2024
- 7 June: James White (University of Oxford): Editing Early Modern Persian Poetry from Iran and India: Global Perspectives and Local Identities |More
- 3 May: Michael Shenkar (Hebrew University of Jerusalem/University of Oxford): A Scene of Fire Worship from the Late Umayyad Palace at Sanjar-Shah and the Sogdian Cult in the 8th Century |More
- 26 April: Leilah Vevaina (Chinese University of Hong Kong): Of Worldly Deeds and Sacred Souls: The Trust and Parsi Muktad Ceremonies |More
- 21 March: Cambridge Festival. Cameron Petrie (University of Cambridge; Ancient India & Iran Trust): How Do You Map the Archaeological Heritage of South Asia? The Whys and Wherefores of Large-Scale Mapping and Surveying of Archaeological Sites in the Indus River Basin |Watch
- 15 March: Pierfrancesco Callieri (University of Bologna and ISMEO, Italy): New Observations on the Achaemenid Presence in the Persian Gulf |More
- 1 March: Richard Widdess (SOAS University of London): Music for a Royal Ceremony, Kathmandu 1664 CE |More
- 9 February: Warwick Ball (Near-Eastern archaeologist and author): East of the Wardrobe: Islam and Iran in C.S. Lewis’s Chronicles of Narnia |More
- 26 January: Katherine Schofield (King’s College London): Music and Musicians in Late Mughal India: Histories of the Epemeral, 1748–1858 |More
2023
- 15 December: Harold Bailey Memorial Lecture. John Curtis (British Museum; Iran Heritage Foundation): The Oxus Treasure: Fact or Fiction? |More
- 1 December: Katie Campbell (University of Cambridge): The Mongol Conquest and Urban Abandonments at the City of Otrar, Kazakhstan |More
- 11 November: Said Reza Huseini (University of Cambridge):
Tarikh-i Alfi: The Mughals’ World History |More - 20 October: Alison Ohta (Royal Asiatic Society): Extraordinary Endeavours: The Royal Asiatic Society, 1823–2023 |More
- 9 June: Sam Lasman (University of Cambridge): Snake Men: Azhdahа̄ in the Persian Epic Tradition |More
- 26 May: Vivek Gupta (University of Cambridge): Intermedial effects around 1400: scribal knowledge and ornament between the Deccan and the Indian Ocean World |More
- 5 May: Sarah Knight (independent scholar): The Pahlavi inscription on the ‘Persian Cross’ of Mylapore in South India, and its implications for the religious identity of the Syrian Christians of Kerala |More
- 28 April: Paulina Niechciał (Jagiellonian University, Kraków): Lived Zoroastrianism: women’s religious practices in the American diaspora |More
- 17 March: Cambridge Festival. Joe Cribb (Hebei Normal University; British Museum; Ancient India & Iran Trust): Money is power: a metaphorical and numismatic approach |More
- 24 February: Janet Pope & Peter Jackson (independent researchers; Ancient India & Iran Trust): The Protestant Mission to the Buryats, 1818–1840 |More
- 17 February: Muhammad Waqar Mushtaq (The Islamia University of Bahawalpur): Mapping Archaeological Heritage in the Cholistan Desert, Pakistan: from screen to field and back again |More
- 27 January: Moazzam Khan Durrani (The Islamia University of Bahawalpur): Magnifying the monumental value of South Punjab, Pakistan: a case study of Bahawalpur state |Watch
2022
- 3 December: Eighth Allchin Symposium on South Asian Archaeology |More
- 25 November: Jeffrey P. Charest (independent scholar): Intercultural themes in the Post-Hellenistic music cultures of Bactria, Gandhāra and Indo-Greek kingdoms |More
- 4 November: Ursula Sims-Williams (British Library; Ancient India & Iran Trust): The many faces of Alexander the Great |More
- 14 October: T. Richard Blurton (British Museum; Ancient India & Iran Trust): India: a history in objects |More
- 17 September: Open Cambridge. A hidden gem in the heart of Cambridge: open day |More
- 10 June: John MacGinnis (British Museum): Clash of empires: excavating a Parthian outpost in the mountains of Kurdistan |More
- 20 May: Antonio Panaino (University of Bologna): The souls of women in the Zoroastrian afterlife |More
- 1 April: Cambridge Festival. Joe Cribb (Hebei Normal University; British Museum; Ancient India & Iran Trust): The origins of coinage: China and Turkey c. 600 BC |Watch
