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The Ancient India & Iran Trust holds a number of lectures open to the general public from a variety of speakers during each academic term. These lectures are held at 23 Brooklands Avenue, Cambridge on Friday afternoons at 5pm. Admission is free, and light refreshments are served.


Friday Lectures, Michaelmas Term 2010

(5pm, 23 Brooklands Avenue)

 

15 October: Professor Charles Melville (Cambridge)

An Illustrated Shahname

 

29 October : Roger Cooper

A New Look at the Sikhs

 

12 November : Special Lecture Double-Bill to celebrate the Life and Work of Raymond and Bridget Allchin

Professor Robin Dennell (Sheffield)

Professor Robin Coningham (Durham)

Titles TBC

 

24 November-8 December: Lasting Impressions: Seals from the Islamic World (Exhibition on loan from the British Library)

 

26 November: Annabel Gallop and/or Venetia Porter (British Library)

Lasting Impressions: Seals from the Islamic World (Exhibition Accompanying Lecture)

 

10 December: Professor Frantz Grenet (Paris) - to be held at the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies

Harold Bailey Memorial Lecture - title TBC

 

Other Events at the Trust

The Trust holds a Summer Garden Party, a tea party on the anniversary of Sir Harold Bailey's birthday in December, as well as other social gatherings. From time to time, the Trust hosts or sponsors various conferences, symposia and other meetings. Organisations interested in holding events at the Trust should click here for further information.

 

There are a number of other lectures and events in Cambridge on topics that may be of interest to Friends of the Trust. Please follow this link to the Centre of South Asian Studies lecture calendar for more information.