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

Time and Dates:
2-7 December 2004
7pm.

Organised by:
The Persian Heritage Foundation (New York) and
The School of Oriental and African Studies
in association with
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 Abbas Daneshvari is Professor of Art History at California State University, Los Angeles. His publications cover various aspects of Persian Art. He is the author of the monographs Animal Symbolism in Warqa and Gulshah, Oxford University Press 1986, and Medieval Tomb Towers, Undena/Mazda 1986. His books Crisis in Contemporary Arts: Modern and Postmodern and The Iconography of the Dragon in Islamic Art are to appear in 2005. Professor Daneshvari is the Editor in Chief for Islamic Art and Architecture of the Mazda press and the editor of several collective publications.

Programme:
2nd December: The Dragons of Islamic Art and Literature,
3rd December: The Astro-Cosmological Dragon,
6th December: The Ruler in the Cosmic Setting,
7th December: Dragons in the Cult of the Saints.

Admission:
Free.

Enquiries:
020 7898 4893, centres@soas.ac.uk,
020 7493 4766, info@iranheritage.org.

Additional Information:
The schedule for this event can also be found on the SOAS event pages, www.soas.ac.uk/events/.