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  • Iran and the West: Converging Perspectives

    1–3 July 2015, University of Warwick
    Call for papers.

    Introductory speaker: Dr James Hodkinson, the University of Warwick
    Keynote speaker: Prof Ali Ansari, the University of St Andrews.

    The conference cordially invites scholars from diverse fields to contribute towards a wide-ranging interdisciplinary conference which aims to further our understanding of Iranian perceptions of the West and Westerners and Western perceptions of Iran and Iranians, from c. 500 BC until the present day. The aim of this conference is to improve our understanding of Iranian and Western cultural perceptions of the other’s culture, people, and politics, both from popular and elite viewpoints, and the points of convergence and divergence between them.

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  • Animals in Ancient Material Cultures: Conference at the Allard Pierson Museum Amsterdam

    Call for Papers:

    Animals in Ancient Material Cultures

    Conference at the Allard Pierson Museum Amsterdam

    In the wake of recent interest on both sides of the Atlantic in the subject of Animals in Antiquity, papers are invited for an international conference to be held at the Allard Pierson Museum in Amsterdam on 15 – 16 October 2015. Speakers from all disciplines are welcomed to present papers on the theme of Animals in Ancient Material Cultures, broadly from ca. 5000 BCE to 500 CE, from the Near East to Europe. The focus of the papers will be on representations of animals in the material world and visual evidence of archaeological objects and/or works of art. Speakers are encouraged to make ample reference to objects from the collection of the Allard Pierson Museum.
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  • The Zoroastrian and Manichaean religious controversy

    CdF_Seite_1_Seite_1Symposium on the Zoroastrian and Manichaean Religious Controversy:

    «Ils disent que…». La controverse religieuse zoroastriens et manichéens.

    12—13 June 2015, Collège de France

    The two day conference seeks to investigate different topics regarding the “Zoroastrian and Manichean Religious Controversy”. It is organized within the framework of the chair “History and culture of pre-Islamic Central Asia”, Frantz Grenet (Collège de France) and with the scientific support of Jean-Daniel Dubois (Ecole Pratique des Hautes Studies).

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  • The prince and the pir

    The prince and the pir: Dervishes and mysticism in Iran and India

    The British Museum

    11 March – 8 July 2015

    Room 34 /Open late Fridays

    This small display presents works on paper and objects exploring depictions and attributes of Sufi dervishes from the 16th to the 19th centuries.

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  • Corpus Avesticum meeting: “Ḫorde Avesta”

    Corpus Avesticum | Meeting in Berlin 22–23 May 2015

    Institute of Iranian Studies, Freie Universität Berlin

    The Project of Corpus Avesticum (CoAv) is a pan-European Co-operation that aims at making the Zoroastrian Texts, called the Avesta accessible in a new Edition. The current one stems from 1896 and is erroneous with regard to many crucial aspects, the most important of which is the amalgamation of the liturgical and exegetical text witnesses.

    The next meeting of the European research network Corpus Avesticum will take place in Berlin. 22. and 23. May 2015 researchers from Spain, Germany, Italy and the UK will meet at Free University of Berlin to discuss various projects in preparation of a new edition of the Avesta.

    This meeting is dedicated to the research questions mainly regarding to a new edidion of the Ḫorde Avesta/Khorde Avesta.

    Program:

    • Paul Widmer/Florian Sommer: “Vortrag zur Fehlertypologie in den Yašt-Handschriften bzw. den Einfluss derselben auf das Verständnis der Grammatik”.
    • Almut Hintze: “The Vištāsp Yašt and an obscure word in the Hadoxt Nask”.
    • Leon Goldman: “On the Sanskrit Yasna manuscript S1″.
    • Alberto Cantera: “On the wāz gīrišnīh”.
    • Mehrbod Khanizadeh: “A Preliminary Study on the Relationships Between the Pahlavi Version of the Exegetic Yasna Manuscripts”.
    • Celine Redard: “On the Paris Mss”.
    • Antonio Panaino: “The corpus of the Yašts and their Pahlavi Translations. Considerations about a Textual Loss and its Reasons”.
    • Götz König: “Research on the Bayān Nask. State of the Art”.
    • Miguel Ángel Andrés Toledo: “The Drōn Frawardin Yašt Ceremony in the Avestan Manuscripts”.

