Venue:
Brunei Gallery Auditorium, Thornhaugh St., London WC1H 0XG.

Time and Dates: 
7pm, 4-9 December 2003. 

Organised by:
The Persian Heritage Foundation (New York);
The School of Oriental and African Studies and
The Iran Heritage Foundation. 

Convened by:
Prof. Doris Behrens-Abouseif
Nasser D. Khalili Chair of Islamic Art and Archaeology at SOAS, University of London.

Supported by:
The Yarshater Lectures at SOAS are sponsored by the Persian Heritage Foundation. It is a series of academic lectures dedicated to Iranian Art and Culture, which will be published as a book. The lectures and publications carry the name of Professor Ehsan Yarshater in recognition of his scholarly achievements. 

Speaker:
Dr Adel T. Adamova is senior research associate and curator of the Iranian Collections in the Oriental Department of the Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg. She is the author of three books and over thirty articles on various aspects of Persian painting from the 14th to the 19th centuries.

Programme:
- 4th December: The Hierarchies of Forms in Persian Painting
- 5th December: The Art of the Book and its Illustration
- 8th December: Individual Pictures and the Art of Composing Albums (Muraqqa)
- 9th December: Reconstructing a Muraqqa.

Admission:
Free.

Enquiries:
020 7878 4895, sj25@soas.ac.uk, 
020 7493 4766, info@iranheritage.org.