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 […]

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, […]

with Shivan Mahendrarajah British Institute of Persian Studies (BIPS) Seminar Series Wednesday 7 December, 2022, 5:00pm (GMT) Zoom Webinar https://www.bips.ac.uk/event/kartid-herat/ The lecture expands on a theme from A History of Herat, from Chingiz Khan to Tamerlane, on Herat’s renaissance under the Kartid kings, an Iranian dynasty installed by the Mongols. Herat was ruined by Mongols in […]

with 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 […]

with 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 […]

With 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 […]

with Alka Patel Invisible East lecture series with the support of BIPS 29th September 2022, 5PM (GMT) https://www.bips.ac.uk/event/afghanistan-from-buddhism-to-islam-8th-to-13th-century/ https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_nUyMBBwFQcy0_VDhhJ6oMA The Shansabanis (c. 1145-1215 CE), commonly known as the Ghurids, have long been considered inconsequential in western studies on the medieval Persianate world. Despite forming a transregional empire, their origins at the peripheries of both the Indic […]

with Nile Green British Institute of Persian Studies (BIPS) Seminar Series Wednesday 21 September, 2022, 6:00pm (GMT) Zoom Webinar https://www.bips.ac.uk/event/a-persianate-japanology-the-reach-and-limits-of-inter-asian-exchange/ In the wake of the Japanese defeat of Russia in 1905, intellectuals from Iran, India, and Afghanistan looked to Japan as a model for achieving military and industrial modernization without adopting Western culture. Probing the […]

with Llewelyn Morgan Invisible East lecture series with the support of BIPS 15th September 2022, 5PM (GMT) https://www.bips.ac.uk/event/afghanistan-from-buddhism-to-islam-8th-to-13th-century/ https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_a3qS0V88QmikMDaPKR3j2Q In this lecture, Llewelyn Morgan discusses the Buddhas of Bamiyan and their wider context in the Bamiyan valley, explaining what we know of their origin and original appearance, partly from contemporary eyewitnesses. He will then trace the […]