- 11 March: Priyanka Jha (Banaras Hindu University): Negotiating thresholds: Cornelia Sorabjee’s contributions to shaping Gendered intellectual history in modern India |More
- 18 March: Yousef Moradi (SOAS University of London): The Zoroastrian sanctuary of Takht-e Solayman in the light of newly discovered Sasanian bullae and seal impressions |More
2021
- 17 December: Harold Bailey Memorial Lecture. Nicholas Sims-Williams (SOAS University of London; Ancient India & Iran Trust): ‘Miserable scraps’: the joy of decoding unconsidered trifles |More
- 29 October: Roda Ahluwalia (independent scholar), and Ursula Sims-Williams (British Library; Ancient India & Iran Trust): Insights on Mughal art & culture: the imperial library of the Mughals |More
- 11 June: Cameron Petrie (University of Cambridge; Ancient India & Iran Trust) 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 March: Cambridge Festival. Samuel N.C. Lieu, (International Union of Academies; Robinson College, Cambridge; Ancient India and Iran Trust): Before Gallipoli there was Homer: the new Trojan war of 1915 |Watch
- 26 February: Emily Hannam (Royal Collection Trust, Windsor Castle): Persia in the Royal Library, Windsor |More
- 12 February: Domenico Agostini (Tel Aviv University) and Samuel Thrope (National Library of Israel; University of Haifa): The search for lost time: insights on Zoroastrian literature from the new translation of the Bundahišn |Watch
2020
- 5 December: Seventh Allchin Symposium on South Asian Archaeology |More
- 4 December: Dinyar Patel (S.P. Jain Institute of Management and Research, Mumbai): Naoroji: pioneer of Indian Nationalism |Watch
- 30 October: Joe Cribb (British Museum; Ashmolean Museum; Ancient India & Iran Trust): Coinage in Afghanistan during the period of Islamic conquest c AH 30–256 AD 650–870 |Watch
2019
- 13 December: Harold Bailey Memorial Lecture. Vesta Sarkhosh Curtis (British Museum): Divine imagery in ancient Persia |More
- 7 December: Sixth Allchin Symposium on South Asian Archaeology |More
- 29 November: Charlie Gammell (independent scholar): Questions of identity in Herat’s past, present and future: 800 years of confusion and change |More
- 8 November: Friends’ event: Joe Cribb (British Museum; Ashmolean Museum; Ancient India & Iran Trust): The Ancient India & Iran Trust coin collection: an introduction |More
- 25 October: Cambridge Festival of Ideas. Ursula Sims-Williams (British Library; Ancient India & Iran Trust): Tipu Sultan: judging the man by his books |More
- 11 October: Moojan Momen (Afnan Library): The Baha’i faith and Iranian religion |More
- 31 May: Saloumeh Gholami (Goethe University Frankfurt): Endangered Zoroastrian heritage of Iran: new insights from recently discovered manuscripts |More
- 10 May: Richard Foltz (Concordia University, Montréal): From Sintashta to Samarkand: the Tajiks and their ancestors in Central Asian history |More
- 26 April: Friends’ event: Sam Lieu (Macquarie University, Sydney; Ancient India and Iran Trust): Manichaean art and calligraphy from the Silk Road |More
- 8 March: Georgina Herrmann (University College London): Royal Merv, a city on the Great Silk Road |More
- 22 February: Friends’ event: Joe Cribb (British Museum; Ashmolean Museum; Ancient India and Iran Trust): Coins as the key to ancient Central Asian history |More
- 25 January: Preeti Khosla (independent scholar): Reintroducing the Ni’matnamah half a century later |More
2018
- 7 December: Susan Whitfield (University College London): Silk, slaves and stupas: material culture of the Silk Road |More
- 1 December: Fifth Allchin Symposium on South Asian Archaeology |More
- 30 November: Keynote Lecture, Allchin Symposium on South Asian Archaeology (McDonald Institute): Richard Blurton (British Museum): The Hotung Gallery at the British Museum: different ideas, and some new views of Amaravati |More
- 9 November: Katherine Butler Schofield (King’s College London): The courtesan and the memsahib: Khanum Jan, Sophia Plowden and their Hindustani airs, Lucknow 1788 | More
