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.
Michaelmas Term 2021
Friday 17 December 2021, 5:30pm (GMT, in person and via Zoom)
Harold Bailey Memorial Lecture
Friday 29 October 2021, 5:30pm (BST, via Zoom)
Roda Ahluwalia, Independent Scholar
Ursula Sims-Williams, British Library; Ancient India & Iran Trust
Insights on Mughal Art & Culture: The Imperial Library of the Mughals |Read more and register
You can watch some of our past online lectures on our YouTube channel
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Past Events
- 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
Allchin Symposium on South Asian Archaeology
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7th Allchin Symposium on South Asian Archaeology: an online success
22 January, 2021By Alessandro Ceccarelli and Cameron Petrie On Saturday 5 December 2020, the first ever online version of the Allchin Symposium was hosted in Cambridge. In keeping with the tradition.
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