Tag: AIIT
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Amélie Kuhrt to deliver the Harold Bailey Lecture 2015
The Harold Bailey Lecture 2015 Friday 11th December, 5.30pm at FAMES, Cambridge Professor Amélie Kuhrt, FBA – The King Speaks: The Persians and their Empire
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Sasanian royalist ideology
Sasanian royalist ideology and Zoroastrian millennialism Lecture by François de Blois, University College London, at the Ancient India and Iran Trust, Cambridge, Friday 06March, 5.30pm.
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Procopius’ Persian tales
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…
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The Sasanian Empire as a garden
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…
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Go east, young man!
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…
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Introduction to TEI and oXygen
As part of our group’s ongoing engagement with the Yasna, I will be leading a one day workshop on TEI and oXygen. This is an internal meeting with the aim of introducing the participants of the Yasna project to the ideas behind encoding texts and exploring features offered by the oXygen XML editor. This is…