- 26 October: Cambridge Festival of Ideas: Christine van Ruymbeke (Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Cambridge; Ancient India and Iran Trust): Literary criticism and the pendulum of taste: the reception of the Anvar-e Sohayli |More
- 8 June: Deborah Freeman Fahid (independent scholar & former Assistant Curator of The al-Sabah Collection, Kuwait): The Àger rock crystal chessmen: some early medieval imports from the Iranian world? | More
- 25 May: Joe Cribb (former Keeper of Coins and Medals, British Museum): Constructing Kushan chronology: Bactria and Gandhara 1st–4th century AD | More
- 18 May: Tree planting in memory of Bridget Allchin | More
- 18 May: Friends’ event: Rachel Rowe (Cambridge University Library): Archival adventures with ephemera: treasures from the Queen Mary Indian Collection | More
- 27 April: Deepak Paramashivan (University of Alberta) with Satvinder Sehmbey on tabla: Soulful Sarangi: an Indian classical music concert | More
- 17 March: Bridget Allchin memorial event at Wolfson College. Michael Petraglia (Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Jena): Following in Bridget Allchin’s footsteps: The current state of archaeology in South Asia | More
- 9 March: Special event for the Friends of the Trust: James Crowden (author): Soldier, spy, archaeologist and academic: the story of Professor K de B Codrington (1899-1986)
- 3 March: Visit of delegation from the Republic of Uzbekistan | More
- 23 February: Christopher Wright (British Library): Robert Ker Porter’s travels in Georgia, Persia, Armenia and Mesopotamia 1817-1820 | More
- 2 February: Almut Hintze (SOAS): The Multi-Media Yasna: recent research in Mumbai | More
- 19 January: Emily Hannam (Royal Collection): Georges, Nawabs and Nabobs: the British monarchs and India in the 18th century | More
2017
- 3 December: HW Bailey Memorial Lecture: Peter Frankopan (University of Oxford): Sir Harold Bailey and the content of Indian, Iranian and Asian Studies | More
- 17 November: Friends’ Event: Afternoon guided tour of Another India: Exploration and Expressions of Indigenous South Asia at the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology with exhibition curator Mark Elliott | More
- 10 November: Ursula Sims-Williams (British Library): Investigating the library of Tipu Sultan of Mysore | More
- 3 November: Mark Elliott (University of Cambridge): Curating Another India: object histories and contemporary voices | More
- 23 October: Cameron Petrie (University of Cambridge), part of Cambridge University’s Festival of Ideas: Climate change and collapse: a (not so) simple story of the relationship between climate and the decline of South Asia’s Indus Civilisation
- 20 October: Julius Lipner (University of Cambridge), part of Cambridge University’s Festival of Ideas: Hinduism and the elusiveness of Truth: the quest for integrity
- 13-14 October: Symposium The History of Lahore and the Preservation of its Historic Buildings | More
- 16 September: Open House at AIIT | More
- 2 June: Hans Bakker (British Museum) The Huns in Central and South Asia | More
- 26 May: Jesse Palsetia (Guelph) Parsi traders & travellers in the Age of Empire | More
- 12 May: Sâqib Bâburi (British Library) The Windsor Padshahnamah: A Royal Copy of Shah Jahan’s Chronicle) | More
- 5 May: Special event for the Friends of the Trust: Julius Lipner (Cambridge) Work in progress: from Bengal to Cambridge and back again – many times | More
- 24 April: Giles Tillotson (Maharaja Sawai Man Singh II Museum, City Palace, Jaipur): Recent developments at the Maharaja Sawai Man Singh II Museum, City Palace, Jaipur | More
- 11 March: Book launch: Holy Wealth: Accounting for This World and The Next in Religious Belief and Practice: Festschrift for John R. Hinnells | More
- 3 March: Special event for Friends of the Trust Catherine Ansorge (University Library, Cambridge): The Reverend George Lewis and his collection of Persian manuscripts | More
- 10 February: Elizabeth Key Fowden (FAMES/Classics, University of Cambridge): Eastern Kings and Ancient Philosophers in Ottoman Athens| More
