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 …
Himalaya Study Afternoon at the Trust
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 …