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Laura Castro Royo, Monsters and Saviours: A Comparative Analysis of the Depiction of the Dragon in Chinese and Persian Painting

New Seminar Room St John's House, South Street, St Andrews

Mediæval History Seminar series The Postgraduate Mediæval History Seminar series is intended to provide a space for postgraduates at all stages (from MLitts to final year PhDs) to present ideas, discuss research issues, and get some practical experience before conferences, submissions, etc. Refreshments are provided, and after each session we adjourn to the speaker’s choice…

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Anglo-American rivalry in the Middle East in the quarter-century after 1942

Old Seminar Room Medieval History, 71 South Street, St Andrews

James Barr has worked in politics, at the Daily Telegraph, in the City, at the British Embassy in Paris, and is currently a visiting fellow at King's College, London. He read modern history at Oxford has travelled widely in the Middle East. His previous book, A Line in the Sand, is also available from Simon…

Beacon of Diversity: Ayandegan and the Iranian Spring of Freedom of 1979

Old Seminar Room Medieval History, 71 South Street, St Andrews

Dr Siavush Randjbar-Daemi is Lecturer in Modern Middle Eastern History at the University of St Andrews. His core research interests lie in the evolution of the state in modern and contemporary Iran, and the contribution to the public sphere, particularly in periods of relative pluralism, such as the early 1950s or 1979-1981, of a variety…