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  • Kingship in Ancient Iran

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    I want to express my gratitude to all who came to St Andrews for the workshop. Your presence, the excellent contributions and the stimulating discussions all made the workshop a wonderful success. Thank you.As we have seen, St Andrews is the right place for this type of workshop, and the Institute of Iranian Studies has…

  • Kingship in Ancient Iran

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    This interdisciplinary workshop, organised by the Institute of Iranian Studies (University of St Andrews), seeks to investigate and re-examine intersections between religious ideology and sovereignty in pre-Islamic Iran. Date: June 12–13, 2014 Convener: Arash Zeini Sponsors: BIPS, IIS, SoH and SAIMS For more information, see the workshop’s website.

  • Conference of Iranian languages and dialects

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    Call for Papers The Center for the Great Islamic Encyclopedia has the honour of organising the 2nd International Conference of Iranian Languages and Dialects 4–5 January, 2015 Tehran, Iran Aims of the conference To spread and to consolidate the theoretical discussions on Iranian Languages and dialects To contribute to scholarly studies of Iranian Languages and…

  • Secrecy and canonisation

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    Bahari Lecture Series: “Sasanian Iran in the Context of Late Antiquity” 20 May (Week 4) Arash Zeini (University of St Andrews): Secrecy and canonisation in Sasanian Iran: A scholastic reading of the Zand Tuesday at 5pm Ioannou Centre for Classical & Byzantine Studies, 66 St Giles’, Oxford (OCLA)

  • Bahari lecture series

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    Sasanian Iran in the Context of Late Antiquity Tuesdays of Weeks 2–9 of Trinity Term 2014 at 5pm Ioannou Centre for Classical & Byzantine Studies, 66 St Giles’ The lectures are convened by Professor Touraj Daryaee and Professor Edmund Herzig and organised by the Oxford Centre for Late Antiquity (OCLA). The full programme is here.

  • Identity, independence & interdependence

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    A Workshop in the School of History, Classics and Archaeology, University of Edinburgh Monday 26 May 2014, 10 am to 5 pm Sydney Smith Lecture Theatre, Doorway 1, Old Medical School Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones will talk about The rhetoric of empire in ancient Iran: ‘Better together’.

  • Public lecture III

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    3. The return of the Avesta It has been argued that the adoption of the Zoroastrian religious world view by the Sasanians was instrumental in maintaining the nobility’s loyalty to the goals of the empire. Most arguments in favour of this view, however, derive from examinations of source material dating from the early Islamic era.…

  • The Sasanian Empire as a garden

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    The Sasanian Empire as a garden: The limits of Iranshahr Speaker: Touraj Daryaee (University of California, Irvine) Where: The British Institute of Persian Studies, London When: 22 May 2014 Poster at the BIPS.

  • Public lecture II

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    2. The Sasanian Empire and religious authority: The case of Zoroastrianism As one of the major political and economic powers in the region, the Sasanian Empire (224–651 CE) elevated Zoroastrianism to the dominant religious and cultural force within its polity, bringing to the foreground the question of the interaction between religion and sovereignty in the…

  • Xerxes’ cabinet of curiosities

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    Xerxes’ cabinet of curiosities: Exotic animals and royal authority in Achaemenid Iran Speaker: Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones (University of Edinburgh) Where: The British Institute of Persian Studies, London When: 18 June 2014 Poster at the BIPS.

  • Communication in the Achaemenid Empire

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    The second international Summer School on Communication in the Achaemenid Empire: Achaemenid Elamite, Bisotun and the Persepolis Archive will be taking place at the Center for the Great Islamic Encyclopedia on 12–21 May 2014. 1. 4 days on Bisotun (1 day repetition of grammar, 3 days reading) 2. 4 days Persepolis Fortification Archive and Achaemenid…

  • Public lecture I

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    1. Mythical kings, empire and multiculturalism: The case of the Achaemenids The Achaemenids (550–330 BCE) ruled over a vast and multicultural empire, encompassing numerous indigenous and conquered traditions. How did these various groups co-exist in the administration of the empire and influence Achaemenid ideals of kingship? This lecture will explore relevant Zoroastrian topoi and examine…

  • Procopius’ Persian tales

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    Procopius’ Persian Tales: entertainment, history or morality fable? Geoffrey Greatrex (Ottawa) will consider the opening chapters of the Byzantine historian Procopius of Caesarea’s Persian Wars, in which he introduces his theme, the wars fought between the Romans and Sasanian Persians in the sixth century A.D. He recounts a series of intriguing stories about the Persian…

  • The Sasanian Empire as a garden

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    The Sasanian empire as a garden: The walls and rivers of the Sasanian Empire This lecture by Touraj Daryaee (UCI) looks at the physical and ideological boundaries which the Sasanians created for the idea of Iranshahr. In this late antique construct, inside the empire, protected by walls and rivers was imagined as a garden where…

  • Go east, young man!

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    Go east, young man! A personal journey In this informal talk the Chair of the Ancient India and Iran Trust, Nicholas Sims-Williams, will describe his research on the Sogdian language and literature, in particular on the Christian texts from the Turfan oasis in Western China, and will try to answer a question which he is…