- 27 January: Suraiya Faroqhi (Istanbul Bilgi University): Importing and marketing Iranian fabrics | More
2016
- 2-3 December: 4th Annual Allchin Symposium | More
- 2 December: Jennifer Scarce (University of Dundee)
Qajar nostalgia for Sassanians | More
- 18 November: Christian Sahner (St John’s College, Cambridge)
Zoroastrians and Christians under early Muslim rule | More
- 28 October: in association with the Cambridge Festival of Ideas:
Alan Williams (University of Manchester): Migration and the Mango Tree that Walked: the Arrival of Persian Zoroastrians in Eighth-century India
- 21 October: Sudeshna Guha (Shiv Nadar University)
‘Nineveh’ in Bombay and histories of Indian Archaeology | More
- 14 October: Special event for Friends of the Trust
Conor Jameson and Stephanie Morren (RSPB): Save Asia’s Vultures | More
- 9 July: Rubaiyat Research Day | More
- 20 June: Reception for workshop ‘Khamriyya as a World Poetic Genre’ | More
- 12 June: AIIT Summer Garden Party | More
- 3 June: AIIT Honorary Fellow Lecture 2016
Anna Dallapiccola: South Indian mural paintings (16th to 18th centuries) | More
- 22-23 May: Board Meeting and Workshop of the Societas Iranologica Europaea
- 20 May: Katherine Schofield (King’s College, London)
Music, art and affective power between 16th century North India and the Deccan - 12.5.16 Award of Sinor Medal to Nicholas Sims-Williams and Lecture: The Bactrian Archives | More
- 6 May: Special Event for Friends of the Trust
Geoffrey Hales: Kipling in India – a dramatized talk
- 18 March: Part of the Cambridge Science Festival
Raymond Mercier (Cambridge): Calendars in India and a problem with eclipses in Orissa | More - 26 February: Special Event for Friends of the Trust
T. Richard Blurton (British Museum): Krishna in the Garden of Assam
- 19 February: Arthur Dudney (Cambridge)
What language did Kiyomars speak? Seventeenth and Eighteenth century theories on the origins of Persian| More
- 12 February: Michelle Quay (Cambridge)
Female Heroism in Sufi Hagiographical texts – from Sulami (d. 1021) to ‘Attar (d. ca. 1221) | More
2015
- 16 December: Book launch: Arts of the Hellenized East | More
- 27 November: Robin Ackroyd
Mongol nutag, Chingisiin Ongon – Monglian homeland, Genghis Khan’s tomb - 20 November: Friends Event
Almut Hintze (SOAS): Living scholarship: a journey into Indo-Iranian Studies - 6 November: Cameron Petrie (Cambridge)
Adaptation to variable environments, resilience to climate change; Land, Water and Settlement and the Indus Civilization - 16 October: Christine van Ruymbeke (Cambridge)
Kashefi’s Anvar-e Sohayli: Rewriting Kalila wa-Dimna in Timurid Herat - 5 June: Rosemary Crill (Senior Curator, Asian Department, V&A Museum)
The Fabric of India - 8 May: John Falconer (Curator of Visual Arts, British Library)
Photography and the Archaeological Survey of India 1855-1900 - 24 April: Margaret Cone (Darwin College, Cambridge)
The Joys and Sorrows of Pali - 6 March: François de Blois (UCL)
Sasanian royalist ideology and Zoroastrian millennialism - 20 February: Vesta Curtis (British Museum)
The power and purpose of iconography in ancient Iran - 6 February: Special Event for Friends of the Trust
Sam Lieu (Macquarie University, Sydney): Between Parthia and Rome – Palmyra and Dura Europos - 23 January: Gabor Kosa (ELTE University, Budapest)
Judgement after death: the Manichaean cosmology painting
2014
- 5-6 December: Second Annual Allchin Symposium on South Asian Archaeology
- 5 December: at the McDonald Institute for Archeological Research,
Prof Michael Petraglia (Oxford): South Asia: Central or Peripheral to the Out of Africa Story - 28 November: Razia Sultanova (Cambridge)
Music of the Uzbeks of Northern Aghanistan - 14 November: Sam van Schaik (British Library)
The Married Monks of Kroraina - 7 November: Friends screening of: Following the Peacock, a film by Dr Eszther Spät
- 24 October: part of the Cambridge Festival of Ideas
Sir Nicholas Barrington: Envoy – the experiences of a diplomat in Asia - 17 October: Imre Galambos (Cambridge)
A Forgotten Civilisation: Remains of the Tangut Kingdom in Central Asia - 16 May: Nicholas Sims-Williams (SOAS)
