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The JAL Project in 2 years (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Wood, J. The JAL Project in 2 years. Presented at JAL Project 2016: Project for inviting, giving training to, and exchanging with, Japanese-art librarians from outside Japan, Japan

'A celebration of 25 centuries': Pahlavisants, Pakistanis and Parsis (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Waghmar, B. (2011, October). 'A celebration of 25 centuries': Pahlavisants, Pakistanis and Parsis. Presented at Persepolis 40 Years on: International Conference on the Archaeology, History and Reception of Persepolis, The University of Edinburgh

Imperial Iran's arrival on the late twentieth century stage was declared by Orson Welles as no party but 'a celebration of 25 centuries'. The socio-political capital, by participating in Pahlavi panache, was not lost on three votaries discussed here,... Read More about 'A celebration of 25 centuries': Pahlavisants, Pakistanis and Parsis.

Matthew's Midrashic Magi (2010)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Waghmar, B. (2010, July). Matthew's Midrashic Magi. Paper presented at Zoroastrianism in the Levant: Twenty-Eighth Conference, ARAM Society for Syro-Mesopotamian Studies, Oriental Institute, University of Oxford

No feature of Zoroastrianism in the Levant is of greater signification than the passing albeit contrived inclusion of the Magi in the Infancy Gospels. It is proposed here
that their incorporation was deliberate and exceptional. For although the Ira... Read More about Matthew's Midrashic Magi.

South East Asian Film and Cinema Studies at SOAS : The Role of the Library (2008)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Martland, N. (2008, July). South East Asian Film and Cinema Studies at SOAS : The Role of the Library. Paper presented at South East Asia Library Group meeting, Maison Asie-Pacific, Marseille, France

This paper examines South East Asian film and cinema studies at SOAS, and in the wider context of the academic study of world cinema in UK universities. The paper looks at the role of SOAS Library in supporting South East Asian film studies, particul... Read More about South East Asian Film and Cinema Studies at SOAS : The Role of the Library.

Bangladesh Workshop: Conflict Issues Group (2006)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Waghmar, B. (2006, March). Bangladesh Workshop: Conflict Issues Group. Paper presented at Bangladesh Workshop: Conflict Issues Group, Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO), London

Bangladesh: Dynamic Stalemate (2005-15) (2006)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Waghmar, B. (2006, February). Bangladesh: Dynamic Stalemate (2005-15). Paper presented at Bangladesh: Issues of Political Stability and Islamic Radicalization, Chatham House, London

Orientalist remarks on South Asian dhimmis (2005)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Waghmar, B. (2005, December). Orientalist remarks on South Asian dhimmis. Paper presented at "Religious Revivalism and Political Extremism in Pakistan and Bangladesh", International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), London

Zoroastrian Orientalists of the 19th and 20th centuries (2005)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Waghmar, B. (2005, June). Zoroastrian Orientalists of the 19th and 20th centuries. Paper presented at Eighth World Zoroastrian Congress 2005. London, Wembley Conference Centre

Annemarie Schimmel and Indo-Pakistan Studies (2005)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Waghmar, B. (2003, October). Annemarie Schimmel and Indo-Pakistan Studies. Presented at A Quest for the Sacred: Professor Annemarie Schimmel Commemorative Seminar, London

Collectors, classifiers and researchers of the Malay World: How individuals and institutions in Britain in the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries collected, arranged and organised libraries, archives and museums and how that impacts on today’s researchers (2004)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Martland, N. (2004, August). Collectors, classifiers and researchers of the Malay World: How individuals and institutions in Britain in the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries collected, arranged and organised libraries, archives and museums and how that impacts on today’s researchers. Paper presented at Libraries and the Construction of Knowledge about the Malay World, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Bangi, Malaysia

This paper briefly examines well-known libraries and archives in Britain with important Malay collections. However, it will highlight those less well-known libraries and other institutions that hold material of interest to researchers of the Malay W... Read More about Collectors, classifiers and researchers of the Malay World: How individuals and institutions in Britain in the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries collected, arranged and organised libraries, archives and museums and how that impacts on today’s researchers.

Good and Evil: A Zoroastrian Perspective (2004)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Waghmar, B. (2004, March). Good and Evil: A Zoroastrian Perspective. Presented at Roshni Forum, Indian YMCA, London

Tribute to Annemarie Schimmel (2003)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Waghmar, B. (2003, May). Tribute to Annemarie Schimmel. Presented at Mera Payam Aur: Symposium on the Poet of the East Sir Allama Iqbal (1877-1938), St. Antony's College, University of Oxford

G. K. Nariman and Parsi Islamology (2001)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Waghmar, B. (2000, January). G. K. Nariman and Parsi Islamology. Presented at Third International Congress Proceedings: K. R. Cama Oriental Institute, Bombay

Changing traditions and new challenges at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London (2001)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Turfan, B. (2000, May). Changing traditions and new challenges at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. Presented at Documenting and Researching Southern Africa in new contexts: a symposium in honour of Carl Schlettwein, Basel, Switzerland

The School of Oriental and African Studies and its Library date back to the First World War, but it was not until 1960 that a distinct Africa Division, with its own specialist librarian, was created to match the various Oriental Divisions. Since then... Read More about Changing traditions and new challenges at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.