Turk amongst Tajiks: the Qipchaq Shahnama Manuscript in Tajikistan’s Institute of Oriental Studies and Written Heritage.”
Paper presented at Leiden University Centre for the Study of Islam and Society 7th Annual Conference, at Leiden
University, Netherlands (23-25 November 2016)
• “Tajik National Identity in the Context of the Shahnama: the Persian Book of Kings.” Paper presented at the Aga Khan
University Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations, London (20 October 2016)
• “Heroes of Legend, Heroes of History: Militant Manuscripts of the Shaybanid Uzbeks in Transoxiana.” Paper presented at
Historians of Islamic Art and Architecture Biennial Conference, held at The Courtauld Institute of Art, London (October 2016)
•
“From the Wall to the Page: the Shahnama and Tajik Cultural Heritage.” Lecture presented
at Moscow State University, Dushanbe
campus (May 2016)
•
“Tajik National Identity in the Context of the Shahnama: the Persian Book of Kings.” Paper presented at the South & Central Asia
Annual Fulbright Conference, Jaipur, India (March 2016)
• “Persian Style, Christian Subject: Edmund Dulac’s Rendition of the Adoration of the Magi Using Persian Painting Techniques.”
Paper presented at the Symposia Iranica’s First Biennial Graduate Conference on Iranian Studies at the University of St
Andrews, Scotland. Panel: Peerless Images and
Persian Painting, Sussan Babaie, moderator. (April 2013)
• “Bolshevik Brother or Islamic Other? Representations of Muslims in Early Soviet Posters, 1917-1930.” Paper presented at
On the Spiritual in Russian Art, Cambridge
Courtauld Russian Art Centre conference, University of Cambridge, England
(September 2012)
Select Publications
• Peculiarities of Pentimento and Palimpsest in Persianate Painting: Exploring Codicology and Historiography (Under review by
the Journal of Islamic Manuscripts)
• Liberating the ‘Turkoman Prisoner’: an Assessment of Sixteenth/Seventeenth-century Folios of ‘Bound Captives’ (Published
in: Recovering ‘Lost Voices’: The Role and Depictions of Iranian/Persianate Subalterns from 1501-1747, ed. Andrew J. Newman,
Routledge Press, forthcoming).
• Turk amongst Tajiks: the Qipchaq Shahnama Manuscript in Tajikistan’s Institute of Oriental Studies and Written Heritage
(To be published in: LUCIS: Leiden University Centre for the Study of Islam & Society, forthcoming).
•
Heroes of Legend, Heroes of History: Militant Manuscripts of the Shaybanid Uzbeks in Transoxiana (To be published in:
IRAN, the Journal of the British Institute of Persian Studies, forthcoming).