    The other members of the research group CoAv are also Arash Zeini (London), Kianoosh Rezania (Bochum), Salome Gholami (Frankfurt), David Buyaner and Shervin Farridnejad (Berlin).

    *Image: An illustrated copy of the Avestan Wīdēvdād Sāde. Copied in Yazd, Iran, in 1647 ( © British Library RSPA 230, ff. 151v–152r). Published in: Farridnejad, Shervin. 2014. The Avestan Manuscript 4060 (RSPA230), Videvdad Iranian Sade of the British Library. (Avestan Digital Archive Series 75). Salamanca: Universidad de Salamanca.

  • Books as material and symbolic artifacts in religious book cultures

    Books as Material and Symbolic Artifacts in Religious Book CulturesBooks as Material and Symbolic Artifacts in Religious Book Cultures

    Käte Hamburger Kolleg, Center for Religious Studies, Ruhr University Bochum: 28 & 29 May 2015

    The Käte Hamburger Kolleg Workshop on Books as Material and Symbolic Artifacts in Religious Book Cultures will analyze the connections between books and manuscripts as material artifacts and the formation of religious book cultures before the printing era. It will also explore the ways in which, in religious book production, the medium, in its forms of “human and institutional interactions,” influences the transmission of the religious message, allowing for the material format to receive further alterations from the religious message itself. Finally, this workshop will investigate interactions between modern religious groups and the very academic books which describe them.

    Programm of The KHK Workshop on Books as Religious Artifacts (May 28-29, 2015)

    Thursday, 28 May 2015

    • Costantino Moretti (Paris): “Non-Textual Uses in Buddhist Medieval China”
    • Grégoire Espesset (Bochum): “Petitioning in Pre-Modern Taoist Liturgy”
    • Vladimir Glomb (Bochum): “Sagehood for Young Boys: Confucian Primers in Traditional Korea”
    • Shervin Farridnejad (Berlin): “The Zoroastrian “Holy Book”: The Understanding and Construction of the Avesta as a Book in Zoroastrian Tradition and Oriental Studies”
    • Kianoosh Rezania (Bochum): “The Zoroastrian “Pahlavi Book”: The Genesis of the Dēnkard in the Early Abbasid Period”
    • Marie Efthymiou (Aix-Marseille): “Suras Collections in Central Asia: From Manuscripts Used in Daily Devotions to Teaching Subject in Quranic Schools”

    Friday, 29 May 2015

    • Ksenia Pimenova (Bochum): “Ethnographers, Their Books, and Their Shamans: The Scripturalization of Post-Soviet Tuvan Shamanism”
    • Mareile Haase (Bochum): “The Zagreb Mummy Wrappings: An Etruscan Linen Book from Egypt”
    • AnneMarie Luijendijk (Princeton): “Put them in an earthenware jar, in order that they may last for a long time (Jer. 32:14): On Saving and Discarding Sacred Books”
    • Flavia Ruani (Ghent): “Books of Protection, Books of Perdition: Book Imagery in Ephrem the Syrian’s Heresiology”
    • Eduard Iricinschi (Bochum): “No one in Rome really has time to attend readings (Pliny, Letters, 3.18.4): The Anxiety of Publishing Books in Late Antiquity”

  • Learning from the Magi

    Religious Studies presents: “Learning from the Magi: Zoroastrianism and the New Movement in Talmud Study” with Shai Secunda | Taube Center for Jewish Studies

    Friday, May 15, 2015 – 12:15pm – 1:30pm

    The lecture is part of a Zoroastrianism Studies Lecture Series sponsored by the Department of Religious Studies, Stanford University. For questions about the series, please contact Dr. Yuhan Vevaina (vevaina@stanford.edu).

    Source: Religious Studies presents: “Learning from the Magi: Zoroastrianism and the New Movement in Talmud Study” with Shai Secunda | Taube Center for Jewish Studies

  • Changes in Late Antique Legal Systems

    Kaiser Justinian. Mosaiken in Ravenna, St. Vitalis (Ausschnitt). Image Credit: The Yorck Project: 10.000 Meisterwerke der Malerei. DVD-ROM, 2002. ISBN 3936122202 lizensiert unter the GNU Free Documentation License: www.gnu.org/licenses/fdl.html.

