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


October 2025

Traditional Painting Practice in Contemporary India: The Workshop of Ajay and Vinita Sharma in Jaipur

Dr Jochen Sokoly
The Virginia Commonwealth University School of the Arts in Qatar


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.