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Dr Melanie Gibson: “Enigmatic Figures: Sculpture in Medieval Iran”
Dr. Melanie Gibson is Executive Trustee of the Gingko Library and Editor of the Gingko Library Art Series. She is a convenor of the Postgraduate Diploma in Asian Art at SOAS, London University. She lectures on Islamic ceramics and glass, as well as more widely on Islamic art and architecture, for SOAS, the Victoria & Albert Museum and the Courtauld Institute. From 2012-2016 she was head of the Art History department at the New College of the Humanities, London. Her…
Find out more »Brian MacDonald: “Tribal rugs of Iran and the tribes who made them”
This event will be held at St Columba's Church, Pont Street, followed by the Christmas dinner. Admission to members and their guests only. Tickets cost £35 each and can be bought by clicking on the link below. During the 1970s, whilst carrying out reconnaissance work for two university archaeological expeditions in southern Iran, Brian travelled extensively throughout that country as well as in Afghanistan and Turkey. In 1972, he lived and worked amongst two tribal groups in Iran – the…
Find out more »Aeron O’Connor: “Tajikistan: Persian Poetry to Soviet Realism”
Aeron O'Connor is an anthropologist based at UCL, where she is completing her PhD. Her research focuses on the intellectual history of modern-day Tajikistan. She has lived and carried out ethnographic research in Dushanbe, Tajikistan for two years, working in Tajik Persian. There, she worked extensively with artists, musicians, writers and scholars. Her research ultimately reflects on how ideas and artistic and literary movements have been produced, shared and transformed during Tajikistan's fast-changing history in and out of communism.
Find out more »Lucy Deacon: “The Traditional Ta’zieh Mourning Plays of Moharram”
Lucy Deacon was one of the performers at the Burns-Hafez event last December. She has attended a number of performances of ta'zieh in Iran and has also studied a collection of ta'zieh scripts held in the Vatican library.
Find out more »Lindsey Allen: “Persepolis in the Diaspora”
A discussion about items removed from Persepolis to foreign collections.
Find out more »Dr Katayoun Shafiee: “Machineries of Oil: An Infrastructural History of BP in Iran”
Dr Shafiee lectures at Warwick University and has recently published a book on BP with this title. The lecture will be preceded by the Annual General Meeting at 6.15pm
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