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- (rescheduled) Rivalling Rome: Parthian coins and culturewith Vesta Sarkhosh Curtis British Institute of Persian Studies (BIPS) Seminar Series Monday 28 November, 2022, 6:00pm (GMT) Zoom Webinar https://www.bips.ac.uk/event/bips-agm-lecture-2022/ The first official encounter between Parthia and Rome happened in 96 BC when envoys from these two empires met along the river Euphrates. This was the beginning of a series of endless encounters, clashes […]
- Humayun Padshah and Iran: Safavid Present and Mythical Pastwith Ebba Koch British Institute of Persian Studies (BIPS) Seminar Series Wednesday 19 October, 2022, 5:00pm (GMT) Zoom Webinar https://www.bips.ac.uk/event/humayun-padshah-and-iran/ The lecture introduces Professor Ebba Koch’s new book The Planetary King: Humayun Padshah: Inventor and Visionary on the Mughal Throne which attempts to form a more holistic picture of the second Mughal padshah than the decontextualized perspectives […]
- Displaying Muslim Cultural Heritage: A 20-Year RetrospectWith Yuka Kadoi Institute for Advanced Study, Central European University Wednesday, October 12, 2022, 11:00 am CET https://events.ceu.edu/2022-10-12/displaying-muslim-cultural-heritage-20-year-retrospect In the aftermath of the September 11 attacks and during the rise of radical terrorism in the early 2000s, a number of cultural institutions worldwide, particularly those with the adjective “Islamic” in their names, became engaged in […]
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