Groundbreakers: Women in Archaeology The Petrie Museum of Egyptian and Sudanese Archaeology is inviting you to three events for the project 'Groundbreakers: Women in Archaeology'. The exhibition 'Groundbreakers: Women in Archaeology' was developed in...
Virtual Exhibition Launch: 'Nomadic Weavings. From Sheep to Carpets in Rural Iran' We are pleased to invite you to the launch of 'Nomadic Weavings: From Sheep to Carpets in Rural Iran', an online exhibition exploring the traditional hand-woven goods of rural...
2026 BIPS AGM Lecture Sovereignty in Iran: Challenges to Eurocentrism from Ancient Iran to the Islamic Republic With Shabnam Holliday The event will take place in person at the the Society of Antiquaries of London, and online on Zoom. The event is free...
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...
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 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 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 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 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’ 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...