10 Dec Bailey Memorial Lecture: Professor Frantz Grenet (Paris) – The rediscovery of the court culture of the Qarakhanids (11th to early 13th centuries): recent results of the French-Uzbek Archaeological Mission at Afrasiab (Samarkand) (Held at the Faculty of Asian & Middle Eastern Studies)
24 Nov- 8 Dec EXHIBITION AT THE TRUST: Lasting Impressions: Seals from the Islamic World. (Exhibition on loan from the British Library). A travelling photographic exhibition from the British Library and the British Museum
26 Nov Dr Annabel Gallop (British Library) and Dr Venetia Porter (British Museum) (lecture accompanying exhibition): Islamic Seals: Treasures from the British Library and the British Museum
19 Nov **SPECIAL FRIENDS ONLY EVENT** 3.30pm guided visit to the Shahname exhibition at the Fitzwilliam Museum, with Prof. Charles Melville.
12 Nov Special Double Bill in celebration of the life and work of Dr Bridget Allchin and the late Dr Raymond Allchin:Professor Robin Coningham (Durham) – ‘From Kabul to Kelaniya: Raymond Allchin and the Archaeology of South Asia’ and Professor Robin Dennell (Sheffield), – ‘A life in stone – a retrospective appreciation of Bridget Allchin and the South Asian Palaeolithic’. (Held at Churchill College)
29 Oct Roger Cooper – A New Look at the Sikhs
15 Oct Professor Charles Melville (Cambridge) – An Illustrated Shahname
4 June Professor Vicente Dobroruka (University of Brasilia) – Hellenistic Political Propaganda and Zoroastrian Oracles
28 May Dr Rosemary Crill (Senior Curator, Victoria & Albert Museum, London) – The Indian Portrait 1560–1860
Special event: Saturday, 15 May - Recent Research on the Cultural History of Sri Lanka
14 May Dr Sethuraman Suresh (Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage, Chennai, India) – From Kanchipuram to Kampuchea – A Millennium of Trade and Cultural Exchanges between South India and Cambodia
7 May Professor Stanley Insler (Yale University) – The Oldest Zoroastrian Calendar
12 February Dr Cameron Petrie (University of Cambridge) – ‘Lost rivers and life on the plains — human interaction with the environment in early Indian civilization’
29 January Professor Michael Pye (University of Marburg and Otani University, Kyoto) – ‘Lives of the Buddha and the initial dynamics of the Buddhist religion’
15 January Conor Jameson and Rhys Green (Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, London) – ‘Cause and consequences of the catastrophic decline of vultures across South Asia’
