Public Lectures
2024
October 30, Kayan Tahmasebian, “Persian Moraqqa and the Interspaces of Comparison,” delivered at the Khalili Research Centre, University of Oxford.
September 9, Kayvan Tahmasebian, “Medieval Persian Constellations. Crossing the Boundaries of Astrology, Art of the Book, and Rhetoric” at the 44th Cologne Conference on Medieval Studies (KMT 2024: Konstellationen). Full programme here.
June 2, Rebecca Ruth Gould and Kayvan Tahmasebian, “The Persian Prison Poem,” Iranica Seminar Series
2022
October 27, Kayan Tahmasebian, “Laff va Nashr in Medieval Persian Art and Poetics,” delivered at the Khalili Research Centre, University of Oxford.
May 28, Rebecca Ruth Gould, “Canon Making and Canon Breaking in the Caucasus: Bakikhanov, Akhundzadeh, Talibov,” keynote lecture.
May 4-5, Kayan Tahmasebian, “The Politics of Medieval Islamic Oneiromancy,” presented at The Turk-o-Tajik World: Coalescence of Turkic, Arabic, and Persian Spheres (c. 900–1900) academic conference.
May 2, Rebecca Ruth Gould and Kayvan Tahmasebian, “The Persian Prison Poem from South Asia to the Caucasus: Towards an Anthology,” keynote lecture for the Alireza Ahmadian Lectures in Iranian & Persianate Studies, University of British Columbia, Department of Asian Studies.
2021
October 28, Nasrin Askari, “The Perso-Islamic Ideas and Ideal of Kingship,” keynote lecture for the conference Expectations of Justice and Political Power in the Islamicate World (ca. 600–1500 CE), delivered on 28 October 2021.
July 13, Nasrin Askari, “Folktales,” presented at the Persian Arts of the Book conference, organized by the Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford. Recording available via The Bodleian Libraries Podcasts (BODcasts).
2020
November 3, Kayvan Tahmasebian and Rebecca Ruth Gould were invited by Yale’s Department of Comparative Literature to read and discuss modern Iranian poetry and translation, in a discussion titled “Translating Iranian Poetry: Elahi, Alizadeh, Tahmasebian”
2019
March 15, Rebecca Ruth Gould, “Multilingualism as a Stimulus to Islamic Literary Theory,” a lecture at the India International Centre, New Delhi. Audio available.
February 22, Professor Wafi Haj Majid, “Between Articulate Challenges & Multifaceted Meanings: Reflections with al-Jurjānī,” inaugural lecture for the project at University of Birmingham.