Recordings of Past Events
Recordings of talks and presentations are available to listen to directly from our website or to download to listen to offline. You can also watch the recordings of the lectures on our YouTube channel at this link.

An Archaeological Perspective on the Mongol Conquest of Central Asia
by Katie Campbell
on 15 April, 2026

Persia’s Greek Campaigns: Kingship, War, & Spectacle
by John Hyland
on 18 March, 2026

Material Networks: The Chehel Sotun Carpet Between Iran and the Deccan
by Margaret Squires
on 25 February, 2026

Jane Dieulafoy’s Persia: Gender, Empire, and Archaeology in fin-de-siècle France
by Julia Hartley
on 28 January, 2026

Beyond the Botanical with Persian collections at Kew Gardens’ Library and Archives
by Shabnam Balouch & Isabel Lauterjung
on 10 December, 2025

Iran and Afghanistan: Toward a Connected (Literary) History
by Aria Fani
on 15 October, 2025

Fulayj: A Sasanian Persian Fort on the Batinah in Oman
by Eve MacDonald
on 24 September, 2025

The amazing technicolor Yusuf u Zulaykha manuscript from Bukhara in the Sissinghurst collection
by Jaimee Comstock-Skipp
on 18 June, 2025

The Connected Histories of James Baillie Fraser’s The Kuzzilbash: A Tale of Khorasan
by Brenden Benjamin
on 28 May, 2025

Book Launch: Karbala in the Ta’ziyeh Episode, Shi’i Devotional Drama in Iran
by Lucy Deacon
on 26 March, 2025

Book Launch: The I.B. Tauris Handbook of Iranian Cinema
by Maryam Ghorbankarimi, Michelle Langford, Zahra Khosroshahi, Laudan Nooshin, Lindsey Moore, Kaveh Abbasian, Max Bledstein, and Matthias Wittmann
on 26 February, 2025

Using early plant remains to understand transmission of farming eastwards through Iran into Asia
by Hannah Caroe
on 29 January, 2025