Thursday 13 March Presentation of the Royal Asiatic Society Medal 2014 to Dr Bridget Allchin with a lecture in her honour: From Oxus to Mysore: the Story of the Allchin Partnership in South Asian Archaeology by Professor Robin Coningham (University of Durham) Royal Asiatic Society, 14 Stephenson Way, London NW1 2HD T: 0207 388 4539 The lecture will start at 6pm and will be followed by a small reception. All welcome. http://www.royalasiaticsociety.org/site/?q=node/464
AIIT Friday Lecture Series: 14th February 2014
Eleanor Sims Heinrich Friedrich von Diez’s “Little Collection of Paintings Illustrating Firdausi’s Shahnama” The Prussian Royal Library, the Königliche Bibliothek, in Berlin was greatly enriched in 1817 with the bequest made by the former Prussian ambassador to the Sublime Porte, Heinrich Friedrich von Diez: virtually his entire Orientalist library, nearly 17,000 books, manuscripts, albums, unpublished dissertations and an extensive coin-collection. Largely overlooked, until planning for the Firdausi Millennial was well under way in Berlin, was that Diez had also bequeathed to the Prussian Library a small “collection of Eastern paintings, …
Trust Update
A busy season at the Ancient India and Iran Trust included a Himalaya Study Afternoon on 29 November celebrating Christophe Roustan-Delatour’s work on the Penelope Betjeman (Chetwode) Collection of photographs of Himachal Pradesh. The seminar looked at related collections in presentations by Anna Maria Motrescu-Mayes of the Centre for South Asian Studies, Cambridge; John Falconer of the British Library and Christophe Roustan-Delatour from the Museums of Cannes. Richard Blurton (British Museum) and Ursula Sims Williams (British Library and AIIT) chaired. The capacity audience for Christophe’s public lecture the same evening …
The Bailey Memorial Lecture 2013
The Bailey Memorial Lecture 2013. Professor Maria Macuch will speak on ‘Kinship Ties and Fictive Alliances in Sasanian Law’ at the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Sidgwick Avenue, Cambridge CB3 9DA on Friday 13 December at 5.30pm. Light refreshments will be served. Please note the venue. Maria Macuch is Professor of Iranian Studies and head of the Institut fuer Iranistik (Institute of Iranian Studies) of the Freie Universitaet Berlin. She was President of the Societas Iranologica Europaea from 2003-2007 and a member of the SIE-Board since 1999. She is editor …
‘Wise Men from the East: Zoroastrian Traditions in Persia and Beyond’ (British Museum)
Exhibition: ‘Wise men from the east: Zoroastrian traditions in Persia and beyond’ British Museum, 24 October 2013 – 27 April 2014 ‘This small exhibition will explain Zoroastrianism, an ancient but living religion named after the Prophet Zarathustra, through objects and coins from Persia (Iran) and beyond.’ The display will feature a variety of ancient and modern objects and coins, and will highlight the importance of Zoroastrian traditions in other religions. It will touch on the concept and imagery of the Three Kings of the Christian tradition, who are described in …