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

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

A new research has revealed a National Museum of Iran’s painting attributed to Spanish artist Pablo Picasso is only a copy printed on canvas.  https://www.tehrantimes.com/news/480074/New-study-reveals-Picasso-in-Iran-museum-is-copy

Persian Heritage Discovered: The Friday Mosque of Isfahan in the Early 20th Century Tuesday 14 June 2022, 7:15 pm Building 2D, Zeichensaal (ground floor) & to be streamed online via Webex Brandenburg University of Technology, Cottbus – Senftenberg If you are interested in attending online, please email Albrecht Wiesener (albrecht.wiesener(at)b-tu.de). https://www.b-tu.de/en/dfg-graduiertenkolleg-1913/activities/public-lectures In the public lectures […]

Museum staff, heritage custodians and volunteers are racing against time to safeguard the country’s cultural treasures, many of which, ironically, are connected to Russia. https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2022/03/25/ukraine-culture-in-peril

Live Auction: 27 October 2021 • 10:30 BST London Arts of the Islamic World & India, including Fine Rugs and Carpets | Sotheby’s (sothebys.com) Sotheby’s history of selling art from the Islamic World and India dates back to the eighteenth century. With London as the undisputed centre of the Islamic art market, Sotheby’s has played the leading […]