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  • Iberia between Rome and Iran

    Iberia between Rome and Iran from Pompey to Heraclius

    Georgian Bolnisi inscriptions, 494 AD.
    Georgian Bolnisi inscriptions, 494 AD.

    07.- 09. July 2016, University of Jena

    An international colloquium on the history of Georgia in Late Antiquity (from the 1st century BC to the 7th century AD) organized by the Chair of Ancient History at the University of Jena.

    Central to the research are the close contacts of the Iberians to the Roman Empire on one side, and to the realms of the Parthians and Sasanians on the other side. Iberia formed an interface between the great powers and was strongly influenced by both sides. Some of these influences, such as the establishment of Christianity, territorial ambitions of the great neighbors or linguistic developments,  will be discussed at the conference, attended by German and internatioal scholars of the Ancient Studies and the history of Caucasian Iberia.

    Programm

    • Tassilo Schmitt: “Argo und Argumente. Historische Perspektiven auf den und aus dem Kaukasus”

    Sektion I – Iberien im Spannungsfeld der Großmächte

    • Frank Schleicher: “Die Chronologie der kartvelischen Könige und das Ende des iberischen Königtums”
    • Balbina Bäbler: “Pompeius im Kaukasus. Geographie und Topographie eines Feldzugs”
    • Henning Börm: “Die Grenzen des Großkönigs? Grundzüge der arsakidisch-sasanidischen Politik gegenüber Rom”
    • Giusto Traina: “Dynastic connections in Armenia and Iberia (I-III CE)”

    Sektion II – Zur Christianisierung Iberiens

    • Konstantin Klein: “Ein Königssohn, zwei Rabbinen und (fast) vierzig Nonnen – die Konversion Iberiens in der lateinischen, griechischen und armenischen Überlieferung”
    • Josef Rist: “Nino versus Gregor. Die Christianisierung Iberiens und seine Stellung zur Reichskirche im Vergleich mit Armenien”
    • Stephen H. Rapp Jr.: “The Conversion of Eastern Georgia: Cross-Cultural and Pan-Regional Perspectives”

    Sektion III – Zur Religiosität der Iberer (Moderator: Udo Hartmann, Jena)

    • Eka Tchkoidze: “Iberia between Christianity and Zoroastrianism (evidence from Georgian literary tradition)”
    • Cornelia B. Horn: “Die Georgier und das Heilige Land: Hagiographische, apokryphe und historische Elemente einer Beziehung”
    • Jan-Markus Kötter: “Bekenntnis als Mittel der Diplomatie – Die Stellung der iberischen Kirche zum Reich”

    Sektion IV – Zu den Quellen

    • Alexander Schilling: “Die ‚Diegesis ophelimos‘ (BHG 1060) in georgischer Überlieferung: historische und historiographische Kontexte”
    • Bernadette Martin-Hisard: “L’Ibérie des VIe-VIIe siècles d’après des traditions religieuses géorgiennes des IXe-XIIe siècles”
    • Armenuhi Drost-Abgarjan: “Das Bild der Iberer in der armenischen Literatur (5.-7. Jh.)”
    • Johannes Niehoff-Panagiotidis: “Griechisch, Aramäisch oder was? Die historischen Voraussetzungen für die Genese der georgischen Literatursprache”

    Sektion V – Archäologisches

    • Nodar Bakhtadze: “The Oldest Basilicas Revealed in Nekresi Former City and Assumptions on Architectural Design of the First Georgian Christian Churches”
    • Annegret Plontke-Lüning: “Von Dmanisi nach Bolnisi. Ein alter Pilgerweg in Niederkartli”

  • Friedrich Carl Andreas: A Man for All Seasons

    1886. Lou Salomé und Friedrich Carl Andreas (© Gottinger Tageblatt Verlag)
    1886. Lou Salomé und Friedrich Carl Andreas (© Gottinger Tageblatt Verlag)

    Friedrich Carl Andreas:
    ein Sohn der vier Himmelsrichtungen

    A talk by Martin Tamcke

    Thursday, July 7, 2016 at 19.00
    Lepsiushaus Potsdam

    A joint event organized by the Lepsiushauses Potsdam and the Theodor-Fontane-Archivs of the University Potsdam.

