The latest issue of our newsletter focuses on recent events and developments at the Trust and includes an interview with our new Honorary Fellow Professor Maria Macuch by Almut Hintze and an illustrated article by Ursula Sims-Williams on the exhibition The Everlasting Flame: Zoroastrianism in History and Imagination, a major exhibition at SOAS co-curated by two of our Trustees and to which the Trust lent a number of items. We hope you enjoy this issue. Please don’t hesitate to let us know if you have any suggestions for news items …
Summer Garden Party 2014
Over 120 people attended the Trust’s annual Summer Garden Party on Sunday 1st June. The weather was unusually kind!
Friday Lecture by Toraj Daryaee
Friday Lectures – Easter Term 2014, 23 May: Touraj Daryaee (UCI), ‘The Sasanian Empire as a Garden: The Walls and Rivers of the Sasanian Empire’ This lecture looks at the physical and ideological boundaries which the Sasanians created for the idea of Iranshahr. In this late antique construct, inside the empire, protected by walls and rivers was imagined as a garden where order and beauty was in existence. Outside of the walls and the rivers it was seen as place of wilderness and disorder. This binary division was at the centre …
Lecture Reminder : Friday 9th May
Don’t Forget: This Friday’s lecture at AIIT is by Nina Mirnig on The Religious Centre of Pashupatinah: Early Nepalese Shaiva Inscriptions in Context. Refreshments from 5pm, lecture begins at 5.30pm – all welcome!
Bactria and the Transition to Islam Workshop
This workshop will be held on Saturday 10th May – Sunday 11th May, 2014 at the Ancient India and Iran Trust, 23 Brooklands Avenue, Cambridge CB2 8BG, in association with the Balkh Art and Cultural Heritage project, University of Oxford. During the last couple of years, researchers connected with the Oxford Balkh project (www.balkhheritage.org) have been researching the history of Balkh in the early Islamic era on the basis of archaeological and textual sources. At the same time, other scholars and teams have been studying an ever-increasing quantity of manuscripts, …