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| 19 February 2024 | 17:00 | This presentation will touch upon the making of a militant archive that documents the Kurdish struggles in Iran in 1979-90. Faithi Setar, a Kurdish fighter turned photographer, has compiled a visual archive of photographs, audio and video-recordings documenting the everyday life of Peshmergas in their struggle against the Iranian State and their grassroots actions in the Kurshish rural society after the 1979 revolution. Full details | Add event |
| 8 November 2023 | 15:30 | Co-hosted by the Centre for Imperial and Global History, the Centre for Persian and Iranian Studies, and Art History and Visual Culture. Full details | Add event |
| 26 - 27 July 2023 | 9:00 | Details to follow soon. Full details | Add event |
| 9 February 2023 | 17:30 | Please join us for this in person lecture. Full details | Add event |
| 22 November 2022 | 17:00 | Refining Knowledge: Labour, Technopolitics and Epistemic Struggle in Iran’s Oil Nationalisation. Full details | Add event |
| 12 October 2022 | 17:30 | Stephanie Cronin will discuss her new book, Social Histories of Iran: Modernism and Marginality in the Middle East with Maziyar Ghiabi. This book has sought to problematize state-centred narratives of modern Iranian history and to move beyond a narrow national context, demonstrating the explanatory power of global, transnational and comparative approaches to the social history of the Middle East. Full details | Add event |
| 30 May 2022 | 12:30 | The Centre for Persian and Iranian Studies is delighted to invite you to this wonderful event at the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies on Monday 30 May 2022. The event will be preceded by a lunch in the street gallery starting at 12. Full details | Add event |
| 9 February 2022 | 17:00 | Ethnography across borders: tracing digital-visual threads between Afghanistan, Iran, Italy and the UK. Full details | Add event |
| 3 February 2022 | 17:00 | Full details | Add event |
| 13 May 2019 | 16:30 | Richard Foltz (Ph.D., Harvard, 1996) is a cultural historian specializing in the broader Iranian world and his work highlights the wide-ranging influence of Iranian civilization on diverse societies stretching from the Balkans to China.. Full details | Add event |
| 28 February 2018 | 17:15 | In Persian tradition and literature, Alexander the Great is usually depicted with two faces – either as the two-horned one of the Qur’an or as the accursed-one of Zoroastrian tradition. This lecture endeavours to show that Persian literature, legend and mythopoetics has much more to say about Alexander than simply this, while demonstrating why and how the Persian image of Alexander is completely distinguishable from the Islamic portrayal of the world conqueror. I will concentrate on how the Greek Alexander Romance entered classical Persian literature, revealing how Alexander became as Persian as any other hero/king in the Persian tradition, as well as illustrate with great detail how Alexander is pictured in the works of great Persian poets ranging from the tenth to seventeenth century, with particular focus on Nizami’s Book of Alexander. I also demonstrate the existence of a positive view of Alexander in both Classical Arabic and Persian sources that is not just the result of biases derived from the Islamic era, but which also reflects the viewpoint of the pre-Islamic Persian depiction of Alexander.. Full details | Add event |
| 2 - 4 October 2015 | | The study of settler colonialism as an historical, geographical and political formation is attracting the attention of more and more scholars around the globe. Our effort will be oriented towards the examination of the settler colonial paradigm’s validity in the context of Palestine. The organisers encourage interdisciplinary and comparative approaches to the study of settler colonialism in Palestine, so as to build bridges between settler colonial studies and other disciplines, as well as to challenge Israel’s alleged exceptionality. Full details | Add event |
