Notice is hereby given that the 2024 Annual General Meeting of the British Institute of Persian Studies will be held at the British Academy, on Thursday 21^st of November 2024 at 5:00pm.

The AGM will consider and, if thought fit, pass the following resolutions, which will be proposed as ordinary resolutions:

1. To receive the Institute’s annual accounts for the financial year 2023-2024 together with the President’s report and examiners’ report on those accounts;
2. To reappoint the examiners;
3. To reappoint Mr Hossein Hamedani as Honorary Treasurer;
4. To announce the results of the Council elections. Instructions to submit nominations have been sent out to members. Information about the candidates and a link to vote online will be circulated in due course.

The Meeting will be followed by a lecture (in-person and online via Zoom) from Dr Robert Steele (Austrian Academy of Science) titled Examining the origins of Iran’s political and cultural ties with Africa under Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. Please register for the event here. A recording of the discussion will also be made available to members. The talk will be followed by a Q&A session. More details about the lecture will be shared with BIPS members shortly.