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  • Kingship in Ancient Iran

    DSC02578_smallI want to express my gratitude to all who came to St Andrews for the workshop. Your presence, the excellent contributions and the stimulating discussions all made the workshop a wonderful success. Thank you.As we have seen, St Andrews is the right place for this type of workshop, and the Institute of Iranian Studies has proven this a number of times. Let’s hope we can keep up this work and turn it into a tradition. Of course, none of this would have been possible without the support of the Sattaripour Foundation, BIPS, School of History and School of Classics.

  • Kingship in Ancient Iran

    This interdisciplinary workshop, organised by the Institute of Iranian Studies (University of St Andrews), seeks to investigate and re-examine intersections between religious ideology and sovereignty in pre-Islamic Iran.

    Date: June 12–13, 2014
    Convener: Arash Zeini
    Sponsors: BIPS, IIS, SoH and SAIMS

    For more information, see the workshop’s website.

  • Conference of Iranian languages and dialects

    Call for Papers

    The Center for the Great Islamic Encyclopedia has the honour of organising the

    2nd International Conference of Iranian Languages and Dialects

    4–5 January, 2015

    Tehran, Iran

    Aims of the conference

    • To spread and to consolidate the theoretical discussions on Iranian Languages and dialects
    • To contribute to scholarly studies of Iranian Languages and dialects
    • To introduce the latest researches about the Old, Middle and New Iranian Languages
    • To investigate the spread of Iranian languages as one of the main element of relation among the people of region.

    Main themes of the conference

    1. New and scholarly researches on the Old Iranian Languages (Old Persian, Avestan, Scythian (Saka) and Median Languages)
    2. New and scholarly researches on the Western Middle Iranian Languages (Middle Persian and Parthian)
    3. New and scholarly researches on the Eastern Middle Iranian Languages (Soghdian, Khotanese, Khwarezmian and Bactorian).
    4. New and scholarly Lingual researches about the New Iranian Languages and Dialects.
    5. The Geography of Iranian Languages.

    Although there will be a strong regional emphasis on the Iranian languages and dialects, this does not exclude a consideration of lingual researches on the classical Persian texts, especially when carried out by scholars who have specialised in Persian literature.

    The organisers plan to publish a selection of the papers in a peer-reviewed book.

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  • Secrecy and canonisation

    Bahari Lecture Series: “Sasanian Iran in the Context of Late Antiquity”

    20 May (Week 4)
    Arash Zeini (University of St Andrews):
    Secrecy and canonisation in Sasanian Iran: A scholastic reading of the Zand

    Tuesday at 5pm
    Ioannou Centre for Classical & Byzantine Studies, 66 St Giles’, Oxford (OCLA)

  • Bahari lecture series

    Sasanian Iran in the Context of Late Antiquity

    Tuesdays of Weeks 2–9 of Trinity Term 2014 at 5pm
    Ioannou Centre for Classical & Byzantine Studies, 66 St Giles’

    The lectures are convened by Professor Touraj Daryaee and Professor Edmund Herzig and organised by the Oxford Centre for Late Antiquity (OCLA). The full programme is here.

  • Identity, independence & interdependence

    A Workshop in the School of History, Classics and Archaeology, University of Edinburgh
    Monday 26 May 2014, 10 am to 5 pm
    Sydney Smith Lecture Theatre, Doorway 1, Old Medical School

    Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones will talk about The rhetoric of empire in ancient Iran: ‘Better together’.

  • Public lecture III

    03_J2_YH353. The return of the Avesta

    It has been argued that the adoption of the Zoroastrian religious world view by the Sasanians was instrumental in maintaining the nobility’s loyalty to the goals of the empire. Most arguments in favour of this view, however, derive from examinations of source material dating from the early Islamic era. This lecture will revisit the pertinent arguments and further discuss previously unexplored textual material.

    Speaker: Arash Zeini
    Where: University of St Andrews, School of Classics, Swallowgate, S11.
    When: 14 May 2014, 17:30

  • The Sasanian Empire as a garden

    The Sasanian Empire as a garden: The limits of Iranshahr

    Speaker: Touraj Daryaee (University of California, Irvine)
    Where: The British Institute of Persian Studies, London
    When: 22 May 2014

    Poster at the BIPS.

  • Public lecture II

    02_Ardashir_investiture2. The Sasanian Empire and religious authority: The case of Zoroastrianism

    As one of the major political and economic powers in the region, the Sasanian Empire (224–651 CE) elevated Zoroastrianism to the dominant religious and cultural force within its polity, bringing to the foreground the question of the interaction between religion and sovereignty in the Sasanian era. By providing an historical overview this lecture highlights the dynamics between political and religious authority during the Sasanian era.

    Speaker: Arash Zeini
    Where: University of St Andrews, School of Classics, Swallowgate, S11.
    When: 07 May 2014, 17:30

  • Xerxes’ cabinet of curiosities

    Xerxes’ cabinet of curiosities: Exotic animals and royal authority in Achaemenid Iran

    Speaker: Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones (University of Edinburgh)
    Where: The British Institute of Persian Studies, London
    When: 18 June 2014

    Poster at the BIPS.