Conferences
Academic conferences, lectures and symposia exploring Persian and Iranian studies.
The Idea of Iran: Iran in Transition to a New World Order
The eighteenth century saw the collapse of the Safavid Empire that had given Iran a long period of relative peace and stability and growing, closer encounters with Europeans and European interests. The following decades present a chaotic spectrum of disintegration and recovery, contraction, expansion and competing dynastic entities as power was contested between Nader and the Afsharids in the East, the Zands in the […]
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The Idea of Iran: The Second Safavid Century
The fifteenth programme in The Idea of Iran annual series and the second dedicated to the Safavid era. What does the Idea of Iran mean at this period? Can we discern the ways that contemporaries viewed their traditions and their environment (natural or built); what was the view of outsiders, and how does modern scholarship […]
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