Twelfth Biennial Ehsan and Latifeh Yarshater Conference on Iranian Studies, Paris

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2026/10/14

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The twelfth Ehsan and Latifeh Yarshater Biennial Conference on Iranian Studies takes as its theme “Witches and Demons, Kings and Prophets: The Shāhnāma and Its Afterlife in the Persian Manuscript Tradition”. The lecture series will be delivered by Gabrielle van den Berg of Leiden University.
The five sessions will be held on 2, 6, 10, 13 and 16 November 2026, from 17:00 to 19:00, in the Auditorium Dumézil at Inalco, 2 rue de Lille, Paris.
The conference is supported by the Persian Heritage Foundation, CeRMI (UMR 8041), the École Pratique des Hautes Études, the CNRS, Sorbonne Nouvelle and Inalco.