12 June 2014
8:45–09:00 Opening remarks: Ali Ansari
09:00–09:45 | Keynote lecture
Prof. Shaked – ‘Iranian kingship, priesthood and religion according to the written records’
09:45–10:00 Short break
10:00–11:30 | Session Ⅰ: The ancient world
- Lynette Mitchell – ‘Greco-Achaemenid ideologies of kingship’
- Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones – ‘Khilat and the king: The royal robe in Achaemenid Iran’
- Miles Lester-Pearson – ‘Religious authority and cultural memory in early Achaemenid Babylon’
Chair: Ali Ansari
11:30–12:00 Tea/Coffee break
12:00–13:30 | Session Ⅱ: The aesthetics of kingship
- Matthew Canepa
- Vesta Sarkhosh Curtis – ‘The ancient Iranian twins: the divine and the royal’
- Michael Shenkar – ‘Royal regalia and “Divine Kingship” in pre-Islamic Central Asia’
Chair: Robert Hillenbrand
13:30 – 14:30 Lunch break
14:30 – 16:00 | Session Ⅲ: Conflict and coexistence
- Jonathan Coulston – ‘Triumphal iconography and the Sassanid art of war’
- Shai Secunda – ‘All lost objects go to the king: Talmudic perceptions of Sasanian sovereignty in ‘Finder’s Keepers’ and beyond’
- David Bagot – ‘Aristocratic perceptions of Sasanian assertions of divinity’
Chair: Carole Hillenbrand
16:00 – 16:30 Tea/Coffee break
16:30 – 17:30 | Session Ⅳ: Reimagining sovereignty in post-Islamic Iran
- Dan Sheffield – ‘The lord of the planetary court: The sovereignty of the ancients in the thought of Āẕar Kayvān and his associates’
- Ali Ansari – ‘Iranian kingship: Ancient and modern’
Chair: Jonathan Coulston
13 June 2014
09:30 – 11:00 | Session Ⅰ: Zoroastrianism and political ideology
- Touraj Daryaee – ‘From majesty to glory: The changing nature of Sasanian kingship’
- François de Blois – ‘Sasanian royalist ideology and Zoroastrian millennialism’
- Arash Zeini
Chair: Tim Greenwood
11:00 – 11:30 Tea/Coffee break