The Ninth Biennial Convention of the Association will take place in Yerevan, Armenia during the week of May 30-June 3, 2023. The convention will be co-hosted by the Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian-Armenian (Slavonic) University and the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography, National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Armenia .
March 1, 2022 through September 5, 2022 Getty Villa Museum, Los Angeles Assyria: Palace Art of Ancient Iraq, through the museum’s masterworks on special loan from the British Museum, reveals how Assyrian kings in the ninth to seventh centuries BCE decorated their palaces with masterful relief sculptures that represent a high point of Mesopotamian art, both […]
March 1, 2022 through July 17, 2022 Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, DC Swift, fierce, and loyal, falcons have been celebrated for millennia. In ancient Egypt, they were closely associated with Horus, the god of the heavens. By the early eighth century in Syria, falcons were being trained to become skillful hunters at the royal […]
With Daniel T. Potts Zoom Webinar British Institute of Persian Studies Seminar Series Wednesday 22 February 2023 06:00 PM (GMT) Registration: https://www.bips.ac.uk/event/agreeable-news-potts/ Contrary to what most people imagine, 18th and early 19th century newspapers carried a considerable amount of news reports about contemporary events in Iran. In this talk early American newspapers will be surveyed, showing that […]
With Andrew Peacock Zoom Webinar Institute of Iranian Studies, Austrian Academy of Sciences Tuesday 7 February 2023 05:00 PM (CET) Registration: https://oeaw-ac-at.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_NlBS-QXJS32vHWMkBgrQEA The study of nomads’ manuscript cultures has understandably and rightly focused on the vast range of material related to Islam in one way or another. Yet even after conversion to Islam, the Ilkhanate […]
The European Conference of Iranian Studies (ECIS) is one of Europe’s largest conferences in Iranian Studies. It is held every four years and organized by the Societas Iranologica Europaea (SIE). The tenth edition of the conference, ECIS 10, will be hosted by Leiden University in the Netherlands. Submission deadline: 31 January 2023 https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/ecis10
with Elizabeth Thelen British Institute of Persian Studies (BIPS) Seminar Series Wednesday 18 Jaunary, 2023, 5:00pm (GMT) Zoom Webinar https://www.bips.ac.uk/event/urban-life-in-persianate-rajasthan-thelen/ How did diverse religious, occupational, and ethnic communities live side-by-side in precolonial Rajasthan’s cities? This talk presents several case studies from the city of Nagaur that show how people ranging from Sufi Shaikhs to cloth-dyers, […]
Volume 44 (2022) is now online: https://journals.openedition.org/abstractairanica/54535 ABSTRACTA IRANICA est une revue de bibliographie critique pour le monde iranien ; elle rend compte des travaux concernant tous les aspects de la culture et de la civilisation iraniennes, des origines à nos jours, publiée par l’Institut Français de Recherche en Iran (Téhéran) et l’Unité Mixte de […]
Cambridge University Press is to publish the world’s first international journal devoted to the study of Pakistan and its people. The first issue of Critical Pakistan Studies will arrive in January, in a joint launch with the American Institute of Pakistan Studies, The University of Exeter South Asia Centre, UK, and Le Centre d’ Études de l’Inde […]
7 Oct 2022—26 Feb 2023 Barbican, London Rebel Rebel, the first major UK commission by Iranian artist Soheila Sokhanvari, celebrates and commemorates feminist icons from pre-revolutionary Iran. https://www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/2022/event/soheila-sokhanvari-rebel-rebel
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