30 November Mr John Hare (Chair, Wild Camel Protection Foundation) – The Mysteries of Lop Nur
16 November Dr Rupa Viswanath (Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge) – The state’s response to “untouchables” in 19th century South India
2 November Professor Geoffrey Khan (University of Cambridge) – Newly discovered Arabic documents from early Islamic Khurasan
19 October Mr Michael Axworthy (Morwenstow, Cornwall) – The Army of Nader Shah
28 September – Pakistan event to mark the visit of Her Excellency the High Commissioner of Pakistan to the UK, Dr Maleeha Lodhi, and the 60th anniversary of Pakistan. Dr Lodhi, Professor Haroon Ahmed (Corpus Christi College) and Professor Dushka Saiyid (Wolfson College).
8 June Dr Nandini Sinha Kapur (University of Delhi) – Historiography of State in Pre-Mughal India and State Formation in Mewar (7th-15th Centuries AD)
1 June Dr Cameron Petrie (University of Cambridge) – Perspectives on the 4th millennium BC in South West Iran
25 May T. Richard Blurton (British Museum)- On the History of Bengali Orally-Transmitted Narrative and the Visual Accompaniments
11 May Professor Gregory Possehl (University of Pennsylvania) – Magan and Meluhha: new insights from Bat in the Sultanate of Oman
4 May Professor Werner Sundermann (Akademie der Wissenschaften, Berlin), Honorary Fellow of the Ancient India & Iran Trust- Zoroastrian Tales in non-Zoroastrian Transmission and Transformation
27 April Professor Nicholas Sims-Williams (SOAS) - The Sasanians in the East: a Bactrian archive from Afghanistan
2 March Bill Martin & Sandra Mason (Independent researchers, Cambridge) – The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam: Its publication and illustration in the West
16 February Jason Elliott (Travel Writer who has just finished a book on Iran) – The History and Art of Iran, with Pictures
2 February Dr Karma Phuntsho (University of Cambridge) – Holy Land, Big Brother or Neighbour? Bhutan’s relations with India through ages
26 January Dr Matteo Compareti (Italy) – The interpretation of the Afrasyab (ancient Samarkand) paintings: the state of the field
19 January Toomas Kisivild (University of Cambridge) – DNA based histories of Indian caste and tribal communities
