FRIDAY 29TH NOVEMBER 2013: 2.30pm – 7pm To celebrate Christophe Roustan-Delatour’s work on the Penelope Betjeman Collection of photographs of Himachal Pradesh, this seminar will look at related collections and websites, followed by discussion and a lecture. at the Ancient India and Iran Trust, 23 Brooklands Avenue, Cambridge, CB2 8BG. Refreshments will be served from 2pm. ***Advance Booking Only*** If you wish to attend, please contact our administrator, Brendan Griggs on info@indiran.org or 01223 356841
Friday Lecture – 8th November
Dr Llewelyn MORGAN will be talking on Gradus ad Aornon: Classicists in NW India and Afghanistan at the Ancient India and Iran Trust this Friday 8th November. Refreshments from 5pm, lecture begins at 5.30pm. Dr Morgan is a Fellow of Brasenose College, Oxford and is University Lecturer in Classical Languages and Literature, and Tutorial Fellow in Classics. He has a special interest in Roman literature, and has published on Virgil, Ovid, Horace, satire, historiography and metrical form. He also has interests in numismatics, the classical tradition, and the Greeks in …
Friday Lecture: 1st November
Friday 01 November, 2013 ***THIS WEEK’S FRIDAY LECTURE*** Professor Monica SMITH (UCLA) on THE URBAN HINTERLANDS OF KALINGA IN THE EARLY HISTORIC PERIOD: Archaeology at Sisupalgarh and Talapada Monica Smith is Professor in the Department of Anthropology at UCLA. Her research interests are comparative modern and ancient urbanism, trade and economics in prehistory, archaeological method and theory, the anthropology of food, South Asia, the Indian Ocean and the Mediterranean. She has published extensively, has worked at a number of excavations and surveys in India, and is Co-Director of the Sisupalgarh …
First Friday Lecture of the Michaelmas Term – A Festival of Ideas Event
FRIDAY 25TH OCTOBER 2013 ****PLEASE BE ADVISED THAT THIS EVENT IS NOW FULLY BOOKED**** ***FIRST LECTURE OF THE MICHAELMAS TERM*** ***A Festival of Ideas Event – BOOKING ESSENTIAL!*** Dr Cameron PETRIE (Lecturer in South Asian and Iranian Archaeology, Cambridge and Trustee of the Ancient India and Iran Trust) on FRONTIERS AND EDGES OF EMPIRES: Living in the borderlands of Pakistan from the Neolithic to the spread of Islam Lecture begins at 5.30pm – ADVANCE BOOKING ONLY FOR THIS EVENT – Please contact the Administrator to reserve a place: email: info@indiran.org, …
‘The Everlasting Flame: Zoroastrianism in History & Imagination’ Exhibition at SOAS
The Everlasting Flame: Zoroastrianism in History and Imagination — exhibition held from 11th October 2013 to 14th December 2013, in the Brunei Gallery, SOAS, London. ‘One of the world’s oldest religions, Zoroastrianism originated amongst Iranian tribes in Central Asia during the second millennium BCE and spread to Iran where it became the principal faith until the advent of Islam. Central to the religion is the belief in a sole creator god, Ahura Mazda, his emissary Zarathustra (Zoroaster) and the dichotomy between good and evil. The Everlasting Flame: Zoroastrianism in History and …