{"id":4246,"date":"2025-10-04T04:33:03","date_gmt":"2025-10-04T04:33:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ancientirannews.com\/en\/?p=4246"},"modified":"2025-10-05T17:06:25","modified_gmt":"2025-10-05T17:06:25","slug":"international-biennial-conference-ancient-iranian-languages-and-culture-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ancientirannews.com\/en\/international-biennial-conference-ancient-iranian-languages-and-culture-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Call for Papers: The International Biennial Conference on Ancient Iranian Languages and Culture"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"4246\" class=\"elementor elementor-4246\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-71fc43c e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"71fc43c\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-35d1fcf ahura-dark-mode-filter-texts-no elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"35d1fcf\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>The Biennial Conference on Ancient Iranian Languages and Culture has previously been held in three rounds, successively at Shahid Beheshti University, the University of Tehran, and the Institute for Humanities and Cultural Studies. The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic postponed the fourth round. Despite this delay, the Department of Ancient Iranian Languages and Cultures and Iranology, Faculty of Literature and Human Science, University of Tehran, decided to host the fourth conference as well, this time on an international scale. As in previous rounds, the general theme of the conference covers the history of Iranian languages and dialects and the religions, myths, and legends of pre-Islamic Iran and their continuities in later periods.<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p>Main Topics of the Conference:<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p>Historical and comparative linguistics<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p>Old Iranian languages (phonology, grammar, lexicon)<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p>Middle Iranian languages (phonology, grammar, lexicon)<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p>Modern Iranian dialects (phonology, grammar, lexicon)<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p>Iranian documents in Semitic and Elamite languages<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p>Historical grammar in Persian<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p>Historical phonology and phonemics of Persian<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p>Iranian religions and sects before Islam, their continuities and influences in post-Islamic periods, and other cultures<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p>Myths and legends of pre-Islamic Iran, their continuities and influences in post-Islamic periods, and other cultures<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p>Pre-Islamic Iranian literature (epic, poetry, prosody, etc.)<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p>Inscriptions, papyri, and similar documents in Old and Middle Iranian languages<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p>Date of the Conference: 15\u201316 February 2026<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p>Deadline for Abstract Submission (in Persian\/English, Word and PDF format): 20 November 2025<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p>Deadline for Full Paper Submission (Word and PDF format): 10 January 2026<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p>Note: Abstracts should be between 150 and 200 words, and full papers between 2,500 and 4,500 words.<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p>Email for Submissions: irlancul@ut.ac.ir<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p>Venue: University of Tehran, Faculty of Letters and Humanities<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p>Conference Chair: Prof. Zhaleh Amuzegar<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p>Scientific Secretary: Dr. Seyed Ahmad Reza Q\u0101em-Maq\u0101mi<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p>Executive Secretary: Dr. Leila Varhr\u0101m<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p>Scientific Committee Members (in alphabetical order):<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p>Prof. Samra Azarnouche (Sorbonne University); Prof. Zhaleh Amuzegar (University of Tehran); Prof. Abolghasem Esmailpour (Shahid Beheshti University); Prof. Kianoush Rezania (University of Bochum); Prof. Hassan Rezai Baghbidi (Osaka University); Prof. Zohreh Zarrinkass (Institute for Humanities and Cultural Studies); Dr. Mohammad Shokri Foomeshi (University of Religions and Denominations); Dr. Majid T\u0101meh (Academy of Persian Language and Literature); Prof. Shervin Farridnedjad (University of Hamburg); Dr. Seyed Ahmad Reza Q\u0101em-Maq\u0101mi (University of Tehran); Prof. Pavel Lurje (St. Petersburg University); Dr. Seyed Saeed Reza Montazeri (University of Tehran, Qom Campus); Dr. Mojtaba Monshizadeh (Allameh Tabataba\u2019i University); Dr. Changiz Molaei (University of Tabriz); Prof.. Cyrus Nasrollahzadeh (Institute for Humanities and Cultural Studies); Dr. Leila Varhr\u0101m (University of Tehran); Prof. Vardan Voskanian (Yerevan University); Prof. Almut Hintze (SOAS, University of London).<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p>Conference Languages: Persian and English<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"sws_supernormalaction\"><button on=\"tap:superwebshare-lightbox\" class=\"superwebshare_normal_button1 superwebshare-button-lg superwebshare-button-default superwebshare_prompt superwebshare_button_svg\" style=\"color:#ffffff;background-color: #BD3854;\" ><svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"superwebshare-svg\"  fill=\"currentColor\" viewBox=\"0 0 1000 1000\" stroke=\"currentColor\" stroke-width=\"0\"><path stroke-linecap=\"round\" stroke-linejoin=\"round\" d=\"M789.86,323.67c91.79,0,164.25-72.46,164.25-164.25S881.64,0,789.86,0S625.6,72.46,625.6,164.25c0,4.83,0,14.49,0,24.15L306.76,371.98c-24.15-24.15-57.97-33.82-96.62-33.82c-91.79,0-164.25,72.46-164.25,164.25s72.46,164.25,164.25,164.25c38.65,0,72.46-14.49,96.62-33.82L625.6,821.26c0,9.66,0,14.49,0,19.32c0,86.96,72.46,159.42,159.42,159.42s159.42-72.46,159.42-159.42s-67.63-159.42-154.59-159.42c-33.82,0-67.63,9.66-96.62,33.82L374.4,526.57c0-9.66,0-19.32,0-24.15s0-14.49,0-24.15l318.84-188.41C717.39,314.01,751.21,323.67,789.86,323.67z\" \/><\/svg><span>Share<\/span><\/button><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Biennial Conference on Ancient Iranian Languages and Culture has previously been held in three rounds, successively at Shahid Beheshti University, the University of Tehran, and the Institute for Humanities&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4256,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"content_types":[],"class_list":["post-4246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-journals-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ancientirannews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ancientirannews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ancientirannews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ancientirannews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ancientirannews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4246"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/ancientirannews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4261,"href":"https:\/\/ancientirannews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4246\/revisions\/4261"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ancientirannews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ancientirannews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ancientirannews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ancientirannews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4246"},{"taxonomy":"content_types","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ancientirannews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content_types?post=4246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}