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- CfP: 5th Congress on Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies (Lyon, 11-13 July 2023)For its fifth edition, the “Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies” Scientific Interest Group (GIS MOMM) organizes its Congress at the University of Lyon on Tuesday 11, Wednesday 12 and Thursday 13 July 2023. http://majlis-remomm.fr/72456 Researchers and scholars (PhD candidates and above) are invited to submit proposals for thematic panels by 15 July 2022 on the […]
- Joseph Lindon Smith: The Persepolis PaintingsA Special Exhibition January 27–August 28, 2022 The Oriental Institute, University of Chicago https://oi100.uchicago.edu/jls Joseph Lindon Smith (American, 1863–1950) was already an accomplished painter, celebrated for his ability to capture archaeological subjects with vivid realism, when he was invited to Persepolis by James Henry Breasted, OI founder and then director, in 1935 to join the OI […]
- The City of Isfahan as Actor: Urban Knowledge and Household Anthologieswith Kathryn Babayan British Institute of Persian Studies (BIPS) Seminar Series Wednesday 27 April 2022, 5 pm (GMT) Zoom Webinar https://www.bips.ac.uk/event/city-of-isfahan-as-actor/ This talk explores Isfahan through the lens of seventeenth century household anthologies (majmu’a). Thousands of manuscripts produced in Isfahan assembled urban objects ranging from portraits and letters from friends, to poems depicting the central […]
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