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Membership applications are now OPEN!

Apply today and become part of our growing community

📅 Deadline: 13 October 2026
👉 Apply here: www.bips.ac.uk/join-us/

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#RECORDINGS | Our June 2026 webinar with Rudi Matthee is now online!

📺 Watch on YouTube: bit.ly/49obln8
🎧 Listen on our website: bit.ly/4eIWl6w

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#GRANTS | BIPS is now accepting applications for Research, Research Assistant, Early Career Researchers Conference, and Student Travel grants! If you are based at a UK HEI and have an interesting project, we would love to hear from you!

Deadline: 11 September 2026

Full information: https://www.bips.ac.uk/apply-for-grants-rap/

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#Event | In this lecture, Leila Rahimi Bahmnay will show how modern Persian poetry became a tool of nationalist monolingualism, casting Persian as Iran’s sole legitimate language while pathologising and deterritorialising Turkish. She will reveal how leading literary figures—Abolqāsem ʿĀref Qazvīnī and Moḥammad-Taqī Bahār, among others—used their literary influence to marginalise other languages and construct Persian linguistic exclusivity as essential to Iranian identity (Image courtesy: Wikimedia – ‘Aref Qazvini)

🗓️ 29 July 2026, 5PM
📌 On Zoom
👉 Register: https://bit.ly/3SYcFaM

#BIPS #IranStudies #PersianPoetry #Monolingualism #PublicLecture #EventAlert #PersianLanguage #WhatsOn

Call for Papers | ‘Shi`i/Sunni Relations in the Persianate World’

The workshop will examine the nature of Shi`i-Sunni relations in the Persianate world, from the early Islamic period to the mid-18th century, to explore the extent to which sectarian hostility was the norm or the exception.

📅 8-10 December 2026
📍The University of Edinburgh

More information and deadlines can be found here: bit.ly/4nYs4mU

(Image courtesy: Wikimedia – Painting photographed by Amir Pashaei)

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#RECORDINGS | Our May 2026 webinar with Laudan Nooshin is now online!

📺 Watch on YouTube: https://bit.ly/3QahMUl

🎧 Listen on our website: https://bit.ly/3PKS2Og

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