SOAS, University of London (The School of Oriental and African Studies)

Professor Sheila Blair, Norma Jean Calderwood University Professor of Islamic and Asian Art, Boston College

13, 14, 17 & 18 January

From the Samanids to the Safavids: Persian Art in Medieval Times

1. Word and Image:  A bowl from Nishapur
2. Perfuming the Air:  a Rosewater sprinkler from Herat
3. Monumentality under the Mongols:  The tomb of Uljaytu at Sultaniyya
4. Rediscovering roots: the Ardabil Carpets

An evening of poetry, dance and music.

Cyrus Alai

A lecture by Dr Cyrus Alai, focusing on the history of the political maps of Persia up to the early parts of the 20th century.

Part of the Centre for Iranian Studies monthly film event.

Part of the Centre for Iranian Studies monthly film event.

Part of the Centre for Iranian Studies monthly film event.

This new course explores the political system of the Islamic Republic of Iran and examines some of the principal political and economic challenges that it is facing.

Hamid Dabashi, Columbia University, New York

Lecture to be preceded by a reception in the Brunei Suite.

Parvaneh Pourshariati, The Ohio State University; Touraj Daryaee, University of California, Irvine

Two lectures organised jointly with the British Institute of Persian Studies (BIPS)

Part of the Festival of Music in Middle Eastern Cinema, a mini-festival of feature and documentary films, and a two-day conference, focusing on the rich musical heritage and the burgeoning new music scenes in the Middle East: Saturday 14th May to Friday 20th May 2011

The eighth programme in The Idea of Iran annual series.

Homa Katouzian, University of Oxford

A talk by Dr Katouzian, Editor, Iranian Studies, Journal of the International Society for Iranian Studies and The Middle East Centre, St Antony's College, Oxford, on the famous Iranian novelist and author Sadeq Hedayat followed by a screening of From No. 37  which looks at the author's life from his childhood in Iran, his life in France until his suicide in Paris.

The Centre for Iranian Studies invites you to a forum with contributors to the new anthology The People Reloaded: The Green Movement and the Struggle for Iran's Future

Hitchkas and Reveal

Rap as the sound of young Iran: An evening with Hitchkas and Reveal

Screening of the documentary Sedāy-e dovom “Back Vocals”  (2003) by Mojtaba Mirtahmasb.

Event to mark the tenth anniversary of the Soudavar Memorial Foundation.

The course will explore the political system of the Islamic Republic of Iran and will examine some of the principal political and economic challenges that it is facing.

The newly formed International Iranian Economic Association (IIEA) is pleased to announce its first international conference on Iran’s Economy to be held at SOAS