The Iran Society, founded in 1935

Flowers, trees and poetic inscriptions. The art of carpet making in Safavid Iran – Roberta Marin

Army & Navy Club 36-39 Pall Mall, London, United Kingdom

Roberta will take us on a journey along the history of the most remarkable carpets ever made, the ones produced under the rule of the powerful Safavid Shahs. Through the analysis of the most iconic carpets, held in famous museums and collections in Europe and abroad, she will discuss their iconographies and patterns and she […]

Thwarting Iranistan: Iran and the USSR in the 1970s and early 1980s: Savka Andic

he remarkably settled nature of the Soviet-Iranian relationship during the late Pahlavi period was followed by a period of cautious Soviet activism in the early revolutionary years (1979-1980). In a bipolar world, the Shah had apparently succeeded in tempering his pro-American orientation by establishing multiple cultural, technical and economic ties to the Soviet Union – […]

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 & […]

Dr Stephanie Cronin: “Hunger in the 1890s – a prelude to the Constitution?”

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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 […]

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 […]

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. xosotin chelseathông tin chuyển nhượngcâu lạc bộ bóng đá arsenalbóng đá atalantabundesligacầu thủ haalandUEFAevertonxosofutebol ao vivofutemaxmulticanaisonbethttps://bsport.fithttps://onbet88.ooohttps://i9bet.bizhttps://hi88.ooohttps://okvip.athttps://f8bet.athttps://fb88.cashhttps://vn88.cashhttps://shbet.atbóng đá world cupbóng đá inter […]

Lindsey Allen: “Persepolis in the Diaspora”

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Dr Katayoun Shafiee: “Machineries of Oil: An Infrastructural History of BP in Iran”

Dr Shafiee lectures at Warwick University. She  completed her PhD in the departments of History and Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies at New York University. She was previously a post-doctoral research fellow at the National University of Singapore. As a visiting research fellow at the IAS, she has finalized the publication of her book manuscript, […]

Julia Hartley: Jane Dieulafoy – Archaeologist, sharpshooter, illustrator.

Iran as a Woman’s Career: The Exceptional Case of Jane Dieulafoy (1851–1916) The life and work of Jane Dieulafoy, a writer, archaeologist and women’s activist who is largely forgotten today. I shall be focusing on three chapters of Dieulafoy’s career that were devoted to Iran: her debut as a travel writer (1881–1882); her participation in […]