Introduction, Charles Melville, University of Cambridge, UK
Nader Shah’s Idea of Iran, Ernest Tucker, United States Naval Academy, US
Dismembering the Corporate: The Single Portraits of Nader Shah and the Changing Body Politic in Post-Safavid Iran, Janet O’Brien, Courtauld Institute of Art, UK
‘The Persian State’ and the Safavid Inheritance: Views from the Caspian, 1722–1781, Kevin Gledhill, Yale University, US
Safavid Nostalgia in Early Qajar Chronicles, Assef Ashraf, University of Cambridge, UK
From Chehel-Sotun to Golestan Palace: The Evolution of Royal Wall Painting during the Reign of Fath-‘Ali Shah, Kianoosh Motaghedi, Independent
Russian–Persian Gift Exchange in the early Qajar Period, Firuza Abdullaeva, University of Cambridge, UK
Proto-Nationalism in Early Modern Iran and Afghanistan, Sajjad Nejatie, University of Toronto, Canada
Fraying at the Edges: Iran and the Khanates of Central Asia, Fatema Soudavar, Independent
Sir William Jones and the Migration of the Idea of Iran to India, John Perry, University of Chicago, US