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.Â

Ancient Arms Race: Antiquity’s Largest Fortresses and Sasanian Military Networks of Northern Iran
by Eberhard Sauer
on 16 March, 2022

A hundred years of Persian performing arts
by Jane Lewisohn
on 23 February, 2022

BIPS: A vision for the future
by Charles Melville and Judith Thomalsky
on 6 December, 2021

Reflections on Pahlavi Iran: Roundtable on 60th anniversary of BIPS
by Ali Ansari, Evaleila Pesaran, Robert Steele, chaired by Shabnam Holliday
on 15 September, 2021

Approaches to Iranian Art: In Conversation with Robert Hillenbrand and Bernard O’Kane
by Robert Hillenbrand, Bernard O'Kane and Richard McClary
on 29 July, 2021

Political Thought in Medieval and Early-Modern Iran: Islamic or Persianate?
by Said Amir Arjomand
on 9 June, 2021

The Unheard Voices from Eastern Iran and the Eastern Islamicate world
by Arezou Azad
on 22 April, 2021

The Persian Presence in Victorian Poetry
by Reza Taher-Kermani
on 7 April, 2021

“Better a live Sparrow than a stuffed Eagle”: Nineteenth Century British Orientalisms and Perceptions of Persian Sufism
by Lloyd Ridgeon
on 11 March, 2021

A Chini Khana in Boston: Experimenting with the Display of Persian Ceramics
by Laura Weinstein
on 25 February, 2021

Art as Source for the History of Mongol Eurasia
by Professor Sheila Blair
on 7 December, 2020

Inverting the Pyramid: Antinomianism as the Norm in the Second Safavid Century
by Professor Andrew Newman
on 22 October, 2020