Sahba Shayani: The Women of the Shahnameh
Sahba Shayani is instructor in Persian at the Oriental Institute, Oxford. He received his M.A. from the University of California, Los Angeles in Iranian Studies in 2011 and is currently […]
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Mohammad Amir Hakimi Parsa: Iran as Empire: Nader Shah and the emergence of a new Iranian empire.
Nader Shah ruled Iran from 1736-1747. A military genius, he campaigned almost non-stop in the Caucasus, Ottoman Turkey, Central Asia, Afghanistan and the Persian Gulf, through to […]
Dr Layla Diba: Kamal al Molk and the Invention of the Modern Iranian Landscape
Abstract: The recent discovery of a group of six late 19th century Iranian oil on canvas landscape paintings and a large corpus of 19th century Iranian photographs held in a […]
Dr Fereydoun Ala: Prince Abbas Mirza (1789-1833)
Prince Abbas Mirza, son of Fath Ali Shah, was Crown Prince and, as was the tradition, was Governor of Tabriz. He modernised the army and many institutions and was the […]
Prof. Nacim Pak-Shiraz: Women in Iranian cinema
Army & Navy Club 36-39 Pall Mall, London, United Kingdom
Professor Nacim Pak-Shiraz is Personal Chair of Cinema and Iran, and Head of Department of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Edinburgh. After a B.A. in Tehran, […]
Qajar Painting, Photography, Textiles, Armour
This event will be co-hosted by the Gingko Library to celebrate the publication of Revealing the Unseen: New Perspectives on Qajar Art. The articles in the first section of the […]
David Blow: Mirrors for Princes – Machiavellian advice to young rulers
Army & Navy Club 36-39 Pall Mall, London, United Kingdom
‘Mirrors for Princes’ are mediaeval prose works of advice for rulers or prospective rulers on how they should exercise kingship. They were usually written by a ruler for the benefit […]
Roberta Marin: Safavid carpets in Milan collections CANCELLED
Army & Navy Club 36-39 Pall Mall, London, United Kingdom
Milan has a fabulous collection of Safavid carpets. Robert Marin, currently in England, hails from the Università Ca' Foscari of Venice. Roberta is well known to the Iran Society and […]
Robert Steele: Iran’s involvement in Africa in the late 1960s and early 1970s
This lecture will examine Iran’s political interactions with Sub-Saharan Africa under Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. Much of the scholarship on Pahlavi Iran’s global interactions has focused on its relations with the […]
Dr Nader Sayadi: Who Built the City? Local Politics and Architectural Patronage in Early Modern Kashan
Sevruguin, Antoin: Kashan bazaar Shahs and their courts, royal art and architectural patronage, capital cities, and dynastic histories still dominate narratives of Iran’s past. […]