Go East Young Man! A personal journey - 23 May: Touraj Daryaee (UCI)
The Sasanian Empire as a Garden: The walls and rivers of the Sasanian Empire - 11 May: Half day workshop
Bactria and the transition to Islam - 9 May: Nina Mirnig
The Religious Centre of Pashupatinath: Early Nepalese Shaiva Inscriptions in Context - 25 April: Prof Geoffrey Greatrex (Ottawa)
Procopius’ Persian Tales: entertainment, history or morality fable? - 21 February: Janice Stargardt (Cambridge)
The Early Kingdoms of Burma 1st-8th century CE - 14 February: Eleanor Sims
Heinrich Friedrich von Diez’s “little Collection of Paintings Illustrating Firdausi’s Shahnama”
2013
- 13 December: Bailey Memorial Lecture
Professor Maria Macuch (Berlin): Kinship Ties and Fictive Alliances in Sasanian Law - 6 December: part of inaugural Annual Allchin Symposium in South Asian Archaeology
Prof. Adam Hardy (Cardiff): Digging up Designs: reconstructing medieval Indian temples from stones, drawings and texts - 29 November: Christophe ROUSTAN-DELATOUR (Museums of Cannes)
The Spirit of Place: Penelope Betjeman’s Himalayan photographs - 29 November: Himalaya Round-table
- 8 November: Dr Llewelyn MORGAN (Oxford)
Gradus ad Aornon. Classicists in NW India & Afghanistan - 1 November: Prof. Monica SMITH (UCLA)The Urban Hinterlands of Kalinga in the Early Historic period: Archaeology at Sisupalgarh and Talapada
- 25 October: Dr Cameron PETRIE
Frontiers and edges of empires: living in the borderlands of Pakistan from the Neolithic to the spread of Islam - 14 June: Maria SCHETELICH (Leipzig)
Why Chess could have been invented in India. A never-ending Story - 7 June: Friends event:
Dr Sudeshna Guha: Tour of the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Cambridge - 31 May: Dr Arezou AZAD (Oxford)
The Balkh Art and Cultural Heritage project: exploration, maps and silk road history from Balkh, northern Afghanistan - 24 May: Dinyar PATEL (Harvard)
Indians in Late Victorian Britain: Perspectives from the Naoroji Papers - 3 May: Professor Almut HINTZE (SOAS)
A Zoroastrian Vision - 1 March: Dr Jeevan DEOL (Cambridge)
The Sikhs of Afghanistan: some notes toward a cultural, social and literary history ca. 1600-2012 - 15 February: Dr John MACGINNIS (Cambridge)
Excavating a Provincial capital of the Assyrian Empire: The Ziyaret Tepe Archaeological Project - 11 January: Dr Badshah SARDAR (Ancient India & Iran Trust)
Buddhist Collection of Nimogram Swat, Pakistan: Its History, Classification, Analysis and Chronology
2012
- 30 November: Dr Peter JOHANSEN (British Columbia)
Following in the Footsteps of the Allchins: Recent Archaeological Research in Central Karnataka - 23 November: Professor Louise MARLOW (Wellesley College)
Ancient Wisdom in Early Arabic Advice Literature - 16 November: Dr Annabel GALLOP (British Library)
Ottoman Links across the Indian Ocean - 2 November: Professor Eijiro DOYAMA (University of Osaka)
The unusual birth of the hero in ancient Indian mythology - 24 October: Professor Almut HINTZE (SOAS)
A Zoroastrian Vision - 25 May (3pm): Friends Event
A guided tour of the Fitzwilliam Museum’s exhibition The Search for Immortality: Tomb Treasures of Han China, led by exhibition curator Dr James Lin, Senior Assistant Keeper of Applied Arts - 11 May: Sue Stronge (Asian Department, V&A Museum)
Court art in the reign of Jahangir - 4 May: Professor Julius Lipner (Faculty of Divinity, Cambridge)
A Hostage to Fortune? Hinduism and the Classical - 27 April: Professor Jean Kellens (Collége de France, Paris)
Some Thoughts on Young Avestan Polytheism - 9 March: Dr Agnes Korn (Frankfurt)
Discoveries in language from modern and ancient times: Caucasian-Albanian to modern Udi - 24 February: Friends Event
Ursula Sims-Williams (Ancient India & Iran Trust and British Library)
Harold Bailey: Founding Trustee of the Ancient India & Iran Trust - 17 February: Dr Gillian JULEFF (Exeter)
Technology and evolution: Asian metallurgy from protohistoric Sri Lanka to Japanese steel - 10 February: Mr Kaveh BAKHTIAR (SOAS)
Islamic Architecture of Britain - 27 January: Dr Bruno de NICOLA (Cambridge)
