Grant Reports
Below is a selection of our recent research and travel grant recipients’ reports on their BIPS-funded fieldwork, workshops, conferences etc. All award-holders are required to submit a report, and some are invited to present their research at the annual Spring Roundtable (which is held March – May every year).
A full list of awards made in each financial year are available in our Annual Review.
Rome and Sasanian Iran: Two Conferences and a Workshop
Decline of Iran in the Writings of Contemporary Iranian Intellectuals
The game of kings at the Ghaznavid court: an examination of the Shatranj-nama MSS held at the Biruni Institute, Tashkent
Displaying Empire: Imperial Approaches to Power and Identity in Persia and the Near East
Rural life in a changing world: new light on economic development and inequality in Central Asia under the Kushan Empire
The Hasanlu Ivories viewed through a New Materialist lens
International Medieval Congress: Roman and Sasanian Networks and Entanglements
Textual History of the Shāhnāma in Fourteenth-Century Shiraz
Documenting the disappearing archaeological heritage of Seeb (Muscat, Oman)
The Iconography of War and Violence in Persia and the Near East
Persianate legacies in post-Soviet Central Asia and on contemporary Iran-Uzbekistan relations