    Changes in Late Antique Legal Systems: Reception, Transformation and Recontextualization of Legal Terms

    International workshop organized by project C03 “Interaction and Change in Oriental Legal Systems. The Transfer of Normative Knowledge as Exemplified by Zoroastrian and Islamic Law (Seventh to Eleventh Centuries)” (Head: M. Macuch)

    May 22, 2015, 09:00 AM c.t. – 06:30 PM

    SFB-Villa, Sitzungsraum, Schwendenerstraße 8, 14195 Berlin-Dahlem

    Legal systems are characterized by sophisticated technical languages that make use of a multitude of juridical terms to describe mostly complex circumstances. Whereas legal terms on the one hand have a stabilizing function and serve the jurists for the categorization and evaluation of cases – what is especially true for the tradition-oriented systems of the Late Antiquity like the Roman-Byzantine, Zoroastrian, Islamic, Jewish or Christian canonical laws – they show on the other hand constant changes in their historical development with regard to content and meaning. Besides such endogenous factors in the change of meaning, also exogenous sources as the adoption of a term from an alien law system and its recontextualization are conceivable. In both cases it results in intended or unintended shifts of meaning that may have an impact on other terms or elements of the system, depending on the relevance of the term. It is in particular this modification of Late Antique legal systems caused by changes of legal terms that is subject of the workshop. It targets on an exemplary more detailed description and analysis of the further development of particular legal terms within the systems as well as in their interrelation.

    To register, please contact Dr. Iris Colditz: icolditz[at]campus.fu-berlin.de.

    Program

    9:15–9:30 a.mMaria Macuch (Berlin):
    Welcome and Introduction

    Panel 1: Rechtsbegriffe und -institutionen in transkulturellem Kontext
    9:30–10:15 a.mJohannes Pahlitzsch (Mainz):
    „Die Entstehung des christlichen waqf“
    10:15–11:00 a.mRichard Payne (Chicago):
    „Christianizing Stūrīh: Law, Reproduction, and Elite Formation in the Iranian Empire“
    11:00–11:30 a.mcoffee break
    11:30 a.m. –12:15 p.m.János Jany (Budapest):
    „Transmitters of Legal Knowledge: Dadestan, Fatwa, Responsum“
    12:15–1:45 p.m.lunch break

    Panel 2: Wandel von Rechtsbegriffen und Argumentationsformen im jüdischen und römischen Recht
    1:45–2:30 p.m.Ronen Reichman (Heidelberg):
    „‚Was die Schrift lehrt, geht aber doch aus einem Vernunftsargument hervor!‘: Über die Entwicklung eines (rechtspositivistischen [?]) Argumentationsmusters in der rabbinischen Literatur“
    2:30–3:15 p.m.Anna Seelentag (Frankfurt/M.):
    „Tutela und cura – Zur Annäherung zweier Rechtsbegriffe im römischen Recht“
    3:15–3:45 p.m.coffee break
    3:45–4:30 p.m.Johannes Platschek (München):
    „Arra in römischen Rechtstexten“
    4:30–5:15 p.m.Thomas Rüfner (Trier):
    „Ius, iudex, iurisdictio: Die Terminologie des römischen Prozessrechts in der Spätantike“
    5:15–5:30 p.m.coffee break
    5:30–6:30 p.m.Final Discussion

     

  • The family tree of Iranian

    Dr Agnes Korn (University of Frankfurt) will be addressing the Indo-European Seminar on the subject

    The family tree of Iranian and its problems

     

    At 4.30 pm on Wed. June 17, Room 1.11, Faculty of Classics, Sidgwick Site Cambridge (CB3 9DA)
    Tea will be served from 4.15

  • Consejo Ibero-Safavid de Estudios Históricos

     Consejo Ibero-Safavid de Estudios Históricos. International Conference. MISSIONARIES IN THE SAFAVID WORLD

     

    Institute of History, CSIC.
    C/Albasanz 26-28, 28037 Madrid.
    10 – 11 March 2016.
    Directed by Enrique García Hernán, José Cutillas and Rudi Matthee.

    Proposals for papers should be sent to Dr. José Cutillas jcutillas@gmail.com with abstract (600 words) and cv (300 words), until 31st December 2015

    More information, please download the document Diptico.