Graduate student Hossein Nakhaei presented a paper this past weekend based on his recent colloquium, “Persian Pavilion and British Petroleum: Art and Oil in the Last Concession of Antoine Kitabgi Khan”, at the Association for Iranian Studies symposium. Nakhaei’s paper concerns the figure of Khan as an important actor in Iranian diplomacy on the European stage at the turn of the twentieth century. See the full conference program on the AIS website.