    The Orientalist Friedrich Carl Andreas (1846-1930) is mostly known as husband of Lou Andreas-Salomé, a well-known German writer and psychoanalyst. He was born as a descendant of Armenian, Malay and German ancestors in Indonesia and grew up in Hamburg and Geneva.  He studied Iranian and Oriental Studies (PhD, 1868 Erlangen) and participated as a volunteer in the Franco-German War. Between 1875 and 1881, he conducted field work in India with the Parsees and with a Prussian Research Expedition in southern Iran, where he remained for several years. His research in Europe focused on the languages and music of Ossetia and the Indo-Afghan borderlands. From 1903 to his death he was professor of western Asiatic and Iranian philology at the University of Göttingen. As a master of many living languages, Andreas specialized in the history of languages and civilizations, but his interests extended to philosophy and natural history. He excelled in reading difficult Oriental scripts, ancient or modern, and in perceiving the finest nuances of spoken languages, especially their accents. Together with his wife, a friend of Nietzsche and Freud, and Rilke, he travelled to Russia and visited Tolstoy. He was very active by the practical training of missionaries for Kurdistan and Central Asia and to the scientific analysis of texts and the religious movement of the Persian Bābīs. Working with the Manichean fragments from Turfan, he quickly isolated those texts written in Parthian (which he called the “northern dialect”) and identified another “Pahlavi dialect” as the Sogdian language. 

    Read more about him and his works here.

  • Between Zoroastrianism and Islam

    Photo © Gianroberto Scarcia
    Marijan Molé (1924-1963). Photo © Gianroberto Scarcia

    Between Zoroastrianism and Islam
    International conference on the work of Marijan Molé

    Friday, June 24, 2016, École française d’Extrême-Orient – 22, avenue du Président Wilson, 75116 Paris.

    Organized by Samra Azarnouche (EPHE).

    The works of Marijan Molé (1924-1963) has left a distinctive and lasting imprint on the field of Iranian Studies. His careful and insightful studies on the Avestan and Middle Persian literature, the Islamic mystical treatises as well as the Persian epics play an important role in our understanding of Iranian history, culture and religions. This conference focuses on one of the peculiarities of Molé’s research, namely the scholarly attempt at bridging the gap between pre-Islamic and Islamic Iranian Studies, between the different strata of religious and literary traditions, and between the great mythical and prophetic figures. The (recent) discovery of his Nachlass (IRHT and BULAC) gives us the opportunity to make an inventory of his legacy, which highlights the originality of his approach in the study of religions.

    Program (PDF):

    MOLÉ ET L’AVESTA: ENTRE TRADITION ET COMPARATISME

    • Jean Kellens: “le printemps des études gâtiques”
    • Philippe Swennen: “Marijan Molé à l’aube du nouveau comparatisme indo-iranien”

    PROPHÈTES ET HÉROS

    • Anna Krasnowolska: “Molé’s Early Works and his Study of Persian Epics”
    • Michel Tardieu: “Vies de Zoroastre, Vies de Mani, Vies de Muhammad :un apport de M. Molé à l’histoire des religions”

    COSMOLOGIE ET ESCHATOLOGIE : D’UNE TRADITION À L’AUTRE

    • Antonio Panaino: “Le gētīg dans le mēnōg et le système chiliadique mazdéen” selon la réflexion de Marijan Molé
    • Shaul Shaked: “Immortality and Eschatology”
    • Pierre Lory: “Marijan Molé, ‘Aziz Nasafî et l’Homme Parfait”

    RAYONNEMENT ET POSTÉRITÉ DE L’OEUVRE

    • Jaleh Amouzegar: “Marijan Molé en Iran”
    • Alexey Khismatulin: “He was years ahead of his time: Destiny of the Unpublished Works by Molé on the Naqshbandiya”
    • Conclusions: Frantz Grenet

     

     

  • SOAS: Jordan Lectures in Comparative Religion 2016

    Image source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mani.jpg

    The 2016 Jordan Lectures in Comparative Religion will be delivered by Iain Gardner, University of Sydney.  The lectures are:

    1. Mani’s Background and Early Life: Who was He and What did He Think He was Doing?
    2. Mani’s Career as the ‘Apostle of Jesus Christ’: His Missions and the Community he Founded
    3. Mani’s Death: Inter-Religious Conflict in Early Sasanian Iran and the Memory of the Apostle

    For more information, see  Jordan Lectures in Comparative Religion: SOAS.

  • Sasanian legal terminology in religious context

    Capital and Yield: Sasanian Legal Terminology in Religious Context

    A lecture by Arash Zeini on the occasion of a meeting of Corpus Avesticum (CoAv), a European network of scholars aiming to create new and accessible editions of the Zoroastrian sacred texts.

    Location: Institute of Iranian Studies, Freie Universität Berlin

    Time: 16.06.2016, 18:00 – 20:00

    Arash Zeini (PhD 2014, SOAS), is a scholar of Ancient Iranian and Zoroastrian philology, history and culture. His main research interests include the study of ancient Iran, Zoroastrianism, particularly the late antique exegesis of the Avesta, and aspects of digital humanities.

