Uncovering Dr Hans E. Wulff Collection: A Life Contribution to the Study of Iran and Iranian Studies with Pedram Khosronejad In 1936, twenty-nine-year-old Johannes Eberhard Wulff (1907-1967) was given an official position to go to Iran at the request of Reza...
Excavating the Archives: David Stronach’s fieldwork in Iran with the British Institute of Persian Studies with Gareth Brereton David Stronach OBE FSA (1931 - 2020) was a leading figure in the field of Iranian archaeology and founding Director of the British...
The Reunification of Iran and the Reign of Aqa Muhammad Shah Qajar with Maziar Behrooz After a difficult century of civil wars and foreign intervention, population loss and economic contraction, Iran was finally reunified under the Qajar and the unique...
Private tour of Luxury and Power: Persia to Greece with James Fraser & Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones As part of a continued collaboration with the Luxury and Power: Persia to Greece exhibition at the British Museum, BIPS and the BSA are thrilled to announce a...
Open Sesame: Ancient Persia and the Greek Imagination with James Fraser & Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones To coincide with the British Museum’s current exhibition Luxury and Power: Persia to Greece, this BIPS seminar will explore how Achaemenid Persian luxury items...
Treasures of Herat: Two Timurid Khamsah of Nizami Manuscripts with Barbara Brend The Khamsah of Nizami is one of the most frequently illustrated works of Persian literature and the fifteenth century, under Timurid rule can be considered the most classic period...
Annual Bruce Wannell Memorial Lecture 2023 Rumi and the Masnavi: Talk and Recitation with Alan Williams and Seyed Ali Jaberi & the Hamdel Ensemble The event is part of the York Festival of Ideas and it is co-sponsored by BIPS and the University of York....
“You’re Fired”: A Comparison of Roman and Sasanian Military Careers with Sean Strong In Late Antiquity, the Roman and Sasanian Empires were actively engaged with one another in both conflict and collaboration. It would be on the battlefield however, that...
Feeling Mission Hospitals in Persia and British India with Sara Honarmand Ebrahimi In this talk, I will discuss my book titled Emotion, Mission, Architecture: Building Hospitals in Persia and British India, 1865-1914. The book argues that medical missions...
The Hunt as Erotic and Military Training in Early New Persian Poetry with Domenico Ingenito In the Early New Persian literary tradition, especially during the Ghaznavid period (11th c. CE), feasting and fighting (bazm-u razm) were two activities that poets...