Les Cahiers de Bamiyan: Lire et interpréter les documents persans de l'Afghanistan médiéval
08 February 2024
Invisible East Director, Arezou Azad, talks at Inalco
Persian Qutbshahi Documents from India
14 December 2023
Eva Orthmann discusses bilingual texts from the Qutbshahi dynasty
In Search of Urban Geopolitics: Deep Mapping Tehran's Lalehzar District, 1880-1960
16 November 2023
Ida Meftahi discusses the strategies and challenges of building a new collection based on an extensive multi-dimensional and international archival search on various aspects of Lalehzar district in Tehran
Slavery in eastern Iranian regions: the case of late antique Bactria
16 October 2023
Reza Husseini talks about slavery in late antique Bactria for the webinar series Rethinking History: Returning to Archives and Documents
The Archival Remnants of Art; or, an Intimate Lunch with Abu Turab Ghaffari
28 September 2023
Shabnam Golkhandan discusses the multiple lives of the same image across various kinds of technologies on paper to reflect upon the variety of viewerships they created and sustained
The Village and the Archive: On Documents in Iranian Languages (11th-13th century)
20 July 2023
Arezou Azad discusses the Bamiyan Papers for the webinar series Rethinking History: Returning to Archives and Documents
From Bactrian to Arabic: Changes in Seals and Sealing Practices as Observed in the Documents from Bactria
29 June 2023
Judith Lerner discusses seals and sealings on Bactrian and Khorasan documents
State Documents from the Medieval Islamicate World
21 June 2023 to 22 June 2023
Colloquium co-organised by University of Princeton and the Invisible East programme
The Arabic documents from early Islamic Khurasan
15 June 2023
Geoffrey Khan talks about Arabic documents from the 8th century AD for the series Rethinking History: Returning to Archives and Documents
Closing a Bank Account in Early 18th-Century Isfahan
05 June 2023
Professor Edmund Herzig discusses a document in the in the Archivio di Stato in Venice that winds up a long-standing banking arrangement between a prominent Julfa Armenian merchant family, and a family of Indian bankers.
Presence and Silence: The Iran Archives in the German Foreign Office
18 May 2023
Jennifer Jenkins talks about the enormous archive on Iran held at the German Foreign Office in Berlin for the webinar series Rethinking History: Returning to Archives and Documents
Tracking the Qur'ān in European Culture
17 May 2023
Professor John Tolan talks about the perception of Qur'ān by European Christians in the 12th - 16th century.
