This no longer exists, but it was basically similar to the Lecture Series at SOAS and UCLA. Ehsan Yarshater Distinguished Lecture Series (Harvard University) Books Tafazzoli, Ahmad. Sasanian Society: I. Warriors II. Scribes III. Dehqans, New York, Bibliotheca Persica Press, 2000. Bulliet, Richard W., Cotton, Climate, and Camels in Early Islamic Iran. A Moment in World History, New York: Columbia University Press, 2009.