The Mongol Khatun’s Economic Activity
2011
- 2 Dec: Dr Paul RUSSELL and Dr Elizabeth BOYLE (Cambridge)
Colonialism and Celticism: Whitley Stokes in India (1862-1882) - 25 Nov: Dr Razia SULTANOVA (Director, Centre for Central Asian Music, and Fellow, Central Asian Forum, Cambridge)
Music from Central Asia: From Shamanism to Sufism - 11 Nov: Veronica DOUBLEDAY (Independent Scholar)
The Legacy of Quatrain Singing as practiced in Afghanistan - 28 Oct: Dr Ilya YAKUBOVICH (Moscow State University)
The Invention of Old Persian - 26 Oct (Wed): Professor Nicholas SIMS-WILLIAMS (SOAS)
Deciphering Bactrian- An Illustrated Lecture - 14 Oct: Prof. A. POOLE (Cambridge), Dr. C van RUYMBEKE (Cambridge), William MARTIN and Sandra MASON (Independent Scholars & Chairs of AIIT Friends)
Omar Khayyám and FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát after 2009 - 10 June: Professor Herman TIEKEN (University of Leiden, Netherlands)
The function of the So-called Ashoka Pillars - 20 May: Dr Christiane ESCHE-RAMSHORN (Independent)
Christian Art between Europe and the Middle East (14th-15th c.). Nakhitchevan and its sacred geography explored in a multi-faith context - 6 May: Professor Alberto CANTERA, (University of Salamanca)
Why do we really need a new edition of the Avesta? - 19 April: Professor Robin CONINGHAM, (University of Durham)
Lumbini: preserving and protecting a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Nepal - 11 March: Anton ZYKOV (St Antony’s College, University of Oxford)
Nasusalars and khandias in the Zoroastrian communities of Iran and India - 25 February: Dr Erica HUNTER (School of African and Oriental Studies London)
The Christian Library from Turfan - 4 February: Dr Vincenzo VERGIANI (University of Cambridge)
Pānini’s Grammar: its role in the hegemony of Sanskrit and some open questions - 28 January: Professor Samuel N.C. LIEU, (Macquarie University, Australia)
From Xerxes to Kemal Ataturk
2010
- 10 Dec: Bailey Memorial Lecture: Professor Frantz Grenet (Paris)
The rediscovery of the court culture of the Qarakhanids (11th to early 13th centuries): recent results of the French-Uzbek Archaeological Mission at Afrasiab (Samarkand) - 26 Nov: Dr Annabel Gallop (British Library) and Dr Venetia Porter (British Museum) (lecture accompanying exhibition)
Islamic Seals: Treasures from the British Library and the British Museum - 19 Nov: Friends Event
Guided visit to the Shahname exhibition at the Fitzwilliam Museum, with Prof. Charles Melville. - 12 Nov: A celebration of the life and work of Dr Bridget Allchin and the late Dr Raymond Allchin
Professor Robin Coningham (Durham): From Kabul to Kelaniya: Raymond Allchin and the Archaeology of South Asia
Professor Robin Dennell (Sheffield): A life in stone: a retrospective appreciation of Bridget Allchin and the South Asian Palaeolithic’ - 29 Oct: Roger Cooper
A New Look at the Sikhs - 15 Oct: Professor Charles Melville (Cambridge)
An Illustrated Shahname - 4 June: Professor Vicente Dobroruka (University of Brasilia)
Hellenistic Political Propaganda and Zoroastrian Oracles - 28 May: Dr Rosemary Crill (Senior Curator, Victoria & Albert Museum, London)
The Indian Portrait 1560–1860 - 15 May: Special event
Recent Research on the Cultural History of Sri Lanka - 14 May: Dr Sethuraman Suresh (Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage, Chennai, India)
From Kanchipuram to Kampuchea: A Millennium of Trade and Cultural Exchanges between South India and Cambodia - 7 May: Professor Stanley Insler (Yale University)
The Oldest Zoroastrian Calendar - 12 February: Dr Cameron Petrie (University of Cambridge)
Lost rivers and life on the plains — human interaction with the environment in early Indian civilization - 29 January: Professor Michael Pye (University of Marburg and Otani University, Kyoto)
Lives of the Buddha and the initial dynamics of the Buddhist religion - 15 January: Conor Jameson and Rhys Green (Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, London)
Cause and consequences of the catastrophic decline of vultures across South Asia