  • Incense in the Zoroastrian Rituals

    A pilgrim lays offerings of candles and incense at the Zoroastrian mountain shrine at Chak Chak (Pir-e Sabz), during the annual pilgrimage, Yazd, Iran, 16th June 1994. Photo © Kaveh Kazemi
    A pilgrim lays offerings of candles and incense at the Zoroastrian mountain shrine at Chak Chak (Pir-e Sabz), during the annual pilgrimage, Yazd, Iran, 16th June 1994. Photo © Kaveh Kazemi

    Workshop: Trade Going Up in Smoke? Contact and Exchange in Incense Practices — The Southern Levant as Case Study

    Käte-Hamburger-Kolleg “Dynamics in the History of Religions Betwenn Asia and Europe”

    14-15 June 2016, Bochum, Germany

    Götz König (Berlin): “The Use of Incense in the Zoroastrian Rituals and its Eschatological Meaning”

    Rüdiger Schmitt (Münster): “Incense Practice in the Family and Household Religion of the Levant in the Iron Age”

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  • Lecture series: Visual and Spatial Cultures of Power in Iran between Alexander and Islam

    Matthew Canepa, University of Minnesota (Minneapolis), will deliver a series of four lectures at the École Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris.

    Les cultures visuelles et spatiales du pouvoir en Iran entre Alexandre et l’Islam

    • Mercredi 1er juin 2016, 17h-19h
      Rebâtir le passé perse et imaginer de nouvelles identités iraniennes
    • Mercredi 8 juin 2016, 17h-19h
      L’image royale en Iran après Alexandre
    • Mercredi 15 juin 2016, 17h-19h
      Les espaces du pouvoir iranien : palais, jardins et paysage
    • Mercredi 22 juin 2016, 17h-19h
      La scène mondiale

    Source: Matthew CANEPA | École Pratique des Hautes Études

  • Sources of the Indo-Iranian Liturgies

    To the sources of the Indo-Iranian Liturgies

    June 9th and 10th 2016, University of Liege

    International conference to be held at the department of “Langues et religions du monde indo-iranien ancien” at the University of Liege. This conference is organized by Philippe Swennen, Céline Redard and Hamid Moein and will take place on June 9th and 10th.

    Programme:

    • J. Kellens: “Ahu, mainiiu, ratu“
    • A. Cantera: “The threefold structure of the Long Liturgy and its daily times of celebration”
    • J. Jurewicz: “Fire and the immortal self. The meaning of Vedic sacrifice”
    • N. Nishimura: “On the first mantra section of the Yajurveda-Saṁhitā”
    • Ph. Swennen: “Lecture de l’ājyaśastra“
    • K. Amano: “What is ‘knowledge’ justifying a ritual action? Uses of yá evám véda / yá ev vidván in the Maitrāyaṇī Samhitā”
    • C. Redard: “Les  āfrīnagāns”
    • A. Panaino: “Mysteries and dangers of the Mazdean Nocturnal Liturgy”
    • A. Hintze: “Rejected Ritual Practices”
    • M. Hale: “Interpreting the Indo-Iranian Tradition of the Gathas: the evidence of the Pahlavi and Sanskrit translations”
    • E. Doyama: “Reflections on YH 40,1 from the Perspective of Indo-Iranian Culture”
    • H. Moein: “Ritual Instructions in the Rivayats”
    • M.Á. Andrés-Toledo: “The Vedic and the Avestan Investitures with the Sacred Girdle”
    • G. König: “daēnā, xratu and the mystical view. Some considerations to Alberto Cantera’s essay ‘Talking with god’”
    • J. Ferrer: “La récitation de l’alphabet avestique dans les rituels : innovation ou archaïsme?”
    • J. Houben: “The Indo-Iranian tradition and ancient Indian ritual and conceptual innovations”
    • T. Goto: “Bergung des gesunkenen Sonnenlichts im Rigveda und Avesta”
    • É. Pirart: “L’idée d’hospitalité dans le sacrifice indo-iranien”

  • The concept of Iran: Transition and revival

    A panel discussion in Persian

    Panelists:
    Touraj Daryaee, University of California, Irvine
    Hossein Kamaly, Columbia University
    Ali Mousavi, University of California, Los Angeles
    Parvaneh Pourshariati, New York City College of Technology (CUNY) & New York University

    Moderator: Nayereh Tohidi, Professor and Director of Middle Eastern & Islamic Studies, CSUN

    Sunday, May 8, 2016
    4:00 PM

  • The Achaemenids and the Imperial Signature

    The Achaemenids and the Imperial Signature: Persepolis – Arachosia – Bactria

    A lecture by Wouter Henkelman