Arash Zeini

ANCIENT INDIA & IRAN TRUST

Friday Lectures, Michaelmas Term 2008
(5pm, 23 Brooklands Avenue, Cambridge)

3 October Mr Shyam Chainani (Bombay Environmental Action Group)

‘Defending Heritage: An Indian Experience’

31 October Mr Mohammed Tahir Zeb (Hazara University; AIIT Pakistan Visiting Fellow)

‘Early Islamic Monuments from DI Khan to Multan’

21 November Dr Iain Gardner (University of Sydney)

‘The Apostle Mani at the Court of King Shapur I: Towards an edition of the Coptic ‘Kephalaia’ Codex Housed in the Chester Beatty Library, Dublin’

Saturday One-Day Seminar: New Research in the field of Indian Art

29 November (Chair: Richard Blurton, British Museum)

Due to space restrictions, admission is strictly by ticket only. Please apply to the Administrator using the contact details above.

5 December Bailey Memorial LectureProfessor Robert Hillenbrand (University of Edinburgh

‘Why write on pots? Reflections on Medieval Persian Ceramics’

Special Event for AIIT Friends Only

24 October        Dr Vrej Nersessian (British Library)

‘Armenian manuscripts at the Ancient India and Iran Trust’

The Leiden Summer School in Languages and Linguistics 2008 will be held from 28 July - 08 August 2008 at the Faculty of Arts. This year’s Summer School consists of the following six programmes: the Indo-European Programme, the Iranian Programme, the Indological Programme, the Semitic Programme, the Russian Programme and the Dutch Programme.

The courses in Iranian languages are taught by Dr. Durkin-Meisterernst, Dr. de Vaan and Prof. Dr. Lubotsky.

For more information visit the School’s website.

Note: the lecture Programme has been revised

ANCIENT INDIA & IRAN TRUST

Friday Lectures, Easter Term 2008
(5pm, 23 Brooklands Avenue, Cambridge)

25 April: Dr Kate Crosby (SOAS)

Pali as a Sacred Language

9 May: Ursula Sims-Williams (British Library)

Reconstructing Provenance, with reference to Central Asian Manuscript Collections

23 May: Film screening, introduced by Rastin Mehri (SOAS)

Zoroastrians in British Columbia: Performance and Identity (45 mins)

13 June: Professor Prods Oktor Skjærvø (Harvard University)

Unveiling the Past: How the Old Iranian Scripts were Deciphered

After having spent some time on Professor Skjærvø’s article on orality in the study of Old Iranian literature, I look forward to his lecture.

A film from the creators of Persepolis Recreated. This illuminating documentary showcases numerous examples of some 7,000 years of Iran’s elebrated culture, art and architecture.
Producer: Farzin Rezaeian
USA, 2006, 60 minutes
BP Lecture Theatre
Admission free, booking required

British Museum - Iran: seven faces of a civilisation