The eleventh biennal conference of the International Society for Iranian Studies will take place in Vienna from 2 to 5 August 2016.
For more information on the conference, see this link. And here is the conference programme.
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The latest issue of DABIR has been published and is available here: Issue 02 – Dabir Journal.
The Digital Archive of Brief notes & Iran Review (DABIR) is an open access, peer-reviewed online journal published by the Dr. Samuel M. Jordan Center for Persian Studies and Culture at the University of California, Irvine.
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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.
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Studies in honour of Stephanie Jamison
Gunkel, Dieter, Joshua Katz, Brent Vine & Michael Weiss (eds.). 2016. Sahasram Ati Srajas. Indo-Iranian and Indo-European studies in honor of Stephanie W. Jamison. Beech Stave Press.
The renowned Indologist and Indo-Europeanist Stephanie W. Jamison has now been honored with this extensive collection of essays by colleagues and students from around the world. The contributors represent a virtual who’s-who of Indo-Iranian and Indo-European scholarship and have produced contributions on everything from Vedic (e.g., Joel Brereton, George Cardona, Paul Kiparsky, Thomas Oberlies) to later Sanskrit (e.g. James Fitzgerald, Hans Henrich Hock, Ted Proferes) to Iranian (e.g. Mark Hale, P. Oktor Skjærvø) to other Indo-European languages (e.g. Dieter Gunkel, Martin Joachim Kümmel, Alan Nussbaum, Don Ringe, Michael Weiss). The volume also includes posthumously published articles by Lisi Oliver and Martin West. In all, these scholars have provided a worthy and rich tribute to a scholar whose own rich scholarship has been so vital to numerous subfields of linguistics, literary, religious, and cultural studies.
A table of contents is available here.
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
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New issue of Anabasis
Anabasis. Studia Classica et Orientalia vol. 6 (2015).
The sixth issue of ANABASIS: Studia Classica et Orientalia is published by department of Ancient History and Oriental Studies, Institute of History at Rzeszów University.
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
Iranian Studies, Volume 49, Issue 2, 2016. Special issue: “Sasanian Iran and beyond: A special volume in honour of Michael G. Morony and his contributions to late antique history“. Guest Editors: Touraj Daryaee and Khodadad Rezakhani.
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- Touraj Daryaee & Khodadad Rezakhani: “Guest Editors’ Introduction“
- Touraj Daryaee & Khodadad Rezakhani: “Michael Morony, An Academic Biography“
- Touraj Daryaee: “The Limits of Sasanian History: Between Iranian, Islamic and Late Antique Studies“
- Khodadad Rezakhani: “From the “Cleavage” of Central Asia to Greater Khurasan: History and Historiography of Late Antique East Iran“
- Haleh Emrani: “Who Would be Mine for the Day!”: Irano-Judaic Marriage Customs in Late Antiquity
- Scott McDonough: “The “Warrior of the Lords”: Smbat Bagratuni at the Center and Periphery of Late Sasanian Iran“
- Greg Fisher & Philip Wood: “Writing the History of the “Persian Arabs”: The Pre-Islamic Perspective on the “Naṣrids” of al-Ḥīrah“
- Siamak Adhami: “On the Seclusion of Women in Antiquity“
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Iranica Antiqua, Volume 51
The table of contents of the latest issue (51) of the journal Iranica Antiqua:
- Evidence of Late Neolithic Cremation at Tepe Sialk, Iran SOŁTYSIAK, Arkadiusz, FAZELI NASHLI, Hassan
- An Emerging Picture of the Neolithic of Northeast Iran ROUSTAEI, Kourosh
- Khaje Askar: A 4th Millennium BC Cemetery in Bam, Southeastern Iran
SOLEIMANI, Nader A., SHAFIEE, Mojgan, ESKANDARI, Nasir,SALEHI, Hekmatollah M. - A Preliminary Report on the First Season of Excavation at Jayran Tepe in the Plain of Esfarayen, Northeastern Iran, 2012 VAHDATI, Ali A.
- Gūnespān: A Late Iron Age Site in the Median Heartland NASERI, Reza, MALEKZADEH, Mehrdad, NASERI, Ali
- Elamite suku– TAVERNIER, Jan
- Athenaeus, Clearchus and the Dress of the Persian Apple Bearers CHARLES, Michael B., ANAGNOSTOU-LAOUTIDES, Eva
- The Hellenistic Chorasmian ketos of Akchakhan-Kala MINARDI, Michele
- New Evidence of Zoroastrian Iconography of the Late Parthian Period KAIM, Barbara
- Vologases I, Pakoros II and Artabanos III: Coins and Parthian History OLBRYCHT, Marek Jan
- Parthian and Sasanian Settlement Patterns on the Deh Luran Plain, Khuzistan Province, Southwestern Iran NEELY, James A.
- Funerary Objects from a Sasanian Burial Jar on the Bushehr Peninsula FARJAMIRAD, Mahdokht
- Hormezd II., König der Könige von Ērān und Anērān WEBER, Ursula
At BiblioIranica, we usually do not comment on issues beyond our academic interests in ancient Iran. However, it would be wrong, if we did not express our disappointment after hearing the news of the closure of ‘small Humanities programmes’ at the University of Copenhagen. As the University Post reports, the “Faculty of Humanities at the University of Copenhagen will shut down five smaller study programmes permanently”. A full list of the threatened programmes, and the university’s plans are published here.
Oriental Studies have a long tradition in Denmark, and Danish scholars have made and continue to make significant contributions to Oriental and Iranian Studies. It is very distressing to read that some of the ‘small’ programmes will be closed, among which are Indology and Tibetology.
See the following links for the history of Iranian Studies in Denmark:
- Christensen, Arthur Emanuel: 1875–1945
- Barr, Kaj: 1896–1970
- Asmussen, Jes Peter: 1928-2002
- Institute for Iranian Philology: Although the Institute was founded only in 1961, it has a long prehistory, since it is the natural culmination of about 200 years of Iranian studies in the Kingdom of Denmark.