BIPS: A vision for the future
by Charles Melville and Judith Thomalsky
The Simorgh at the birth of Rustam, Shahnama, Chester Beatty Library, Dublin, MS Per 277.03
After a year of celebrating the 60th anniversary of the British Institute of Persian Studies it is a good moment to look ahead to future possibilities rather than back to past achievements in a very different era.
The current challenges to working in Iran does not mean that we cannot continue to work with and research on Iran, while exploring new international partnerships and also promoting the study of Persian in the UK.
The AGM lecture by Charles Melville, President of BIPS, will outline some visions for the next 60 years and will be joined (online) in discussion by Dr Judith Thomalsky of the German Archaeological Institute in Tehran.
Watch the video on our YouTube channel.