What’s On

What’s On at the AIIT

We hold regular public lectures at 5:30pm on Friday evenings during University term in addition to special events, conferences, workshops and occasional exhibitions. We also have an active Friends group. As part of the ‘family’, Friends are invited to special events, our traditional Summer Garden Party and other social functions, and are always welcome to visit the Trust.

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Michaelmas Term Lectures 2022

All lectures are held at the Trust and begin at 5:30pm (refreshments from 5pm). Everyone is welcome. Further details about the talks can be found here.

14 October: T. Richard Blurton, British Museum; Ancient India & Iran Trust

India: A History in Objects

4 November: Ursula Sims-Williams, British Library; Ancient India & Iran Trust

The Many Faces of Alexander the Great

This is now a hybrid event, which will be held at the Trust and on Zoom.

Detail from Aïrtam frieze, 1st-2nd century CE; Termez Archaeological Museum, Uzbekistan. Photo: Sue Fleckney, 1 May 2018, licensed under Creative Commons CC BY-SA 2.0. Image cropped from original: https://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected]/44722751535/

25 November: Jeffrey P. Charest, independent scholar

Intercultural Themes in the Post-Hellenistic Music Cultures of Bactria, Gandhāra and Indo-Greek Kingdoms

Now on our YouTube channel

Joe Cribb, Hebei Normal University; British Museum; Ancient India & Iran Trust

The Origins of Coinage: China and Turkey c. 600 BC

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Left: Bronze hoe-shaped coin of Zhou, central northern China. Right: Gold-silver alloy coin of ‘Phanes’, western Turkey © British Museum

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Past Events

17.9.22: Open Day: A Hidden Gem in the Heart of Cambridge |More
10.6.22: Clash of empires: excavating a Parthian outpost in the mountains of Kurdistan |More
20.5.22: The Souls of Women in the Zoroastrian afterlife |More
1.4.22: The Origins of Coinage: China and Turkey c. 600 BC |Watch
18.3.22: The Zoroastrian sanctuary of Takht-e Solayman in the light of newly discovered Sasanian bullae and seal impressions |More
11.3.22: Negotiating thresholds: Cornelia Sorabjee’s Contributions to shaping gendered intellectual history in modern India |More
17.12.21: ‘Miserable scraps’: the joy of decoding unconsidered trifles |More
29.10.21: Insights on Mughal art and culture: the imperial library of the Mughals |More
11.6.21: Living in the borderlands: a lecture to launch the book
Resistance at the Edge of Empires: The Archaeology and History of the Bannu Basin from 1000 BC to AD 1200 |More
26.3.21: Before Gallipoli there was Homer: the new Trojan war of 1915 |Watch
26.2.21: Persia in the Royal Library, Windsor |More
12.2.21: The search for lost time: insights on Zoroastrian literature from the new translation of the Bundahišn |Watch

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