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Multidisciplinary Seminar Sessions: Society, Politics and Culture of the Iranian World

These seminars will be held in person at INALCO, 65 rue des Grands Moulins, Paris 13th arrondissement.Organizers : Samra Azarnouche (EPHE PSL, CeRMI), Justine Landau (Sorbonne Nouvelle, CeRMI) Organized by...

Picturing Paradise: An Introduction to the Art of the Zoroastrian Book

Pallonji Shapoorji Mistry Memorial Lecture – 28 October 2024 Pallonji Shapoorji Mistry Memorial Lecture By Prof Daniel J. Sheffield Monday 28 October 2024 @ 5.30 pm Khalili Lecture Theatre Main Building of...

Two-Day Dēnkard Workshop on 9th Century Zoroastrianism at Wolfson College, October 17–18, 2024

Professor Samra Azarnouche (L’E‌cole Pratique des Hautes E‌tudes – Paris Sciences & Lettres) and Yuhan Sohrab-Dinshaw Vevaina will be co-convening a workshop on the Dēnkard. Co-sponsored by EPHE, Paris and AMES,...

Brill’s Companion to War in the Ancient Iranian Empires, editors: John Hyland and Khodadad Rezakhani, 31 Oct 2024

Brill’s Companion to War in the Ancient Iranian Empires examines military structures and methods from the Elamite period through the Achaemenid, Seleucid, Arsacid, and Sasanian empires. War played a critical role...

The new issue of Religiographies was published with open access. This special issue concerns “Zoroastrian Esotericism”.

Religions, No. 1, Year 3, 2024, pp. 1- 137.   This issue is edited by Mariano Errichiello, Daniel J. Sheffield and Yohan Sohrab-Dinshaw Vevaina, includes articles by Antonio Panaino, Moritz...

The Night of geography of the Shahnameh

“Bukhara Nights will this time focus on the geography of the Shahnameh and will be held on Sunday, the 1st of Mehr 1403 (September 22, 2024) at 5 p.m. in...

Egyptians, Kushites, and Libyans in Texts from Ancient Iran

Mattias Karlsson, “Egyptians, Kushites, and Libyans in Texts from Ancient Iran”,  jurnal of Ancient Egyptian Interconnections, vol. 43 (September 2024), pp. 29–46. A number of African (Egyptian, Kushite, Libyan) individuals...

The Second Berkeley Workshop on Middle Persian Documents & Sealings

October 10–11, 2024 The Second Berkeley Workshop on Middle Persian Documents & Sealings, organized by Adam Benkato and Arash Zeini, brought together leading scholars in the field. The workshop featured...

 The third Ažyār webinar about Iranian studies

1 September 2024 10:00 IRST/ 8:30 CEST The webinar includes historical, cultural, and philological fields of the Iranian world in which Dr. M. Malekzade, Dr. H. Sheich, Dr. N. Chalilipur,...

Call for Papers: Conference on “Colloquial Persian and script”

The academy of Persian language and literature (Farhangestân-e zabân-o adab-e Fârsi), committed to its duty of preserving the Persian language and script, is organizing a conference in response to the...

Call for applications: PhD scholarships for international candidates

The Graduate School of the Cluster of Excellence ‘Understanding Written Artefacts’ at CSMC invites applications for doctoral scholarships within the Graduate School Scholarship Programme (GSSP) of the German Academic Exchange Service...

Department of Ancient History and Ancient Oriental Studies

University Assistant (postdoc)   Job Description: In this position you will carry out high level research and specialise in a particular field. You will hold your own lectures, tutor students...

Excavation results and interdisciplinary studies of Espahbod-Khorshid (Mazandaran-Iran).

Speakers: Mehdi Abedini Araqi Mohammad Keshavarz Divkolaee   7/08/2024 8:30 am. CEST   the Research Institute of Cultural Heritage and Tourism, Khalij-e-Fars hall.   Online participation via the following link:...

Broadening Horizons 7

Sapienza University, Rome 10-14 February 2025    Broadening Horizons (BH) is a series of international conferences organized by and dedicated to graduate, postgraduate students, and early-career researchers. This conference series...