, especially, the...
BIPS Grant Holders’ Workshop 2026
BIPS Grant Holders' Workshop 2026 21-22 May 2026. Institute of Arab & Islamic Studies, University of Exeter Spread over two days, the Grant Holders’ Workshop showcases the latest research and projects funded by BIPS through its grant schemes. Covering a...
Peering Through the Cracks. Polish Musicians in Tehran 1942 to 1945: The Case of Irena Valdi-Gołębiowska
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
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...
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