PMA Talks

2025

December 2025

Persian Manuscript Painting, TBC.

Dr Anna Contadini
SOAS, University of London


November 2025

Safavid Majmu’a Manuscripts, TBC.

Dr Mahroo Moosavi
Max-Planck Institute


July 2025

The Ades Collection of Ceramics and Its Provenance

Dr Fuchsia Hart
Victoria and Albert Museum

Now available: the recording on YouTube.


June 2025

Zoroastrians During the Iranian Constitutional Revolution: Petitions, the Press and Political Rights

Dr Alexandra Buhler
SOAS, University of London

Now available: the recording on YouTube.


May 2025

From Manuscript to Carpet: The Talking Tree Motif in the Service of Safavid Sufi Discourse

Dr Roxana Zenhari
University of Göttingen

Now available: the recording on YouTube.


April 2025

A Review of Early Manuscripts of Nasr Allah Munshi’s Kalila Va Dimna

Dr Theodore Beers
Drexel University

Now available: the recording on YouTube.


March 2025

Persian Manuscript Catalogues in Cambridge, a Door into Digital Humanities

Yasmin Faghihi
Cambridge University Library

Now available: the recording on YouTube.


February 2025

Studies on Persian Paper in Manuscript Collections of the Malek National Library

Noshad Rokni
Malek Library and Museum


January 2025

Cobalt and Gold: Re-Examining Lajvardina Wares and Links to Persian Manuscript Painting

Dr Richard McClary
University of York

Now available: the recording on YouTube.